Mr Gone

Song

Mr Gone

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From the Mr Big Album "Bump Ahead"

Intro

^ v tr~~~~~~~

|-------|-17----19-21-|-(22)--(21)-----19-|-19-17---19-17-(19)---|
|---17--|-------------|-------------------|----------------------|
|-------|-------------|-------------------|----------------------|
|-------|-------------|-------------------|----------------------|
|----|-----9--10-9--10-12-10-9--|----9--10-9--10-12-10-9---|
|----|o-10----------------------|-10-----------------------|
|-10-|o-------------------------|--------------------------|
|----|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|-----9--10-9--10-12-10-9--|----9--10-9--10-12-10-9---|
|--10----------------------|-10-----------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|-----9--10-9--10-12-10-9--|----7--9--7--9--10-9--7---|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|-10-----------------------|-9------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------|
|----5--7--5--7--9--7--5---|--------------------------||
|--------------------------|-------------------------o||
|-8------------------------|-8-----------------------o||
|--------------------------|--------------------------||

Verse x4

|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|o-------------------2--3--------------|-------------------------------o|
|o-3--1--3-----1--3--------3--1--3-----|-3--3--3-----1-----------------o|
|--------------------------------------|----------------3--3--1---------|

Harm

|------------|------------------|------------|------------------|-(3)---|
|------------|------------3-----|------------|-----5-------5----|---(3)-|
|-0----------|------------------|------------|------------------|-------|
|------------|-1-------1----1---|--2---------|-3-3---3-3-3---3--|-------|

Chorus

To Verse

|---------------------|--------------------|---------------|------------|
|o--------------------|--------------------|---------------|-----------o|
|o-3---------3------3-|-3---------3------3-|-3----5-----5--|-----------o|
|--------3-5---5-3----|-------3-5---5-3----|----------5----|-1----------|

\___/ \___/

Bridge

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----2-2-----2---|-----2-2-----2---|-----2-2-----2---|-----2-2---------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0-------0-0-----|-0-------0-0-----|-0-------0-0-----|-0-------0-0-1-2-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----5-5-----5---|-----5-5-----5---|-----5-5-----5---|-----5-5-----5---|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-3-------3-3-----|-3-------3-3-----|-3-------3-3-----|-3-------3-3-----|

Solo!!!

w q. e ^ e v e e e h + e s s q

|-17-----------|-(17)-----21-(22)-(21)-17----|-17-----------------------|
|--------------|--------------------------17-|--------------------------|
|--------------|-----------------------------|----------15-17-15--------|
|--------------|-----------------------------|--------------------------|

\_____________/ \_____

e e q. s s s s ^ e q v q. s s s s q ^

|----------17---------17-----19-(21)-|-(21)---(19)----17-19-17-19-21----|
|------/17------17-19----19----------|----------------------------------|
|-(15)-------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|----------------------------------|

\____

^s vs ^s vs ^s vs ^s vs ^s vs s s e s s 3[q q q]3[q q q]

|-(22-21-22-21-22-21-22-21-22-21-)-19-21-19--------|--------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|----10--------10----|
|----------------------------------------------7-8-|-10----10--9-----9--|
|--------------------------------------------------|--------------------|

_____________________________/

q s s s s h

|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-8---(20)-(20)-(20)-(20)-(20)-------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Tapped Harmonics......

Having seen the band Tuesday night, I just had to finish off this

transcription, and post it. The albumn is full of really forward

bass parts like this, so I may tackle some more in the future. The

up front sound makes them pretty easy to transcribe.

Ian Stephenson

ian@ohm.york.ac.uk

Notes:

1) Enough's been written about Billy's tone/amp set up, but

it does make it easier to get the long sustained bends of the intro,

and solo. The attitude bass also has a scalloped fretboard for some

of the top notes, again aiding these lines. When bending notes, the

notes should be fretted with the third finger, but the force to

bend the notes should come as much as possible from the first and

second fingers which "support" the bend (be carefull - you can

injure yourself on these bends if your not warmed up. Don't over do

it. Stop if it hurts!).

2) The second part of the intro is the really cool part. I

checked Billy playing this, and this is pretty close to how he plays

it - its NOT tapped, though I figured it would be.

3) The Verse and Chorus are really simple, though the verse

riff is pretty cool.

4) The notation is a bit tricky in to solo. I've included time

info, as its difficult to play along with, until you've broken it

down into small bits. I've notated bends with "^" and "v". The

fretted note is shown first, then the target notes are shown in

brackets. The "19" deliberatly has no time allocated to it - bend

straigh up to the "21".

5) I've marked the final notes as tapped harmonics, but I'm

not sure these are correct. They're definatly F harmonics, but

playing them this way fails to get the sound thats on the album.

This can probably be (again) attributed to Billy's distorted tone.

6) Following this section there's an acappella chorus, and

then repeated choruses to fade.

If you enjoy this transcrition, and would like to see more tab on

the net, then

SIT DOWN AND WRITE SOME!

Ian

ian@ohm.york.ac.uk