BAND: Incubus
SONG: Redefine
TABLATURE: Bass
TABBED BY: Steve Rodd (s_rodd@hotmail.com)
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Tabbed by Steve Rodd If you have any comments or improvements let me know my E-mail address is s_rodd@hotmail.com

If you print this transcription I'd recommend you to print it out in landscape instead of portrait that way all of the bars will make sense.

The bass for Redefine is relatively straight forwards apart from the bass and drum break down at 02:09 min. The whole song played in dropped D tuning, this is what I think it goes like

Intro: Didgeridu and drums

Chorus: 1
G|-----------|-----------|--------------------------------------|
D|-----------|-----------|--------------------------------------|
A|-----------|-----------|--------------------------------------|
D|--0--0--0--|--0--0--0--|--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--3--3--3--3--|


G|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------3----------|----------------------------3-----------|
D|--0--4--4--0--4--4--4--0--4----4--0--4--|--0--4--4--0--4--4--4--0--4----4--0--4--|


G|----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------3----------|------------------------------------------|
D|--0--4--4--0--4--4--4--0--4----4--0--4--|--0--4--4--0--4--4--0--0--0--0--3--3--3--3|


G|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------3-----------|-----------------------------3----------|
D|--0--4--4--0--4--4--4--0--4----4--0--4--|--0--4--4--0--4--4--4--0--4----4--0--4--|


G|----------------------------------------|-----------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|-----------------------|
A|-----------------------------3----------|-----------------------|
D|--0--4--4--0--4--4--4--0--4----4--0--4--|--0--4--4--0--4--4--0--|







Verse: 1        * = a dead note (hitting a string without playing  a note)
G|--------------------------------------5--5------------7--------|
D|--------------------------------------------*--5--6------5-----|
A|--5--5-SLIDE DOWN-3--3--*--5--------------------------------6--|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|

This bar has a trill in it (basically doing loads of hammer on’s and pull off’s between two notes) I’ve put a label above it just to make sure you know exactly where it is.
                                                                (TRILL)
G|-------------------------5--5--------------7----------5--6--5--6--5--6--|
D|--------------------------------*--5--6-------5-------------------------|
A|--5--5--3--3--*--5------------------------------6-----------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|

This goes on like this for 7 bars with a few variations, but it’s an easy bassline to play with once you’ve got the basics down.
On the 8th bar going back into the chorus it does this

G|-------------------------5--5--------------7---------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------*--5--6-------5------------------------------|
A|--5--5--3--3--*--5------------------------------6----------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------0--0--0--0--3--3--3--3--|

And then we return back into the main riff which is pretty much the same as the first time around. And then back into the verse which again is a lot like the first time around. Then again we go into the main riff which is the same but this time around the song goes into a drum and bass guitar groove.
I know that what I play for this part is wrong but if you play it fast it sounds pretty close to the record.
Because this part is slapped I have used + for thumb slaps and ^ for finger pops over the notes that they are relevant to. For hammer on’s I have used a H between the two notes that are relevant.

Theres a bar of crazy drumming and then the bass kicks in.
                                              ^                ^                  ^
G|-------------------------------------------10---------------10-----------------10--|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--0 H 2--0--0 H 2--0--0 H 2--0 H 2--0--0-------0 H 2--0--0------0 H 2--0--0--------|
    +      +  +      +  +      +      +  +       +      +  +      +      +  +

That’s the killer groove. It’s a real bastard to play when you start playing it fast so I sometimes find it easier to play the F an octave lower on the D string instead of playing the correct note which is right up on the fret board. This helps to cut down on finger board noise and makes the hole thing sound a lot smoother.
After that we have a build up which takes into the main part of the song again.



G|-----------|--------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
D|-----------|--------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
A|-----------|--------|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
D|--0--0--0--|--0--0--|--0--0--0--0--|--0--0--0--0--|--0--0--0--0--|--0--0--0--0--|


G|------------|--------------|--------|-----------------------------|
D|------------|--------------|--------|-----------------------------|
A|------------|--------------|--------|-----------------------------|
D|--0--0--0--0|--0--0--0--0--|--0--0--|--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|


G|--------------------------|
D|--------------------------|
A|--------------------------|
D|--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--|

Then we go back into the main riff for 12 bars until the end. The final 12th bar goes like this.


G|---------------------------|
D|---------------------------|
A|---------------------------|
D|--0--2--2--0--2--2--0--0--0|

ENJOY!