Bass tabs
Title: Swing Artist: Japan Album: Gentlemen Take Polaroids Tabbed by: Christian Mountney Tuning: E A D G This is my favourite Japan song and I've wanted to learn how to play it since about 1981! Finally got around to working it out (with some help from a fine chap on YouTube!) It's quite hard to tab properly as there's lots of sliding and vibrato. If you use this as a guide and follow Mick Karn's playing on the song it should sound about right. Enjoy! Bass Tab Main riff - used in intro / verse etc: |----------------|----------------|-----------|------------------| |------4\--------|4---7-7-4-7/12--|-----------|------------------| |2----------2----|----------------|9-9\7-7\5--|------------------| |----------------|----------------|-----------|2---2---4h5~--4---|
Chorus: |--------------|-------------|--------------|-------------| |-----------4--|4-2-2-0------|-----------4--|4-2-2-0------| |2-------------|----------4~-|2-------------|----------4~-| |--0-2---------|-------------|--0-2---------|-------------| |-----------------|-------------|-----------------|----------7----| |------7-----9----|9---7--------|------7-----9----|------7-9---9--| |9----------------|------9-7h9--|9----------------|---------------| |-----------------|-------------|-----------------|---------------| After choruses and in breaks: (the last two bars are only played to lead back into the main riff) |--------------------|-------------|--------------------|-------------| |-------4---4h7-7h9--|------0-2----|-------4---4h7-7h9--|------0-2----| |2-------------------|2---2-----0--|2-------------------|2---2-----0--| |--------------------|-------------|--------------------|-------------| |--------------------|-------------|----------2----| |-----------4h7-7h9--|------0-2----|------2-4---4--| |-------2------------|2---2-----0--|---------------| |2-------------------|-------------|2--------------|
