Yellow Ledbetter Bass Tab

Ver 1 Ver 2 Ver 3

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Song Title: Yellow Ledbetter
Artist: Pearl Jam
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guitar solo/intro:
      8 bars


verse:  <this is the standard bassline ament puts down and is played through
        most of the song>  <there are many(way too many to tab down!) embellished
        and improvised versions of this riff that ament plays throughout
        the song>   <just experiment with it and let your soul take over>  

       E            B           A           E
     ||------------|-----------|-----------|-----------||
     ||------------|-----------|---7-------|-----14---||
     ||7--------7-|2-------2/-|0----------|----------||
     ||------------|-----------|-----------|0----------||

         this riff is played about 13x (wow!)
      


bridge:

                E     B       A            E     B       A
               ||-------------|-----------/|-------------|------------------|
               ||-------------|------7---/-|-------------|------------------|
               ||------2---2/-|------------|------2---2/-|------------------|
               ||0-0-0--------|5-5-5-------|0-0-0--------|5-5-5-4-4-4-4-2-2/|
"..i don't wanna stay.....alone.."

                 E     B       A            E     B       A
               ||-------------|-----------/|-------------|-----------------||
               ||-------------|------7---/-|-------------|------7----------||   
               ||------2---2/-|---------/--|------2---2/-|-----------------||
               ||0-0-0--------|5-5-5-------|0-0-0--------|5-5-5------------||


interlude:

      B/D#  E      B          B/D#  E       A    *harmonic                 
     ||-----------|-----------|-------------|--------------|
     ||-----------|-----------|-------------|------*(7)----|
     ||6----7----|2--------2/|6----7-------|0-------------|
     ||-----------|-----------|-------------|--------------|

      B/D#  E      B          B/D#  E        A            E
     ||-----------|-----------|-------------|------------|------------||
     ||-----------|-----------|-------------|------------|------------||
     ||6----7----|2--------2/|6----7-------|0-----------|------------||
     ||-----------|-----------|-------------|------------|0-----------||


<if you have any questions or comments please feel free to e-mail me at whisper@shadow.net
                           and keep on jammin'>



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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


Ziggy Professional	#1 by Ziggy at May 24, 1977 at 11:44 AM EST
	This song was written during or around the time of the Gulf war. the letter is put out on the porch and the person inside the house is the brother of someone who was KIA in the gulf war. He knows what the letter is and doesnt need or want to open it. the people are out on the porch but they dont wave so he knows they don't bring pleasant news. the man is sad and wants to leave because he cannot deal with the pain of losing his brother. this is the true meaning of the song, as for the name it is just a joke between eddie and his friend with the last name ledbetter.

megadeth456 Wanna Be	#2 by megadeth456 at Jan 28, 1990 at 10:38 PM EST
	Actually this song was written around the time of the Gulf War, and the story behind it is really long, but all in all Eddie describes it as an anti-patriotic song

No Picture Gavin Wanna Be	#3 by Gavin Waddington at Aug 25, 1991 at 2:54 AM EST
	exactly what i stated far above

Rhys Average	#4 by Rhys at Feb 8, 2002 at 2:06 PM EST
	dumpster dave you dick, it came straight from eddies mouth so blow me

kyle Average	#5 by kyle burnett at Jul 12, 2003 at 12:24 PM EST
	it talks about some sorta relation ship he had with his girlfriend how she wrote and happy letters and he loved her alot but had to let her down. thats it