Saddest Song

Thanks for downloading!

This took me some time to tab and it was hard work... 
if you download this tab and play it, please appreciate 
the effort & time that was put into tabbing it and 
comment on it! (on GProTab or Ultimate-guitar). i 
always enjoy feedback, including criticisms.
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If you intend to play this song (which i recommend!) 
you should read the following:

* perhaps you know that Mark Sandman 
(singer/bassist, died on stage in July 1999) used a 
2-stringed bass, both strings tuned to the same pitch 
(seriously!). Of course on Guitar Pro you can't have a 
2-string track, but let's just say Mark's bass is only the 
middle lines on the tab (both tuned to D, though i'm not 
sure whether that was the actual note). I have tabbed 
everything on the upper string (the regular D string), 
but you are of course free to play on whichever string 
you like (well, i assume few people have two D-strings 
on their bass). Or you can play both strings in one 
stroke, as Mark did when he played this song live.

He played with a pick and with a bottleneck (a metal 
or glass cylinder which you slip on your finger) to slide 
up and down the strings. Try it, it sounds great.

The sax (& triangle) player is Dana Colley and the 
drummer, Jerome Deupree.

* the guitar (also recorded by Sandman) is VERY low in 
the song - it's just meant to spice up the tune a little, of 
course with Morphine the guitar is never a lead 
instrument. So, it was very hard to tab (especially at 
the end, bars 55-62 - where i just had to be creative :) 
but i think my tab is about as close as you can get, 
even with an equalizer (i tried a lot of different 
EQs but some parts were still undistinguishable). So 
anyway if you want to play this with a guitar use your 
imagination...

* i'm not quite sure about the bridge, if you listen to the 
song you can clearly detect more than one sax (i'd say 
at least three) but i was not able to distinguish all of 
them clearly. the tuba might not be a tuba (a bass 
sax?), & the flute is perhaps not a flute, i don't know. 
well it's not *very* important anyway.

* the drums have been tabbed, i am proud to say, quite 
accurately :) i wouldn't say they're perfect (of course 
they're not) but nearly. & the hi-hats too (though it's 
difficult sometimes to decide whether it's open or not... 
there's no "half-open hi-hat" on GP5). 

* Voice & bass are nearly perfect too.

* As for the triangle... I know it's terribly boring and 
hardly worth tabbing, but i think this instrument is part 
of what I love in the song... I even *tried* (not very 
hard :) to tab the few places where the pattern actually 
changes (merely mistakes, i believe)...

* finally, although this is irrelevant, i want to mention 
that this is the only song i have not grown tired of after 
having tabbed it. in the process of tabbing a song, one 
has to listen to it dozens of times, perhaps even 
hundreds (mostly by 1/2-second snipets)... this has 
always alienated from me those songs i was precisely 
trying to get closer to. but - not this time...

Have Fun!

Mat

1. Bass - 指拨电贝司 Electric Bass(finger)
2. Drums - 敲击乐器
3. Hi-hats - 敲击乐器
4. Triangle - 敲击乐器
5. Guitar - 爵士乐电吉他 Electric Guitar (jazz)
6. Voice - 大号 Tuba
7. Alto Sax - 中音萨克斯 Alto Sax
8. Tenor Sax - 次中音萨克斯 Tenor Sax
9. Flute/Tuba - 长笛 Flute