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After Forever

Black Sabbath
Bass Tab
3.9(10)

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from - KtuluKid@aol.com and Michael James <mjames@agora.rdrop.com>

Black Sabbath

After Forever - Bass

Master Of Reality

Just hold the G Main Riff

     ||----------------||------------------------------------------12-14--
     ||----------------||------------------------------------12-14--------
     ||----------------||--------------5h7/12--12-12--12--12--------------
     ||-5--5---5---5---||-5--5-5--5--5------------------------------------

Have you ever

     -12h14-12h14-12h14--------12-14---------------------||---------------
     --------------------12-14---------------------------||---------------
     -------------------------------12--12-12--12--12\---||-5-5h7-7-7-7--7
     --------------------------------------------------5-||---------------

thought about your soul, can it be... Could you be afraid of what..

     ---------------------------------------||----------------|-----------
     ---------------------------5-5-5-5-5-4-||-----5-3--------|-----8-----
     -7h10101010-5-5h7-7-7-7--7-------------||---------5-3----|-8-8---10-10
     ---------------------------------------||-3-3----------5-|-----------

Is your mind so small that you... This riff here

----||------------------------------|| is actually

     ----||-----7-5----------------------||                played an oct-
     -8\-||---------7-5---------3--------||                ave lower than
     ----||-5-5----------7--3-3---5-5--3-||                tabbed but that

I think it is true, it was people like you that... means you have

||----------------------------------------------------tune down to Eb

     ||----------------------------------------5-5-5-5--5-5-6-||------7--7
     ||-5-5h7-7-7-7--7-7h10101010-5h7-7-7-7--7----------------||----------
     ||-------------------------------------------------------||-5--5-----

Solo, groove of off A

-------------||-----------------------------||This is not the||------

     -------------||-------------------5---7-5---||actual bassline||------
     -5h6----5----||---------5----5--7---7-----7-||just kinda an  ||------
     -----8-----8-||-7-7-5-7----7----------------||example.       ||------

Outro, do main riff acuople of times followed by this

------------------------------------------12h14--12h14-12h14--12h14--

------------------------------------12h14----------------------------

     --------------5h7/12--12-12--12--12----------------------------------
     -5--5-5--5--5--------------------------------------------------------

-12h14-14-14-14-14-12h14-14-14-14-14-12h14-14-14-14-14-12h14-14-14-14

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fade out...

-14-12h14-14-14-14-14-----||This songs a little tricky, after doing

--------------------------||the middle section("can you be afraid of

--------------------------||what your friends might say...")you play

     ----------------------5---||the vocal riff and the last time before

/=slide up \=slide down the funky pre-solo you do what's tabbed out

h=hammer-on where it say's "I think it is true, it was

people like you that..."then you play the

funky pre-solo, then to the solo and go

from there.

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