Stone Temple Pilots - Sin Bass

Stone Temple Pilots - 'Sin'
Standard Bass Tuning


The acoustic part towards the end has to be the hardest part of the song.
Robert really has some nice bass runs in this song, so your picking fingers 
may get a workout. Please rate/comment.


Intro - play 2x
                 1  2  3  4 &
G|------------|---------------|-------------|----------------|
D|------------|---------------|-------------|----------------|
A|------------|---------------|-------------|----------------|
E|-0----------|-(0)---------0-|-0-----------|-(0)------------|




Verse Riff 1 - play 3x                Ending bar before lyrics

   1       2      3     4             1       2      3      4
G|----------------------------|      -------------------------------|
D|----------------------------|      -------------------------------|
A|-5h7-7-7----5h7-7-7---7-7---|      -5h7-7-7----7----------4-5-7---|
E|----------------------------|      --------------0-4-5-7--------0-|


Continue playing first part of verse riff 8x

"Holy water clouds my thinking
 sinking low now... keep on drinking"



Chorus (play 4x, but skip the slide notes on 4th time)
G|------------------|----------------------|
D|------------------|----------------------|
A|------------------|-------------------/4-|
E|-3----3--5--------|-1----1--3---------/5-|
 "Down you go        suffer long"
 "Down you go        sin make me strong"



Play The Verse again as done before



Play Chorus Again




(2:20) Bridge - play 8x
G|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------5-----|
A|-7-5-5-7-5-5-7-5-5-7-5-5-7---7-5-|
E|---------------------------------|


  (2:44) Jazzy guitar Break 
G|------------------|-----------------|
D|------------------|-----------------|
A|-5---5------------|-4--4----2-------|
E|---------5--------|-----------------|




  (2:52) Play Intro but add in a slide at 3:02
G|------------------|-----------------|
D|------------------|-----------------|
A|------------------|-----------------|
E|-----------17\0---|-0---------------| continue intro




Play Verse Riff repeating part 8x (skip first 4 bars)


(3:39) Play Chorus Again and hold last note




(4:07) Acoustic break

G|------------------|------------------|------------|-------------------|
D|------------------|------------------|------------|-------------------|
A|--------8---------|--------8---------|-10---------|-----------10-10-8-|
E|-11---------------|-11---------------|------------|---------10--------|

G|----------------------|----------------------|------------|
D|----------------------|----------------------|------------|
A|---------8--------8---|---------8--------8-9-|-10---------|
E|-11-------------8---8-|-11-------------10----|----------10|
"still shackled to the shadows... "

G|-------------------------------|--------------------|----------------------|
D|---------9---------------------|--------------------|----------------------|
A|10-----10-10-8--10----------10-|--------8-------8---|--------8---------8-9-|
E|-----10-----------7-7-8-8-10---|-11-----------8---8-|-11-------------------|
                                 "still shackled to the shadows... "

G|---------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------|
D|---------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------|
A|-10------------|-10------10----10-10-10-10-8-|---------8---------8---|
E|------------10-|-------10----10--------------|-11--------------8---8-|


G|----------------------|----------------------|
D|----------------------|----------------------|
A|--------8-------8---9-|-10-hold--------------|
E|-11----------10-------|----------------------|
               slower



Solo - play Bridge Riff, then end with Jazzy Break Riff from earlier


Ending - Play Intro




KEY
| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato