Reef - New Bird
Album: Rides (1999)
guitarist: Kenwyn House
tab by roz

Guitar: Drop D tuning (DADGBE)

Key:
4^ 	quarter-tone bend (small tweak)
3^(5) 	bend to note in brackets

with notes in brackets for the discerning player...

Bass intro...

verse:	      x3         1st end	      2nd time
E|---------------||-----------------||-----------------|
B|-----5^--------||-----------------||-----------------|
G|-----5^-x-x----||--------------7--||-----------------|
D|--------x-x----||-----------5--7--||-----------------|
A|-7-7----x-x-5--||-7-7-7-7-x-5--5--||-7-7-7-7--5h7-7--|
D|-7-7--------5--||-7-7-7-7-x-5-----||-7-7-7-7--5h7-7--|
(down pick)

chorus:	         x3    (dig side of pick in hard)
|----------------------||--------------------------------|
|----------------------||--------------------------------|
|----------------------||--------------------------------|
|---0---0---0---0------||--------------------------------|
|----------------------||--------------------------------|
|-5---4---2---0---2-4--||-5-5-5-4-4-4-5-5-5-4-4-4-5-4-5--|
(let open string ring)   (pick fast)

bridge:
|-----------------||--------------------|
|-----------------||--------------------|
|-----------------||--------------------|
|--------------7--||--------------------|
|-7-7-7-7-x-5--5--||-7-7-7-7-x-5-5-5-5--|
|-7-7-7-7-x-5-----||-7-7-7-7-x-5-5-5-5--|
(down pick)	               (down up)

middle 8 solo break thing:
	   x4	faster bit x7 i think...have a listen...
|-5^-------------||-5^--x--/5^--|
|-5^-------------||-5^--x--/5^--|
|-5^-------------||-5^--x--/5^--|
|-----------------||--------------|
|-----------------||--------------|
|-----------------||--------------|
(hold briefly, kinda hard to write it out, listen to record for timing)

solo bit:
fast picking, repeat this for a bit
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|-5-5-5-5--5---5--5--5--5--5---|----5------5------5------5----8--------------------|
|------------7--7--7--7--7--7--|-7^(9)--7^(9)--7^(9)--7^(9)-----7^(9)^(7)-5-7-5--|
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|

last bit
start with open G string, pick fast and slide up neck
G|-0-0-0-0-123456789etc.....................|

back to chorus twice before ending:
|----------------------------------|
|-------------------------------0--|
|------------------0-0-0-0-0-0--0--|
|-----------5-5-5--5-5-5-5-5-5--5-|
|-7-(hold)-------------------------|
|-7--------------------------------|

tada, that is actually the live version from the Sweety Single but it's pretty much
identical on Rides, wherever my CD is...
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