The "BMX" Chugging Exercise

I posted this on our now defunct unofficial Discord server.

A few weeks ago, I was noodling around on the bass, and stumbled upon a familiar tune from my childhood. Knowing there was no bass tabs online for it because it was so obscure and working on it for about an hour, I got the tabs by ear and posted it up.

This is for finger stretching, string-crossing and eighth-note chugging endurance for beginners. It’s fairly straightforward, except for me personally, I get a little confused striking an open ‘G’.

California Games - NES (BMX Course Theme)

As I said, very obscure.

Tabs: (E A D G)

D2, D2
D3, D3
G0, G0
D3, D3
D2, D2
D3, D3
G0, G0
D3, D3
G2, G2
G3, G3
G5, G5
G3, G3
G2, G2
G3, G3
G5, G5
G3, G3
D2, D2
D3, D3
G0, G0
D3, D3
D2, D2
D3, D3
G0, G0
D3, D3
G3, G3, G3, G3, G3, G3, G3, G3
G4, G4, G4, G4, G4, G4, G4, G4
G5, G5, G5, G5, G5, G5, G5, G5
G7
D2, D2, D2

(Repeat.)

Deceptively easy, but after about a minute, my fingers were starting to howl a bit doing it OFOF.

Enjoy!

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