Ace Of Spades tab by Motörhead

Guitar tabs

TEMPO = ± 140 bpm

The song opens with Lemmy’s bass (4 measures)


  RIFF1              X4
 e||----------------------------------||
 B||----------------------------------||
4 G||°--------------------------------°||
- D||°--------------------------------°||
4 A||-----------------14---x13---x12---||
 E||--0---0---0-0-0-0-0---x-0---x-0---||


VERSE
  G5
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--5-------------------------------|--5-------------------------------|
||--5-------------------------------|--5-------------------------------|
||--3-------------------------------|--3-------------------------------|
 If you like the gamble....


|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--5-------------------------------|--5-----5-----5-------5-----------|
|--5-------------------------------|--5-----5-----5-------5-----------|
|--3-------------------------------|--3-----3-----3-------3-----------|
                  ...all the same to me.


      ^r                  ^r                  X2
||------------------------------------|----------------------------------||
||-----14^¹---14----12----14----12----|-----14^¹---14----12--------------||
||°-;--14^¹---14----12----14----12----|--;--14^¹---14----12-------------°||
||°-----------------------------------|------------------------14------°||
||------------------------------------|----------------------------------||
||------------------------------------|----------------------------------||


  D5                 C5
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--7-------------------------------|--5-------------------------------|
|--7-------------------------------|--5-------------------------------|
|--5-------------------------------|--3-------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
The pleasure is the play...

      ^r                  ^r
|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-----14^¹---14----12----14----12----|-----14^¹---14----12--------------|
|--;--14^¹---14----12----14----12----|--;--14^¹---14----12--------------|
|------------------------------------|------------------------14-------|
|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|



D5                 C5
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--7-------------------------------|--5-------------------------------|
|--7-------------------------------|--5-------------------------------|
|--5-------------------------------|--3-------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
  "I don’t share your greed..."              "...is the

CHORUS: "ace of spades, the ace of spades" (W/RIFF1 X4)

REPEAT FROM THE VERSE.

BRIDGE
  E5           D5     E5
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--9-------#-------#-------7-------|--9-------#-------@---------------|
|--9-----------------------7-------|--9-------------------------------|
|--7-----------------------5-------|--7-------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
You know I’m born to lose...


|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--@---------------@---------------|--@---------------@---------------|
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|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--7---7-7---7-7---7---7-7---7-7---|--7---7-7---7-7---9---9-7---7-5---|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--5---5-5---5-5---5---5-5---5-5---|--5---5-5---5-5---7---7-5---5-3---|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|



|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--4---4-4---4-4---4---4-4---4-4---|--4-------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--2---2-2---2-2---2---2-2---2-2---|--2-------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
                  And don’t forget the joker!

SOLO (I’m not sure if this part is absolutely correct...but sounds similar!)

|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|------5---7P5-----7~~~~~----------|
|--0H3-5/75--------3H5P3P0--3-----|--7-----------7-------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|



|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--7P5-----7P5-----7P5-----7P5-----|--7^¹---7------5--------------5---|
|------7-------7-------7-------7---|-------------------7---5H7--------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|



|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|-10-------------------------------|
|------7---9P7---7/9---7---9^¹-----|------9---7H9P7-----7-------------|
|--9-------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|



|--------------------------------------------------|
|-/10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-|
|-/11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
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                   pick scrape
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|-10-10-10-10/11-11-11-11/12-12-12-12/X-X-X-X-|
|-11-11-11-11/12-12-12-12/13-13-13-13/X-X-X-X-|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|



|---10h12p10------8H10P8-----8-----|------8---10^¹---P8---------------|
|-----------------------10---------|-10------------------10-----------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|



|-10P8-----------------------------|----------------------------------|
|-----10--10P8--8-10---10P8---8----|----------------------------------|
|-------------9-------------9------|--9----7--------------------5-----|
|----------------------------------|--------------------7---5H7-------|
|----------------------------------|--------------5-------------------|
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|


PLAY RIFF1 X4 TIMES AND THEN THE VERSE AND CHORUS

OUTRO
                 X4                 X2
||----------------------------------||--12-------12---------------------||
||----------------------------------||--15^¹-----15^¹-------------------||
||°--------------------------------°||°--------------------------------°||
||°--------------------------------°||°--------------------------------°||
||--7---7---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
  PM..............................


  E5   D5   E5         E5   D5   E5
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
|--9------7-------9----------/----|--9------7------9----------------||
|--9------7-------9----------/----|--9------7------9----------------||
|--7------5-------7----------/----|--7------5------7----------------||
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------||


NOTATION

H : HAMMER ON             ^r: RELEASE
P : PULL OFF             ~ : VIBRATO
/ : SLIDE (UP)            ; : RESTS (1/2 BEAT)
 : SLIDE (DOWN)           # : RESTS (1 BEAT)
X : MUTED STRINGS           @ : RESTS (2 BEATS)
^¹: WHOLE TONE BEND
Ace Of Spades tab

Motörhead tabs for Ace of spades Ace of Spades is one of the best known songs by Motorhead which frontman and bassplayer Lemmy write together with bandmates Clarke and Taylor. It was the title track to their 1980 album.
Even if it is such a heavy song, it spent thirteen weeks on the British charts. Opening with a killer bass-riff before the guitar and drum kicks in, this is Motorhead and Lemmy at the best. Learn to play Ace of Spades here with these guitar tabs.
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