Back Street Girl bass tab by The Rolling Stones

BACK STREET GIRL (Bassline)

As recorded by The Rolling Stones
(From the 1967 Album FLOWERS)

Words and Music by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

Transcribed by Slowhand


Gtr I (E A D G) - 'Bill Wyman - Bass'


  Intro
  Q=154
  3/4
  Gtr I
  H.    H.    H.    H.
||----------|---------|---------|-------|
||o---------|---------|---------|-------|
||o---------|---------|---------|-------|
||--3-------|-3-------|-3-------|-3-----|

 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|--------||
|---------|---------|---------|-------o||
|-5-------|-3-------|---------|-------o||
|---------|---------|-3-------|-3------||


  1st - 4th Verses
  $
  $$
  H.    H.    H.    H.
||----------|---------|---------|-------|
||o---------|---------|---------|-------|
||o---------|---------|---------|-------|
||--3-------|-3-------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-5-------|-3-------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-3-------|-3-------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------||
|---------|---------|---------|-------||
|-5-------|-3-------|---------|-------||
|---------|---------|-3-------|-3-----||


 Pre-Chorus
 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-7-------|-6-------|-7-------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-5-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|-3-------|-5-------|-------|
|-7-------|---------|---------|-5-----|


 H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|-------||
|---------|---------|-------||
|---------|-5-------|-5-----||
|-5-------|---------|-------||


 Chorus
 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-5-------|-5-------|-5-------|-5-----|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|


           1.
    To Coda
    To Coda
 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-5-------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|-5-------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
|-3-------|-3-------|-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|---------|--------||
|---------|---------|---------|-------o||
|-5-------|-3-------|---------|-------o||
|---------|---------|-3-------|-3------||


 2.
  D.S. al Coda D.S.S. al Dbl. Coda
 H.    H.     H.    H.
|---------|---------||---------|--------||
|---------|---------||---------|--------||
|---------|---------||---------|--------||
|-3-------|-3-------||-3-------|-3------||


           Outro
 &&
 H.    H.     H.    H.
|---------|---------||---------|-------|
|---------|---------||---------|-------|
|---------|---------||---------|-------|
|-3-------|-3-------||-3-------|-3-----|


 H.    H.    H.
|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|-------|
|---------|---------|-5-----|
|-3-------|-3-------|-------|


      H.=H
 H.    H.    Q H   +H.
|---------|---------|---------|--------*|
|---------|---------|---------|--------*|
|-3-------|---------|---------|--------*|
|---------|-3-------|-3--3----|-(3)----*|


Duration 🏷Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature 🏷Legend
----------------
 h  - hammer-on
 p  - pull-off
 b  - bend
 pb - pre-bend
 r  - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
 /\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
 s  - legato slide
 S  - shift slide
 - natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
 ~  - vibrato
 tr - trill
 T  - tap
 TP - trem. picking
 PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
 \n - tremolo bar down
 n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
 =  - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
  - volume swell (louder/softer)
 x  - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
 o  - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc 🏷Legend
-----------
 | - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
 : - bar (freetime)
 $ - Segno
 & - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths