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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #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. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## NOTHING - No Joke - Meat Puppets
TRANSCRIBED BY ADAM MORRIS
This is the first of the tabs I will be doing for Meat Puppets stuff.
Tuning - Dropped D
INTRO E|-----------------------------------------------------------| B|-----------------------------------------------------------| G|-7--7-x-7-3-3-x-3--3-3-x-3-7--7-x-7-7-7--7-3-3-x-3--3-3-x-3| D|-7--7-x-7-3-3-x-3--3-3-x-3-7--7-x-7-7-7--7-3-3-x-3--3-3-x-3| A|-5--5-x-5-1-1-x-1--1-1-x-1-5--5-x-5-5-5--5-1-1-x-1--1-1-x-1| D|----7------------------------------------------------------|
Timing is a bit out, but you get the picture.
VERSE/MAIN RIFF (I think a second guitar plays a D
through this bit)
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|---7p5------------7p5-------------------------------|
|-------6h7------------6h7---------------------------|
|-5----------3/5------------3/5----------------------|
|-0----------0-(let ring)---0------------------------|
PRE-CHORUS - D.....C.....D......Bb
CHORUS - C....D....G#....Bb....C....G#....Bb....Bb
The rest is all just bits from above repeated.
Towards the end this is layed over the main riff. |----------------------------------------------------| |----------------------------------------------------| |--6\5-6-7-8-----------------------------------------| |----------------------------------------------------| |--4\3-4-5-6-----------------------------------------| |----------------------------------------------------|
"Why?" by The Meat Puppets
from the CD "Too High To Die"
transcribed by Wesley Torres
jiffypop@ibcco.com
This is in 6/8 time but I wrote it in 12/8 to save space.
They use two acoustic guitars on this one.
Intro/Verse:
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4
5 6
|----------2-----------------2-------|--------------------------------
----|
|-------3-----3-----------3-----3----|----------2-----------------2---
----|
|----2-----------2-----2-----------2-|-------2-----2-----------2------
----|
|-0-----------------0----------------|----2-----------2-----2---------
----|
|------------------------------------|-0-----------------0-----------
0--2-|
|------------------------------------|--------------------------------
----|
|------------------------------------|----------3-----------------3---
----|
|----------1-----------------1-------|-------------3-----------------
3----|
|-------0-----0-----------0-----0----|----------------0---------------
--3-|
|----2-----------2-----2-----------2-|-------0-----------------0------
----|
|-3-----------------3----------------|----2-----------------2---------
----|
|------------------------------------|-3-----------------3------------
----|
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