Drum Tab:Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love

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Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love

By: They Might Be Giants

Key: E Major

Year: 1990

Tabbed By: MarkingDaff

M = shaker (M for "maraca"), W = woodblock, H = hi-hat, C = cowbell, T = tom-tom, S = snare, B = bass drum Main groove: M|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx| W|--o--o--|o-------| C|----o---|----oo--| T|--------|------oo| S|--o---o-|------o-| B|o----o--|o-------| "Bullets from a revolver..." M|xxxxxxxx| C|oo--oo--| S|--o---o-| B|oo--oo--| (dun dunn) "Here they come..." M|x-x-----|x-------| B|o-o-----|o-------| "John, I've been bad..." M|xxxxxxxx| B|o-------| "of pure..." M|xxxxxxxx| B|o-o-----| ends abruptly: S|o-------| B|o-------| This is a programmed beat that doesn't perfectly sit well on the kit. Such is the beauty of early TMBG drum parts. One way to play this would be to replace shaker with hi-hat, and play cowbell & tom with the same hand: H|xxxxxxxx|xxxx----| C|--------|----oo--| T|--------|------oo| S|--o---o-|------o-| B|o----o--|o-------| (Leaving out the wood block seems like a safe enough call, given that its hits are already doubled by the snare or kick.) Another way would be to play shaker with one hand, and play everything else with the other (leaving out one of the tom hits): M|xxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxx| C|--------|----oo--| T|--------|-------o| S|--o---o-|------o-| B|o----o--|o-------|