Rebel Rebel by David Bowie guitar tab (text):

Rebel Rebel [4:31 approx.]

David Bowie

Best of Bowie – EMI Records Ltd. © 2002

[Tabbed by Vindicity’s bassist – Jeff]

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I guarantee this tab is 100% right, or at least 98% 



Guitar starts out – here’s the easy bass version of that, just for kicks:

G|----9--7--6---------------------|

D|-------------9-9---11-9---------|

A|-5---------------7------11-7----|

E|--------------------------------|



>Intro – Bass comes in during the fourth time through the guitar lick [the “and” of ‘0:13’]



			    X4

G|-9-7------------|--------------------------|

D|-------9-7------|--------------------------|

A|-----------9-7--|-5-5-5457-----------34----|

E|----------------|-----------4-5(5)-67------|



>Verse 1 – Just continues the intro line, but now there are words!



	        X8

G|----------------------------|

D|----------------------------| from “you’ve got your mother / in a whirl…” to 

A|-5-5-(5)457-----------34----|        “...you want more and you want it ___…”

E|-------------4-5(5)-67------|                    (I’m not sure on lyrics)



>Bridge/Pre-Chorus – mainly chords,Dorsey does some earcandy stuff,but my walking line sounds okay



Chords: (four counts each) 

C#/A                        D           B                     E

  “They put you down/ they say I’m gone/ you tacky thing/ you put them on…”



G|-----------------------------99997------|

D|----------------------------------97----|

A|-0-0-0-----5-----012-2-2345-7-----------|

E|-------234--01234-----------------------|



>Chorus – This part’s easy, it’s the same as the verse



	      X3

G|------------------------|-----------------------------------|

D|------------------------|-----------------------------------|

A|-5-5-5457-----------34--|-5----------------7----------------|

E|-----------4-5(5)-67----|-----------------------------------|



>Lead into Verse 2 – during second guitar lick [on the “and” of ‘1:29’]



			     X2

G|-9-7------------|--------------------------|

D|-----9-7--------|--------------------------|

A|---------9-7----|-5-5-5457-----------34----|

E|-------------9--|-----------4-5(5)-67------|



>Verse 2 – Same as Verse 1, even the same words



>2nd Bridge/Pre-Chorus – this one is just chords, not much walking.



G|---------------------------------------|

D|---------------------------------------|

A|-0-0-0000/555-5543---------------------|

E|------------------7-7-77**-0-0-0-00----|



*asterix's mean that you still play notes there, but you play them AS you gliss,

so there are no exact notes*



>Back to Chorus



>There’s a short instrumental, nothing fancy.  Come in during 2nd guitar lick, on the “and” of ‘2:38’, and

 play the exact same as the intro to Verse 2



>Chorus/Outro – this chorus is the same except the ending and the outro is long but easy



		x3

G|------------------------|-------------------(9)9997-----||--------------------------|

D|------------------------|--------------------------97---||--------------------------|

A|-5-5-5457-----------34--|-5----------------7---------9--||-5-5-5457-----------34----|

E|-----------4-5(5)-67----|-------------------------------||-----------4-5(5)-67------|



                                 X19

G|-----------97-------|------------------------|--------------------------------------|

D|-------------97-----|------------------------|--------------------------------------|

A|-5-5-5457------97---|-5-5-5457-----------34--|-5------------------------------------|

E|-----------------9--|-----------4-5(5)-67----|--------------------------------------|



So there it is… now you can play Rebel Rebel the way it was meant it to be played!

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