Jimi Hendrix – Born Under A Bad Sign (Bass Tab)

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Bass by Billy Cox >From The "Blues" Album. This lovely little instrumental is pretty simular to the original Albert king version & its 9 steps higher. Intro: (also alternated with the main riff a few times after 3.44) just your basic A# pentatonic type thing...

G|-------------6-----------------------|
D|-------6-h8-----8(lr)------6---------|
A|-6-h8----------------6-h8------------|
E|------------------------------4---6--|

main riff: (first played @ 0.13)

G|-------------6-----------------------|
D|-------6-h8-----8(lr)------6---------|
A|-6-h8----------------6-h8-----4------|
E|----------------------------------6--|

0.31 & 1.11:

G|-------------6-h8----|
D|-------6-h8----------|
A|-6-h8----------------|
E|---------------------|

Not 100% sure about this bit, so heres a fig. a la King!

G|8------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------6--6--8--|
A|---5--5--6--7--8---8--8--8--6--6--8--4--6--8--6--8-----------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------|

  This is played @ 2.54 (just a slight variation)
                          An other varation @ 3.37
G|-------------6-----|  G|-------------8----|
D|-------6-h8-----8--|  D|-------6-h8-----8-|
A|-6/8---------------|  A|-6-h8-------------|
E|-------------------|  E|------------------|

4.57:

G|------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------6-8-6--------|
A|-----------5-8-----5-8-------8------| (something like that)
E|-4---6---6------6--------------4-6--|

5.16 (Quiet bit)

G|-------------6-----|-8/9-8-6-----| <-- Thats played a few times with 
D|-------6-h8-----8--|-----------8-|     1 or 2 variations like: 
A|-6-h8--------------|-------------|     |-8/9---8-----|
E|-------------------|-------------|     |-----------8-|
                                         |-------------|
                      ^                  |-------------|
                      |played once again @ 6.48 & 7.12

Fade out on Main riff. There, that's about 99% accurate. Comments, corrections, death threaths etc. to ------> {[email protected]} [VIVA CHÉ]