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/ R.E.M. / New Adventures In Hi-Fi (1996) / The Wake-Up Bomb bass tab

REM's wake up bomb off hi-fi
bass tabbed by unknown@bellatlantic.net   arketype@hotmail.com
corrections would be appreciated
each '-' represents a half beat
strings are from bottom to top eadg
dots are short (staccato)
hold out asterisk                  f#   g   a  e  f#   g   a
in the bridge, the notes are frets 11, 12, 14, 9, 11, 12, 14 respectively


verse 1                       ______________
                                 1-5    |6
   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .         |
|  --------|--------|--------|--------  |--------|
|* 2--2--2-|0--0--0-|--------|------0- *|--------|
|* --------|--------|0--0--0-|----0--- *|--------|
|  --------|--------|--------|3--3----  |33333333|

1st chorus
                      _______________________________
                                      1 | 2
                            *           |
|  --------|--------|-------0|--------  |--------|--------|
|* --------|--------|0-0-0---|-4-3-20- *|0-0-0-0-|--------|
|* 3-----3-|3-----3-|------3-|-------- *|--------|3-3-3-3-|
|  ---33---|---33---|--------|--------  |--------|--------|

                              _____________
                                    1   | 2
|  --------|--------|--------|--------  | rrrrrrrr|
|* 2--2--2-|0--0--0-|--------|------0- *| eeeeeeee|
|* --------|--------|0--0--0-|----0--- *| ssssssss|
|  --------|--------|--------|3--3----  | tttttttt|


chorus
                     _______________________________
                                   1,2,3| 4
                            *           |
|  --------|--------|-------0|--------  |--------|--------|
|* --------|--------|0-0-0---|-4-3-20- *|0-0-0-0-|--------|
|* 3-----3-|3-----3-|------3-|-------- *|--------|3-3-3-3-|
|  ---33---|---33---|--------|--------  |--------|--------|

verse 2                       ______________
                                 1-5    |6
   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .         |
|  --------|--------|--------|--------  |rrrrrrrr|
|* 2--2--2-|0--0--0-|--------|------0- *|eeeeeeee|
|* --------|--------|0--0--0-|----0--- *|ssssssss|
|  --------|--------|--------|3--3----  |tttttttt|

chorus

bridge (this is a little off)

|----r---|--------|----r---|--------|----x---|x---x---|9---x---|
|2---e---|--------|----e---|--------|2-------|--------|--------|
|----s---|--------|0---s---|--------|--------|--------|--------|
|----t---|--------|----t---|--------|--------|--------|--------|


|x---x~~~| the tildas represnet a vibrato.  i think it's cool to
|--------| add a slide during the last beat of the vibrato 'a' 2
|--------| whatever.
|--------|

last verse                     ______________
                                 1,2    |3
                                        |
   .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .         |1&2&3e&a4& (represents a 16th rest)
|  --------|--------|--------|--------  |-----r- --|just touch the a then
|* 2--2--2-|0--0--0-|--------|------0- *|-----e- --|silence it almost right
|* --------|--------|0--0--0-|----0--- *|----0s- --|away
|  --------|--------|--------|3--3----  |3--3-t- --|

last chorus

chorus
                     _____________________________________________
                                   1,2,3| 4,5,6,7           |8
                            *           |       *           |
|  --------|--------|-------0|--------  |-------0|---4-2--  |--------|--------|
|* --------|--------|0-0-0---|-4-3-20- *|0-0-0---|-3------ *|0-0-0-0-|--------|
|* 3-----3-|3-----3-|------3-|-------- *|------3-|-------- *|--------|3-3-3-3-|
|  ---33---|---33---|--------|--------  |--------|--------  |--------|--------|

i'm not quite sure what this ends on.  when my group plays this song, we
end on a g chord and i end on a g (e third fret) but that is ugly when
played with the cd.  i think it actually ends on an a. if anyone ever finds
out, email me.


R.E.M. albums
2004 Around the Sun
2001 Reveal
1998 Up
1996 New Adventures In Hi-Fi
1994 Monster
1992 Automatic For The People
1991 Out Of Time
1988 Green
1987 Eponymous
1983 Murmur
New Adventures In Hi-Fi tabs
01How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us tabbass tab
02The Wake-Up Bomb tabbass tab
03New Test Leper tabbass tab
04Undertow tabbass tab
05E-Bow The Letter tabbass tab
06Leave tabbass tab
07Departure tabbass tab
08Bittersweet Me tabbass tab
09Be Mine tabbass tab
10Binky The Doormat tabbass tab
11Zither tabbass tab
12So Fast, So Numb tabbass tab
13Low Desert tabbass tab
14Electrolite tabbass tab

 

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