This is the Bassline for Mota by The Offspring.

Tabbed by Andreas Jensen, 16, Denmark, Jylland, Børkop... (weird letter, eh?)

Zis iz my E-mail addrrez if you want anyzing: Andreas_tij@hotmail.com

This is actually one of the coolest tracks The Offspring has ever done (Pretty Fly, sucks totally!!!!), so it deserves a bit of honour. The tracks goes very, very fast so hang on and play 'till ya fingas bleed!!!


Here it goes!!

The Intro is played like this: 

G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|--3-3---3-3-3---3-3--3-3-3-3---3--3---3-3-3-3---------|


And now, my fellow Offspring worshippers... ehhh.... actually I don't know what to call this riff, but its the one right after the intro, so lets call it the main riff... 

G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------1-1-1-1-1-1-3--------------|
A|---------------0--1-1-0------------------0--1-1-0-----| Repeat 2
E|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----------3-------------------------1---| times


And now... the moment you've all been waiting for... (drums, please)... THE VERSE RIFF!!!!

G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------1-1--1-1-1--1--------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|-3-3--3-3-3--3-3--3-3-3-3----------------1--1-1-1-1---|

Play the above twice, then...

G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------1-1-1-1-1-1-3--------------|
A|---------------0--1-1-0------------------0--1-1-0-----|
E|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3----------3-------------------------1---|

Twice...


And now my friends... the chorus... 

G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------3-3--3-3-3-3---------------------------|
E|--1-1--1-1-1-1--------------3-3--3-3-3--3-3-3--3-3-3--|

This is played four times in most of the chorus' with the last G chord making the intro-break


In two of the chorus' there are slight changes... 

In the last one the rhythm is slower and different...

And in the second there is this extra losing out...
This looks like this...

G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|Play the
A|---------------3-3--3-3-3-3--------------8-8--8-8-8-8-|Intro  
E|--1-1--1-1-1-1--------------6-6--6-6-6-6--------------|again
  Loosing out might take...   Loosing out might take you all life...

That's it! I'f you got questions, changes, tips (or if you need them) you're welcome to mail me at this address ... Andreas_tij@hotmail.com ... (and if you're really nice you would mail me some cool midi-drum-tracks along...anything can be used)

Enjoy...