Florentine Pogen bass

Florentine Pogen

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> 
> 
>OK.  I haven't seen anyone else post any Zappa tunes, I have a bunch 
>figured out so I've decided since I have nothing better to do at 3:00 in 
>the morning I'll try my first PC tab.  Bass guitar only, I'm not in the 
>mood to post the guitar part, I'm not that ambitious. 
> 
>For those of you not familiar with this tune, it is available on several 
>Zappa albums, it originally appeared on One Size Fits All.  Featured 
>musicians were Frank of course, George Duke, Napoleon Murphy Brock, 
>Chester Thomas, Tom Fowler, and Ruth Underwood.  IMHO the _best_ version 
>of this song is on the album "The Best Band You Never Heard In Your 
>Life".  I highly suggest picking it up. 
> 
>My TAB explanation: 
> 
>x/y denotes a slide from fret x to fret y. 
>everything else is self explanitory. 
> 
> 
>Anyways, here it goes. 
> 
>G|--------------------------------------12-11-9-11-11-9-11-9-7-9-7------- 
--| 
>D|------------5-7-7/9-7-7---5-7/9-7-------------------------------------- 
--| 
>A|-7-7-7-7-7-9-----------7-9--------5-3---------------------------7-9---- 
--| 
>E|----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--| 
> 
>G|----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--| 
>D|-----------------5----5-------------------------------------5-7/9-7---- 
--| 
>A|-0-2-3-2-0-0--5-7--5-7--7-5-5/3-5-5-5-----------0-2-0-0--7-9--------5-3 
--| 
>E|--------------------------------------0-0-0-2-3------------------------ 
--| 
> 
>G|-12-11-9-11-11-9-11-9-7-9-7--------------------4-2-0--2-0----0--------- 
--| 
>D|----------------------------------------------------2----2-0--2-0------ 
--| 
>A|---------------------------7/9-7--0-2-3-2-0-0--------------------0-3-0- 
--| 
>E|----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--| 
> 
>G|-------------------------------------------------12-----------------14- 
--| 
>D|--------7-7-9-9-7-9-7-9-12-9-14-11-11-------12-14--14-12-------14-16--1 
6-| 
>A|-7-7-7-7-------------------------------12-14------------14-14-16------- 
--| 
>E|----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--| 
> 
>G|----------------------------------------12-12-10-10-8-8-4-4-6-6-------- 
--| 
>D|-14---------------------------5-2-7-4-4------------------------7-7-9-9- 
--| 
>A|---16--0-0-0-0-5-5-7-7-5-7-5-7----------------------------------------- 
--| 
>E|----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
--| 
> 
>G|---------------------------| 
>D|---------------------------| 
>A|--7---7---7---0------------| 
>E|---------------------------| 
>   "she was the daughter.... 
> 
>OK, that's enough for now.  I'll post the bridge and the outro stuff 
>later, I'l friggin' tired.  The verses are basically improv in A major, 
>really simple stuff.  These figures in the intro repeat at various times 
>during the song, you can figure out where.  Like I said, I'll finish it 
>later and post it. 
> 
>So what do people think?  Did I really fuck up or is this pretty cool? 

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