artist: Primus song: My Name is Mud album: Pork Soda bassist: Les Claypool Ok, here's the deal: All the tabs I've seen for "My Name is Mud" have been horribly butchered. I mean, some people make it a harder song than it really is. In fact, this is probably the easiest Primus song out there, at least in my opinion. Here's how it should go. It's played on a 6-string fretless, but can be played on a fretted bass and a 5-string, as long as you have a low B-string. Riff 1 (The beginning): (\= Slide down) C:------------------------------------------ G:------------------------------------------ D:------------------------------------------ A:------------------------------------------ E:-7\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ B:------------------------------------------ C: G: D: A: E:-----------2h3-----------2h3----------------------2h3----------- B:-2-2---2-2-----2-2---2-2----------------2-2---2-2-----2-2---2-2- C:----------------------------------------------------------- G:----------------------------------------------------------- D:----------------------------------------------------------- A:----------------------------------------------------------- E:--------------------------------2h3------------------------ B:-0--------------------2-2---2-2-----2-2---2-2-0------------ distortion////////////off distortion/// C:------------------------------------------------- G:------------------------------------------------- D:------------------------------------------------- A:------------------------------------------------- E:-------------3---------------3-----7\\\\\\ B:-2-2---2-2-----2---2-2---2-2--------------------- Riff 2: C:--------------------------------------------------- G:--------------------------------------------------- D:--------------------------------------------------- >X 4 Then goes up A:--------------------------------------------------- an octave X 4 E:-------------2h3---------------2h3----------------- B:-1h2---1h2---------1h2---1h2----------------------- Riff 3: This part is what everyone makes so difficult. You just mute the strings with the palm of your picking hand, and you slap with your thumb (T) and hammer on with your first (1) and fourth (4) fingers in a triplet rhythm. C:----------------------------------------------- G:----------------------------------------------- D:----------------------------------------------- A:----------------------------------------------- E:----------------------------------------------- B:-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x--------------- T 1 4 T 1 4 T T 1 4 T 1 4 T Claypool adds in random fills throughout the song and sone octave slides as well. Just follow the song to figure out what goes where. Oh, and by the way, the part before he says "Where you going, cityboy?" is just him Hitting the open B string with some heavy distortion, and the last note of the song are the harmonics on the 5th fret hitting all 6 strings. And that's it! There's nothing to it!