Jérôme Melançon
"1979" BY THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
FROM THE ALBUM "MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS"
FROM THE PAGES OF GUITAR SCHOOL, APRIL 1996
NOTE: THIS TUNE IS FAIRLY EASY TO PLAY, BUT THERE ARE LONG PARTS
      WHERE YOU DON'T PLAY... (YAWN)
TUNE DOWN 1/2 STEP (Eb, Ab, Db, Gb)

INTRO: PLAY NOTHING

1ST VERSE:
           12    SHAKE DOWN...
G-||----------|--11-11-11-11--11-11-11--------|-------------------------||
D-||----------|------------------------9------------|--9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9---||
A-||----------|--------------------------------------|-------------------------||
E-||----------|--------------------------------------|-------------------------||

2ND VERSE:

G-||----------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
D-||----------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
A-||----------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
E-||--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12------|--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|

        JUNEBUG...                            X3
G-|----------------------|--------------------------||
D-|----------------------|--------------------------||
A-|----------------------|--------------------------||
E-|--5--5-5--5-5-5-5--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5----||

                                         AND I
G-||--------------------------------------------||
D-||--------------------------------------------||
A-||--------------------------------------------||
E-||--2-2-2-2--2-2-2\7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7/||


CHORUS:
                       DON'T EVEN...
G-||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
D-||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
A-||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
E-||--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|
X3

G-|-----------------------|------------------------||
D-|-----------------------|------------------------||
A-|-----------------------|------------------------||
E-|--5--5-5--5-5-5-5--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--||

TO VERSE 4
G-||------------------------|------------------------|----------||
D-||------------------------|------------------------|----------||
A-||------------------------|------------------------|----------||
E-||--2-2-2-2--2-2-2\7--|--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--|----------||

3RD VERSE:
                                        THAT WE...
G-||------------------------|------------------------|
D-||------------------------|------------------------|   PLAY CHORUS
A-||------------------------|------------------------|
E-||--2-2-2-2--2-2\5-5--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--|

BRIDGE: 
(ELEC. BASS 2 PLAYS FIG. 1--TRANSCRIBED AT THE END)

G-||------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------|
D-||------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------|
A-||------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------|
E-||--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--|--7-7-7-7--7-7--7-8-9--|--9--9-9--9-9-9\5--|

        /1,2                  /3
G-||------------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
D-||------------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
A-||------------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
E-||--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-7--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--|--2--2-2--2-2-5/7--|

G-||------------------------|
D-||------------------------|
A-||------------------------|
E-||--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--|

4TH VERSE:
            8
G||||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
D||||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
A||||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
E||||--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|--12-12-12-12--12-12-12-12--|
X2

G-||----------------------|-------------------------||----------------------|-----------------------||
D-||----------------------|-------------------------||----------------------|-----------------------||
A-||----------------------|-------------------------||----------------------|-----------------------||
E-||--5--5-5--5-5-5-5--|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--||--2-2-2-2-2-2-5/7--|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--||

PLAY CHORUS, THEN:

G-||--------------------------|-------------------------||
D-||--------------------------|-------------------------||
A-||--------------------------|-------------------------||
E-||--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-5/7--|--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7---||

OUTRO: PLAY NOTHING
(BASS FIG. 1, OVERDUBBED WITH A P-BASS):                                                                 
                                                                       /1,2
G-||------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
D-||------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------|----------------------|
A-||--2--2-2--2-2-2-2----|--2-2-2-2--2-2--2-2-4----|--4--4-4--4-4-4\0----|--(0)-0-0-0---------|
E-||------------------------|------------------------------|------------------------|-------------2--0----|

      /3
G-|--------------------|------------------------|----------------------------||
D-|--------------------|------------------------|----------------------------||
A-|--0-0-0-0---------|----------------2------|--(2)-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-----||
E-|-----------2--0----|--2--2-2--2-2-0------|----------------------------||

RE-TRANSCRIBED BY JÉRÔME MELANÇON
n.riopel@sympatico.ca