Watermelon Man Bass Tab

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Song: Watermelon Man
Artist: Herbie Hancock
Album: ?
Bassist: ?
Comments: Note, this is a tab for the orginal version Hancock did in the 
late 60's and not the fushion version he did in the early 70's. It's a basic 
16 bar blues pattern in the key of F and going between the root, 4th and 5th

                 X4               X2               X2
G*----------------*--------1-1---3-*----------------*
D*--------1-1---3-*----0h3-----3---*--------1-1---3-*
A*----0h3-----3---*1---------------*----0h3-----3---*
E*1---------------*----------------*1---------------*

                                                                             
              X4
G*--------5-5-3-5-*--------3-3-1-3-*
D*------5---------*------3---------*
A*3---------------*1---------------*
E*----------------*----------------*


Tabbed by Steven Snider
Peavy_BZ_100@hotmail.com

Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net