Savatage - Gutter Ballet bass tab
"Gutter Ballet"
Originally Recorded By
Savatage
On the albumn
Gutter Ballet
Bassist: Johnny Lee Middleton
Tabbed By
Matt Reamy
mattreamy@hotmail.com
Standard Tuning
The intro to "Gutter Ballet" is a free time piano with the other instruments comming in
occassionally for emphasis. Listening to the song is instrumental for performing this one.
This song is pretty powerful. Hope this tab helps you out; this is how I play this classic
metal song.
Intro: free time piano:
|-------------|
|-------------|
|--1-----3-0--| 2X, then
|----3--------|
Each of these is an 8 count hold
|------|
|------|
|------| 4x
|-0----|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------| 3X
|-0--0--0--0-00000--|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|----------------5--|
|-0--0--0--0-0000---|
Verse: Another sleepless night....
|------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------|
|--0h3h5---0h3h5-----0h3h5---3h5h3--3h5h1--| 2x
|---------------0--------------------------|
|----------|
|----------|
|-111-000--|
|----------|
Chrous:
|-----------------------|
|--------------7h6h5----|
|--5-3-5-31--0----------| 2x
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-00000-----------------|
|------3--5------15/0---|
Repeat the first segment 3x and the whole phrase 2x
|-----------------|-----------------------|
|*---------------*|-----------------------|
|*-------5555--3-*|-----------------------|
|--00000----------|---8757-8757--777------|
Go back to Verse and play through again to the:
Solo:
This repeats 4 times:
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-0--0--0--0-00000--|
|----------|
|----------|
|-1---3-0--| 3x
|---3------|
Then:
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------| 3X
|-0--0--0--0-00000--|
|----------|
|----------|
|-1---3-0--| 3x
|---3------|
Play the verse and chorus the same but when you get here:
|-----------------|-----------------------|
|*---------------*|-----------------------|
|*-------5555--3-*|-----------------------| 3X
|--00000----------|---7--5--3-2-----------|
And to close it out:
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|-------5555--3-|---------------------------------------------------|
|--00000--------|--8757-8757--77--8757-8757--77---8757-8757--77--0--|
