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A collection of links to the dozens of great bass tabs on the web. Organized by sites, and by bands, this page will help you find any bass tablature you're looking for.
The Beatles
Over 80 Paul McCartney Beatles bass tabs available, organized alphabetically. From bassmasta.net
Black Sabbath
A great website with exclusive Black Sabbath bass tabs. Over 60 song tabs from many albums can be found on this page.
The Clash
A basic site with an archive of over 30 Clash bass tabs. The use of a background image may make printing tabs a problem.
Collective Soul
This is a guitar/bass tabs page, with approximately ten bass tabs thrown in amidst the Collective Soul guitar tablature.
Deftones
Approximately ten bass tabs available from the Adrenaline album. Scroll down past the guitar tablature to find bass tabs.
DiFranco, Ani
Approximately 25 bass tabs offered on this site, dedicated solely to Ani DiFranco bass guitar tablature.
Dream Theater (John Myung)
A nice archive of bass tabs from the band Dream Theater, on this John Myung (the bassist) fan page. Also includes several tabs from another Myung band "Platypus".
Green Day
This page has a rather awkward, but contains bass tabs for the band's first five albums. Scroll down the page, and click on the appropriate album name to access tab.
Iron Maiden
About 40 Iron Maiden songs tabbed out for bass on this simply laid-out website. Tabs appear to have been culled from various sources.
Jamerson, James
Woo hoo! Although it's a relatively small archive, this site is mainly dedicated to providing tabs of the bassist who was such a big part of creating the Motown sound. Includes midi files of the basslines, so you can hear what they're supposed to sound like.
Korn
Approximately 60 bass tabs available on this site, listed alphabetically. Warning: five-string bass alert!
Nirvana
Extremely simple layout, but this page offers exactly what users are looking for... an alphabetical archive of Nirvana bass tablature.
Pastorious, Jaco
From Lucas Pickford's web site, here is a big collection of Jaco songs and basslines, written in standard notation. These solos are treasures, and bassists interested in "taking their playing to the next level" could learn a lot from them. Site also contains transcriptions from other bassists.
Porter, George
A website dedicated to the bassist from the Meters, which includes a small amount (6) of accurate tabs.
Primus
Despite an awkward layout fans of Primus and bassist Les Claypool will be happy with this big archive of tabs. Click on the album you're interested in, then on the bass tab you'd like to see.
Rage Against the Machine
Bass tablature available for every song on four of the band's albums, plus various other songs. Also available: guitar tabs, and a few drum tabs.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Learn Flea basslines on this site, which offers both bass tabs and guitar tablature for Red Hot Chili Peppers songs.
Sheehan, Billy
Just a couple of tabs available here, but still the biggest archive of Sheehan tabs on the web. For those of you who don't know him, Sheehan was a member of Mr. Big, and a popular bassist in the late 80's and 90's.
Slipknot
Approximately 20 tabs available on this simple, graphic free site. Scroll down past the guitar tabs to find bass tablature.
Smashing Pumpkins
Over 90 songs have been tabbed for bass on this impressive Smashing Pumpkins only site. The layout is alphabetical and simple.
Sonic Youth
A large collection of Sonic Youth guitar and bass tabs are available on this simply laid out site. Click on album name to access bass tabs.
U2
Very simple page with no graphics - but there's a great archive of U2 bass tabs here. Almost 100 bass tabs available.

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