Super Mario 64 Final Bowser - Tabs, Backing Track and MIDI! (Patreon)

Hey guys! I just remembered that I never put up tabs for this (thought I did for the old one but nopeee lol) So let's check this beast out!

Rhythms:

Style - "classical style" chords, thrashy alternate picking

Difficulty - 3/5

The difficulty of the rhythms varies a lot throughout this arrangement. Some parts are super easy and chill while some others are asjhajkshfajk difficult. So let's break down each section.

It opens up with those "classical style" chords which appear throughout the whole song. It's sort of like power chords only a bit more varied. 

We then go into a heavy death metal style single note picking riff that transitions into the verse which is the same only going up a few frets.

Our bridge is where it gets tough on the rhythms but it's SO fun once you get it. That descending classical melody is just sick and honestly it's relaly not so bad once you learn it. It's just the same pattern decending and repeating.

More of the same for a bit until we get into our G minor section where it's some power chords which is straight forward but definitely is some quick picking for the picking hand.

After that, we have our breakdown which is some slow and brooding power chords. This whole point forward is very simple and heavy.

Leads:

Style - open string usage, sweeping, overall shred

Difficulty - 5/5

Our leads are waayyy challenging overall! Every part has a unique challenging aspect to it and I just really wanted to show off my lead playing as much as I could back when I originally did this. Let's break it down section by section.

We start off with some basically impossible sweeps that are super tough. Even for me having recorded this years ago, it took me a bunch of tries to nail this lick. Just take it very slow and learn the ins-and outs of the fretting hand traveling.

Our main melody is tough because we're doing some very articulate picking and utilizing the open top 2 strings a lot. But it's soooo fun once you get it down. Like basically every other lead in this song, take it slow if you want to nail it. You can totally nail this if you work on it!

I FORGOT TO MENTION IN THE TABS but you want to capo the 12th fret on the verse 2 where it's an octave higher.

Our G minor version of the melody melody is the same as our main verse melody but you can't utilize open strings anymore so the fretting is a little different. This is actually maybe a bit easier to play it like this.

Our bridge going into the break is the same as the rhythms only an octave higher. If you got the rhythm of this part down then you should be ok with this!

Our bridge is where it gets tough on the rhythms but it's SO fun once you get it. That descending classical melody is just sick and honestly it's really not so bad once you learn it. It's just the same pattern descending and repeating.

and that's about it!

If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message on here or on my discord server!

Thanks and have fun!

~ Jack / ToxicxEternity