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Vengeance

New Model Army
Bass Tab

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Song

"Vengeance" by New Model Army (from the album "Vengeance")

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Played on a fretless bass

Notation:

| slide |: fretless slide

< >: natural harmonic

Intro Riff

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G|-------------<7>----------------|
D|-<12>--------------------<7>----|
A|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|

Verse Riff

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|-slide-| | - slide - |

G|---------7---5---7----10-9------|----------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|-3-3-3---7---5---7---5------------|
A|-5-5-5--------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|

Bridge Harmonics

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triplets throughout

G|-<12><12><12>-<12><12><12>---------|----------------|
D|-----------------------------------|----------------|
A|-----------------------------------|----------------|
E|-----------------------------------|----------------|
G|-<12><12><12>-------------------------------|----------------|
D|--------------<12><12><12>------------------|----------------|
A|---------------------------<12><12><12>-----|----------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|----------------|
G|-<12><12><12>--------------<12><12><12>-----|----------------|
D|--------------<12><12><12>------------------|----------------|
A|--------------------------------------------|----------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|----------------|
G|-<12><12><12>--------------<12><12><12>--------------|
D|--------------<12><12><12>--------------<12><12><12>-|
A|-----------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
G|-<12><12><12>--------------<12><12><12>--------------|
D|--------------<12><12><12>--------------<12><12><12>-| I used to just run harmonics along the D string here
A|-----------------------------------------------------| 12th fret down to the open D
E|-----------------------------------------------------|

Chorus Riff

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(x2)

G||-------------------------------|---------------------------------||
D||-------------------------------|---------------------------------||
A||-5-------5---5---5---5---5---0-|-2----------2---2---2---2---2--0-||
E||-------------------------------|---------------------------------||

triplets

G|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|-3---3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3---3---|
A|-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5--|---------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5-5-5---5---||
D|-7---7-7-7---7-7-7---7-7-7---7---|---------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------||

End of 1st Chorus Only

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G||-7-----------------------------|---------------------------------||
D||-0-----------------------------|---------------------------------||
A||-------------------------------|---------------------------------||
E||-------------------------------|---------------------------------||

Solo Riff

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G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0--|-2---2-2-2---2-2-2---2-2-2---2--|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|-------------------------------||
D|-3---3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3---3--|-2---2-2-2---2-2-3-2---0-------||
A|--------------------------------|---------------------------3---||
E|--------------------------------|-------------------------------||

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