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Night on the Sun

Modest Mouse
Tab
4.5(41)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Intro

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|  x 3
A|----------------4-h-5-p-4----------------------------------------|
E|--0--4--6--4---------------7-h-5-p-7--4--------------------------|

This song is played with overlapping combo of guitar and bass,

so have someone play bass over the guitar [ remember

that basses make the same sounds on different

strings]. so if you're not happy with the intro just remember

that there is a bass overlapping to cause a " fullness " to the notes.

But then again, it was recorded in a freaking studio...

Verse 1

e|----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------|  x 1
A|--4--6--7--6--4--2-2--------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------4--0-----------------------------------|

Play : Intro x3

Verse1 x3

Intro x3

and then...

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--4--6--7--6--4--2-2-----------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------4--0---7--9/0--14/7-----------------------|

another guitar is playing harmonics over the bass

over the 0---7--0--7 parts.

Gently lay your index finger over the 7 and 12th fret...

e|-----7-------12------7--------12-----------------------------------|
B|-----7-------12------7--------12-----------------------------------|
G|-----7-------12------7--------12-----------------------------------|
D|-----7-------12------7--------12-----------------------------------|
A|-----7--------12-----7---------12----------------------------------|
E|-----7--------12-----7---------12----------------------------------|

Then when the drums kick in start palming these notes:

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-PM--0--0-0-x/0-0--0-0-0-x/0-0--7--7-7-x/7-7--7-7-7-x/7-7----------|

So, turn off the lights cause it's night on the sun y'all

Hopelessly hopeless I hope so, for you...

Freeze your blood and then stab into in two

Stab your blood into me and blend

I eat my own blood and I get filled up, I get filled up and then

Solo

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4-------4-4--6------------------------------------------------------|
D|----6-4--------------------------------------------------------------| x2
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-8-8-8-8-8h9p8--6-4---8-8-8-8-8-9-8-6-4--------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| x1
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4-6-8-9-8-6-4---4-6-8-9-8-6-4/-11-9p8h9p8-4--11-9p8h9p8-6-4-------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----8----6----8----6----8----6-----8-11-8-6--------------------------|
D|-9----9----9----9----9----9----9-------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|

Well it's one thing to know about this town, it's five hundred miles underground

That's all right, that's all right

Well there's one thing to know about this globe, it's bound up and willing to explode

That's all right, that's all right

There's one thing to know about this earth, we're put here just to make more dirt

That's all right, that's all right

And thats pretty much it! A fairly simple song but awsome when you master it.

I would get the cd to listen to the order and stuff.

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| h Hammer-on

| p Pull-off

| / Slide up

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