Beastie Boys – Transitions (Bass Tab)

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Transitions, the final song and instrumental from Beastie Boys’s fourth album, Ill Communication For some reason, this bass line basically doesn’t really exist on here, even though it’s one of the sexiest bass lines ever, so I spent an hour and a half transcribing it Because of this, it might be rough but it should be pretty damn accurate

[Intro]
0:00  0:22
G|----------------/7\5----5-7----/7\5----------|
D|--5~--0-3~-0-1~------------------------------|
A|---------------------5~-----3~------1~-------|
E|-----------------------------------------4~--|

0:24                                           0:51
G|--5-6-7------5-5---------------/7\5p0-----------|
D|--------5h7-----------0-3~--1~-------0----------|
A|--------------------------------------3~--1~----|
E|------------------0~-------------------------4~-|
                                            ^
                            Drums kick in here (0:46), ending the intro

There’s kind of a verse here, based around a common riff
0:53                                                                       1:48
G|----/5-6-7------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------0h3-3~--0-1~--0------------------0-1-0--0h1-1--------------3-|
A|--------------------------------3~--1~------------------------3~-1~---------|
E|-----------3---------------------------4~-3~-1~---------------------4~-3~---|

[Outro]

1:53                                   2:09
G|----------------------------------------|
D|--3--0h3/8\5\1--------------------------|
A|----------------------------3~--1~------|
E|----------------4--4--4-4-----------4~--|

(bass is really quiet here)
2:13                         2:21
G|------------------------------|
D|------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|--0--1-2--3---/6----------/15-|