Here's
Stu Hamm's part from the break in Blue Powder (2:38-3:14). I transcribed this myself tonight, so if anyone has the full score PaW book feel free to tell me if it's close to what's in there. Although, I do have enough faith in my tabbing so if there's a difference, I normally assume the book's wrong.
:-)
I noticed some other posts with tab where the attempts to change the font didn't work, so paste this into a text viewer with a fixed width font for best viewing.
|--------7p5---5h7---------5---5-|
|------------x-----0-5h7---------|
|0-----------------------x---x---|
|s-------p---s-p---s-s---s-p-s-p-|
|--5-----------------------------|--------|--------|
|----7p5-5h7---------------x-----|--------|--------|
|------------0-5h7-x-3h5-s-p-s---|s-------|--------|
|--p-s---s---s-s---s-s---x---2---|0-------|(0)-----|
|------------14-17-14----------------------14-17-14----------|
|---14----17----------17----14----14----19----------19----14-|
|12----17----------------17----12----19----------------19----|
|l--l--r--r--l--r--l--r--r--l--simile...---------------------|
|------------14-19-14----------------------14-21-14----------|
|---14----19----------19----14----14----19----------21-------|
|12----19----------------19----12----19----------------21----|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------|--------|x-----x-----x-----x-----5h7-------------|
|--------|--------|------------------------------5h7-------|
|--------|--------|--x-x---x-x---x-x---x-x-----x-----x-5h7-|
|1-------|1-1-3-3-|p-h-s simile...---------p---s-p---s-s---|
|--x---x---5---------------------|----------5-----|
|------------7p5-----------------|----------------|
|x---x---x-------5h7-x-5h7-x-2---|3---------------|
|s-p-s-p-s-p-s---s---s-s---s-s---|----------------|
|------5----------|22--------21-19-17-|17--17----------|
|--------------19-|-------------------|--------------7-|
|-----------------|-------------------|----------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|----------------|
|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|9-----------9---|9-9-------------|----------------|
|----------------|----9\----3---4-|2----------(2)/-|
|----------------|------------2---|----------------|
|----------------------|----
|----------------------|----
|14-14-14-14-14---14\--|0---
|----------------------|---- etc...
Key points:
Measures 1-2: Slap and pop, indicated s/p below tab. Anyone who's played some Flea parts should be able to get this, the toughest part is keeping a steady rhythm--almost more important than the notes themselves--especially where there are slaps on 2 consecutive 16th notes.
Measures 5-6: Two-hand tapping. The left hand taps the notes at the 12th and 14th frets, right hand taps everything above. The rhythm is 5:4 groupings of 16th notes (5 notes spaced evenly per beat). Notice that a few notes change in the right hand but it's the same 10 note l/r sequence as far as the fingers go, played 4 times (the last lh tap is omitted on the final time).
Measures 9-10: Start off with a triplet 16th note pattern. 1. Pop w/ rh, 2. hit the string(s) with a lh finger, 3. Slap with rh thumb. Keeping the lh index finger across all strings to mute them and bringing down the ring finger works best for part #2- check out Laquerhead by Primus for a lot of this type of lh slapping. 4 of these triplet patterns lead into the pop on the C note to finish off the section similar to measures 1-2.
The rest of the parts are pretty simple, just a little tougher to hear compared to the sections detailed above.
That's it! Have fun.
Jordan
