Presidents of The Usa - Bug City guitar tab
Tabber: Niall 'UncaClitsta' Polson
E-mail: Lates_dude@hotmail.com
Tabbed: January 14th 2004
Song: Bug City
Band: Presidents of the United States of America
Tuning: Standard
Notes: This is the first tab I made since I played bass, and I was surprised when
a friend asked me to learn this that there wasn't a tab for this great song already.
So for you people that can't play by ear, heres my interpretation of the song.
To the CD, it sounds great!
Intro Riff (x4, on last note play a staccato power chord of C#)
e|-----------------------------------|
b|-----------------------------------|
G|*-4-6-4--6br-4-6br--4-------------*|
D|*----------------------6--6--6-6--*|
A|--------------------------6--6-6---|
E|-----------------------------------|
Verse Part 1 (Punk rock style palm-muting) x2
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
b|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|*---------------------------------------------10-10-----10-10---------------------*|
D|*----6-6-----6-6------11-11-----11-11-----8-8-8--8--8-8-8--8------11-11-----11-11-*|
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--9-9-9--9-9--9-9--9--------------------------9-9-9--9--9-9-9--9---|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
PM --------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse Part 2 (unsure about the last chord, could be a F# power chord)
Up and Down Picking
e|--------------------------------|
b|--------------------------------|
G|*-6-6-6---------4-4-4----------*|
D|*-6-6-6--6-6-6--4-4-4----------*|
A|--4-4-4--6-6-6--2-2-2--1-1-1----|
E|---------4-4-4---------2-2-2----|
Chorus (Theres a lot of ways to make this funky, work with it!)
Bar 1
e|--------------------------------------|
b|----9--11-----9--11-----9--11----9~~--|
G|----9--11-----9--11-----9--11----9~~--|
D|-11-9--11--11-9--11--11-9--11----9~~--|
A|-11--------11--------11---------------|
E|--------------------------------------|
Bar 2
e|---------------------------------------------------|
b|----9--11-----9--11-----9--11----------------------|
G|----9--11-----9--11-----9--11----------------------|
D|-11-9--11--11-9--11--11-9--11----------------------|
A|-11--------11--------11----------------------------|
E|-------------------------------9b/-119--9/119----|
Outro
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
b|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-/-14-14-14-14-|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------|
b|----------------------------------| Repeat this palm muted for a while
G|----------------------------------| and then do the below.
D|----------------------------------|
A|-14-14-14-14--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-10---|
E|----------------------------------|
Start of palm muted then strum
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
b|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-------------|
D|-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-16-16-16-16-|
A|-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-/-14-14-14-14-|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------------|
b|----------------------------------------| Repeat Till end.
G|----------------------------------------|
D|-16-16-16-16---11-11-11-11-11-11-12-12--|
A|-14-14-14-14--9--9--9--9--9--9--10-10--|
E|----------------------------------------|
Heres a little tip, if you're playing this live and have two guitarists, or you
just want to jam around to the song on CD, during the end solo around in the key
of C# with the pentatonic or blues scale, sounds great!
Enjoy!
Niall
PS - Heres the pattern
Intro riff (x4)
Verse Part 1 (Repeat once coda at Staccato)
Verse Part 2 (x4)
Chorus (x2)
Intro Riff (x4)
Verse Part 1 (Repeat once coda at Staccato)
Verse Part 2 (x4)
Chorus (x2)
Intro Riff (x4) - Overdriven distortion for parts
Outro until end
Finish.
