Motley Crue › Kickstart My Heart Bass Tab

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Motley Crue
Kickstart My Heart
tuning (D,G,C,F)
    Guitar Dives                  intro          drums enter            
F------------------------------|--------------|-------------------------
C------------------------------|--------------|-------------------------
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D---5--|--3-----3--3--3--3--3--3--|-----------------------|--------0--
                                                                        
F------------------|-----------------------|----------------------------
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D---3--3--3--3--3--3--|--1-----1--1--1--1--1--1--|--1--1--1--1--1--1----
                                              Bridge                    
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                  TABLATURE EXPLANATION                        
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----5h8--- Hammeron       ----(8)--- Ghost          ----6--- Tap
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----5p8--- Pulloff        ----------                --------
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  ----5/8--- Slide Up       -----x---- Dead           -----7-- Pop
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  ----58--- Slide Down     ----------                --5----- Slap 
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----5~~~-- Vibrato        ||*----*||                ---5^--- Bend
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  -4:------- Time           ----------                --------
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Grahm Cracker B Average	#1 by Grahm Cracker Bassist at Jul 8, 1970 at 12:41 AM EST
	who posts funky lyrics like those? probably the record comapny, well? Well anyways, vintage era rock photos can be found at www.neilzlozower.com, and the guy was there for the retox of aerosmoth, to the open brutality meeted out on every band in the land, when van halen was roaming the earth, with vh1 and 2, and one of the favorite bands for punishment by the vh onslaught were the cruesters, and of course old quiet riot, well anyway, the lyric is, an you will find it makes mucho sense, given what the song is about, the lyric is!!! WOE!!!!!!!!! DEATH!!!!!!!!!! Kickstart my heart hope it never stops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, not that woe yay!!!, woe yay!!!, amzing that how ope rock and roll is, yet it slips right by... like old oz: "people think i'm crazy, but i'm in demand, (black and white is read(not red)), never heard a thing i said..." see how oz just sums it up?

No Picture Hoffel Average	#2 by Hoffel at Oct 12, 1984 at 8:41 AM EST
	Motley Crue is one of the greatest bands ever. You can't beat a punk or hard rock or whatever band from the 80's. This is also a very good song. A lot of music that came out of the 80's was very bad, and a lot of the times so bad that it sounds good. And a lot of it was good, espically that most of the people were on drugs.

No Picture Carve Your Name Average	#3 by Carve Your Name Into My Arm AKA Pixie The Pirate at Nov 19, 1987 at 3:42 PM EST
	Calling his flamboyant air and effeminate mannerisms "a bit forced," friends of recently out-of-the-closet homosexual Mark Glynn, 23, say he's overdoing it.

No Picture COBHC Average	#4 by COBHC at Jan 14, 2002 at 4:02 AM EST
	ok

No Picture JONNY Average	#5 by JONNY PETERS at Feb 14, 2003 at 6:30 AM EST
	Oh yeah, in the band, I will have Tommy Lee smashing the drums with that ground zero pounding, the dream band that it... that is a rockin tune, with excellent drums, that will amke your hair stand up if you are listening at recommended db levels

No Picture Martin Average	#6 by Martin Mc Taggart at Nov 2, 2005 at 12:20 AM EST
	Motley Crue's anthem of sobriety.

No Picture Luke Average	#7 by Luke Kilpatrick at Nov 16, 2005 at 6:55 PM EST
	This song (like all of motley crues stuff) is fucking awesome. Nikki Sixx wrote it after suffering a near-fatal heroin overdose.

No Picture bean Badass	#8 by bean stalk at Nov 17, 2005 at 3:39 AM EST
	nikki sixx was on his way to deliver slash a new top hat when he injected his near fatal super pure heroin overdose... puking on the hat in the process.... read the book 3 tiimes ^.^

No Picture alex Wanna Be	#9 by alex v s at Jun 16, 2006 at 10:09 PM EST
	What do slash and nikki (two fucking influential hard-rocking dudes) have in common?

No Picture Jesus Professional	#10 by Jesus at Jun 18, 2006 at 6:49 PM EST
	The both fucking died and came back to life dude!

No Picture paul Average	#11 by paul mcnutt at May 25, 2007 at 3:38 AM EST
	a top song, one of the best adrenilanme-fueled songs ever, really a classic. and i think it means that there are many ways to get "high" as vince sings, such as drag racing

No Picture RTBM Professional	#12 by RTBM at Jun 15, 2007 at 1:09 PM EST
	to teufel:: it wasn't vince neil, the lead singer who od'd it was nikki sixx, the bass player.

No Picture Matt Wanna Be	#13 by Matt at Sep 3, 2007 at 12:21 PM EST
	ths is a song wich wud be amazing performing live man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i wud like to!!!

No Picture Robo Badass	#14 by Robo the Hobo at Sep 25, 2007 at 5:36 AM EST
	this is a really awesome song. it really gets you reved up hehe. rock on!