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/ Primus / Sailing the Seas of Cheese (1991) / Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers guitar tab

Primus
Those ***ed Blue-Collar Tweakers, as written by Larry LaLonde of Primus
Standard Tuning: E, A, D, G, B, E (low to high)


Intro/Outro Chord:

|--17--------------------------|
|--14--------------------------|
|--15--------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
  Push wah pedal all the way down as soon as you hit the chord, let it ring out for a second or two, then bring the wah pedal all the way up.

Main Riff:
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--2--4--------------------2--4--------------------2--4--2—-4/6--4--2--4----------------|
|--2--4--4--2--4--2--4--2--2--4--4--2--4--2--4--2--2--4--2—-4/6--4--2--4----------------|
|--0--2--4--2--4--2--4--2--0--2--4--2--4--2—-4—-2--0—-2—-0--2/4--2--0--2----------------|
|--------2--0--2--0--2--0--------2--0--2--0--2--0---------------------------------------|
         PM……………………………………        …………………………………………

Main Riff Cont.
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--2--4--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--2--4--4--2--4--2--4--2--4-----------------------------------------------------------|
|--0--2--4--2--4--2--4--2--4-----------------------------------------------------------|
|--------2--0--2--0--2--0--2—----------------------------------------------------------|
         PM………………………………………….

Pre-Verse Guitar Fill #1
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---2~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~---------------------------------------------------|


Pre-Verse Guitar Fill #2
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--/11~~~~~~~~~~~---11------9---------11---------11^12^11\-----------------------------|
|-----------------------10-----10--9------10-------------------------------------------|
|----------------9----------------------------9----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------/2~~~~~~~~~~---------------|


Guitar Solo
|--------12~~------12~~------12~~------12~~------12~~------12~~------12~~------12~~----|
|---/11-------11~~------11~~------11~~------11~~------11~~------11~~------11~~---------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


|--------14~~------14~~------14~~------14~~------14~~------14~~------14~~------14~~----|
|---/13-------13~~------13~~------13~~------13~~------13~~------13~~------13~~---------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


|---/12-12-12-22------------------/14-14-14-14-14--------------------------------------|
|---/11-11-11-11------------------/13-13-13-13-13--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    Strum very quickly, use wah…………………………………………………


|--------------17----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------14-------------------|
|--14—16^(18)------(18)^16----14-16-14-13-14-13----13----13-14-16----16----------------|
|-----------------------------------------------16----16-------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


|--------------------14-16-17----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------14-16-17-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--14-16-17----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 The rest is too fast to tell what he’s doing, but just mess around with random notes in this scale really fast and you’ll be close enough.

|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--4-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--4-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--2-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  Let this chord ring out as soon as the solo ends.

Riff Behind Bass Solo:
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--2--4--2--4--2224--2224--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--2--4--2--4--2224--2224--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--0--2--0--2--0002--0002--------------------------------------------------------------|


Ending Riff (Main Riff Up One Octave)
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--14—-16\--------------------14--16---------------------14--16--14—-16/18--16--14--16-|
|--14—-16\--4--2--4--2--4--2--14--16---4--2--4--2--4--2--14--16--14—-16/18--16--14--16-|
|--12—-14\--4--2--4--2--4--2--12—-14\--4--2--4--2--4--2--12--14--12—-14/16--14--12--14-|
|-----------2--0--2--0--2--0-----------2--0--2--0--2--0--------------------------------|


|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--14--16--------------------14--16----------------------------------------------------|
|--14--16—-4--2--4--2--4--2--14--16----------------------------------------------------|
|--12--14--4--2--4--2--4--2--12--14----------------------------------------------------|
|----------2--0--2--0--2--0------------------------------------------------------------|


The order goes something like this:
Intro/Outro Chord x16
Main Riff x2
Pre-Verse Guitar Fill #1 x1
Main Riff x3
Pre-Verse Guitar Fill #2 x1
Main Riff x2
Guitar Solo
Riff Behind Bass Solo x8
Main Riff x2
Ending Riff x2
Intro/Outro Chord x4 (Fade out…)


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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