Pinback - Penelope Guitar & Bass Tabbed by: Luke Wait (bear_rides) Email: bear_rides_unicycle@hotmail.com Howdy y'all, i recently decided to do a cover of Penelope in my audio production coarse and after viewing numerous tabs on the net i realised none of them were very accurate. Generally speaking people had the main riff down but the rest of the song was severely lacking - confusing the piccolo bass (bass with light strings that is an octave higher than usual) lines for guitar and vice versa. I also found people were combining the bass during the verse/chorus with the kick drum groove as they have a very similar sound. I haven't bothered to check YouTube to try and match what they're playing live - this sounds extremely close to the album version, which is what you want ;) There are a number of inversions that are just as easy to play but this worked well for me. Hope you enjoy it! =============================================================================== Guitar 1: Intro/verse/chorus (alternate picking makes the string skipping easier, you want to let it ring out) e |------------0------------------0-------------------0--------------------------| B |--------3-------3----------3--------3----------3-------3-----------3---0---3--| G |----------0---0---0----------0---0----0----------0---0---0-----------0---0----| D |--2p0h2--------------2p0h2---------------2p0h2--------------2p0h2-------------| A |------------------------------------------------------------------------------| E |------------------------------------------------------------------------------| Bridge (this first bit sounds like all downstrokes to me) e |----------------------------------------------------------| B |----------------------------------------------------------| G |--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-5-5-4-4---0-----0-0-0-0-----------------| D |--------------------------4---4-2---------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-| A |----------------------------------------------------------| E |----------------------------------------------------------| e -------------------------------------------------------------| B -------------------------------------------------------------| G ---0------------0------------0------------0------------0-----| D -4---4-2-4/5--4---4-2-4/5--4---4-2-4/5--4---4-2-4/5--4---4-2-| A -------------------------------------------------------------| E -------------------------------------------------------------| Guitar 2: Outro/bridge-overdub (you'll have to listen to get the timing on this one) e |----------------------------------------------------| B |------0---------0-----------------------------------| G |----0-----2---2/5---5-4-----0---0------0------------| D |--5-----5---5-----5-----5-4---4---44/5---5-0---0-2--| A |----------------------------------------------------| E |----------------------------------------------------| e |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| B |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| G |----0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0---0--| D |--4---4---4/5-2---4---4---4/5-0---4---4---4/5-2---4---4---4/5-0---4---4----| A |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| E |---------------------------------------------------------------------------| =============================================================================== As mentioned earlier the bass lines are played on a piccolo bass. If you don't have one it still sounds fine and if you really wanted you could use a pitch shifter to move it up an octave. Bass 1: Verse/chorus (you can add extra plucks on the first 7, 10 and 8 but its the kick drum that gives that impression) G |--------------------------7----| D |---------------------/7h9---9--| A |--/7----5--/10-----------------| E |----------------8--------------| Bridge (there is a piano line that mimics most of these notes, listen for the timing, its quite slow) G |----------------0-----------------------------------------------------| D |----------4-------------------------9~----10~--12~--------------------| A |--7~----7---7-----------------7---------------------10~----9~---------| E |----------------------7~----7---7------------------------------7h8-7--| Bass 2: Bridge-overdub (its a steady continuous pluck here, i just added spaces to make counting easier) G |------------------------------------------| D |------------------------------------------| A |--7777-7777-7777-7777-6666-6666-6666-6666-| E |------------------------------------------| G ----------------------------------------------------------| D ----------------------------------------------------------| A -10101010-10101010-10101010-10101010-7777-7777-6666-------| E ----------------------------------------------------7777--| Thats it, I'll leave it to you to figure out when to play all these parts, its pretty obvious. Peace! =============================================================================== ************************************ | / slide up | \ slide down | h hammer-on | p pull-off | ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note | b Bend | pb Pre-bend | br Bend release | pbr Pre-bend release | brb Bend release bend ************************************