Band: Velvet Revolver
Song: Big Machine
Album: Contraband
ktaneja@students.latrobe.edu.au

Note: An easy song, listen to the song to get what part goes where, i have tried to explain at my best"


Gtr I (E - 1/2) - 'Slash'
gtr 2 (" " "  ) - Dave Kushner

*Starts with heavy base*

 4/4
  Gtr I
               ~
 Riff A

"All that first-class jet set brings me down, down, down"
 
|-------------------|
|-9-----4------2----|
|-9-----4------2----|
|-9-----4------2----|
|-7-----2------0----|
|-------------------|

::Chorus - Kusner keeps playing Em while Slash plays those bends, listen to the track fr details::
  

"It's a big machine, it's a big machine"


|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-2--2--x-2--2--x-2--2--x--2--2----|
|-0--0--x-0--0--x-0--0--x--0--0----|


            ~            ~
   
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------9------------9----|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-12-10-9---------7-5-4-------|


  
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-2--2--x--2--2--x-2--2--x-2--2----|
|-0--0--x--0--0--x-0--0--x-0--0----|


           ~          ~
   
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|----------9----------5----|
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|-12-10-9------7-5-4-------|


  
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0----|


           ~         ~
   
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|----------9---------9----|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-12-10-9-----7-5-4-------|


  
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------9----|
|-----------------|------------9----|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2------7----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0-----------|


 
|-----------------------|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-7------2---------0----|
|-----------------------|

::Bridge::

  
|-------------------------------|
|-5---------9-------5-----------|
|-5---------9-------5------5----|
|-5---------9-------5--7---5----|
|-3----2----7---2---2--7---5----|
|------0--------0------5---3----|

"Get away without borders
I'm a slave, New World Order
I guess I chose to be
I guess I chose to be
I guess I chose to be
I guess I chose to be 

Hope I teach my son how to be a man 
Now before he hits 35
Comic book lives don't really have any real life do they now"

  
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-7S=5S=4S=2--0---------|
|---------------4S=2----|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|

::Solo/fill - played by Slash::


|-12-12-12-12-12-12----------|-12-12-12-12-12-12-----------x-----------|
|-16-16-16-16-16-16-16b17----|-16-16-16-16-16-16-16b17-----x--18-17----|
|-------------------------14-|-------------------------14--------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|



::Play these chords with above riff at ending::

|------------------------|
|-9------8----6----11----|
|-9------8----6----11----|
|-9------8----6----11----|
|-7------6----4-----9----|
|------------------------|

::Small fill by Slash before song ends::
                                             ~~~~~
  
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------16---15--x--15--x--14--x--14--x--13b14----|
|-------17-------------------------------------------|
|-15h17----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|

::Ends with Em ringing::

|-----------------|---------------|
|-----------------|---------------|
|-----------------|---------------|
|-----------------|---------------|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2----2----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0----0----|


Duration Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for.  Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests.  Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for.  Low
melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature Legend
----------------
 h   - hammer-on
 p   - pull-off
 b   - bend
 pb  - pre-bend
 r   - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
 /\  - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
 s   - legato slide
 S   - shift slide
  - natural harmonic
[n]  - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
 ~   - vibrato
 tr  - trill
 T   - tap
 TP  - trem. picking
 PM  - palm muting
\n/  - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
 \n  - tremolo bar down
 n/  - tremolo bar up
/n\  - tremolo bar inverted dip
 =   - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
 <>  - volume swell (louder/softer)
 x   - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
 o   - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc Legend
-----------
 |  - bar
||  - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*|  - double bar (ending)
 :  - bar (freetime)
 $  - Segno
 &  - Coda
Tempo markers -  = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths