First Love by The Maccabees

E A D G
Tempo=174
F# Minor

Stu is quite pleased to be the only guy to have tabbed out this songs bass :]

This tab applies to the newer version of the song, although the riffs are exactly the 
on every version...

Anyhoo:
[0.18]
|--------|--------|---------|77776666|
|77777777|--------|666666666|--------|
|--------|99999999|---------|--------|  x2 followed imediately by silence
|--------|--------|---------|--------|  (eg dont play an A)
 qqqqqqqq etc

[0.28]
|----------|
|-Two Bars-|
|---Rest---|
|----------|


[0.32]
|----|----|----|---------|
|7---|----|7---|-One Bar-|
|----|7---|----|--Rest---|
|----|----|----|---------|x2
 W    W    W


|--------|----------|----------|
|-6 bars-|7777777777|----------|
|--rest--|----------|7777777777|
|--------|----------|----------|
          qqqqqqqqqq qqqqqqqqqq

[0.54]
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|7777777777|7777777777|7777777777|7---7---7-|
 qqqqqqqqqq etc                   C+  C+  C

|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|5555555555|5555555555|5555555555|5---5---5-|
 qqqqqqqqqq etc                   C+  C+  C

|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|7777777777|7777777777|7777777777|7---7---7-|
 qqqqqqqqqq etc                   C+  C+  C

[1.10]
|------|----|------|
|-2Bar-|7---|-1Bar-|
|-Rest-|----|-Rest-|
|------|----|------|
        W


Repeat
[0.32]
[0.41]
[0.51]
[0.54]

Then

[1.53]
|7777777777|7777777777|7777777777|7777777777|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------|
|----------|----------|----------|----------| x2
 qqqqqqqqqq etc

[2.05]
|7---|(7)-|----|----|7---|(7)-|----|----|
|----|----|4---|(4)-|----|----|4---|4--/|
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
 W   &W    W   &W    W   &W    W    W  ^
                                    slide up

[2.15]
|----|7---|----|----|7---|7---|----|----|
|12--|----|4---|4---|----|----|4---|(4)-|
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
 W    W    W    W    W    W    W   &W
|--------|
|-12bars-|
|--rest--|
|--------|

Repeat [0.18] twice

Finish by hitting an F# (9th on A string)


LEGEND:
\   SLide Down
/   Slide Up
( ) dont play the note just hold it on from the last time you played it
S   Semitone (quarter of a beat)
Q   Quaver (half a beat)
Q+  A quaver plus half a quaver (3/4 of a beat)
C   Crotchet (a beat)
C+  A Crotchet plus half a crotchet (One and a half beats)
H   Half aka 'Minim' (Two beats)
H+  A half plus half a half (Three beats)
W   Whole aka 'Semibreve' (4 beats)
W+  Guess.
&   Instead of a tie... hold the note played before the '&' on for the length of the 
after the '&' aswell.

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