Lands End Bass

Siouxsie and the Banshees
Lands End bass tab
From the album Tinderbox (1986)
 
By RunOfTheMill
Transcribed 26/04/2016
 
Updated 03/01/2025
Heavily updated tab many years later that features rhythm (to the best of my abilities) and many corrections.
 
 
[Verse 1]
   H         H          H       Q    E  E
G|--------------------|--------------------| x8
D|--------------------|---------16---17-16-|
A|--------------------|-0------------------|
E|-0-------0/10-------|--------------------|
 
This second verse part follows a bit of a different rhythm (I believe it is 9/8)
[Verse 2]
   Q   Q   Q   E E E   Q   Q   Q   E E E   Q   Q   H       E E H
G|-------------------|-------------------|-----9-----------9-9--------| x2
D|-----2-------------|-----4---5---------|---------9-----------9------|
A|-0-------3---2-0-0-|-3-----------5-3-3-|-7--------------------------|
E|-------------------|-------------------|----------------------------|
 
[Verse 1] x4
[Verse 2] x2
 
[Break (Moth's touched by flames...)]
   H        H
G|--------------------| x8
D|--------------------|
A|-0------------------|
E|----------0---------|
 
I refere to this next part as "outro" because it is repeated at the end of the song.
 
[Outro]
   E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
G|---------------------------------| x2
D|---------------------------------|
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----------------|
E|-----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
 
The next measures are played using eighth notes accented by sustained quarter notes. Let ring where a quarter
note (Q) is noted. Every second bar ends with an unsustained eighth note before shifting to the next chord. I
refer to this part as a "solo", because there are no vocals and it is not repeated later.
 
[Solo]
   E Q E Q E Q E Q   E Q E Q E Q E E   E Q E Q E Q E Q   E Q E Q E Q E E
G|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------| x2
D|-----------------|-----------------|---6---6---6---6-|---6---6---6---6-|
A|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-1---1---1---1---|-1---1---1---1---|-4---4---4---4---|-4---4---4---4---|
 
Same idea for these next measures: sustained quarter notes; the measures, however, finish with a
sixteenth triplet and a sixteenth rest before shifting to the next chord.
 
[Bridge (Undulating far below...)]
   E Q E Q E Q S S S S   E Q E Q E Q S S S S
G|---9---9---9---------|---5---5---5---------| x6
D|-7---7---7---7-7-7-r-|-3---3---3---3-3-3-r-|
A|---------------------|---------------------|
E|---------------------|---------------------|
 
[Verse 1] x4
[Verse 2] x2
[Break] x8
[Outro] until end
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