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== CREDITS / DISCLAIMER ==
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TRANSCRIBED BY: Jeff Carroll (jeff@dadadiscography.net)
DISCLAIMER: This file is the author's own work and represents
their interpretation of the song. You may only use
this file for private study, scholarship, or
research
PLEASE NOTE: A fixed-width font is required to view the
alignment in this tab properly;
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== TECHNICAL STUFF ==
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ARTIST: Dada
TUNING: Standard, down half a step (Low to High: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
The guitars on all of dada's albums since "El Subliminoso"
are tuned down half a step because of Michael Gurley's
carpal tunnel. You can play this song in standard tuning,
but it will sound just a bit too high.
In addition to being tuned down half a step, this song is
ever so slightly off concert pitch. In other words, the
notes wouldn't match up exactly with the proper frequencies
if you were to use an electronic tuner or something like
that. It's tuned slightly lower than the pitches shown
here, not quite even a quarter of a step (if that). It's
negligible, but I figured I might as well make note of it.
CAPO: None
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== INTRODUCTORY NOTES ==
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This song of course sounds best if you tune the guitar down half
a step, but it's not necessary. The chords listed below are all
relative to position, not pitch. For example, anything listed as
an "E" is really "Eb", due to the lower tuning, but it's been
named "E" because the fingering is the way you'd play an "E" if
the guitar were in standard tuning, and so on...
Joie told me that he recorded this song by himself in a closet...
and well, it shows. It's really hard to pick out all of the exact
notes after the studio overdubs come in. This is especially true
in the bridge section. However, I have tabbed out most of the basic
notes that you should definitely hit in order to make it sound
correct. Take a look at the bottom of this file in the Reference
Section, where you'll see I've tabbed out a sample intro, verse
and chorus. Joie doesn't play the same exact thing for every verse
and chorus, so there are slight variations that you can and should
make. But the basic gist of it all is down there. I've given you
the overall implied chord structure at the top of the tab (and
throughout the whole song section as well), plus the major bass
notes and the major high notes for each chord that he plays. With
that structure, you should be able to fill in the rest to your own
taste. I haven't done any special tab example for the bridge, but
I have indicated the basic chord structure so you can do it
however you like. I think that's about it.
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== CHORD GUIDE ==
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These are the basic chord fingerings for the song, though Joie
isn't necessarily strumming or picking every note in each chord.
320003 2x0232 x79987 x5xxx7 x32010 x32013
G D/F# Em G/D C C
x02010 x24432 x20030 x02210 302010 x32000
Am7 Bm G/B Am Am7/G Cmaj7
xx0232 x13331 x-10-x-x-12-x
D Bb G
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== TABLATURE GUIDE ==
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Here are some of the commonly used notations in ASCII tab:
h = hammer-on / = slide up <#> = harmonic
p = pull-off \ = slide down (#) = optional
b = bend string x = percussive damp ^ = slight bend
r = release bend v = vibrato
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== SONG SECTION ==
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INTRO (with INTRO PROGRESSION)
G D/F# Em G/D C Am7 Bm
VERSE 1 (with VERSE PROGRESSION)
G D/F# Em G/D
Nostalgia's great and stories are good
C Am7 Bm
Nothing like an old time coming round again
G D/F# Em G/D
Nostalgia's great, thinking 'bout fate
C Am7 Bm
Wondering how it all could have been
CHORUS 1 (with CHORUS PROGRESSION)
C G/B Am7 G
I've been outside, drifting outside
C Am Bm
So long, can't start again
C Am Am7/G G
I've been outside, living outside
C D
Don't see me walkin' back
G D/F# Em G/D C Am7 Bm (INTRO PROGRESSION)
in
VERSE 2 (with VERSE PROGRESSION)
G D/F# Em G/D
The sun is cruel to a stranger's face
C Am7 Bm
Takes its toll, then fades away
G D/F# Em G/D
Nights are long, in a lonely place
C Am7 Bm
Darkness shows just where you are now
CHORUS 2 (with CHORUS PROGRESSION)
C G/B Am7 G
I've been outside, drifting outside
C Am Bm
So long, can't start again
C Am Am7/G G
And I've been outside, living outside
C D
Don't see me walkin' back
G D/F# Em G/D C Am7 Bm (INTRO PROGRESSION)
in Hmm
BRIDGE
Cmaj7 Am7
I think about you now and again my autumn love
Cmaj7 Am7
I think about you now and again
Cmaj7 Bm
Somethin' 'bout your name, it moves within the wind
Bb Am7 D
I think about you now and again
SOLO / OUTRO (with INTRO/VERSE PROGRESSION, as applicable)
G D/F# Em G/D C Am7 Bm
G D/F# Em G/D
Nostalgia's great, old stories are good
C Am7 Bm
Nothin' like the old times
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== REFERENCE SECTION ==
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INTRO PROGRESSION
G D/F# Em G/D C Am7 Bm
--------------------------7---7---3---3---0---0---2---2------------
--0---0---3---3---8---8-----------------------------------3---5----
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------7-------5-------3-------0-------2-2---2---2---2--
--3-------2--------------------------------------------------------
VERSE PROGRESSION
G D/F# Em G/D C Am7 Bm
--------------------------7---7---3---3---0---0---2---2------------
--0---0---3---3---8---8-----------------------------------3---5----
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------7-------5-------3-------0-------2-2---2---2---2--
--3-------2--------------------------------------------------------
G D/F# Em G/D C Am7 Bm
--------------------------7---7---3---3---0---0---2---2------------
--0---0---3---3---8---8-----------------------------------3---5----
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------7-------5-------3-------0-------2-2---2---2---2--
--3-------2--------------------------------------------------------
CHORUS PROGRESSION
C G/B Am7 G C Am Bm
--0---0---------------------------0---0----------------------------
----------3---3---1---1---12--12----------1---1---3---3-------3----
----------------------------------------------------------4-4---4--
-------------------------------------------------------------------
--3-------2-------0-------10------3-------0-------2-----2----------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
C Am Am7/G G C D
--0---0---------------------------0---0---2------------------------
----------1---1---1---1---12--12-----------------------------------
----------2---2---0---0--------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------0------------------------
--3-------0---------------10------3--------------------------------
------------------3------------------------------------------------
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