THE GOOD AND THE BAD
by Sonic Youth

Bass tab by Chris Lawrence (silvercircle@shaw.ca)


LAYOUT: A - B - A - C - A - B - A 


A SECTION				00:00-00:05

Thurston:

G---------------
D---------------
A---0^\\\\\\\7--
E---0-----------

Hit the strings very aggressively, let the low E ring out while hammering on from the open A 
and slowly sliding the note on the A string up to the octave.
                 
B SECTION				00:05-01:40

Thurston:

G---------------------------------
D-----------5-5-5----------------- x 25
A-------3-0-----------3-0-2-2-2---
E---0--------------0--------------

A SECTION				01:41-01:58

Thurston plays ends the first section on a low E, then does the droning slide from the intro 3 times.
                
C SECTION				01:58-04:49

Thurston:

G-------------------------------------------------------
D---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--- etc 
A-------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------

At 2:33 he changes to:

G-------------------------------------
D---1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1---   play four times
A-------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------

Then back to:

G-------------------------------------   he goes back and forth between those two notes, 
D---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---      playing each one roughly 32 times but 
A-------------------------------------         not consistently enough to say there's a pattern...?
E-------------------------------------

A SECTION				04:49-05:34

Thurston does eight long slides like the intro.  
               
B SECTION				05:34-06:55

Thurston plays his main riff 22 times.
   
A SECTION				06:55-07:59

Thurston does 8 long slides like the intro.       



Last updated: 05/22/97  //  08/31/23

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