Spoonman by Soundgarden
from Superunknown
transcribed by Travis Higgins
travis@primenet.com
http://www.primenet.com/~travis/bass.html
This song is pretty tough because it is played fast and there
are a LOT of time changes, which Soundgarden loves to do.
So listen to the song to get the feel for it, all the parts of
the song are here, just listen to it to get the exact order.
Dropped D tuning
Intro
||----------------------------------------------------|-------------------
||*---------------------------------------------------|-------------------
||*---------------------------------------------------|-------------------
||---10h12--12--12--12-----12--10-----12--7-----5--7--|-------------------
(4 times)
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--------------------------------*||---------
--------------------------------*||---------
3-----0--0--3h5--5--5--0--0--0---||---------
Verses
||-----------------------------------------------|--------------|---------
||*----------------------------------------------|--------------|---------
||*----------------------------------------------|--------------|---------
||----10h12--12--12--12-----12--10-----12--5-----|--5-----------|---------
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10h12--12--12--12-----12--10-----12--7-----5-----7--|---------------------
(2 and a half times) Listen to the song
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--------------------------------*||---------------------------------------
--------------------------------*||---------------------------------------
3-----0--0--3h5--5--5--0--0--0---||---------------------------------------
Chorus (4 times)
||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------
||*---------------------------------5--3-----------*||--------------------
||*---------------------------------------5--3--0--*||--------------------
||----5--3--5--3--5--3--0--5-----3------------------||--------------------
||------------------------------------------|--
||*-----------------------------------------|--
||*-----------------------------------------|--
||---10h12--12--12--12--10--12--7-----5--7--|--
(2 times)
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3--0--0--3h5--5--5--0--0--0---||
Then repeat for second verse
Then right before the guitar solo
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---------------------------|--------------
---5--3--5--3--5--3--0-----|--------------
------------------------3--|--------------
---------------|--------------------------|-----------------|-------------
---------------|--------------------------|-----------------|-------------
---------------|--5--3--5--3--5--3--0-----|-----------------|-------------
3--------------|-----------------------5--|--5--------------|-------------
Then there is the guitar solo where you play the intro part 4 times
Then spoon solo then repeat the chorus.
Then for the final outro play the intro lines again 4 times
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