Big Machine Chords & Tabs
Band: Velvet Revolver
Song: Big Machine
Album: Contraband
ktaneja@students.latrobe.edu.au
Note: An easy song, listen to the song to get what part goes where, i have tried to explain at my best"
Gtr I (E - 1/2) - 'Slash'
gtr 2 (" " " ) - Dave Kushner
*Starts with heavy base*
4/4
Gtr I
~
Riff A
"All that first-class jet set brings me down, down, down"
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|-9-----4------2----|
|-9-----4------2----|
|-9-----4------2----|
|-7-----2------0----|
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::Chorus - Kusner keeps playing Em while Slash plays those bends, listen to the track fr details::
"It's a big machine, it's a big machine"
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|-2--2--x-2--2--x-2--2--x--2--2----|
|-0--0--x-0--0--x-0--0--x--0--0----|
~ ~
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|-----------------------------|
|-----------9------------9----|
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|-----------------------------|
|-12-10-9---------7-5-4-------|
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|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-2--2--x--2--2--x-2--2--x-2--2----|
|-0--0--x--0--0--x-0--0--x-0--0----|
~ ~
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|----------9----------5----|
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|-12-10-9------7-5-4-------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-----------------|----------|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0----|
~ ~
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|-------------------------|
|----------9---------9----|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-12-10-9-----7-5-4-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|------------9----|
|-----------------|------------9----|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2------7----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0-----------|
|-----------------------|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-9------4---------2----|
|-7------2---------0----|
|-----------------------|
::Bridge::
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|-5---------9-------5-----------|
|-5---------9-------5------5----|
|-5---------9-------5--7---5----|
|-3----2----7---2---2--7---5----|
|------0--------0------5---3----|
"Get away without borders
I'm a slave, New World Order
I guess I chose to be
I guess I chose to be
I guess I chose to be
I guess I chose to be
Hope I teach my son how to be a man
Now before he hits 35
Comic book lives don't really have any real life do they now"
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/v/velvet_revolver/big_machine_tab_ver_2.html ]
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|-7S=5S=4S=2--0---------|
|---------------4S=2----|
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|-----------------------|
::Solo/fill - played by Slash::
|-12-12-12-12-12-12----------|-12-12-12-12-12-12-----------x-----------|
|-16-16-16-16-16-16-16b17----|-16-16-16-16-16-16-16b17-----x--18-17----|
|-------------------------14-|-------------------------14--------------|
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::Play these chords with above riff at ending::
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|-9------8----6----11----|
|-9------8----6----11----|
|-9------8----6----11----|
|-7------6----4-----9----|
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::Small fill by Slash before song ends::
~~~~~
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|----------16---15--x--15--x--14--x--14--x--13b14----|
|-------17-------------------------------------------|
|-15h17----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
::Ends with Em ringing::
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|-----------------|---------------|
|-----------------|---------------|
|-----------------|---------------|
|-2-2-x-2-2-x-2-2-|-x-2-2----2----|
|-0-0-x-0-0-x-0-0-|-x-0-0----0----|
Duration Legend
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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff
Tablature Legend
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h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
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| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
