Manic Street Preachers – Stay Beautiful (Bass Tab)

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Track 11 - Generation Terrorists Intro Guitar plays for three bars before bass enters

Fill 1
   G              
G-|--------------------------------------|
D-|-------12-12-12-----12-12-12-12-12-12-|
A-|----12-----------12-------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------|

Riff A
   D     A       F#m G
G-|--7-7--------|-----------|
D-|-------------|-7---------| Repeat
A-|------7-ho-9-|----10-10--|   x2
E-|-------------|-----------|

Verse 1 The bass in the verse plays a D pedal note over the changing guitar chords

Riff B
    D (pedal)         x6  C                 G
G-||-------------------||-----------------|-----------------|
D-||-------------------||-----------------|-----------------|
A-||:-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-:||-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-----------------|
E-||-------------------||-----------------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|

|Riff A | x2 Verse 2: Repeat Verse 1

Chorus
   Em                      G5                      D5
G-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|-
D-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|---------|-
A-|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-5------|------5--|-
E-|-0---0--0--|-0---0--0--|-3---3--3--|-3---3--3--|--------|---------|-

     A                 x2
G-||-------------------||-
D-||-------------------||-
A-||:-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-:||-
E-||-------------------||-

    Em                     G5                   D5
G-||---------------------||-------------------||-------------------||-
D-||---------------------||-------------------||-------------------||-
A-||:-------------------:||:-----------------:||:-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-:||-
E-||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--||-------------------||-

     A                 x2
G-||-------------------||
D-||-------------------||
A-||:-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-:||
E-||-------------------||

|Riff A | x2 Verse 3: Repeat Verse 1 Verse 4: Repeat Verse 1 Chorus: Repeat Chorus

Solo
    G5                x2            x2
G-||-------------------||------------||
D-||-------------------||------------|| Repeat
A-||:-----------------:||:----------:||   x2
E-||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--||--0---------||

Outro
   D5       A/C#    G5                     F#5     E5
G-|----------------|-------------|----------------|-------------|
D-|-^--------------|-------------|----------------|-------------| Repeat
A-|-5--5-5--4--4-4-|-------------|-^--------------|-------------|   x4
E-|----------------|-3--3-3--3-3-|-3--3-3--2--2-2-|-0--0-0--0-0-|

   D5
G-|-----------|-----------|---------|
D-|-^----^----|-^----^----|-^-------|
A-|-5----5----|-5----5----|-5-------|
E-|-----------|-----------|---------|

transcribed by Kevin Brown And Chris Stevens