No Prayer For the Dying Bass Tabs on Just The Riffs

No Prayer for the Dying is the eighth studio album by English heavy metal band Iron Maiden. It is their first album to feature Janick Gers on guitar, who replaced Adrian Smith.

Smith left the band during the pre-production phase, unhappy with the musical direction it was taking; he contributed to just one song, “Hooks in You”. This was the third song in the “Charlotte the Harlot” saga.

Gers previously worked with singer Bruce Dickinson on his first solo album, Tattooed Millionaire, and had also worked with Ian Gillan, former Marillion singer Fish, and new wave of British heavy metal band, White Spirit.

Although it received generally mixed to negative reviews, the album peaked at No. 2 in the UK Albums Chart and contains the band’s only UK Singles Chart No. 1, “Bring Your Daughter… to the Slaughter“.

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Genre(s): Arena Rock, Celtic Metal, Classic Metal, Classic Rock, Folk Metal, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Metal, NWOBHM, Rock

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Tracklist

001 - tailgunner
002 - holy smoke
003 - no prayer for the dying
004 - public enema number 1
005 - fate's warning
006 - the assassin
007 - run silent, run deep
008 - hooks in you
009 - bring your daughter... to the slaughter
010 - mother russia

001 - Tailgunner bass tab

A blistering opener to an album that shares it's position and theme with Powerslave's opener, Aces High. This song has a LOT of key and mode changes in it. They literally threw everything including the kitchen sink, fridge and cupboard units at this one.

It's a 16th note marathon too. You absolutely need to warm up before you hit this one. Rhythmically there's a lot of DNA in common with the Clairvoyant. There's too much going on harmonically in this song to put here in a paragraph or two! It is fun to play though, the Choruses are especially good fun.

Instrument: 4 String Bass Guitar
Page Count: 11
Format: Interactive PDF
difficulty Level: Advanced
Tuning: E Standard (E-A-D-G)
Key(s): F# Mixolydian, D Phrygian, E Phrygian, Fm, Db Major, Eb Dorian
Download Size: 1.5MB