Joes Garage Bass Tab

Joe's Garage - Acts I, II & III Tabs:

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Joe's Garage
from Joe's Garage Act 1,
    and Strictly Commercial among others...
Tabbed by Marshall Ricks (packardgoose@hotmail.com)

This tab is basically the bass for the single version, but it's almost the 
same as the album version.  If you don't have Joe's Garage the album, I 
sugggest you buy it, it's one of FZ's best (as if there could be any 1 best 
Zappa album).

Opening

G-----------------------------------------------
D-9-/7--------------------------------------9-/7
A------7--7-7--7-7--7-7---7--7-7--7-7--7-7------
E-----------------------7-----------------------

"It wasn't very large..."

G------------------------
D------6-7/9-7--7-9------
A-7--7--------------7/9-7   x4
E------------------------

"It was a Stratocaster..."
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
D-7-7-7-7-7-7-11-99--7h9h10-10-10-10-10-7h9h10-10-10-10-10-7h9h10-10-10-10-10-10
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

All the verses are is a variation of this:
G-----------                      G-------------------
D-----------                      D-------------------
A-7--6------          or          A-7-7--6-6----------
E-------9--7                      E-----------9-9--7-7

This goes on for awhile, until it breaks for the go-go riff and the "guess 
you only get one chance" riff.

"Well the years is rolling..."
G------------------------------
D------------------------------
A-77777777777777777777777777777
E------------------------------

Do that for awhile, then the white zone vocals, then it goes back to that.


This song follows the simple E A B chord pattern, so there you go, now you 
can do that, too.


Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net