• Song:

    Bone Machine

  • Artist:

    Pixies

  • Album:

    Pixies Live

Artist: Pixies
Song: Bone Machine
Album: Surfer Rosa
Bassist: Kim Deal

This is my interpritation of the bass line-

*=mute
/=slide up

Beginning

G-----------------------------------------------|
D-----------------------------------------------|      (PART 1)
A-5-5-5-*---------------------------------------|
E---------5-5-5-5/8-8-8-*-3-3-3-*---------------|

When the guitar part starts it goes like this-

G-----------------------------------------------|
D-----------------------------------------------|      (PART 2)
A-5-5-5-5---------3-3-3-3-----------------------|
E---------5-5-5-5---------3-3-3-3---------------|

play that until "Your bones got a little machine"-

G-----------------------------------------------|
D-2---------------------------------------------|      (PART 3)
A---------3-------------------------------------|
E-----------------1-------3---------------------|

"you're the bone machine"-

G-----------------------------------------------|
D-2-2-2-2---------------------------------------|      (PART 4)
A---------3-3-3-3-------------------------------|
E-----------------1-1-1-1-3-3-3-3---------------|

I don't know the names for each part of the song so broke it up into parts. This
is the order they go in-

PART 1   X2
PART 2   X12
PART 3   X1
PART 2   X2
PART 4   X1
PART 2   X10
PART 3   X1
PART 2   X2
PART 3   X1
PART 2   X8
PART 3   X1

I hope this helped. I saw the other tabs and they didn't look right (I don't know
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