From: Jay_Gibbes@cprailway.com Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:46:56 -0400 The River - Bass Tablature from: Splendor Solis by The Tea Party transcribed by: Jay Gibbes tuning EADG low to high Yahaha! The River! I think this must be the best bass that The Tea Party has done (up to Transmission). There's Bass all over the place. Towards the end of this song, Stuart does some soloing; You won't find it here. I didn't want to figure it out (it's not that easy to hear) and you would never be able to understand it from a document like this. Since Stuart gets into the double-digit frets for this song, I have put at least one '-' between each note. So: --1-2-- is the first fret and then the second fret and: --12-- is the twelfth fret. There are times in this song when changing from one piece of music to another they only play half of piece1 and then go into piece2; I haven't written any 'half' pieces, so you will have to know the song to know when to play a half piece and when not to. start Fig.1 Fig.2 G--------------------------------------------|--------------------------| D--------------------------------------------|----------------------0-2-| A-----0--2------2-3-2------0--2-----2_3-5-3--|----------------0-2-3-----| E--0-------0--0---------0-------0-0----------|-0--1-0--1-0--4-----------| sl. Fig.3 (chorus) Fig.4 ----------------------------|--------------------------------------------| -3--2-3-5--3-2-3-------0--2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-0-2---0----------------| -------------------0--------|-------------------------3---2-3-2----------| ----------------------------|-------------------------------------4____1-| sl. Fig.5 (heavy faster part) --------|------|-now join-----------------------|-------------| --------|repeat|---guitar--(repeat 16x)---------|-------------| --------|------|--------------------------------|-0-2-3-5-3-2-| -12____-|-4x---|-0-5-7-0-5-7-0-7-8-0-8-10-12___-|-------------| sl. sl. ..and the river..running down.... ------------------------------|--------------------------|back|-------- ------------------------------|--------------------------|-to-|soloing- -0---0-2-3-2-0-2--------------|---------0--0--2--2-5-3-2-|-Fig|-------- -------------------4----1---0-|-4-4-4-4------------------|--2-|-------- End. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -12-12-12-12-12--12--12---10--13--12-12-12-12-12--12--12---10--13--12-12- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -12-12-10--13---12-12-12-12-10--13--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12___________ sl. A note on fig.4: You can also play fig.4 starting at the 7th fret on the 'A' string; I feel I have more control that way but I think Stuart would play it as I have written above. Play it Loud. Jay. ******************************************************************* To: twg@io.org From: William Subject: bass tab Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 15:03:20 +0000 I have a bass tab for "the river". It sounds like it is right. _______________________________________________ ____________________________O__________________ ____________0__2___________________3__2________ ____0________________0______________________1__ repeat the licks: ____________ ______0________ ___________ _________0__2 _3__3____3__2__3 _______0_2_ _0_1_2_3____ _______________ __0________ ____________ _______________ ___________ It's not in order but once you play it you will know where eveything fits in. K.Barnett