Search

☀️ 🌙 📟

My Songbook

Dinner Time by Cardiacs

Intro

Rate for accuracy

🎸

0/5 ( votes)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             DINNER TIME - Cardiacs
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tabbed by: SPLAM!
Bassist: Jim Smith
Tuning: EADG

Intro:
The bass is very difficult to work out here as so much is going on but it sounds
something like this (feel free to offer a correct bass part for the intro!):
G|----------------|
D|----2-----------|
A|----------2-----|
E|0-0---0-R---235-|

Verse:
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|.---.---.---.---|.---.---.---.---|
A|--------2-2-2-2-|0---0---0---0---|0---0---0---0---|
E|2-2-2-2---------|----------------|----------------|

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|.---.---.---.---|.---.---2-2-----|
A|--------2-2-2-2-|0---0---0---0---|0---0-------0---|
E|2-2-2-2---------|----------------|----------------|

Chorus:
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|.-----.-.-----.-|----------------|----1-3-1-------|0---------2---2-|
D|4-----4-2-----2-|.---.---.---.---|--4---------2---|----2---0-.---.-|
A|----------------|3---3---5---5---|4---------------|----------------|x2
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

Into even bigger Chorus:
D|0-0-0-0-etc.

Even bigger Chorus:
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|----------------|--------5-------|----------------|--------7-------|
D|--------5-------|.---.-----------|--------7-------|.---.-----------|
A|----------------|3---3-----------|----------------|5---5-----------|
E|3---------------|----------------|5---------------|----------------|

  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|--------9-------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|--------8-------|--------7-------|----------------|
A|7---------------|.---.-----------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|6---6-----------|5---------------|1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-|
                                                   Only play this on last repeat-
                                                   all other times just hold the
                                                   first F.
Mad bit:
E|4-6-8-0-4-6-8

Bridge 1:
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|5---------------|L---------------|2---------------|L---------------|
 Put occasional sides between the A and the F#.

Bridge 2:
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
G|.---.-----.---.-|----.---.-------|.---.-----.---.-|----.---.-------|
D|7---7---7-7---7-|R-7-7---7---7-7-|4---4---4-4---4-|R-4-4---4---4-4-|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

Halfway through, when all the instruments come in the above line is played an
octave lower and with no staccato.

Outro:
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 
G|----------------|
D|----2-2---------|
A|--------0-------|
E|0---------------|


| .  staccato
| L  tie
| R  rest