star spangled banner bass tabs

[bassman462]

Just if anyone was wondering what it was hear you go.

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Normal tuning (EADG)
*9* -> Let note ring
11/13 -> Slide up
13\11 -> Slide down

|---------------------*9*------11/13--11--9-------------------
|---9--------------9---------------------------------*9*------
|------11------11----------------------------11--13-----------
|----------12-------------------------------------------------

------11/13--11--9--*8*------6--8--9--9-------------|
9--9-------------------------------------9--6-------|
-----------------------------------------------7----|
----------------------------------------------------|

|--13--13--13--14--16--*16*------14--13------13--14----*14*
|----------------------------------------16--------------
|--------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------

---------14--13----------------------------------------------|
-----------------16--14--*13*------11----13--14----------------|
-----------------------------------------------11--13----*14*--|
-------------------------------------------------------------|

|---------------------------------11--13--14--13--11----------------
|------14--14----14\13--11--11--11----------------------14---13/14--*13*
|--14---------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------

------------9--11--13--14---14/*16*------9--11--13--14--11--*9*--|
------9--9-----------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|

then for that little thing stefan does in the central park concert version is something like this

|-13---12----*8*---------|
|---------------------------|
|-13-----------------------|
|-------12----*8*---------|

[GSR]

cool... the lower parts on the g string should be transcribed so the whole thing can be played around the upper register.

[bassman462]

Well i like playing these types of songs on the lower frets. Unless its worship then i always stay on the higher frets.

[Macht]

Well i like playing these types of songs on the lower frets. Unless its worship then i always stay on the higher frets.

play at church?

I just tend to saty low when vocals are on, when we do music only, like in prayer, i tend to go higher

[street fish]

So does this a correct tab of the song, or are you including the wrong notes and awkward key changes Stefan did that night?

[bassman462]

This is the notes not like how stefan had it.

[i like tictacs]

no this is some thing he found in the archives at talkbass.com

[GSR]

yeah stefan hit a couple sour notes at cp

[i like tictacs]

i dont think he rehearsed it or anything, i mean i can half assedly play this song without even knowing it past the first bar

[GSR]

i think he played it the show before cp..or the watchtower before cp

[xero]

Stefan tried to play it at Hershey on 9/11 (and supposedly soundchecked it before the show) -- didn't sound terrible, but wasn't great, either. He also hit a few bad notes during that performance, heh.

The tab here looks to be fairly close to how I play it, though I play more on the A and D strings and just slide up/down.

[Bartender2424]

he plays a similar tab higher on the neck. The structure of the Star Spangled Banner Intro is that of which you found,but I believe stefan plays it 3 frets higher

[street fish]

The nifty thing about classical compositions like that is all the notes tend to fall within a scale, such as the major or minor scale or one of its variants. So for example, if someone said "play this song, it is in A minor," it should be a lot easier to work it out on-the-fly.

Sure, that applies to most pop and rock songs, but then those songs tend to shift keys, or be based around a riff that is more difficult to dissect in terms of a scale or mode.