Police and Thieves

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

Police and Thieves Bass Tablature

by the clash

Transcribed by Gilles Velay (velay@suisse.far.cea.fr)

Notation :

w : whole ||: repeat

h : half R : rest

q : quarter \ : slide down

e : 8th / : slide up

s : 16th ^ : triplet

Intro

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q ^e e^e^e q q [x3] w w w [x4]

G-||-------------------||----------------||-----------------|----------------||
D-||*-------4-2-------*||----------------||*----------------|---------------*||
A-||*-----------3---5-*||----------------||*-R--------------|-R-------------*||
E-||-3--3-3------------||--3-------------||-----------------|----------------||

slow faster (drums then guitars enter)

Verses, Guitar Solo and Outro

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e e e e q q q+e e q q e e e e q q q+e e q q

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

Chorus

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[x3] h e q+e h+e e e e h e q+e w

G-||-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||
D-||-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||
A-||-2------2-R------|-R---------2-4-5--|-0------0-R------|-R----------------||
E-||-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||

h h h h h h h h

G-|------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
D-|---------2--------|-3-------5--------|--------4--------|-5--------7--------|
A-|-3----------------|------------------|-5---------------|-------------------|
E-|------------------|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|