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/ Primus / Tales From the Punchbowl (1995) / On the Tweek Again bass tab

On The Tweek Again
By Primus, from the Album "Tales from the Punchbowl"
Tabbed by Nathan Welton (Snark@rain.org)


Hi folks.

Guitar : Ha ha ha.  What's a guitar?

Bass : Les uses a 5 string on this ditty, and I don't have one.
Chances are that you don't either, so to make up for this descrepancy
I downtuned my E string to a D, and this tab is based around that tuning.
He also uses his whammy bar, and I don't have one of those either.  That's
why the D always wobbles.  If you really must have this, I suppose you
could downtune to a D flat and wiggle the 1st fret (and also adjust the
tab), but that won't sound too good and probably won't be good for the
bass.

Key : / or \ is a slide
                  WHM is where I think he's using his whammy (you can just
hit the
                  open string twice.



So, before doing anything else,

         DOWNTUNE YOUR E STRING TO A D

Intro :
|------------------|
|------------------|
|-------2-3--------|
|-0-3-5-----0-5-7\0|

Main part :
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------------|
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----2-3---------|
|-3-5-0-WHM-|-3-5-0-WHM-|-3-5-0-WHM-|-3-5-----5-7-0 WH|

The main part repeats and intensifies until about
2:10 (the end of the guitar solo), at which point
we hear a modified turn around :
|-----------|-----------|-----------|----------------|
|-----------|-----------|-----------|----------------|
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----2-3--------|
|-3-5-0-WHM-|-3-5-0-WHM-|-3-5-0-WHM-|-3-5-----7-7-WH-|

He kind of twiddles around on the D for a while and
then he goes back into the main part again until about
3:20 or so, when he uses the above modified turn around
and skips up an octave.

|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|---------------------5-|---------------------5-|
|-55555-55555-55555-8---|-55555-55555-55555-8---|

|-----------------------|-4-5-------|
|-----------------------|-----/7-/7-|
|---------------------5-|-----------|
|-55555-55555-55555-8---|-----------|

You he dwindles around on the D again and drops back into the
main part for a while, goes up the the octave part and ends on
the low D.



NOTE:  I don't know which makes more sense to you...  I put the D
with the whammy at the end of each bar.  You might think it goes at
the beginning.  Whatever.  Have fun!


Primus albums
2003 Animals Should Not Try to Act Like People
1999 Antipop
1998 Rhinoplasty
1997 The Brown Album
1995 Tales From the Punchbowl
1993 Pork Soda
1992 Miscellaneous Debris
1991 Sailing the Seas of Cheese
1990 Frizzle Fry
1990 Suck on This
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07Hellbound 17 1/2 tabbass tab
08Glass Sandwich tabbass tab
09Del Davis Tree Farm tabbass tab
10De Anza Jig tabbass tab
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12Over the Electric Grapevine tabbass tab
13Captain Shiner tabbass tab

 

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