Come Together Bass tab video
The Beatles
Make your own Come Together tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Bass
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Tuning
- E A D G
- Tempo
- 84 BPM
About this riff
The bass line is the backbone of the song, a swampy, syncopated riff that descends and lands on a signature slide up to the root, played by Paul McCartney. The main challenge isn't speed but feel and muting: the notes need to stay tight and staccato to keep the groove breathing under Lennon's vocal, and locking the slide and the triplet-feel phrasing in with the drums takes some practice. It's a great study in how a bassist can carry an entire arrangement with space and repetition rather than notes.
Did you know?
John Lennon originally wrote it as a faster campaign tune and borrowed the opening line 'Here come old flat-top' from Chuck Berry's 'You Can't Catch Me,' which led to a copyright suit; it was settled out of court in 1973 with Lennon agreeing to record several songs for the publisher. Lennon later defended himself, saying 'Come Together is me—writing obscurely around an old Chuck Berry thing.'
FAQ
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The audio is rendered from a high-quality SoundFont (FluidR3), so it plays for real. It is not the original master recording.
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