Primus American Life Ver 5 bass tab

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Primus American Life Ver 5 bass tab

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Alright! First tab submission.....anywho, heres the bass tab to the somewhat complicated Primus song
"American Life". It sounds wicked hard, but is easy with practice (as any song is).

p=slap/ pop
us=upstroke
ds=downstroke
h=hammer on

(figure A)
   p   us  h  h  ds  h  h   us   h  h   ds  h  h  ds us  ds
g------0----------0----------0----------0----------0--0--0-------------------
d------0---3--5---0---3--5---0---3--5---0---3--5---5--5--5-------------------
a----------------------------------------------------------------------------
e--3-------------------------------------------------------------------------

p   us  h  h  ds  h  h   us   h  h   ds  h  h  ds us  ds
g------0----------0----------0----------0---3------0--0--0-------------------
d------0---3--5---0---3--5---0---3--5---0------5---5--5--5-------------------
a----------------------------------------------------------------------------
e--3-------------------------------------------------------------------------

repeat 8x(?)

then go into fig. B
  ds us ds us ds us ds us ds us ds us ds us ds us
g--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3------------------------
d--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1------------------------
a------------------------------------------------------------------------
e------------------------------------------------------------------------

then back to fig. A for a pisser long time
then fig. B
then fig. A
i dont know what im talking about.....

OUTRO!!
 us ds us ds us ds us ds us ds us ds us ds us ds
g-3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--5--5--7--7-------------------------
d-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--0--0--1--1--1--3--3--5--5-------------------------
a------------------------------------------------------------------------
e------------------------------------------------------------------------

repeat 'till you die

Submitted by moby dick on 23.12.2005

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