Track: The Garden
Artist: Guns 'n' Roses
Album: Use Your Illusion 1
Bass performance by Michael 'Duff' McKagan
Tabbed by Joseph 'Boycie' Boyce
Notes: Remember that this song requires the bass guitar to be tuned to Eb (half-step down).
Use plenty of octave jumps and descending scales during the solos/outro for that classic Duff effect.
Initial intro variation
Gb|--9-10-11~--/7~--7-5------11-7~---
Db|-----------------------------7-5------------
Ab|---------------------------------------------
Eb|---------------------------------------------
Intro
Gb|------------------------------------------
Db|-------------------4-0~----------------
Ab|--3h5p3-------------------------------
Eb|-------------5-3------------------------
Verse
Gb|------------------------------------------
Db|-------------------4-0--0-0-0---------
Ab|--3h5p3-------------------------------
Eb|-------------5-3------------------------
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/g/guns_n_roses/the_garden_btab_ver_2.html ]
NOTICE: With the Intro and Verse, remember to change the ‘4’ on the D-string with a ‘3’ for the 2nd and 3rd of every four bars.
So the pattern is: 4 3 3 4 | 4 3 3 4 | 4 3 3 4 etc.
Bridge
Gb|---------------------------------------
Db|---------------------------------------
Ab|--5~----3~----2~----5~----------
Eb|---------------------------------------
Chorus/Guitar solo/Outro
Gb|----------------------------------------------
Db|----------------------------------------------
Ab|--/5-5x5---8x8---5/7-7x7---3x3/----
Eb|----------------------------------------------
Brief interlude after first guitar solo:
Gb|--5-4~--7~--5~--7-5----5~--7-5------------
Db|----------------------------7------------7-5-------
Ab|-----------------------------------------------5~--
Eb|-----------------------------------------------------
Order of play:
Initial intro variation (x1)
Intro/verse (x16)
Bridge (x2)
Chorus (x4)
Bridge (x2)
Chorus/guitar solo (x12)
Interlude (x1)
Verse (x9)
Bridge (x1)
Chorus/outro (continue to fade)
Comments and corrections to boycie64@hotmail.com. Cheers.
