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Good Mourning Black Friday Bass Tab

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artist: Megadeth
song: Good Mourning/Black Friday
album: Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
bassist: David Ellefson

Tune down half a step

Fig 1x3
G-----------4-4h6----------------
D---Rest-------------------------
A------------------4---2--1------
E----------------------------4---

Fig 2x1
G-----------4-4h6------------------------
D---Rest---------------------------------
A------------------4---2--1--2--1--2--1--
E----------------------------------------
Fig 2 continue   
("Good Mourning..")
G----------------------------
D---------------------Rest---
A----------------------------
E---0--(hold)----------------

Fig 3x2   [] Second time only
G----------------------------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------
E-0--0---12-(12)/0----10--8-7--5----0---10/8-7-8-7-5-3[]--

Fig 4x6 ("Hey, I don't feel so good..") etc
G-----------------------
D-----------------------
A--------------0--------
E--0---2---3-----3--2---

Fig 5x5  ("Ah!!!")
G--------------------
D--------------------
A------------0-------
E--0---2---3---3--2--

Fig 6x1         (Triplet feel)
G------------------------------------
D------------------5-4-2-0-----------
A--------------------------4-2-0-----
E--0---2---3---------------------3---

Fig 7x? (a lot)
G------------------
D------------------
A------------------
E--2--3--0-0-0-0---

Fig 8x1
G--------------------------------------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------------------------------Rest--
A--------------------------------------------------------------------
E--2--0--3--5--2--0--3--5--2--0--3--5--2--0--3--5--2-(hold)----------

Fig 9x1                           (Triplet feel)
G------------------------------------------------
D-Rest-----------------------Rest----------------
A----------------------------------4--2--0-------
E--------0-0-0-0-0-2 (hold)-----------------3----

Fig 10x2 (Verse 1)
G---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--2-2-2-p0--2-2-2-p0--2-2-2-p0--2-2-2-p0--2-2-2-p0--2-2-2-p0--2-2-2-p0--3-3-3p0--

Fig 11x1 (Verse 2)
("Blood Thirsty Demon.........Sinister Fiend") 
G---------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------
A---------------------------------------0-2--2-4--0-2--4--
E--3-3-3p0--3-3-3p0--3-3-3p0--3-3-3--2--------------------

Fig 11 continue (Verse 2)
("Bludgenous Slaughter.........My Evil Deeds") 
G---------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------2-4-----
A---------------------------------------0-2--2-4-------2--
E--3-3-3p0--3-3-3p0--3-3-3p0--3-3-3--2--------------------

Fig 12x1
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h2-2-2-0h-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0---2---(2)/142--

G-----------------
D-------Rest------
A-----------------
E-----------------

(Some sort of cool bass line is played after the long drawn 
out guitar part here, then leads into Fig 13)


Fig 13 (Verse) 
("Their bodies convulse in agony and pain...")
G---------------------------
D---------------------------
A---------------------------
E--2-2-2-0-0-0-2-2-2-5-5-5--

"First take out their organs.."
G----------------
D----------------
A----------------
E--2---(2)/14---

(Repeat Fig 13)

"..And bloodbaths are my way of getting clean.." 
G----------------
D----------------
A----------------
E--2---(2)/14---

(Repeat Fig 11)

Fig 14x1 
("A merciless butcher who lives..")   ("I'm out to destroy you and will cut you down")
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------Rest------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5--3-0---2-------------------------------------------------------

(The rest of the song is basically the same combination of Riffs.
Here is the Riff played at the end of the song):

Fig 15          ("It's Black Friday")  ("Paint the devil on the wall.."
G-----------------------------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------------------------
A-----------------0-0-------------------3-2-0---------------------------
E--2-2-2-2-2-2-2------0--2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------------------------------

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

Good Mourning Black Friday Bass Tab

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Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/m/megadeth/102671.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Huuuu??? Yessss Wanna Be	#1 by Huuuu??? Yessssssss Its Meeeeeeee >jOrDaN< at Jul 3, 1973 at 4:04 PM EST
	the strangest thing in this song is the hammer mentioned repeatedly in the second stanza; generaly a hammer is not used to kill people, infact a hammer is a vey odd murder weapon. i think if someone can find out about a masacre that happened involving a hammer then the song meaning should become obvious. also i think in the sleave notes dave mentions this and bad omen being inspired by some guuy; i forget but if someone has the lyric booklet handy typing that name into google may help

No Picture PunkrockScotty Wanna Be	#2 by PunkrockScotty at Jul 26, 1973 at 1:46 AM EST
	haha joshpr thats intresting

No Picture philipp Rhythm Player	#3 by philipp at Oct 13, 1974 at 11:54 PM EST
	"Their bodies convulse, in agony, and, pain. I mangle their faces, till no features remain. A blade for the butchering, I cut them to shreds. First take out the organs, then cut off the head." It sounds like he's talking about fishing

No Picture Swann Average	#4 by Swann at Jul 19, 1980 at 3:37 AM EST
	No. i meant the 1964 massacre. i already said that it occured at the time of the previous regime. maybe u didn't know about the 1979 revolution in Iran.

No Picture josh Wanna Be	#5 by josh donaldson at May 7, 1985 at 2:10 PM EST
	ESPguitarist hahah you're right.. and the painkiller, have you ever heard the beatles song Maxwell's Silver Hammer? just thinking, that might be something but.. ehh

No Picture I Told Them My Lead Player	#6 by I Told Them My Name Was Jim Steele at Jul 1, 1985 at 7:03 PM EST
	JoshPR, nice pseudo-knowledge, but it's not based on fact whatsoever. Satanists do not kill for Satan, to do so has nothing to do with Satanism. Hell, LaVeyan Satanism doesn't even worship Satan (as we understand him) as an entity. A lot of Satanists are very nice people, but of course our Christianity-based society depicts Satanists as murdering scum. Here's a little trick; if it's not on Wikipedia, it's propably not fact. (Disagree with me? Don't tell me, as I won't bother responding unless you make some pretty fucking good arguments.) Now, back to the song. It's obviously about violent murder, which is also a theme in for example Sleepwalker from United Abominations. The vivid descriptions of the pain gives the lyrics a sadistic twist. (Just because the song says it's sadistic, doesn't mean it is. Shut up.) This sadistic twist, along with the warning "if you see me coming run as fast as you can", makes the listener asume that the song is about a psycho-/sociopath on a killing spree, as said before by several reviewers. Overall, the general feel of the song is that it is describing a psychotic mass-murder on people who have done some wrong ("Deviant defilers, you're next to be dead") which has concerned the character. Oh, BTW, since it's apparently obligatory to make some bland, tired, obvious statement of one's opinion about the song which has nothing to do with the purpose of this site: 7\|-\|15 50/\/6 r0XX0r5!!!111one.

No Picture Alex Wanna Be	#7 by Alex TABASH! at Oct 2, 1989 at 5:50 PM EST
	Violent, but fucking awesome!!! This is easily Megadeth's best song. I don't take a word of this song seriously, but it's well put together, and the guitar work is unbelievable. Chris Poland rulez!

No Picture it Lead Player	#8 by it died at Jun 23, 1990 at 1:14 PM EST
	SHWEEET!!! This is a great intro to a great song. See my comments on Black Friday.

No Picture Musical Genius	#9 by oh.... THAT guy at May 16, 1991 at 6:31 PM EST
	its about a serial killer who mercilessly kills in cold blood, but what the fuck, its a great fucking song

No Picture Jesse Wanna Be	#10 by Jesse at May 11, 1995 at 12:28 PM EST
	(Referring to the painkiller) Actually, a hammer is a pretty good weapon. It's been used in the middle ages and referred to as a warhammer, here's a site that sells them http://www.bytheswordinc.com/acatalog/War_Hammers.html Hammers are also used in todays millitary for breaking open locked doors, plus I've always amagined a U.S. marine or soldier, in a pinch, bashing some one's head open with a sledge hammer. Also, I think a couple of guys killed their wives with hammers.

No Picture Bodhi Average	#11 by Bodhi Bassist at Feb 22, 1996 at 3:09 PM EST
	Dave is great but he could not predict the future. Hence, this song cannot make reference to the Tehran Masacre occured in 1988. However, the lines "my evil deeds" and "It's Black Friday, paint the devil in the wall", leads me to agree with JoshPR. I wouldn't call it a holliday though.

No Picture ZAX Wanna Be	#12 by ZAX Lansing at Apr 7, 1999 at 8:47 PM EST
	perhaps my favorite megadeth song...

No Picture Solstice Rhythm Player	#13 by Solstice Statton at Jul 30, 2000 at 9:11 AM EST
	Oh yeah, and the song is about a crazy, merciless butcher on the loose.

No Picture .......?????? Wanna Be	#14 by .......?????? at Dec 31, 2004 at 3:52 PM EST
	Its about waking up with a hell of a hangover. :)

No Picture Dave Average	#15 by Dave at Feb 22, 2006 at 10:24 AM EST
	Intresting by all. I am going to have to go with the satan thing because that sounds very close to the song. The first time I heard it, was thinking of some middle aged white guy driving to work, and just for the hell of it on friday, goes on a killing spree.

No Picture Rob n00b!	#16 by Rob McKinney at Jun 20, 2006 at 9:57 PM EST
	good