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How Soon Is Now Bass

(ver. 2)
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If you have ever listened to live versions of "How Soon Is Now", you could easily find 
that Andy Rourke plays different riffs.

Standard tuning.
timing.


I. Version from Madrit and Oxford, 1985:

Verse:

G|-------------------|--------------------|---------------------|-----------4---2|
D|------------4*---2*|------------1*--1*h2|------------4-2------|----------------|
A|-------------------|--------------------|----------------4--2-|0--2--0---------|
E|0--2--0--2---------|0--2--0--2----------|0--2--0--2-----------|----------------|  x4

*-play those notes as loud as you can!


Chorus for both versions:
Play twice with different endings.

G|------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
D|------------------|----------------|-------------2--|-------------------|
A|0-0h2-0--2--0--5--|0--2-0--5-0--7--|0--4-0--7-------|--------------5--4-|
E|------------------|----------------|-----------0---0|2----0-2-0-2-------|


G|------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
D|------------------|----------------|-------------2--|-------------------|
A|0-0h2-0--2--0--5--|0--2-0--5-0--7--|0--4-0--7-------|----------------9/-|
E|------------------|----------------|-----------0---0|2----2----2--------|


II. Version from Paris, 1984. My favorite one :-)

Verse:

G|--------------------|----------------------|----------------------|-----------(4)-4--1h2-|
D|----------------3h4-|------------1h2-0-3h4-|------------4-2-------|----------------------|
A|--------------4-----|----------------------|-----------------4--2-|0-0h2--0--------------|
E|0--2--0--2----------|0--2--0--2------------|0--2--0--2------------|----------------------|


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