Big Machine

Song

Band: Velvet Revolver

Song: Big Machine

Album: Contraband

ktaneja@students.latrobe.edu.au

Note: An easy song, listen to the song to get what part goes where, i have tried to explain at my best"

Gtr I (E - 1/2) - 'Slash'

gtr 2 (" " " ) - Dave Kushner

*Starts with heavy base*

4/4

Gtr I

~

Riff A

"All that first-class jet set brings me down, down, down"

|-------------------|
|-9-----4------2----|
|-9-----4------2----|
|-9-----4------2----|
|-7-----2------0----|
|-------------------|

::Chorus - Kusner keeps playing Em while Slash plays those bends, listen to the track fr details::

"It's a big machine, it's a big machine"

|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-2--2--x-2--2--x-2--2--x--2--2----|
|-0--0--x-0--0--x-0--0--x--0--0----|

~ ~

|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------9------------9----|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-12-10-9---------7-5-4-------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-2--2--x--2--2--x-2--2--x-2--2----|
|-0--0--x--0--0--x-0--0--x-0--0----|

~ ~

|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|----------9----------5----|
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|-12-10-9------7-5-4-------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0----|

~ ~

|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|----------9---------9----|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-12-10-9-----7-5-4-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------9----|
|-----------------|------------9----|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2------7----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0-----------|
|-----------------------|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-7------2---------0----|
|-----------------------|

::Bridge::

|-------------------------------|
|-5---------9-------5-----------|
|-5---------9-------5------5----|
|-5---------9-------5--7---5----|
|-3----2----7---2---2--7---5----|
|------0--------0------5---3----|

"Get away without borders

I'm a slave, New World Order

I guess I chose to be

I guess I chose to be

I guess I chose to be

I guess I chose to be

Hope I teach my son how to be a man

Now before he hits 35

Comic book lives don't really have any real life do they now"

|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-7S=5S=4S=2--0---------|
|---------------4S=2----|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|

::Solo/fill - played by Slash::

|-12-12-12-12-12-12----------|-12-12-12-12-12-12-----------x-----------|
|-16-16-16-16-16-16-16b17----|-16-16-16-16-16-16-16b17-----x--18-17----|
|-------------------------14-|-------------------------14--------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|

::Play these chords with above riff at ending::

|------------------------|
|-9------8----6----11----|
|-9------8----6----11----|
|-9------8----6----11----|
|-7------6----4-----9----|
|------------------------|

::Small fill by Slash before song ends::

~~~~~

|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------16---15--x--15--x--14--x--14--x--13b14----|
|-------17-------------------------------------------|
|-15h17----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|

::Ends with Em ringing::

|-----------------|---------------|
|-----------------|---------------|
|-----------------|---------------|
|-----------------|---------------|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2----2----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0----0----|

Duration Legend

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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura

+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted

Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)

Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line

Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the

duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-

bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low

melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature Legend

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h - hammer-on

p - pull-off

b - bend

pb - pre-bend

r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)

/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")

s - legato slide

S - shift slide

- natural harmonic

[n] - artificial harmonic

n(n) - tapped harmonic

~ - vibrato

tr - trill

T - tap

TP - trem. picking

PM - palm muting

\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip

\n - tremolo bar down

n/ - tremolo bar up

/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip

= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls

<> - volume swell (louder/softer)

x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash

o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc Legend

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| - bar

|| - double bar

||o - repeat start

o|| - repeat end

*| - double bar (ending)

: - bar (freetime)

$ - Segno

& - Coda

Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths