Black Market Chords & Tabs
Song: Black Market
Artist: Bear McCreary
Album: Battlestar Galactica Soundtrack: Season 3
Tabber: CowManJones
(/) Slide Up (h) Hammer On (p) Pull Off (b) Bend
This pretty much just goes straight through the song. If there's anything I
missed, let me know. And I'm sorry about not having tabs for the solo. If
you get them tabbed out, let me know and I'll add them giving you credit!
Ethnic Instrument Melody
E|---------------------------------------------|-
B|------9---------------------9----9----9------|-
G|-9-10---10-9h10p9------9-10---10---10---10-9-|-
D|------------------10-9-----------------------|-
A|---------------------------------------------|-
E|---------------------------------------------|-
Lead Sitar Melody (Including Orchestral punch)
E|------------------------------|-----------|-
B|------------------------------|-----------|-
G|----------------------------7-|-----------|-
D|---7-9-10---7-9-10---7-9-10---|-----------|-
A|-7--------8--------7----------|-2-2-3-2-2-|-
E|------------------------------|-0-0-1-0-0-|-
Bass Riff (Play harder as you go, play power chords for final time)
E|---------------------------------|-------------------------------|-
B|---------------------------------|-------------------------------|-
G|---------------------------------|-------------------------------|-
D|---------------------------------|-2-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-6-5-5-6-5-5-6-|-
A|---------------------------------|-2-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-6-5-5-6-5-5-6-|-
E|-0-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-4-3-3-4-3-3-4-3-|-0-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-4-3-3-4-3-3-4-|-
Main Heavy Guitar Riff (Play several times, ending on the E power chord)
The trick here is to make sure you wrap around as soon as you finish
playing the F power chords at the end. It's in an odd time signature.
E|----------------------------------------------|----------|-
B|----------------------------------------------|----------|-
G|-9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9-9-10--9-9-9-9--9-9-10-10-10-|----------|-
D|-9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9-9-10--9-9-9-9--9-9-10-10-10-|-2--------|-
A|-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-7-8---7-7-7-7--7-7-8--8--8--|-2--------|-
E|----------------------------------------------|-0--------|-
Weird Plucky Sounding Instrument
E|---10---12-|-
B|-9----9----|-
G|-----------|-
D|-----------|-
A|-----------|-
E|-----------|-
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bear_mccreary/black_market_tab.html ]
At this point in the song, the ethnic instrument part comes back on
the sitar. The only difference is that on the phrases ending on the
ninth fret look like this now.
E|-------------------------|-
B|------9----9----9--------|-
G|-9-10---10---10---10-7/9-|-
D|-------------------------|-
A|-------------------------|-
E|-------------------------|-
Lead Sitar Melody (again, though I think the song has changed
time signatures and there's an extra note at the beginning of
each phrase)
E|--------------------------------|-----------|-
B|--------------------------------|-----------|-
G|------------------------------7-|-----------|-
D|-----7-9-10---7-9-10---7-9-10---|-----------|-
A|-5-7--------8--------7----------|-2-2-3-2-2-|-
E|--------------------------------|-0-0-1-0-0-|-
Play the bass riff part again here building to the
heavy guitar riff again, this time under a sitar playing
the ethnic melody.
There's a heavy bit right after the usual heavy riff
where the chords are the main sitar melody in power chord
form. Hammer these out and have a lead playing the
individual notes from the usual melody by tremolo picking
the mess out of them. (These are the power chords for this part)
E|----------------------------|-
B|----------------------------|-
G|----------------------------|-
D|-2-7-9-10-3-7-9-10-2-7-9-12-|-
A|-2-7-9-10-3-7-9-10-2-7-9-12-|-
E|-0-5-7-8--1-5-7-8--0-5-7-10-|-
This is the guitar part in the bass break before the solo.
I'm not a great guitar player, so I can't pick out much more
beyond this point and usually just improvise for the solo.
Still, you can use this as a jumping off point, because it's
a wicked way to get into the solo.
E|--------------------------------9-10-12b14b12-|-
B|---------------------------9-10---------------|-
G|-7-----4---5---2-----9---9--------------------|-
D|-----------------6----------------------------|-
A|----------------------------------------------|-
E|----------------------------------------------|-
These are the power chords playing behind the solo.
It's the heavy riff again, just dropped an octave.
E|------------------------------------------|-
B|------------------------------------------|-
G|------------------------------------------|-
D|-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-3--2-2-2-2--2-2-3-3-3-|-
A|-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-3--2-2-2-2--2-2-3-3-3-|-
E|-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-1--0-0-0-0--0-0-1-1-1-|-
