Mastodon - Blood And Thunder bass tab
BLOOD AND THUNDER (Bassline)
As recorded by Mastodon
(From the 2005 Album LEVIATHAN)
Transcribed by Woutjinho
Words and Music by Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, Troy Sanders and Bill Kelliher
Gtr I (D G C F) - 'Bass'
Intro
Moderately Q=96
Verse
4x
||----------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|--------------------------------o||
||o-7-----5s7-----5s7-----5s7-----5s|=7--8-----5s7--8-----8-8s7s5s8--o||
||----0-0-----0-0-----0-0-----0-0---|------0-0--------0-0-------------||
Chorus
||------------------|--------------------|-------------------|-------------||
||o-----------------|--------------------|-------------------|------------o||
||o---1-1-----4-4---|---8-8-----11-11----|----------11-11----|------------o||
||--0-----3-3-----6-|-6-----9-9-------12-|-12-9-9---------12-|-12-9-9------||
Verse
Chorus
Interlude
5/8 6/8 5/8 6/8
||----------|----------|---------|--------------||
||o---------|----------|---------|-------------o||
||o-2-2-----|-2-2------|-5-x-5---|-5-x-5-------o||
||----------|----------|---------|--------------||
5/8 6/8 5/8 6/8 4x
||----------|-----------|---------|------------||
||o---------|-----------|---------|-----------o||
||o-2-------|-2---------|-5-------|-5---------o||
||----0-5-3-|---0-5-3-5-|---5-1-0-|---5-1-0-5--||
Bridge
4/4
||----------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||o---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||o-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-|-8-8-8-6-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---------|
||----------------------------------|-------------------------7-7-7-7-|
4x
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|-------------------------------o||
|-5-5-5-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---------|-------------------------------o||
|-------------------------4-4-4-4-|-7-7-7-5-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2s3s2--||
Chorus
Bridge
||----------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|--------------------------------o||
||o-7-----5s7-----5s7-----5s7-----5s|=7--8-----5s7--8-----8-8s7s5s8--o||
||----0-0-----0-0-----0-0-----0-0---|------0-0--------0-0-------------||
Outro
PM----------| PM----------| 3x
||-------------------------|---------------------------||
||o------------------------|--------------------------o||
||o-7--7\----------------8s|=7--7\----------------6s==o||
||---------2-1-0-1-2-1-0---|--------2-1-0-1-2-1-0------||
PM----------| PM----------|
|------------------------|------------------------|-------*|
|------------------------|------------------------|-------*|
|-7--7\----------------8s|=7--7\----------------6s|=7-----*|
|--------2-1-0-1-2-1-0---|--------2-1-0-1-2-1-0---|-------*|
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Tablature Legend
----------------
h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
- tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
- volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
-----------
| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
