• Song:

    Can I Play With Madness

  • Artist:

    Iron Maiden

  • Album:

    Live at Donington 1992 ...

Can I Play with Madness by Iron Maiden
From the album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (1988)
Written by Adrian Smith, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris
All rights belong to their respective owners

Tabbed by Jaakko Karppinen

I have based this tab almost completely on the studio bass track you can find in Youtube
so it should be almost 100% correct. The basic pattern for this is quite simple, but on
the studio version Steve does a lot of variations, so I decided to tab em' all. The only 
thing I haven't tabbed are all the accents of the notes since it would have taken too
long. Those accents should come quite naturally because the song is so "bouncy". This 
song gives you a lot of room to improvise so you don't have to play it exactly as Steve 
does on the record.

I was also tried to be as pedantic as possible figuring out when Steve plays opens and
when he doesn't (as he usually avoids using opens if possible). You can play those notes
just as you prefer. Hope you enjoy! Up The Irons!

Bass Track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALbcYo6EHVQ

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Verse 2
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