Synchronicity Ii bass tab by The Police

Bass tabs

Song: SYNCHRONICITY II - BASSLINE/STING
Artist: THE POLICE
Album: SYNCHRONICITY
Tabbed by: PHILLIP TRUJEQUE ([email protected])
Standard tuning.
Played W/PICK
This is a better look at Stings bassline to Synchronicity II. There's another
the version I'm posting is also basic, it's just a better version for
understanding.

  Intro & Bridge
  (F#)
G:|-----------------||-----------------||
D:|*---------------*||-------5-5------*||
A:|*---------------*||-----------5-5\-*||
E:|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||-2-2-2-----------||
  "Ahh..."

  Verse Riff: I
  (A)                  *2nd & 3rd         4x's
G:|-----------------|-------------------|-------------|-----------------||
D:|*-------7--------|-------7---(7)\----|-*5-5-5-5----|5---5-5-5-5-----*||
A:|*0-------------0-|4--------(4)-------|----------5--|------------5-5-*||
E:|-----------------|-------------------|--3-3-3-3----|3---3-3-3-3------||
  "Another suburban family mornin..."
  "Another industrial ugly mornin..."
  "Another working day has ended..."

  Verse Riff: II
  (A)                 4x's
G:|--------------------|-------------------||
D:|*--------7---------*|--------7---------*||
A:|*------------------*|------------------*||
E:|-5----------------5-|5---------------5\-||
  "Mother chants her litany..."
  "Secretary's pawn and preen..."
  "Daddy grips the wheel..."


  Pre-Chorus
  (D)                 3x's
G:|--------------------|---------------------||
D:|*-------------------|--------------------*||
A:|*-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|----------%---------*||
E:|--------------------|---------------------||
  "Daddy only stares into the distance"
  "And ev'ry single meeting with his..."
  "He sees the family home now..."

  (E)        Last verse repeat this 2x's
G:|--------------------|-------------||-----------------|-------------|
D:|*-------------------|------------*||-----------------|------------*|
A:|*----------7--------|------&-----*||*----------7-----|------%-----*|
E:|--0-----------------|-------------||--0--------------|-------------|

  Chorus
  (A)        (G)   (F)   (E)   (E/F)  (E)      Last
verse
G:|----------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-----||-------||-----|
D:|*--------*|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-----||---55--||-----|
A:|*--------*|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-----||-----55||-----|
E:|-5--------|-5-----|-3-----|-1-----|-0-----|-0-----|0----||0------||5----|
  "Many miles away something crawls..."
  "Many miles away something crawls..."
  "Many miles away there's a shadow..."

  Outro: {Stings version}
                             Repeat & fade.
G:|---9--------------|7----------------|---12---------|-5------------------|
D:|*-----------------|-----------------|--------------|-------------------*|
A:|*--7--------------|5----------------|---10---------|-5-----------------*|
E:|------------------|-----------------|--------------|--------------------|
                           "Many miles...
 ...away!"


  Outro: {My version}
                             Repeat & fade.
G:|------------------|------/12--------|------12------|-------12\10--------|
D:|*----9---/10\9---9|--10------10---10|--12----12----|--10/12-----10\9---*|
A:|*-\7---7-------7--|8----8-------8---|10--10----10-8\7----------------8\*|
E:|------------------|-----------------|--------------|--------------------|
                           "Many miles...
 ...away!"


**Back to Verse riff and repeat everything again and it's back to the intro
which is written here as the brigde section. Then repeat the pattern once
more and go to the outro.
Now, When I play this song with the guys, I don't use the same basslines as
Mr. Sting does,
I'm a more active bassist so I'm using this as a template which is what you
should do,
and I pretty much improvise over the chord progression keeping in mind the
original bassline.
I don't butcher by any means this song. This is one of my favorite Police
tunes and the only thing I can do to its original basslines is add my own
color. Although, I am faithful to the originally written bassline,
I'll ad a riff here and there which only gives it my flavor. For the outro I
use a more 'notier' approach since I'm an all-over-the-place bass player.
I've tabbed the basic idea of Stings version of the song and I've added my
little outro excersise so you can have fun with. Have fun jamming and - Keep
It On The Down-Low!