Skin Of My Teeth bass tab by Megadeth

SONG:  SKIN O' MY TEETH
ARTIST: MEGADETH
ALBUM: COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION
REASON?:COS IT'S MEGADETH!

Opening song of the album, cracker to warm up to. i'm going to transcribe
it for a five string cos it's got that extra low fat D in the chorus that
just sounds sooo good.

drum intro, then:

G--------------------------|------|------|------|------||
D--------------------------|------|------|------|------||
A--------------------------|------|------|------|------||
E-5----4----3----2----1--0-|-5----|------|------|------||
B--------------------------|------|------|------|------||
 e.  e.  e.  e.  e e  e (r) (r)  (r)  (r)

G------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
D*-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------*|
A-0-0-0-3--3-3--5---5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5-|-0-0-0-3--3-5--0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0--|
E*-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------*|
B------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
 s s s s s s e  s s s s s s s s  s s s s s s e s s s s s s s s
                 (1st time - - - - - - - - - - - -)
G--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
D--------------------------------|-------------------------------*||
A------------------------3-5--3--|--------------------------------||
E-5----4---3--(3)-0-3-5----------|-1----0------------------------*||
B--------------------------------|----------3--(3)-3-3-3--3---3---||
 q  e. s (s) s s s s s e  q  e. s (s) s s s e  e

 "by the skin of my teeth..."
(2nd time - - - - - - - -)
G------------------------||
D------------------------||
A------------------------||
E-1----0-----------------||
B----------3--(3)--------||
 q  e. s (h)

G------------------------------------|-----|
D------------------------------------|-----|
A-------3--3-----------3-r--3--------|--%--|
E-5-5-5------3--5--5-5--------5-2-3--|-----|
B------------------------------------|-----|
 s s s s s s e s s s r s s s s

G-------------------------------------|
D-------------------------------------|
A----------------------3-3-3--3-------|
E-2-2-2-3--3-3--5--(5)----------5-3-2-|
B-------------------------------------|
 s s s s s s e (s) s s s s s s s
G-------------------------------------|
D----------------------5-5-5--5-7--7--|
A-------3--3--------------------------|
E-5-5-5------3--5--(5)----------------|
B-------------------------------------|
 s s s s s s e (s) s s s s s e
 KEY CHANGE!
G------------------------------------|-----|
D------------------------------------|-----|
A-------5--5-----------5-r--5--------|--%--|
E-7-7-7------5--7--7-7--------7-4-5--|-----|
B------------------------------------|-----|
  s s s s s s e s s s r s s s s
G--------------------------------------|
D--------------------------------------|
A----------------------5-5-5--5--------|
E-4-4-4-5--5-5--7--(7)----------7-5-4--|
B--------------------------------------|
 s s s s s s e (s) s s s s s s s
G-------------------------------------||
D----------------------5-5-5--5-5--7--||
A-------5--5--------------------------||
E-7-7-7------5--7--(7)----------------||
B-------------------------------------||
 s s s s s s e (s) s s s s s e

G--------------------------|------|------|------|------||
D--------------------------|------|------|------|------||
A--------------------------|------|------|------|------||
E-5----4----3----2----1--0-|-5----|------|------|------||
B--------------------------|------|------|------|------||
 e.  e.  e.  e.  e e  e (r) (r)  (r)  (r)
these are the riffs in the song. i'm at work so i don't have access to
either my guitar or the song so i can't remember the order entirely. i
may have missed some bits but i hope it's useful.

cheers, gareth

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