Learn Music: 1979 bass tab - Smashing Pumpkins tabs

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  Jérôme Melançon
  "1979" BY THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
  FROM THE ALBUM "MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS"
  
  FROM THE PAGES OF GUITAR SCHOOL, APRIL 1996
  
  
  NOTE: THIS TUNE IS FAIRLY EASY TO PLAY, BUT THERE ARE LONG PARTS
        WHERE YOU DON'T PLAY... (YAWN)
  
  
  TUNE DOWN 1/2 STEP (Eb, Ab, Db, Gb)
  
  INTRO: PLAY NOTHING
  
  
  1ST VERSE:
             12    SHAKE DOWN...
  G-----||----------|--11-11-11-11--11-11-11----|--------------------||
  D-----||----------|------------------------9--|--9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9--||
  A-----||----------|---------------------------|--------------------||
  E-----||----------|---------------------------|--------------------||
  
  
  2ND VERSE:
  
  G-----||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  D-----||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  A-----||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  E-----||--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|
  
          JUNEBUG...                            X3
  G-----|-------------------|--------------------||
  D-----|-------------------|--------------------||
  A-----|-------------------|--------------------||
  E-----|--5--5-5--5-5-5-5--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--||
  
                                           AND I
  G-----||-------------------------------------||
  D-----||-------------------------------------||
  A-----||-------------------------------------||
  E-----||--2-2-2-2--2-2-27--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7/||
  
  
  CHORUS:
                         DON'T EVEN...
  G-----||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  D-----||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  A-----||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  E-----||--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|
  
                                                X3
  G-----|-------------------|--------------------||
  D-----|-------------------|--------------------||
  A-----|-------------------|--------------------||
  E-----|--5--5-5--5-5-5-5--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--||
  
  
  TO VERSE
                                                         4
  G-----||--------------------|--------------------|----------||
  D-----||--------------------|--------------------|----------||
  A-----||--------------------|--------------------|----------||
  E-----||--2-2-2-2--2-2-27--|--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--|----------||
  
  
  3RD VERSE:
                                          THAT WE...
  G-----||--------------------|--------------------|
  D-----||--------------------|--------------------|   PLAY CHORUS
  A-----||--------------------|--------------------|
  E-----||--2-2-2-2--2-25-5--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--|
  
  
  BRIDGE: (ELEC. BASS 2 PLAYS FIG. 1--TRANSCRIBED AT THE END)
  
  G-----||--------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
  D-----||--------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
  A-----||--------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|
  E-----||--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--|--7-7-7-7--7-7--7-8-9--|--9--9-9--9-9-95--|
  
           _____________________ _________________________
          /1,2                  /3
  G-----||--------------------|--------------------|-------------------|
  D-----||--------------------|--------------------|-------------------|
  A-----||--------------------|--------------------|-------------------|
  E-----||--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-7--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--|--2--2-2--2-2-5/7--|
  
  G-----||--------------------|
  D-----||--------------------|
  A-----||--------------------|
  E-----||--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--|
  
  
  4TH VERSE:
              8
  G-----||----------||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  D-----||----------||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  A-----||----------||----------------------------|----------------------------|
  E-----||----------||--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|
  
                                                 X2
  G-----||-------------------|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------||
  D-----||-------------------|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------||
  A-----||-------------------|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------||
  E-----||--5--5-5--5-5-5-5--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--||--2-2-2-2-2-2-5/7--|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--||
  
  
  PLAY CHORUS, THEN:
  
  G-----||----------------------|--------------------||
  D-----||----------------------|--------------------||
  A-----||----------------------|--------------------||
  E-----||--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-5/7--|--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--||
  
  
  OUTRO: PLAY NOTHING
  
  
  
  
  (BASS FIG. 1, OVERDUBBED WITH A P-BASS):
                                                                          ___________________
                                                                         /1,2
  G-----||-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  D-----||-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
  A-----||--2--2-2--2-2-2-2--|--2-2-2-2--2-2--2-2-4--|--4--4-4--4-4-40--|--(0)-0-0-0--------|
  E-----||-------------------|-----------------------|-------------------|-------------2--0--|
         ____________________
        /3
  G-----|-----------------|-------------------|----------------------||
  D-----|-----------------|-------------------|----------------------||
  A-----|--0-0-0-0--------|----------------2--|--(2)-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--||
  E-----|-----------2--0--|--2--2-2--2-2-0----|----------------------||
  
  
  RE-TRANSCRIBED BY JÉRÔME MELANÇON
  n.riopel@sympatico.ca

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