• Song:

    Subway - Five Dollar Foot Long

  • Artist:

    Misc Unsigned Bands

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Five Dollar Foot Long - Subway (Jimmy Harned, composer)
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Tabbed by: alpineapple

This is my first tab, but it's a pretty simple song. The hardest part of the riff is
your fingering from the pickup measure (which repeats) to the C powerchord. In the actual
a picked bass plays the pickup measure (and repeats), while an acoustic guitar plays the 
But it's possible on one instrument.
I used this Youtube video of the commercial to figure out the tabs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHIo4VruGZY
Good Luck!

Tuning: Standard

Pickup measure (this is also the bass part throughout the song):
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|----------------|
A|------------1-3-|
E|----------3-----|


  C5               C5               C5               Ab5 *
  Five...          Five Dollar...   Five Dollar Foot Looong...
e|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|------>---------|
G|5--(5)-(5)------|5--(5)-(5)------|5--(5)-(5)------|----------------|
D|5---5---5-------|5---5---5-------|5---5---5-------|--6---6---6-6-6-|
A|3-3-3---3-3-1---|3-3-3---3---1-3-|3-3-3---3-3-1---|--6---6---6-6-6-|
E|------3-------3-|------3---3-----|------3-------3-|--4---4---4-4-4-|

  x2

  C5
 It's Ca-Ca-Catching On
e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----5-5-5-5-5---|
D|----5-5-5-5-5---|
A|----3-3-3-3-3---|
E|--3-------------|


Melody (during the guy's announcements):
e|--8-----10--8---|-11--(15)-13-15-|--8-----10--8---|-11-15-13-11-10-|--8-----10--(15)|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

Vocal notes (every syllable is marked):

C        C    C  C       C    C  C   C    C and F
Five ... Five Dollar ... Five Dollar Foot Looong...

C        C    C  C       C    C  C   C    C and F
Five ... Five Dollar ... Five Dollar Foot Looong...

Eb   F  F  F  F   F    F (E)
It's ca-ca-ca-catching on...

-announcements-

C  C  F
At Subway


* When the vocalist is singing "Looong", the guitar plays an Ab powerchord, but the
(C on bottom, F on top) form an F minor.


|(n) ghost note
| >  accentuded note
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