Primus : "Lacquer head" Bass tabs

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Primus
Lacquer Head
Antipop

tabbed by: Don Martin

Legend:
< : weak tap
X : muted slap or pop
S : Slap
p : Pop
^ : upwards slap (move thumb from for an example A to E, merely
                  touching the lower tone)
~ : let ring
/ and \ : slide down and up

OK here we go. Lacquer head, being one of my favorite songs,
is also the first one i will tab.lets start off by listening
to the song. try to hear how the bass-beat goes. its no use
trying learn the song directly off the tab. ok now you listened
to it, right? good.

VERSE:
ok this is hard to explain, but ill try. here is a simple tab:
G----------X----------
D--------------<3-----
A----X---------<3-----
E-------X------------- play this over again
     S   ^     p

start with finger placements. mute the E string with your left
thumb, and the G string with your index finger. rest your left
ring and middle finger on the middle strings A and D.

to explain: slap your thumb down at the A string, then, as you
move your thumb up again, hit the E string with the side of your
thumb. remember to mute with your left hand. sort of a "chuka-chuka"
sound. and then, as your double slap is done, pop the G string
(remember muting with index finger).  for the final detail, weakly
tap the A and D string on the third fret with your middle finger
and your ring finger. listen to the song for timing and watch the
video to see Les play it.
Then comes a simple part in the verse:
G--------
D--------
A-2-3----
E-----2-3
  S S S S
play this and the verse the way you hear it on the song.

Chorus:
compared to the verse, this is fairly simple.
G------------------------
D----5~---8~-------------
A----3~---6~-------------
E------------------------
     S    S
 "Lacquer head has but one desire.."
interlude:

G-------2----------I--------2-------
D------------------I----------------
A------------------I----------------
E-0000-----0-3-2-3-I--0000-----0----
    SSSS  p  SSSS       SSSS  p  S

Bass Solo:
ok this is hard. you will have to try this over and over again
'til you get it. just try to slap and pop really fast. mute all
notes with left hand, and remember to mute on the second frets.
G--------X---
D------------
A---XXX------
E------------
over and over again until:
G------------------------
D------------------------
A---0---12/--------------
E------------------------

return to verse.

Now, after the second chorus, you dont return to verse.

Bridge:
play this after second chorus.
G------------------------
D---------15/------------
A----3\------------------
E------------------------
"keep on sniffin til yer brain goes pop"

It doesnt really matter where you
slide, but just do a lot of slides up and down from about
the 3rd and 15th frets, on whatever string you might prefer.

Second Bridge:
G------------037------I--------037---------
D---------------------I--------------------
A-----055--------055--I--055--------055567-
E---------------------I--------------------
      S S    p   S S     S S   p    S SSSS
slap and pop as described

That should be it, just puzzle all the tabs here together and
youre done!

Don Martin

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