Song: ASSASSIN (Acoustic Version)
Artist/Album: JOHN MAYER, Battle Studies, (2009)
VERSION 1.03
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Date: 19th November 2009
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Tabbed by JOSEPH V (joseph.youtube@hotmail.com)
VIDEO EXAMPLE @ YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/sepsep
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Tuning: Drop D (DADGBE)
* = SLAP
*> = ACCENTUATED SLAP
^ = ALTERNATIVE CHORD SHAPE
CHORDS
A = 707650
Asus = 707750
Bm = 024430
D = 057755
D/F# = 400230
D/G = 507750
G = 505430
ALTERNATIVE
D^ = 000232
Bm^ = 907770
PLAYER NOTES:
I guess the tricky part in my acoustic version is the slapping and getting the timing
It takes a bit of practice.
Please note the accentuated slap (meaning a stronger/louder slap)... keeps the song flowing.
VERSE/PRECHORUS
PHRASE I (Bm^) PHRASE II (Asus)
e----------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
b-------------7-----------------------7--------|------------5-----------------------5------------|
g-------7---------7------------------------7---|-----------------7-----------------------7-------|
d-----------------------7-------7--------------|-----7----------------7-------7---------------7--|
a----------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
E----9-----9---------9------9-------9----------|--7------7----------------7------7---------------|
* * * *> * *
PHRASE III (D/G?) PHRASE IV (Asus)
|--------------------------------------------------------|----(see PHR II)--X-|
|---------------5-------------------------5--------------|------------------X-|
|--------------------7-------------------------7---------|------------------X-|
|-------7----------------7-------7-------------------7---|------------------X-|
|--------------------------------------------------------|------------------X-|
|---5-------5-----------------5------5-------------------|------------------X-|
* * *
PRECHORUS
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/john_mayer/assassin_tab_ver_2.html ]
RIFF (Em)
9 9 9 9 9 9 9
# The bass line follows the beat of the oo Wooo ohhh woaOhhh, oh oh, ohhhhh...
# Its hard to describe... unless i do it in slow mo.... hmm.. :D
---------------------------------------------------------|--|
----------7--h--9--7-------------------------------------|--|
----------7------------7---9----7--h--9------7---h---9---|--|
---------------------------------------------------------|--|
---------------------------------------------------------|--|
----------9------------9--------9--------9---9-------9---|--|
Asus D/G
You get in...... get done and..... get gone
Bm^ Asus D/G
leave a trace..... show your face...... get gone
Bm^ Asus D/G
shoulda turned around.... left before...... came up again
Asus
but the sun came up again
CHORUS
Bm D/F# G A
I was a killer .... best they'd ever seen
Bm D/F# G A
I'd steal your heart .... before you ever hurt a thing
Bm D/F# G A
I'm an assassin... had a job to do
Bm D/F# G A Asus4 A
Little did i know.... an assassin too (back to chorus)
BRIDGE
D Bm D A
Suddenly im in... over my head.... i can hardly move
D Bm D A
Suddnely i know exactly what i did... i cannot feel a thing
D^ Bm D/F# G A Asus
suddenly im floating over her bed .. .do not feel a thing
D^ Bm D/F# G G
Suddenly i know....exactly ....done.... and what
G
its gonna mean to me
A Asus Bm^
mean to me, when im gone
INSTRUMENTAL
Bm^ Asus D/G Asus
Bm^ Asus D/G A Asus
