song: Close to Home artist: The Get Up Kids album: Something to Write Home About tabbed by: John Krohn (jkrohn@scs.k12.mi.us) This song is played fairly high on the neck for most of the time, which makes this tab kind of hard to follow, because of all the fret #'s in double digits. Stick With it though, I guarantee this is 100% correct, down to every fill and nuance. Oh, by the way, there is a Get Up Kids bass tab website out there that has been ripping off my tabs and claiming them as their own. Make no mistake, the version that appears on the bass tab archive is always the original, most correct version. Anything else floating around out there is incorrect, or incomplete at best. This intro/verse riff is very cool. A good example of why your basslines shouldn't chug along in straight 8th notes following the guitar. The individual parts are first, then the order of the parts. == means to let the note ring, a ^ denotes a hammer-on or pull-off. intro G ---------------------------- D /9-------------/9---9------- A --10===9---------9==-10==\-- E --------7^9^7==------------- verse G ----------------------------------- D --------/9-------------9---9------- A 5^7^5===--10===9--------9==-10==\-- E ----------------7^9^7==------------ chorus 1 G ------------------- D ------------------- A ------------------- E 7^9^777775533333333 chorus 2a G ---------------------------------- D ---------/9----------------------- A 5^7^55555--10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 E ---------------------------------- chorus 2b G ------------------------------ D ------------------------------ A 99-999-9---------------------- E --------33-333-355-555-577-777 X3 post chorus 1 G --------------------------------------------- D --------------------------------------------- A 5^7^55555552^4^22222/1414-10-10-10-10-10----- E -----------------------------------------3=== post chorus 2 G ------------------------------------------------- D ------------------------------------------------- A 55557799----997^9^72^4^22222/14141010101010101010 E --------5555------------------------------------- X2 outro G ----------------------------------------------- D ----------------------------------------------- A -----------------------------------------77--99 E 7^9^7777755333333/14141212121214\9^121010--99-- X3 G ------------------------------------------------------------ D ------------------------------------------------------------ A ---------------------------------------------7799----997^9^7 E 7^9^7777755333333/14141212121214\9^1210101010----9999------- G ----------------------------------------------- D ----------------------------------------------- A -----------------------------------------77--99 E 7^9^7777755333333/14141212121214\9^121010--99-- G ----------------------------------- D -----------5-5-5-5-5-2-2-4-2------- A ----------------------------245==== E 7^9^7777755------------------------ I know this part is confusing, but I wanted to tab exactly what the bass is doing.. just remember those are all 10's, 12's, and 14's, we don't use the first fret at all for the outro. Order: intro verse X2 chorus 1 chorus 2a chorus 1 chorus 2b post chorus 1 verse X3 chorus 1 chorus 2a chorus 1 chorus 2b post chorus 2 outro