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Smells Like Content - The Books
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Tabbed by: Rhys Gerwin
Email: Jiraoxys7@hotmail.com
Tuning: BADGBe (DROP B) not 7th fret B
NOTE!
Sorry about the tuning, it's the best way I could figure it out
that I was satisfied with........ It sounds good.
The Chords are (FUCKING) hard. So just bear with me. I can play it
fine it just takes practice.
USE YOUR PINKY!!!!!!
And I swear it sounds exactly like the song
Verse I:
Most of all the world is a place where parts of holes are described
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-4------------8----------------------8----------------------11-|
A|-2------------4----------------------6-----------------------9-|
B|-5------------7----------------------9----------------------12-|
[Esus2] [F#] [G#sus2][Bsus2]
within an overarching paradigm of
clarity and accuracy, the context of which makes possible the
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-4--------6-------------6----------------------8---------------|
A|-4--------6-------------4----------------------6---------------|
B|-2--------4-------------7----------------------9---------------|
[C#sus4] [D#sus4] [F#sus2] [G#sus2]
underlying sense of the way it all fits together
despite our corrective tendancy not to conceive of it as such
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-6-------------------4--------------------2-------------1------|
A|-4-------------------2--------------------4-------------2------|
B|-7-------------------5--------------------2-------------0------|
[F#sus2] [Esus2] [C#m][Bsus2]
NOTE: This is the chord progression for basically the entire song
till the end.
REST OF SONG WITH CHORDS:
but [Esus2]then again the [F#]world without end
is a [G#sus2]place where souls are [Bsus2]combined
but with an overbearing feeling of disp[C#sus4]arity,
dis[D#sus4]orderliness to ign[F#sus2]ore is imp[G#sus2]ossible
without getting oneslef into all kinds of trouble
desp[F#sus2]ite one's best in[Esus2]tentions not to get ent[C#m]angled
with it so m[B]uch
[Esus2] [F#sus2] [G#sus2] [Bsus2] and meanwhile the
statues are bleeding [C#sus4]green [D#sus4]
and [F#sus2]others are s[G#sus2]aying things much better
than we ever could[F#sus2] as the qu[Esus2]iet becomes [C#m]suddenly verb[B]ose
THE REST OF THE SONG IS THE SAME CHORD PROGRESSION
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/the_books/smells_like_content_tab.html )
and the hail is heralding the size of nickles,
and the street corners are gnashing together
like gears inside the head
of some omnicient engineer
and downward flows the garnered wisdom
that has never died
THAT ONE REALLY COOL RIFF YOU HEAR
This is actually finger tapping on bass but it sounds
okay on guitar.
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|--11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9-|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|------4p2---------8p4-----|
|----2-----4p2---4-----7p4-|
|--5-----------7-----------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|-----9p6----------11p9------|
|---6-----9p6----9------11p9-|
|-9-----------12-------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9h11p9-|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-----2p1---------4p2-----|
|---2-----4p2---4-----4p2-|
|-2-----------4-----------|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|------6p4---------8p6------|
|---6------6p4---6-----7p6--|
|-7------------9------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-8p6-----8p6-----8p6-----8p6-----8p6-|
|-----7p6-----7p6-----7p6-----7p6-----|
|-------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|-----6p4----------4p2------|
|---4-----6s4----2-----4s2--|
|-7-------9----4-------7----|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|-----2p1------(1)h2p1-------|
|---2-----4s2----------2---2-|
|-2-------4----(0)-------0---|
|-------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------||
|-1h2p1-------1h2p1-------1h2p1-------||
|-------2---2-------2---2-------2---2-||
|---------0-----------0-----------0---||
when finally we opened the box
we couldn't find any rules
our heads were reeling with a glut of possibilities,
contingencies
but with ever increasing faith
we decided to go ahead and just ingnore them
despite tremendous pressure to capitulate and fade
so instead we went ahead
to fabricate a catalog
of unstable elements
and modicums
and particles with non-zero total strangeness
for brief moments which amount
to nothing more than tiny fragments of a finger snap
(COOL RIFF)
and meanwhile we're furiously sleeping green
and the map has started tearing along it's creases
due to overuse
when in reality, it's never needed folds
and the air's witholding the sound
of its wellspring,
and our heads are approacing a density
reminiscient of the connectivity
of the center of the sun
and therein lies the garnered wisdom
that has never died
(Keep playing the last part of the COOL RIFF for like 4 bars)
The outro is just the normal verse chord progression with:
expectation leads to disappointment
if we don't expect something big, huge, and exciting
usually, uh
i dont know, it's just not as, yeah
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
P.S.
Again I'm sorry for the hard to understand tab. This song
is hard to play so don't feel bad if you can only play the
chords.
