Privilege Bass Tab

Make Yourself Tabs:

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Artist: Incubus
Album:  Make Yourself
Song:   Privilege

Tuning: E,A,D,G
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Key:    /  slide up
    h  hammer on
    p  pull off
       (#)      optional
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Intro:

Guitar plays intro once alone. Then bass comes in.

G-----------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------
A---------4-------------------------4-----------------
E--5p3--3---5--5p3--3-2h3--3-5p3--3---5--5--0-0-0-0---

G-----------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------
A---------4-------------------------4-----------------
E--5p3--3---5--5p3--3-2h3--3-5p3--3---5--5--X-X-------

Verse/Outro:

G-----------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------
E--5p3---5-3---5-5-3---5-3---5/6----------------------

Prechorus:

G-----------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------
E--5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5--------------

Chorus:

G-----------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------
A---------4------------------5--5--5--0h3----3--------
E--5p3--3---5--5p3--3-2h3--3--------------------------

G-----------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------
A---------4--------------------------------3----------
E--5p3--3---5--5p3--3-2h3--3--1-1-1-(1)1--------------

The bass riffs shown are to be played as follows:
    1. Intro 2x
    2. Verse 4x
    3. Prechorus 2x
    4. Chorus 2x
    5. Verse 4x
    6. Prechorus 2x
    7. Chorus 2x
    8. Verse 4x (over DJ)
    9. Prechorus 2x
       10. Chorus 2x
       11. Outro 4x

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/i/incubus/147569.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Fabien Average	#1 by Fabien Bergeron at Mar 5, 2006 at 3:23 PM EST
	We are trapped in our ways of life only because we THINK we are trapped. There's always a way out, but we stay there, dragging our feet because we're too lazy to look for the backdoor. And then suddenly...you realize that this whole mess is pointless...then you look around and see the other schmo's are just as lost. In reality, we are all born free, but we ignore the freedom in exchange for safety and security of life's 'conveniences'.

No Picture Zac Wanna Be	#2 by Zac Fielder at Jun 27, 2006 at 12:14 AM EST
	line = line of cocaine sick of addiction, dragging your feet, wasting energy. it all comes into perspective when you realize that you weren't born that way.

No Picture hey u by the th Average	#3 by hey u by the that thing. SHUTUP!! at Oct 17, 2006 at 8:01 PM EST
	We're all sitting around waiting for something better to come along, but we don't know what or why. The "backdoor" is a way to take control of your own life, don't wait around, get up and find another way in. I can imagine Brandon coming up with the idea to this song while standing in line at the bank, or something equally mundane and seeing it as a metaphor for life. I wish I could make abstract connections like that and then write songs about them. Ah well....

No Picture Nick Average	#4 by Nick Meyer at Jan 19, 2007 at 4:51 AM EST
	whose the slaves? the ppl that listen to incubus or the ppl incubus are talking against...what is your point exactly

No Picture Valenteen Lead Player	#5 by Valenteen Valkorados at Jan 20, 2007 at 3:57 PM EST
	people dont try to figure out why there here on earth or what they could do with there lives..they just complain (doesn't have a clue why he's waiting, or what he's waiting for?)..(Isn't it weird that a privilege could feel like a chore?)thats could mean something like how people complain...so find your back door/why your here on earth

No Picture John Professional	#6 by John Payne at Feb 26, 2007 at 5:40 PM EST
	this idea to this song is so well put, and no one could put it better than incubus. when i hear this song, and i'm feeling upity about anything, i can even begin to feel that way anymore. i wish i could tell so many people to listen to this song, the unappreciative ones, but i don't think they would understand it. and this song is even better live...

No Picture Public Enemy Wanna Be	#7 by Public Enemy at May 26, 2007 at 12:52 PM EST
	I thought it could be about how people who have a privileged background complain about thier life being so 'difficult' when in fact they've never had it better.

No Picture Randy Lead Player	#8 by Randy Lott at Jun 13, 2007 at 12:29 AM EST
	thats not a bad thing

No Picture geoff Average	#9 by geoff at Jul 26, 2007 at 11:54 PM EST
	nietzche, learn how to take on responiblities and to not let society repress your ambitions or dreams from doing what you want to do "find yourself backdoor".