• Song:

    Grinding Down The Sun

  • Artist:

    Death Ape Disco

GRINDING DOWN THE SUN (Bassline)
By
DEATH APE DISCO
From
SUPERVOLCANO (2013)

http://deathapedisco.bandcamp.com/

Gtr 1 (C# G# C# F#)
Whole instrument half step down bottom string down 1 step further

Link to playthrough (if some sections are different, follow the TAB!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYRm35o1Os
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqTGU2EaOyc

GUITAR INTRO
DRUM CRESCENDO 7/4
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||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-10h12p10p0---5h7p5p0---10h12p10p0---5h7p5p0-5h7p5p0-------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
X2

||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-8h10p8p0----3h5p3p0----8h10p8p0-----3h5p3p0-3h5p3p0-------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
X2

4/4
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-0--10h12p10p0---5h7p5p0---10h12p10p0---5h7p5p0-10h12p10p0-5h7p5p0-------|
X2

||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-0--8h10p8p0----3h5p3p0----8h10p8p0------3h5p3p0-8h10p8p0-3h5p3p0--------|

||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------1h3--1--1--1--1--1h3--3--3--3--3--3--3-----|
||-0--8h10p8p0----3h5p3p0--------------------------------------------------|

BEHIND YOUR EYES....
||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-------------------------4h5--------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3-------5---3h5------3h5----|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7-----------------------|

||--------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-----------------5p4--------------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3------------5p0-X-3------|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7---------------------|


||--------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||--------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||-1---1---1---1-1--1--1---|-1sl3---3s1---0h1---1p0---1sl3-3----|
||--------------------------|-----------------------------------|

||--------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-----------------5p4--------------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3-------------5p0-X-3-----|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7---------------------|

||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-------------------------4h5--------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3-------5---3h5------3h5----|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7-----------------------|

||--------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-----------------5p4--------------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3-------------5p0-X-3-----|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7---------------------|


||--------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||--------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||-1---1---1---1-1--1--1---|-1sl3---3s1---0h1---1p0---1sl3-3----|
||--------------------------|-----------------------------------|

||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-----------------5p4p0--------------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3--------------5p3----------|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7------------5p4p0------|

PRE-CHORUS MYSELF I'VE NEVER BEEN.... 6/4
||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|
||-3h5---2---3------3h5--5--3-0----|
X4

CHORUS (SAM IS PLAYING A VARIATION IN THE VIDEO, FOLLOW EITHER) 4/4
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||----3h5p0h3-------|---3-------------|----3h5p0h3-------|---3----------------|
||-0----------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0-3-|------------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0------|
                                                                    ring>
||-------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||-------------------|------------------|-------------3----|----3h5----5--------|
||-3-----3-----2-----|---2------2h3----|-5-----------------|-------------3------|
||-------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||----3h5p0h3-------|---3-------------|-------------3-----|----3----3----------|
||-0----------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0---|-3-----3-----------|-------------3------|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||------------------|------------------|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1sl3-|---3------3sl5------|
||-5----5-0-3-5----|----5----5----5---|------------------|---------------------|

GROOVE RIFF (GOES ROUND IN 3 GROUPS OF 4/4 AT A TIME)
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|---------3-2--------|
||-0------3b1/4-----|-0---0---3---5b1/4-|---0---3b1/4-----|-0---0---------------|

||--------------------|-------------------|
||--------------------|-------------------|
||--------------------|-------------------|
||-0---0---3---5b1/4-|---0---3b1/4--------|

||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|------------------|
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|------------------|
||---------2b1/4----|--------------------|-----------------|------3h5---------|
||-0---0------------|-0---0---5----3b1/4|-0---5---3b1/4---|-0--0-----3h5------|

||-----------------|-----------------------------|
||-----------------|-----------------------------|
||-----------------|------------1p0--------------|
||-0---0-3---5b1/4|r1/4--3--0--------------------|


SOLO
||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-------------------------4h5--------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3-------5---3h5------3h5----|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7-----------------------|

||--------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-----------------5p4--------------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3------------5p0-X-3------|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7---------------------|

I LIVE FOR THE LOWS
||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|--------------------------4h5-------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|---------3-------5---3h5------3h5---|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0---5h7---0h5h7----------------------|

||--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|----------------------4h5------4h5---|
||---------3--------5-------------------|---------3--------3h5------3h5-------|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7------------------------|

||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-------------------------4h5--------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3-------5---3h5------3h5----|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7-----------------------|

||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|-----------------5p4p0--------------|
||---------3--------5-------------------|--------3--------------5p3----------|
||-0--5h7----0h5h7------0h5h7-0-3b1/4-|-0--5h7---0h5h7------------5p4p0------|

PRE-CHORUS 6/4
||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|
||-3h5---2---3------3h5--5--3-0----|
X4

CHORUS 2 (DIFFERENT FROM CHORUS 1)
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||----3h5p0h3-------|---3-------------|----3h5p0h3-------|---3----------------|
||-0----------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0-3-|------------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0------|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||------------------|------------------|-3-------5--------|-3h5----5-----3----|
||-2------------3---|--------5--------|------------------|--------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-3h5----5-----3----|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||----3h5p0h3-------|---3-------------|------------------|-3-----3---3--------|
||-0----------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0---|-3-----------3---|---------------3-----|

NEXT RIFF (FOLLOW THE TAB NOT THE VIDEO)
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||-1---1-1-1----3b1|/4r1/4----3-------|------------------|--------------------|
||------------------|------------------|-8-6-----------8b1|/4r1/4--------6----|
X2

||------------------|------------------|
||------------------|------------------|
||-1----------------|------------------|
||------1-----3-----|--3------3--------|
X4

GROOVE RIFF TWICE AS LONG SECOND HALF DIFFERENT
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|---------3-2--------|
||-0------3b1/4-----|-0---0---3---5b1/4-|---0---3b1/4-----|-0---0---------------|

||--------------------|-------------------|
||--------------------|-------------------|
||--------------------|-------------------|
||-0---0---3---5b1/4-|---0---3b1/4--------|

||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||---------2b1/4----|--------------------|-----------------|------3h5-----------|
||-0---0------------|-0---0---5-3b1/4---|-0--5--3b1/4-----|-0--0-----3h5--------|

||------------------|-----------------------|
||------------------|-----------------------|
||------------------|----------1p0----------|
||-0-0-3---5b1/4r1/4|--3--0-----------------|

||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||------------------|--------------------|-----------------|---------3-2--------|
||-3p0----3b1/4-----|-0---0---3---5b1/4-|---0---3b1/4-----|-0---0---------------|

||--------------------|-------------------|
||--------------------|-------------------|
||--------------------|-------------3p0---|
||-0---0---3---5b1/4-|---0---3------------|

||------------------|--------------|-----------------|--------------------|
||------------------|-------------|-----------------|---------------------|
||-5--------2b1/4----|------------|-----------------|--------3h5----------|
||---0--------------|-0---0---5-3b|1/4-0--5---3b1/4|-0--0--------3h5------|

||----------------|--------------------|
||----------------|--------------------|
||----------------|-------3------------|
||-0-0-3---5b1/4r|1/4--3----3h5--------|

FINAL PRE-CHORUS (NOTE EXTRA BEATS)
||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|
||-3h5---2---3------3h5--5--3-0----|

||----------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------|
||-3h5---2---3--3h5---2---3------3h5--5--3-0-(0-|)
X2                                                                                SECOND TIME

BIG RIFF
||-------------------|--------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
||-------------------|--------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
||-------------------|------------------3-|---3---3---------|------------------------|
||---0---0---------3-|---3---3------------|---------------5-|---5---5----3---5--0----|
X2

(SAM PLAYS A VARIATION IN THE VIDEO 0-3-5-3 instead of 3-5-0-3)----------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||----3h5p0h3-------|---3-------------|----3h5p0h3-------|---3------------3----|
||-0----------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0-3-|------------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0-------|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||----3h5p0h3-------|---3-------------|----3h5p0h3-------|--------------------|
||------------5-3---|-5---5-3-5-3-0-5-|------------5-3---|-3-----5-------0----|
X4

||------------------|------------------|------------------|-------------------|
||------------------|--------3---------|----3----3--------|-------------------|
||----5----5--------|---3h5----5-3----|------------------|----------3-----3---|
||------------------|---------------3--|------------------|---0p3p5---5-------|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|
||---------5--------|---------5--------|------------------|-----------------|
||----3-----------3-|-3---3-------3----|------------------|-----------------|
||------------------|----------------5-|----5----5--------|-3-------5-----0-|
X2 (SEE VIDEO FOR SECOND TIME THROUGH)

OUTRO (SEE VIDEO FOR TIMING)
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|
||-3----------3sl---|-7------------10--|-10sl---5----------|-5--------5-7---|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||-3----------3sl---|-7------------10--|-10sl---5------10--|-10--12sl-5-5-7----|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|

||------------------|-------------------|------------------|--------------------|
||------5h7--5------|-----7h9--9--7-----|------------------|--------------------|
||-3-------------7--|-7--------------10-|-10sl--5---5---10-|-10-sl-5--5--5-7----|
||------------------|-------------------|------------------|--------------------|

||------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
||------5h7--5------|-----7h9--9--7-----|------------------|--------------------|
||-3-------------7--|-7--------------10-|-10sl--5---5----10-|-10--10sl5--5-7----|
||------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|---------------------|
||-5-----------5sl--|-9-------------12-|-12sl-7--7-----12-|-12sl-7--7-----------|
||-3-----------3sl--|-7-------------10-|-10sl-5--5-----10-|-10sl-5--5-----5h7---|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|---------------------|

||------------------|------------------|------------------|---------------------|
||------5-----------|------------------|------------------|---------------------|
||-3-----------3sl--|-7-------------10-|-10sl-5--5-----10-|-10sl-5--------------|
||------------------|------------------|------------------|---------0-----------|

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