Wasted Years by Iron Maiden
From the album Somewhere in Time (1986)
Written by Adrian Smith
All rights belong to their respective owners
Tabbed by Jaakko Karppinen
I have based this tab on the bass track and live performances you can find in Youtube,
so it should be pretty much 100% correct.
The only thing I haven't tabbed is that weird, kind of galloping sound that Steve does
during the verses.
You really can't even hear that on the record so you can just play it as tabbed.
I also noticed from the bass track and live performances that Steve doesn't play the Intro/Bridge
parts exclusively on the G string but keeping his left hand on the 9-12th fret area all
the time.
I actually find this easier to play and it also sounds better. I have also tabbed the
optional way to
play it in the end so you can choose which one you like better. Hope you enjoy this
Maiden classic! Up the Irons!
Bass Track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qplDdQ1iGhc
Intro
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Verse A
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|-5---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7--------------------|
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|-5----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5----|
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|-5---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7----------------|
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|-----5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5----------------|
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Verse B
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|-5---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7----------------|
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|-----3---3---3---3---3---3~----------3---3---3---3---5---5---5----|
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|-5---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7----------------|
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|-----5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5----------------|
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|-----3---3---3---3---3---3~----------3---3---3---3---3---5---R----|
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Chorus
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||---3~------3---3---3---3---3---3---------------0---5---5---5---0----|
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|---------------------------------------------0---5---5---5---0----|
|-------------------------------------------------7~---------------|
|---------------------------------------------7~------7~-----------|
|---------------------------------5---5---5---------------5~-------|
|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0------------------------------------|
First time: (triplets)
|-------------------------9---9---9---10--10--10--12--12--12\--------||
|-10--10--10--12--12--12-------------------------------------------o-||
|------------------------------------------------------------------o-||
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Second time: (triplets) ||
|-----5---5-------5---5-------5---5-------5---5-------5---5----------||
|------------------------------------------------------------------o-||
|-3-----------3-----------3-----------3-----------3-----------R----o-||
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Verse B
Chorus
Bridge (Intro)
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Solo
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|---------------------------------------------14-------------------|
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|-9-------9---7-------7---9-------9---7-------7---9---7------------|
|-----------------9-----------------------9---------------9---7----|
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|-12--14--14--14--14--14------14--12--14------14--12--14--12\------|
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|-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---5---R----|
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Chorus 2X
Bridge (Intro)
Outro
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|-------------------------------------------------7---5------------|
|-3---3---3---2---2---2-----------------------------------7~-------|
|-------------------------5---5---5---3---3---3--------------------|
|----------|
|----------|
|(7)~------|
|-0~~------|
Here is the optional way to play the Intro/Bridge parts:
|------10h12--------9---------11--------7---------9-------5--------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-0~---------------------------------------------------------------|
|-7---------4---------5---------2---------4------(0)---------------|
|-------------------------------------------------5------(0)-------|
|---------------------------------------------------------5~-------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------|
