This Is Music Bass Tab

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From:     Self <SMS-IONA/9639774>
To: ssharma@odc.net, the_verve@vmg.co.uk
Subject: "This is music" Bass-tab
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 18:35:54 +0000

This is Music (Bass Tab)
-The Verve (From the album "A Northern Soul")

Tabbed by: Jamie Thompson - j.e.thompson-3@sms.ed.ac.uk

Intro (Distorted)

G|----------------------|---------------------|
D|----------------------|---------------------|
A|----------------------|---5.--5-------------|
E|-0-3.--3-3-5-5-5-0-0.-|-0-------3-5-5-5-0-0-|

Main Riff ("I stand accused...")

G|-------------|-------------|-----------------|
D|--2-2.-2p0---|-/5-5.-2p0---|-----------------|
A|-----------2-|-----------2-|-5-5.-2p0--------|
E|-0-----------|-------------|----------3B-0-0-|

Chorus ("I've been on the shelf...")

G|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-0-0h3-3-5-3/5-5p0-0---|

Outro ("Jesus never saved me...")

G|------------------|------------------|
D|--2-2-2-2---------|------------------|
A|----------5-5-5-5-|-4-4-4-4-2p0------|
E|-0----------------|-------------3B-0-|

There we go, simple but effective.
Watch the timing BTW - It's totally different from the guitar.
I've tried to indicate some form of timing - the octave jump is very
quick.

Anyone out there got any more Verve bass-lines? Esp. "Slide Away".
Jimbo

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"I stand accused just like you,
For being born without a silver spoon,
Stood at the top of the hill,
Over my town I was found."

-Richard Ashcroft, "This is music" by the Verve



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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


drw Average	#1 by drw drw at Jun 1, 1972 at 3:23 AM EST
	This is a great tune one of the best on the disappointing Northern Soul album. Ashcroft was well know for making a lot of bold statements at this point of his career and going by the title, this seems to be one of them. When the Northern Soul album was in its recording process the band members especially Ashcroft were taking a large amounts of ecstasy. So the lyrics in my opinion could just have an ambiguous meaning as a result of the high's on being on ecstasy.

TED Average	#2 by TED at Jul 3, 1973 at 9:25 PM EST
	Wow. One contribution only? This is like the most touching piece of music I have heard in a long while. To me, it's about being a musician. (I've been on the shelf too long. Sitting at home on my bed too long. Now it's time to hear my song.) The name of the song seems to be telling the listener that "music is the life i'm living now; this is music" The writer sees music as something that reflects his thoughts about his life. Writing a song and the emotions and thoughts that go into it. (We've got a lot of living to do. There's a door in my mind that's open wide) And of course the fun... (I'm gonna move on the floor with my sweet young thing. Down down down we go till we reach the bottom. Of our soul with this is music.)

No Picture Cody Wanna Be	#3 by Cody Mann at Jan 22, 1987 at 1:53 AM EST
	How can anyone call Northern Soul dissapointing? That just begs belief. It is so much more honest than the overproduced, steralized more successful successor. To understand the Verve is to understand this album. This Is Music is my favourite Verve song. I love History, but somehow the London reference by a lad from Wigan grates with me. It is about musical freedom, discovering your own sound and then getting off your arse to do something with that vision and then making that your all consuming passion (or drug). A passion which ultimately led to friction in the band and the break-up of the Verve. Simply stunning and I have to admit that on the back of my iPod is engraved the simple lyric "This Is Music", says it all.

Austin Wanna Be	#4 by Austin at Mar 5, 1998 at 4:56 PM EST
	what beautiful lyrics! It's sooooooooooooo so pretty there is nothing prettier ever to exist ever. I wish the author were here so I could give him a hug! Uh...I think I may like it a little too much...

Nicolas Rhythm Player	#5 by Nicolas Turgeon at Jun 22, 2002 at 8:32 AM EST
	i .do. love this song. and it's really applicable to any art thing really, that you fall in love with it, that it's your life. also, i can relate, the whole being on my shelf too long and how's the world gonna take me bit. this is really one of the verve's best, in my opinion.

luke Wanna Be	#6 by luke hastings at Apr 15, 2005 at 7:39 AM EST
	To me this feels like somebody who lives in a small dead end town or somewhere that they dont want to be, and has finally decided they they have had enough and finally gained the strength to leave. "Stood at the top of a hill over my town, I was found" - Wow.