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Bone Machine

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

Song

Artist: Pixies

Song: Bone Machine

Album: Surfer Rosa

Bassist: Kim Deal

This is my interpritation of the bass line-

*=mute

/=slide up

Beginning

G-----------------------------------------------|

D-----------------------------------------------| (PART 1)

A-5-5-5-*---------------------------------------|
E---------5-5-5-5/8-8-8-*-3-3-3-*---------------|

When the guitar part starts it goes like this-

G-----------------------------------------------|

D-----------------------------------------------| (PART 2)

A-5-5-5-5---------3-3-3-3-----------------------|
E---------5-5-5-5---------3-3-3-3---------------|

play that until "Your bones got a little machine"-

G-----------------------------------------------|
D-2---------------------------------------------|      (PART 3)
A---------3-------------------------------------|
E-----------------1-------3---------------------|

"you're the bone machine"-

G-----------------------------------------------|
D-2-2-2-2---------------------------------------|      (PART 4)
A---------3-3-3-3-------------------------------|
E-----------------1-1-1-1-3-3-3-3---------------|

I don't know the names for each part of the song so broke it up into parts. This

is the order they go in-

PART 1 X2

PART 2 X12

PART 3 X1

PART 2 X2

PART 4 X1

PART 2 X10

PART 3 X1

PART 2 X2

PART 3 X1

PART 2 X8

PART 3 X1

I hope this helped. I saw the other tabs and they didn't look right (I don't know

how they got five stars). Please rate.

Comments

Spotted a wrong chord, or know a capo position that sounds closer to the record?

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