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Title: Xanadu
Artist: Rush
Album:
Instrument: 4 String Bass
Tabbed by: Kyle Spangler ()
Tuning: Standard (E A D G)
Riff A
Wait for lead guitar to build up speed and volume
G|---|---|---|---|---|---|---||
D|---|---|-5-|---|---|---|---||
A|---|---|---|---|-5-|---|---||
E|-0-|---|---|---|---|---|-5-||
Riff B
G|---|-----|---|-------|---|-------|---||
D|---|-----|-5-|-7-5-4-|---|-------|---||
A|---|-5-7-|---|-------|-5-|-7-5-4-|---||
E|-0-|-----|---|-------|---|-------|-5-||
Repeat Riff A
hit lat note twice on second time
Riff B
G|---|---------9----||
D|---|-11-9-11---11-||
A|-7-|--------------||
E|---|--------------||
Rest 2 measures
Repeat B rest 2 measures
Repeat B rest 2 measures
Repeat B rest 4 measures
Rest four chord changes
Riff C
G|--------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
D|--------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
A|-/7-7-7-|-5-5-5-|-2-2-2-|-0-0-0-|-7-7-6-|-5-5-3-|-2-2-1-|-0-0-0-|
E|--------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/r/rush/xanadu_btab_ver_2.html ]
G|---------|---------|-----------|-------|-------|-------||
D|---------|---------|-----------|-------|-------|-------||
A|-7---7-6-|-5---5-3-|-2---2---2-|-2-3-5-|-3-2-0-|-0-0-0-||
E|---7-----|---5-----|---2---2---|-------|-------|-------||
Riff D
G|---|---|-/9--------|---|---||
D|---|---|----12-9---|---|---||
A|---|---|-----------|---|---||
E|-0-|-0-|---------3-|-2-|-0-|| These notes might not be timed right
G|-9-9-9h11p9-------9------------------------------------||
D|------------12-11---12-11-9----11-9-------9------------||
A|----------------------------12------12-11---12-11-9----||
E|----------------------------------------------------12-||
G|---|---|-----||
D|---|---|-4\9-||
A|---|---|-----||
E|-3-|-2-|-----||
Riff E
G|-----|-----||
D|-----|-----||
A|-7-7-|-9-9-||
E|-----|-----||
Repeat x4
Riff F
G|-----------||
D|-9-9---7-7-||
A|-----------||
E|-----------||
Repeat x2
Riff G
Part before hard rock area
G|--------|-------|-------|---||
D|--------|-------|-------|---||
A|--------|-------|-------|---||
E|-10-7-5-|-5-4-3-|-3-2-1-|-0-||
Riff H
Hard Rock (High Tempo)
G|-------|---------|--------------|-----------||
D|-------|---------|--------------|-----------||
A|-------|---0-0-0-|-----2-0---0--|-----0-----||
E|-0-0-0-|-3-------|-3-0-----3----|-0-3---3-0-||
Repeat H
Riff I
Part During "Xa...na...du"
G|-------||
D|-------||
A|-----5-||
E|-0-3---||
Rest 8 Measures
Riff J
Riff played when bass enters "Pleasure Dome" part
G|-7-7-7h9p7-5-------------||
D|-------------9-7-5-------||
A|-------------------9-7-5-||
E|-------------------------||
Riff K
Riff played after bass enters
G|---------|-------|-----------||
D|---------|-------|-----------||
A|-5-5-3-1-|-1-2-3-|-3-3-------||
E|---------|-------|-----3-2-0-||
The rest goes:
Riff B x 9
Riff G
Riff H x 2
Riff I
Rest 8 measures
Riff J
Riff K x 8
Riff E x 8
Riff F x 2
Riff E x 4
Riff F x 2
Riff G
play open E string 8 times
