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Love Buzz tab - nirvana
From: ejs@world.std.com (Eric J Schwarzenbach)
This is my attempt to tab parts of Nirvana's "Love Buzz" from the album Bleach.
There is one A# power chord done on the guitar during the song. I'm not sure, but
if you listen to the bass part there may actually be other chord changes during the
song but this is the only on struck on the guitar:
A#5 or maybe A# (there seem to be variations)
----- -----
----- -3---
-3--- -3---
-3--- -3---
-1--- -1---
----- -----
This bass riff can be approximated in the guitar as:
(I'm assuming normal tuning)
~ H P
----------------
----------------
----------------
----------------
---------5-6-5--
-6-5-6-7--------
This riff shows up later on a higher octive as an actual guitar riff:
~ H P
----------------
----------------
---------7-8-7--
-8-7-8-8--------
----------------
----------------
I'm using the ~ symbol to indicate vibrato, H to mean Hammer on and P to mean Pull off.
The Hammer / Pull sequence above is done as a quick trill. These riffs are repeated
together smoothly so that the first note (sustained a bit) serves as the end note of the
riff also, though I didn't write it that way (you get the idea).
There is another very fast descending guitar riff played that is something like this:
H P H P H P
-10-11-10---8-9-8-------------------
--------------------10-11-10--------
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I don't think this captures it perfectly, but I think is a series of trills like that.
Anyone have any enhansements or opinions as to whether I'm on the right track?
There's also additional assorted distorted guitaring that I've given up on figuring out.
The words seem to be something like:
Would you believe me when I tell you
you are the queen of my heart?
Please don't decieve me when I hurt you,
This ain't the way it seems.
[or maybe]
Just say it the way it seems.
chorus:
Can you feel my love buzz? (repeated).
L O V E B U Z Z, by NIRVANA ........................... ALBUM: BLEACH
kasy@ftp.miraculix.htl-tex.at (Kasra Seiraf)
TUNE DOWN, A HALF STEP..... (Eb Ab .........)
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MAIN RIFF:
e]------------------
h]------------------
g]------------------
d]------------------
A]-----------67/6--
E]-7---5-7-8--------
Guitar RIFF
e]------------------
h]------------------
g]------------89/8-
d]-9---7-9-10-------
a]------------------
E]------------------
CHORD LYRICS:
e]----- Would you believe me when I tell you,
h]----- you are the queen of my heart?
g]--4-- Please don't decieve me when I hurt you,
d]--4-- just say it the way it seems.
a]--2-- Can you feel my love buzz? (x4) --> CHORD
E]-----
Here the SEQUENCE:
MAIN RIFF x4
(DRUM ENTERS)
MAIN RIFF x4
CORDS x4 |
CORDS x4 + ?tugs? |
GUITAR RIFF 4x |---> Main Riff plays in the background
CORDS x4 + ?tugs? |
LYRICS |
CORDS x4 + ?tugs? |
GUITAR RIFF 4x |
SOLO |
CORDS x4 + ?tugs? |
LYRICS |
CORDS x4 + ?tugs? |
?WHATEVER? |
CORDS x4 + ?tugs? |
GUITAR RIFF x8 |
CORDS x4 |
?EXTRO? |
Nirvana - Love Buzz
tabbed by - Niall O` Gribin
E-mail - d94ogn@causeway.infc.ulst.ac.uk )
-Symbols Used-
h - hammer on
p - pull off to lower note
. - stacatto (briefly sounded)
Intro
B A B C
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-.--------1h2p1--.-------1h2p1----------1h2p1-----------1--------|
A|-2-0-2-3---------2-0-2-3--------2-0-2-3---------2-0-2-3----------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Riff 1
B B B
e|--------------7p6p5----------7p6p5-------------------------------|
B|------------7-------7-5-----7------7-5---------------------------|
G|--4-----4----------------4---------------------------------------|
D|--4-----4----------------4---------------------------------------|
A|--2-----2----------------2---------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Riff 2
(something like this..)
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4-2-4-5-8-9----4-2-4-5-8-9----4---------------------------------|
D|-4-2-4-5-8-9----4-2-4-5-8-9----4---------------------------------|
A|-2-0-2-3-6-7----2-0-2-3-6-7----2---------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Feel free to post to usenet etc..
Niall
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| Nirvana - Love Buzz |
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My name is Joao Luiz Braga and my email is:braga@embratel.net.br
So, lets go... The inicial bass tab is this:
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--------------------------REPEAT THIS----------------------------
---------------4--56-5----THREE TIMES--------------4--5--6-------
---6---x-4--6--------------------THAN--6---x-4--6----------------
In this "x", try slaping the string... :)
NOTE: This -56- isn't the 56 fret!!! :) It is quickly played 5-6!
You can read that as ---4--/6-5-- also... But... may cause doubts...
Than, the guitar comes in with distortion in Bb!!!
Bb: -6-
-6-
-7-
-8-
-8-
-6-
Uh, than comes the quick part... How I do this? Something like this:
e--6-6-----------------------
b--------6------------------- VERY FAST!!!!!
g------8---7-----------------
d------------8---------------
After this, Kurt comes with a solo just like the bass solo, but in
the following strings:
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-----------------------
--------------6--78-7--
--8---x-6--8-----------
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-----------------------
Repeat this...
Pretty easy... I hope that this tab helped you in any way...
email me for any doubts, corrections or sharing Nirvana stuff!
Joao Luiz Braga
braga@embratel.net.br
Brazil!
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Nirvana - Love Buzz
Would you believe me when I tell you
You are the queen of my heart
Please dont deceive me when I hurt you
Just aint the way it seems
Can you feel my love buzz (x4)
(repeated)
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Nirvana - Love Buzz Single
The Love Buzz single as it sounds on the ultimately collectible 45. This is ultimately the same version as on Bleach but mixed differently and with a ten second intro by Kurt.
"The etching on the run-out groove - "Why Don't You Trade Those Guitars For Shovels?" - was, according to Krist Novoselic, uttered by his dad when he walked in on an early Nirvana rehearsal. The phrase stuck with the band and was subsequently etched on the run-out groove of their debut single. The etching is many times used to determine whether an encountered Love Buzz single is authentic or not, due to many bootleggers not being aware of this factoid.
The version released on the Bleach album is the same as the single, although it is a different mix. According to producer Jack Endino, the noise collage is not present on the new mix and subsequently not on the album, because Cobain had forgotten to bring the noise tape with him to the mixing session. The recording used all available eight tracks on the tape machine and thus the noises present on the single mix were added manually, with Cobain pressing play on a tape recorder at exactly the right moment on every mixing run of the song, adding a virtual ninth track to the mix. When the time came to remix the song for the Bleach album, Cobain did not have the tape with him.
According to Krist Novoselic, it was initially his idea to add the song to Nirvana's setlist and to release it as their first single."