Meshuggah – Future Breed Machine (Bass Tab)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb)
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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# FUTURE BREED MACHINE (Bassline) As recorded by Meshuggah (From the 1995 Album DESTROY ERASE IMPROVE) Transcribed by Alex Wilson Words by Tomas Haake Music by Fredrik Thordendal Gtr I (Bb Eb Ab Db Gb) - 'Bass'
 Intro
  Fast Avant-Metal Q=175
 4/4
  Gtr I
  W           Wx2            S S e S S e S S e S S S S  8x
|----------||------------||-----------------------------||
|----------||------------||o---------------------------o||
|----------||------------||-----------------------------||
|----------||------------||o---------------------------o||
|----------||------------||--1-1-1---1-1---1-1---1-1-1--||

 Pre Verse
  q  H.        Wx3
|------------|------------|
|------------|------------|
|------------|------------|
|------------|------------|
|-2----------|------------|

  S E S +S  S E E S S +S  E S   +E  E E S S +S  E S E E
|-----------------------------|-------------------------|
|-----------------------------|-------------------------|
|-----------------------------|-------------------------|
|-----------------------------|-------------------------|
|-4s3-2-(2)-4s3-2-4s3-(3)-2-2-|-(2)-2-2-4s3-(3)-2-4s3-2-|

                                                       Verses I & II
                                                        $
  E S S +S  E S E E S E S   +S  E. E E S S +S  E S E    S e S Q  S e S S e S
|-------------------------|--------------------------||-----------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------||-----------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------||-----------------------|
|-------------------------|--------------------------||-----------------------|
|-2-4s3-(3)-2-4s3-2-4s3-2-|-(2)-2--2-2-4s3-(3)-2-4s3-||-4s3-2----4s3-3---3-2--|

  Q  S e S Q  S e S   S e S Q  S e S Q
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|----4s3-2----4s3-3-|---3-2----4s3-2----|

  S e S S e S Q  S S E   S e S Q  S e S S e S
|----------------------|------------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------|
|--------------------3-|------------------------|
|-4s3-3---3-2----4s3---|-4s3-2----4s3-3---3-2---|

  Q  S e S Q  S e S   S e S Q  S e S Q
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|----4s3-2----4s3-3-|---3-2----4s3-2----|

                          Chorus
  S e S S e S Q  S S E     S E S +E  e S E S S e S
|----------------------||----------------------------|
|----------------------||o---------------------------|
|----------------------||----------------------------|
|--------------------3-||o---------------------------|
|-4s3-3---3-2----4s3---||--4s3-2-(2)-0-4s3-3---3-2---|

  +E  e S E S +E  e S E S   S e S +E  e S E S +E  e
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-(2)-0-4s3-2-(2)-0-4s3-3-|---3-2-(2)-0-4s3-2-(2)-0-|

                 To Coda
  S E S S e S +E  e S S E
|--------------------------||
|-------------------------o||
|--------------------------||
|-----------------------3-o||
|-4s3-3---3-2-(2)-0-4s3----||

 Bridge
  E. S +E  E +S  e S +E  e   E. S S E. e E +S  e S
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|-4--3-(3)-1-(1)-1-0-(0)-1-|-0--1---0--1-0-(0)-1-x-|

  E. S +E  E +S  e S +E  e   E. S S E. e E +S  e S
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|-1--4-(4)-3-(3)-1-0-(0)-1-|-0--1---0--1-0-(0)-1-x-|

  E. S +E  E +S  e S +E  e   E. S S E. e E +S  e S
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|--------------------------|-----------------------|
|-4--3-(3)-1-(1)-1-0-(0)-1-|-0--1---0--1-0-(0)-1-1-|

                                        D.S. al Coda
  S E S +S  S E E S S +S  E S   E E S E S +S  S E e E
|-----------------------------|------------------------||
|-----------------------------|------------------------||
|-----------------------------|------------------------||
|-----------------------------|------------------------||
|-1-1-1-(1)-1-1-1-1-1-(1)-1-1-|-1-1-1-1-1-(1)-1-1-1----||

   Odd-Time Interlude
    &
   5/8            7/8                5/8            4/4
    E. S +E  e e   E. S +E  e e e e   E. S +E  e e   E. S +E  e e e e e  4x
||---------------|------------------|--------------|---------------------||
||o--------------|------------------|--------------|--------------------o||
||---------------|------------------|--------------|---------------------||
||o-1--1-(1)-----|-1--1-(1)---------|-1--1-(1)-----|-1--1-(1)-----------o||
||-----------2-1-|----------2-1-2-1-|----------2-1-|----------4-3-1-3-4--||

   Verse III/Blastbeat Riff      Breakdown (Clean)
                                            5/8          4/4
                                  >
    S S e S S e S S e S S S S 16x W          +Q.   Q      W
||-----------------------------||----------|----------||-------|
||o---------------------------o||----------|----------||o------|
||-----------------------------||----------|----------||-------|
||o---------------------------o||----------|----------||o------|
||--1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1--||-2--------|-(2)------||-------|

                        Breakdown (Heavy)
  1.,2.     3.
 5/8                    4/4         5/8           4/4
  W      3x Q.   E E     H    H      +Q.   +E  E   H    H
|--------||----------||------------|-------------|-----------|
|-------o||----------||o-----------|-------------|-----------|
|--------||----------||------------|-------------|-----------|
|-------o||----------||o-----------|-------------|------1----|
|--------||--------3-||--2----0----|-(0)---(0)-3-|-2---------|

                               Guitar Solo I
  1.             2.
 5/8                           4/4         5/8           4/4
  Q.   +E  E     Q.   +E  E     H    H      +Q.   +E  E   H    H
|-------------||------------||------------|-------------|-----------|
|------------o||------------||o-----------|-------------|-----------|
|-------------||------------||------------|-------------|-----------|
|-2----(2)---o||-2----(2)---||o-----------|-------------|------1----|
|----------3--||----------3-||--2----0----|-(0)---(0)-3-|-2---------|

                               4/4 Buildup
  1.,2.,3.,4.,5.,4.,7.
 5/8                           4/4
  Q.   +E  E  8x Q.   +E  E     H    H      +H.      +E  E
|-------------||------------||------------|----------------|
|------------o||------------||o-----------|----------------|
|-------------||------------||------------|----------------|
|-2----(2)---o||-2----(2)---||o-----------|----------------|
|----------3--||----------3-||--2----0----|-(0)------(0)-3-|

  H    H      +H.      +E  E   H    H      +H.      +E  E
|-----------|----------------|-----------|-----------------|
|-----------|----------------|-----------|-----------------|
|-----------|----------------|-----------|-----------------|
|-----------|----------------|-----------|-----------------|
|-2----0----|-(0)------(0)-3-|-2----0----|-(0)------(0)-3--|

  H    H      E E E E E E E E
|-----------|------------------||-|
|-----------|-----------------o||-|
|-----------|------------------||-|
|-----------|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1---o||-|
|-2----0----|---------------3--||-|

   "7/4" Groove
                            3/4
    S S S S S S S S e E Q    S S S S S S S S e E
||-------------------------|---------------------|
||o------------------------|---------------------|
||-------------------------|---------------------|
||o------------------------|---------------------|
||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2---|

 4/4                      3/4
  S S S S S S S S e E Q    S S S S S S S S e E  6x
|------------------------|----------------------||-|
|------------------------|---------------------o||-|
|------------------------|----------------------||-|
|------------------------|---------------------o||-|
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2----||-|

   Guitar Solo II
   4/4                      3/4
    S S S S S S S S e E Q    S S S S S S S S e E     8x
||-------------------------|-------------------------||
||o------------------------|------------------------o||
||-------------------------|-------------------------||
||o------------------------|------------------------o||
||--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-------||
"7/4" Groove Variations 1.,2.,3. 4/4 3/4 4/4 3/4 |-3-| |-3-|
    Q Q Q q  Q    Q Q Q q   4x     E. S +E  E +S  e. Q    E. S +E  E +S  e.  4x
||--------------|-----------||-||-----------------------|--------------------||
||o-------------|----------o||-||o----------------------|-------------------o||
||--------------|-----------||-||-----------------------|--------------------||
||o-------------|----------o||-||o----------------------|-------------------o||
||--1-1-1-1-----|-1-1-1-1---||-||--1--1-(1)-1-(1)-1-----|-1--1-(1)-1-(1)-1---||

                                        Pre Verse Variation
  4.
 2/4           4/4                      17/16
  E. S +E  E    W          +W            S E E E. E E. E E   E. E E. E E. E E
|------------||----------|------------||-------------------|-------------------|
|------------||----------|------------||-------------------|-------------------|
|------------||----------|------------||-------------------|-------------------|
|------------||----------|------------||-------------------|-------------------|
|-1--1-(1)-1-||-0--------|-(0)--------||-4s3------2----2-2-|----2----2----2-2--|

                    16/16
  E. E E. E E. E E   E. E E. e Q.
|------------------|----------------|
|------------------|----------------|
|------------------|----------------|
|------------------|----------------|
|----2----2----2-2-|----2----2------|

   4/4
    S E S +S  S E E S S +S  E S   +E  E E S S +S  E S E E
||------------------------------|-------------------------|
||o-----------------------------|-------------------------|
||------------------------------|-------------------------|
||o-----------------------------|-------------------------|
||--4s3-2-(2)-4s3-2-4s3-(3)-2-2-|-(2)-2-2-4s3-(3)-2-4s3-2-|

  +E  S S +S  E S E E S E S   +S  E. E E S S +S  E S E
|---------------------------|---------------------------||
|---------------------------|--------------------------o||
|---------------------------|---------------------------||
|---------------------------|--------------------------o||
|-(2)-4s3-(3)-2-4s3-2-4s3-2-|-(2)-2--2-2-4s3-(3)-2-4s3--||

     Bridge Variation
      E. S +E  E +S  e S +E  e
|-||---------------------------|
|-||o--------------------------|
|-||---------------------------|
|-||o--------------------------|
|-||--4--3-(3)-1-(1)-1-0-(0)-1-|

  E. S S E. e E +S  e S   E. S +E  E +S  e S +E  e
|-----------------------|--------------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------------|
|-----------------------|--------------------------|
|-0--1---0--1-0-(0)-1-x-|-1--4-(4)-3-(3)-1-0-(0)-1-|

                               Odd-Time Interlude
                               5/8
  E. S S E. e E +S  e S         E. S +E  e e
|------------------------||-||---------------|
|-----------------------o||-||o--------------|
|------------------------||-||---------------|
|-----------------------o||-||o-1--1-(1)-----|
|-0--1---0--1-0-(0)-1-x--||-||-----------2-1-|

 7/8                5/8            4/4
  E. S +E  e e e e   E. S +E  e e   E. S +E  e e e e e  4x
|------------------|--------------|---------------------||
|------------------|--------------|--------------------o||
|------------------|--------------|---------------------||
|-1--1-(1)---------|-1--1-(1)-----|-1--1-(1)-----------o||
|----------2-1-2-1-|----------2-1-|----------4-3-1-3-4--||

   Outro
    S S e S S e S S e S S S S  7x S S e S S e S S e S S S S   e E H.
||-----------------------------||---------------------------|-----------*|
||o---------------------------o||---------------------------|-----------*|
||-----------------------------||---------------------------|-----------*|
||o---------------------------o||---------------------------|-----------*|
||--1-1-1---1-1---1-1---1-1-1--||-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-|-0---------*|
Duration Legend --------------- W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura + - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration) Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi- bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low melody durations appear below the staff Tablature Legend ---------------- h - hammer-on p - pull-off b - bend pb - pre-bend r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately) /\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere") s - legato slide S - shift slide <n> - natural harmonic [n] - artificial harmonic n(n) - tapped harmonic ~ - vibrato tr - trill T - tap TP - trem. picking PM - palm muting \n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip \n - tremolo bar down n/ - tremolo bar up /n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip = - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls <> - volume swell (louder/softer) x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash Misc Legend ----------- | - bar || - double bar ||o - repeat start o|| - repeat end *| - double bar (ending) : - bar (freetime) $ - Segno & - Coda Tempo markers - <E/E./Q/Q./H/H.> = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths