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| Artist: Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Bass: Victor Wooten) |
| Title: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo |
| Album: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo |
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| Tabbed by Andrew Ker (adk@comlab.ox.ac.uk) |
| A Member of the BTA Army - http://www.basstabarchive.com |
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Notes:
This is a great piece to play, as long as you have a fretless to play it on
(it doesn`t work on a fretted bass...) The bad news is that it really needs
a 5-string. For people like me who can`t afford one, this is arranged for
4-string but with *Drop C Tuning* (i.e. CADG from bottom up). You have to
be able to slide up to the bottom D, but this isn`t a great tuning to play
in so you might prefer CGCF - in which case you`ll just have to work out
the differences yourself.
Please send me any corrections! Enjoy.
Key: . = short note (all others are long, listen to the song for exact lengths)
or / = slide down or up (see below)
h = hammer on
x = ghost note or some note too short to work out
This piece is all about slides! You`ll need to listen to the song to see what
sort of slides go where. /8 means slide up to the 8th fret (quite quickly)
and back down, generally starting and finishing one fret (i.e. one semitone)
lower. Sometimes the slide off goes further down. /8// means you slide up
to the 8th fret and then up and down between 7th and 8th frets. Sometimes you
have to play a note, let it ring for a long time, and then slide up or down as
it is fading away.
Introduction:
G |---------------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
D |---------------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
A |---------------|----------------|--------------|-------------|
C|/1----/8----/|1----/8//---|1----/8----/|1----/8----/|
First verse:
G |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------|
D |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------|
A |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------|
C|1----/8----/|1----/8//---|1----/8----/|1----/8---8--|
G |--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
D |--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
A |--------------|--------------|----.-------.---|-----.------------|
C|1----/8----/|1----/9-----/|8---8--/9---9--/|10---10--/11---12|
G |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------|
D |--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------|
A |--------------|----------------|--------------|------.-.-.-.-|
C|1----/8----/|1----/8//---|1----/8----/|1----8-6-4-3-|
G |--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
D |--------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
A |--------------|--------------|----.-------.---|-----.------------|
C|1----/8----/|1----/9-----/|8---8--/9---9--/|10---10--/11---12|
Interlude:
G |----------|----------|----------|----------|
D |----------|----------|----------|----------|
A |-----5----|4----3----|2----1----|----------|
C|6---------|----------|---------/|7---/6---|
G |----------|-----------|---------------|------|
D |----------|-----------|---------------|------|
A |----------|-----------|---------------|------|
C|4----8----|9----7----/|6---5-4----3--2|------|
G |-----------|-----------| |-----------|-----------|
D |-----------|-----------| (3 times) then |-----------|-----------|
A |-----------|-----------| |-----------|-----------|
C|1---/3----/|4----/3---| |1---/3----/|4----8---8-|
(slowly slide up towards the 5th fret)
G |----------|-----------|---------------|------------|
D |----------|8----6-----|---------------|------------|
A |5----6----|----------/|5---4-3----2--1|--------/---|
C|----------|-----------|---------------|------------|
(quietly slide off at the end of the bar)
G |----------|-----------|----------------|-----------|
D |----------|8----6-----|----------------|-----------|
A |5----6----|-----------|----------------|-----------|
C|----------|----------/|6---5-4----3--/2|----------|
Second verse:
This is the really fun bit. Lots of slide and vibrato,
and enjoy the low notes. Make that fretless sing!
G |------------------|------------|------------------|----------|
D |--7-3---5--------|------------|--7-3---5-------|----------|
A |-------------7-/8-|----5-/7----|-------------7-/8-|----------|
C|------------------|------------|------------------|----------|
G |------------------|------------------|--------------|--------------|
D |--7-3---5--------|------------------|--------------|--------------|
A |-------------7-/8-|----12---/15---13|12--1211--11|10--108--7--5|
C|------------------|------------------|--------------|--------------|
G |------------------|------------|----------------|----------|
D |------------------|------------|----------------|----------|
A |------------------|------------|------.---.-----|----------|
C|--8-4---6----3-/4-|----1-/3---|/8----6-x-4-3---|----------|
.
G |------7-----------|-------------------------|--------------|--------------|
D |---7----75-------|-------------------------|--------------|--------------|
A |------------------|-------15----13(h15)(h13)|12--1211--11|10--108--7---|
C|----------------3/|4-----------------------|--------------|--------------|
Then repeat the interlude as above.
End:
G |---------------|---------| |---------------|----
D |---------------|---------| (3 times) then |---------------|----
A |---------------|---------| |---------------|----
C|/1----/8----/|1-------| |/1-----/8---8|----
