I ve been looking for a couple years, and I just don t think
that there are any good tabs for 40 out there... so I made this
one.
This is for the Under a Blood Red Sky version of 40, but you
can play it with the original recording, too.
I think it s how they always play it live, because in the
Vertigo 2005 - Live from Chicago DVD, Adam Clayton plays it
pretty much like this.
Your mantra for this song should be
"less is more." Edge/Adam (depending
on which version you re playing with)
really just sprinkle little guitar
bits here and there... they don t want
to suffocate the song with guitar noise,
and neither should you.
Tune down 1/2 step for Under a
Blood Red Sky/War, and standard for
the Vertigo DVD -- use some fairly
heavy distortion, too -- you want some
feedback.
Verse
"I waited patiently for the Lord..." etc., etc.
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|-------------------|
D|----------[7]------|
A|------[7]----------|
E|-------------------|
The harmonic pattern above
is repeated for the verse.
It s pretty easy to "feel"
when you should play it.
Chorus
How long? ...To sing this song?
e|||
B|||
G|9|14|
D|9|14|
A|7|12|
E|||
Play each chord once, and let it ring.
chords for the E, and i think they play the A bar chord
on the E string, but this sounds just as good.
But, if you REALLY want to play it just like them,
I think they do it like this --
e||5|
B|5|5|
G|x|6|
D|6|7|
A|7|7|
E||5|
but I m not sure.
After Bono sings "How long to sing this song?"
go back to the verse harmonics. Again, you ll
have to feel for it.
The song order is Verse/Chorus/Verse/Chorus, and then
the outtro, I guess. In this portion of the song
(which actually winds up being the longest), play
through the verse once or twice, then play
this little riff twice --
e|||
B|||
G|||
D|||
A|161412|12147|
E|||
Then go back to the harmonics and kind of fade out
of the song slowly.
Well, there you have it -- this is my first tab,
so if you have any corrections, email
MrW* and let me know!