Primus - American life bass tab

From: js018d@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Jeffrey Swing)

AMERICAN LIFE from "Sailing the Seas of Cheese" revised 5/15/95

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After seeing Les play this song on a video that somebody copied for me

(thanks again for the video, Dave) I noticed that Les strums and does hammer

ons for this riff. I have rewritten it below. The important thing to

rememeber when playing this is to keep your strumming constant and hammer on

all of the notes with your left hand. The slap on the lowest note is done

on the downstroke strum, and isn't hard to work in to your strumming

technique. Make sure that you let the G-string drone on while you hammer on

the D-string notes.

V = downstroke strum

^ = upstroke strum

h = hammer

S = slap

(V) ^ V ^ V ^ V ^

G-|-------0-(0)(0)--0-(0)(0)--0-(0)(0)---0-----0-----0-----0--|--

D-|*------0--3h-5h--0--3h-5h--0--3h-5h------5h-5-----5-----5-*|-

A-|*---------------------------------------------------------*|-

E-|---3S------------------------------------------------------|-

The fills are done with the same strumming (downstroke on the downbeat,

upstroke on the upbeat), except that the left hand remains still, fretting a

power chord first on Eb, then later on F.

G-|--8--|- G-|--10--|-

D-|--8--|- D-|--10--|-

A-|--6--|- A-|--8---|-

E-|-----|- E-|------|-

Eb5 F5