Tag Archives: Bass Guitar

Bass tab – Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes

Pretty cool song (video below), which was later corrupted by Italian football fans into a completely degraded “po po po” song.

This song is in the key of C, like the others I’ve tabbed so far. The basic tune is pretty straightforward:

  • E E G E D C B

…which on a tab would read as:

G|--------------------
D|---2-25-2-----------
A|----------5-3--2----
E|--------------------

Then there is the instrumental which is basically the same as the above, but every second time it is played, there is an extra bit, which is:

  • E E G E D C D C B

Which is just:

G|-----------------------
D|---2-25-2--------------
A|----------5-3-5-3-2----
E|-----------------------

So basically, for most of the tune you play the first one. During the instrumental, you play the first one, then the second one, then the first one again, then the second one again.

Guitar/Bass tab – Don’t Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult

This is “Don’t Fear the Reaper”, a song by Blue Oyster Cult released in 1976, which makes it close to 40 years old. Wow. There is also an Apollo 440 cover (1995) which I think is pretty decent.

The basic tune, which is in the key of C, goes:

  • A E A G
  • G B D G
  • F C D G
  • A E A G

This guitar tab is a pretty good rendition of the tune, so I’ll quote the main part below as-is (just added the string names at the left side):

     Am       G        F       G
e|-------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------
G|-------2-0--------0--------0-------0-
D|-----2----------0--------0-------0---
A|---0----------2--------3-------2-----
E|------------3--------1-------3-------

Since only the top four strings of the guitar are used, the same tab can be used directly on bass guitar without any modifications.