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Martial Law

Tollbooth
Bass Tab

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Song

Artist: Tollbooth

Song: Martial Law

Album: Their demo tape, not sure what its called

Tabber: Vivek Mahbubani

Tuning: Standard (G, D, A, E)

Note: Tollbooth? whos that!, their a pretty new band of European boys from the

South China Area, their homepage is at http://tollbooth.homepad.com/ they haven't

released any albums yet, but have sent a demo tape around and I believe to A-F

records, their new and young, but they have promise, I'm sure you'll see the

Martial Law song on mp3 circulating soon, I heard this song in concert and it

sounded amazing, so I got the song off them and ripped it from tape to mp3.

~ = let ring

^555^ = triplet

2p0 = pull off

2h3 = hammer on

x = dead note

Most of the song

|G|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|D|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|A|-----------------6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6----------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---------
|E|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-----------------6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6------------------------

During the Guitar solo (sounds like chords)

|G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------
|D|------------------8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8------------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------
|A|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------
|E|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3------------------6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6------------------------

After the solo (in concert he played this, on the demo he didn't for some reason)

the music starts to slow down, and then he plays this (100% correct? dunno!)

|G|------^555^-^444^-^333^-^222^-----------------------------------------------
|D|------------------------------2p0-------------------------------------------
|A|-5~~------------------------------2p0---------------------------------------
|E|--------------------------------------3p0--0--3-----------------------------

Then the last bit before they change to the original riff

|G|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|D|------------------------------------------------------------------------
|A|-----------------6-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------------5-x-x-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--
|E|-3-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----------------6-x-x-x-x-x-x-x------------------------

This is a really catchy song!, everyone thats heard it loves it, its mostly

the guitar that brings it up, but this is the bass line for it.

Hopefully this bad will get a bit bigger as time proceeds, remember to check out

their HP (http://tollbooth.homepad.com)

Viv.

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