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Original-From: honet7!mike (Michael P Herlihy +1 908 949 9592)
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MAN IN A SUITCASE
Original music by Sting
Performance by The Police
Bass performance by Sting
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VERSE 1:
e e e e q q q q q q e e e e q q q q q q
+---+--------------+---------+-------------+----------+
|4:-|*-R-3-3-3-5---|---------|-R-3-3-3-5---|---------*|
|4:-|*-----------3-|-0-0-1-3-|-----------3-|-0-0-1---*|
+---+--------------+---------+-------------+-------3--+
CHORUS 1:
e e e e e e e e e e e e q q e e e e e e e e q e e e q q
+------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+
|*-R---------------|-0-0-0---0-3-|-R---------------|-0-0---0-0---*|
|*-------0-3-3-0-3-|-------3-----|-------0-3-3-0-3-|-----3-----3-*|
+----1-3-----------+-------------+---1-3-----------+--------------+
BRIDGE:
e e e e q q E s e e Q e e e q e e q q q q q e e e e e e e e q q h
+---1-1-1-0---+-------------+-1-1-1-0-0---+---------+-----1-1-0-0-----+-------+
|-R---------1-|-----------1-|-----------1-|-------R-|-R-1---------1-1-|-------|
|-------------|-1-1-1-1-1---|-------------|-1-1-1---|-----------------|-1-1-1-|
+-------------+-------------+-------------+---------+-----------------+-------+
e e e e e e q w w
+-----1-1-0-0---+---+-5>-+
|-R-1---------1-|---|----|
|---------------|-3-|----|
+---------------+---+----+
VERSE 2:
e e e e q q q q q q e e e e q q q q q q
+--------------+---------+-------------+----------+
|*-R-5-5-5-7---|---------|-R-5-5-5-7---|---------*|
|*-----------5-|-2-2-3-5-|-----------5-|-2-2-3---*|
+--------------+---------+-------------+-------5--+
CHORUS 2:
e e e e e e e e e e e e q q e e e e e e e e q e e e q q
+------------------+-------------+-----------------+--------------+
|*-R---------------|-----------5-|-R---------------|-------------*|
|*---------5-5---5-|-7-7-7-5-7---|---------5-5---5-|-7-7-5-7-7-5-*|
+----3-5-7-----7---+-------------+---3-5-7-----7---+--------------+
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PERFORMANCE NOTES:
Verse 1
Chorus 1
Verse 1
Chorus 1
Bridge
(The song shifts from the key of F to G)
Verse 2
Chorus 2 REPEAT to fade
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__ Created using the Bass Tab Creator
+|oo|+ by Mario D'Alessio (motcid!marble!dalessio)
+|oo|+
|| NOTES:
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|| Capital durations are dotted notes
|| (equal to 1.5 times the duration value)
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|| +----+ +----+
_ || _ |*--*+ = MEASURE |4:--| = TIME
_||_// |*--*+ REPEATS |4:--| SIGNATURES
| [] | +----+ +----+
| || |
/ [] + = TIE ^ = TRIPLET > = BEND
______/ H = HAMMER ON = SLIDE TO FRET R = Rest
P = PULL OFF X = SLIDE TO NOWHERE ~ = Trill
Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jacque Average |
#1 by Jacque Armijo at Sep 24, 1985 at 5:48 PM EST |
| one of my favorite police songs ever. Funky-awesome bass work, excellent vocal line, fun lyrics. So many people live that way too. It's a very modern song. | |
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Caitlin Wanna Be |
#2 by Caitlin at Nov 10, 1991 at 3:26 AM EST |
| Another dive into ska is 'Man In A Suitcase', quite different because the tempo is slower and the basic vocal melody emphasizes Sting's personal troubles with 'living in a suitcase' (you know what he means, doncha? All 'em rich fat rockers got the same problems...) more than the sarcastic intonation in 'Canary'. Classy catchy refrain. [George Starostin] | |
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Neal Average |
#3 by Neal Chuenprateep at Mar 28, 1998 at 5:43 AM EST |
| uhm yeh afi covered this song and i love the police and afi! | |
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Robert Wanna Be |
#4 by Robert Higgins at Mar 26, 1999 at 11:00 AM EST |
| This song is awesome. It's sarcastic but a good song. | |
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Matt Wanna Be |
#5 by Matt Aber at Mar 12, 2003 at 1:26 AM EST |
| I think this song (an excellent one) is about someone who's always traveling, perhaps a business man. His home is wherever his suitcase is. (I'd invite you back to my place It's only mine because it holds my suitcase It looks home to me alright But it's a hundred miles from yesterday night) He resents being confined to his job referred to as his suitcase. Wherever his suitcase takes him, he must go along, it's as if he's trapped inside. (Must I be the man in a suitcase) He travels so much the people who knew him don't recognize him... he's just another passer-by/stranger. (Is it me, the man with the stranger's face) (Another key for my collection) He may be reffering to all the hotel rooms he's checked into. He's handed a key to yet another hotel room. (For security I race for my connection) Perhaps meaning he feels at this point his only source of security is the hotel room he checks into, that and his suitcase are the only things he can call his own. (Bird in a flying cage you'll never get to know me well) He's trapped traveling in an airplane. (The world's my oyster a hotel room's a prison cell) He's stating how small the world is, and yet, he's imprisoned even further to hotel rooms. | |
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