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Tuning: Standard
| / slide up
| slide down
| h hammer-on
| ~ note is held for a noticeably long time
The funnest Coldplay bass part to play, in my humble opinion. It’s actually in 4/4,
it or not, the triplets really throw you of though, so I just count like it’s in 3/4. The
a total whirlwind of sound, you can hear like 5 guitar parts at any given time!
Anyways, we’re here to tab out the bass. I got the song down a while ago and have had
adding to it since. I’ll show a few of these throughout the tab, they’ll either be in
( ) or be represented as an alternative the actual tones with [ОR].
Intro: No bass for 8 Bars, then…
Intro/Chorus:
Ebmaj7 G5
G|————|————-|————-|————-|
D|————|————-|————-|————-|
A|-6–6-6—6-|-6—6-6—6-|————-|————-|
E|————|————-|-3—3-3—3-|-3—3-3—3-|
G|————|————-||————-|——————————–| Repeat X
D|————|————-||.————|————.——————-| Number of Times
A|-6–6-6—6-|-6—6-6—6-||.————|————.||(Varies through–|
E|————|————-||-3—3-3—3-|-3—3-3—3——————–| -out the song)
Verse
Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 C Csus4 Csus2
E|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|
[ОR]
E|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-8-8-8-6-6-5-|
_____________________________
/ (Play this on the 1st verse only)
G|————-|————-|————-|————-|
D|—-h3/15~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-|—-h3/15~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-|
A|————-|————-|————-|————-|
E|-3———–|————-|-3———–|————-|
Verse
Intro/Chorus X2
Then…
Bridge:
Dm Bb6 C5
G|————-|————-|————-|
D|———–7-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|————-|
A|-5-5-5-5-8—|————-|-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
E|————-|————-|————-|
Dm Bb6 C5
G|————-|————-|——————-|
D|———–7-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-10-10-10-10-10-10-|
A|-5-5-5-5-8—|————-|——————-|
E|————-|————-|——————-|
Dm Bb6 C5
G|————-|————-|——————–|——-|——-|
D|———–7-|-8-8-8-8-8-8-|-10-10-10-10-10-10–|——-|——-|
A|-5-5-5-5-8—|————-|———-(10-10-10)|——-|——-|
E|————-|————-|———-(8–8–8-)|-3~~~~~~~~~~~~-|
Bridge Lyrics:
Night turns to day when I still had these questions.
Who could just blame, shall I go forwards or backwards?
And not since today and I still get no answers.
Rest 2 Bars
Intro/Chorus X2
Verse X2
Intro/Chorus X2
Then…
Оuтrо
Bb6 C5 G5 Bb6 C5 G5
G|——-|——-|——-|——-|
D|——-|——-|——-|——-| Repeat to fade…
A|——-|——-|——-|——-|
E|-6-/8–|-15~~~|-6-/8–|-15~~~|
I usually play around with octaves here, just to keep things interesting:
Bb6 C5 G5 Bb6
G|————–|————-| |————–|——————|
D|—8—–10—|—5—–5—| О |—8—–10—|—-17————|
A|————–|————-| R |————–|——————|
E|-6—6/8—-8-|-3—3-3—3-| |-6—6/8—-8-|-15—-15-15-15—|
Alright, that’s it. If’n you spot any mistakes, feel free to email me or make
Have a good one.
