HEART-SHAPED BOX (Nirvana)
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Time Signature: 4/4
Key: D
Tuning: Dropped D (low to high: DADGBE) (tuned 1/2 step down on the CD)
Symbols:
|-4b(5)-| bend at fret 4 until the pitch is fret 5
|-4p3-| pull off to fret 3
|-4h5-| hammer on to fret 5
|-/4-| slide
| Rhythm Figure 1
| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
|=================|=================|=================|=================|
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----1-----------|-----------------|-----1-----------|-----------------|
G|-----2-----------|-----------------|-----2-----------|-----------------|
D|---2---2-----3---|-------0-----0---|---2---2-----3---|--/4-4---4-----0-|
A|-0---------3---3-|-----0-----0---0-|-0---------3---3-|-------0---3-3---|
D|---------3-------|-0---------------|---------3-------|-0---------------|
Amin F5 D5 Amin F5 D D7
| Rhythm Figure 2
| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
|==================|==================|==================|==================|
e|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
B|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
G|-2-2-4b(5)---4b(5)|-------------4b(5)|-2-2-4b(5)---4b(5)|-------------4b(5)|
D|-2-2-----3-3------|-0-0-0-0-0-0------|-2-2-----3-3------|--/4-4-4-4--------|
A|-0-0-----3-3------|-0-0-0-0-0-0------|-0-0-----3-3------|-0---------3------|
D|---------3-3------|-0-0-0-0-0-0------|---------3-3------|-0----------------|
Amin F5 D5 Amin F5 D5 D7
| Rhythm Figure 3 | Rhythm Figure 4
| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
|=================|==================|=================|=================|
e|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G|-----------------|-------------4b(5)|-----------------|-----------------|
D|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-0-0-0-0-0-0------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-0-0-0/4-4-----0-|
A|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-0-0-0-0-0-0------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-0-0-0-----3-3---|
D|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-0-0-0-0-0-0------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-0-0-0-----------|
G5 D5 G5 D5 D7
| Solo (play twice)
| 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a | 1 e & a 2 e & a 3 e & a 4 e & a |
|========================================|=================================|
e|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|---------8b(10)(8)\7---------7b(8)(7)p6-|---------5b(6)---(5)p3-----------|
G|----------------------------------------|-------------------------5---4---|
D|-7-------------------5------------------|-3-------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
| (solo continued)
| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & | 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
|=================|=================|=================|=================|
e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
G|-2---------------|-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|
D|-2---------------|-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|
A|-0---------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-----------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A5 (let ring) A5 (fade with volume control)
Intro (Rhythm Figure 1)
Verse 1: (w/ Rhythm Figure 1)
She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week
I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Chorus: (w/ Rhythm Figure 2)
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
(repeat x3)
Rhythm Figure 3 & 4
Your advice
Verse 2: (w/ Rhythm Figure 1)
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel's hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
Chorus
(Rhythm Figure 3 & 4)
Your advice
Solo
Repeat Verse 1
Chorus
(Rhythm Figure 3 (x3) Rhythm Figure 4)
Your advice...
(corrections, comments to mjmvisse@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca)
From: aar@po.CWRU.Edu (Aaron A. Rayburn)
Heart-Shaped Box --- Nirvana
Transcribed by Aaron Rayburn
I just got the album yesterday, so I was only able to give the song a really
good listen today, but this is what I got ...
These are the chords used, with strings tuned down as shown on the far left.
C# E F# G# G#(2)
D# x x x x x
A# x x x x 2
F# x x x x 2
C# 0 3 5 7 2
G# 0 3 5 7 0
C# 0 3 5 7 x
(6th string tuned down 3 frets, the rest tuned down 1 fret)
Intro
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------2-------------------------------------------------------------
-------2-------2-----------3-------------------3-------3-----------------
---0-------------------3-------3-----------3-------3-------3-------------
-------------------3---------------0-------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------2-------------------------------------------------------------
-------2-------2-----------3-----------/4--4------4-------4--------------
---0-------------------3-------3---------------3------3---3---5----------
-------------------3---------------0-------------------------------------
The verse is about the same as the intro, only strumming a few of the chords
rather than picking through them.
Chorus
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---7---7---7b/----5---5---5b/----0--4--4--4--4-----5b/--------------
---7---7----------5---5----------0--------------3----------------------
---7---7----------5---5----------0-----------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---7---7---7b/----5---5---5b/----0---0---0---0-----5b/---------------------
---7---7----------5---5----------0---0---0---0--3--------------------------
---7---7----------5---5----------0---0---0---0----------------------------
Repeat the above 3x
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--3---3---3---3---0---0---0---0---3---3---3---3---0--4--4--4--4--------------
--3---3---3---3---0---0---0---0---3---3---3---3---0---------------3--5------
--3---3---3---3---0---0---0---0---3---3---3---3---0--------------------------
Solo
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------8/10\8-----------6/8\6-----------4/6\4---2---4---2-------------
---6---6------------4---4-----------2---2----------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------8/10\8-----------6/8\6-----------4/6\4---2---0---2------------
---6---6------------4---4-----------2---2-------------------2------------
------------------------------------------------------------2--------------
------------------------------------------------------------0--------------
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From: Colin Watt
Subject: Heart Shaped Box tab - Nirvana
'iya America, 'iya world, I'm Lucy Watt (aged 16) from
Clophill, Bedfordshire, England.
I am the drummer for a band that is at the moment called Shrug.
Andrew Lock, Martyn Foster, Scott Greenshields and I
(who make up Hug) usually play our own music, but we also
like to do some covers of Nirvana, Hendrix, Pearl Jam,
Radiohead, Blind Melon, the Jesus Lizard etc.
In return for the transcripts we have used from you
we would like to give you Heart-Shaped Box, which my Dad worked out.
*********************************************************
Heart-Shaped Box By Nirvana
e--------------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------------------------
D--------9-----------5-----------2--2--------------------
A-----9-----9-----5-----5-----2--------2-----------------
E--7-----------3-----------0--------------0--------------
---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------0/1--1--1--1---------------
--------9-----------5-----------------------2-----2------
-----9-----9-----5-----5-----------------------2---------
--7-----------3-----------0------------------------------
For the chords we are not so sure of the exact notes so we play:
e-(7)-(3)--0--- This is played up until the
B-(7)-(3)--0--- end of the chorus repeatedly,
G-(8)-(4)--1--- until the "Your priceless
D--9---5---2--- advice" where instead of
A--9---5---2--- going E-7-3-0-7-3-0 it goes
E--7---3---0--- E-7-3-0-3-0-3. I hope you
follow that as it is pretty simple.
We would be pleased to receive any improvements.
See ya 'gain,
Luce and the rest of Hug.
HEART-SHAPED BOX Lyrics (from In Utero):
She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak
I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for a week
I was drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hate
Haight
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey
Wait
I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet
Cut myself on angel's hair and baby's breath
Broken hymen of your highness I'm left black
Throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back
c.watt@silsoe.cranfield.ac.uk
From: leper.messiah@njackn.com
Here's the REAL way to play Heart-Shaped Box by Nirvana on In Utero.
The tuning is a little weird, you gotta tune the low E string so that the 8th
fret is A:
E A D G B e
5| 0 | | | | (the E is tuned 1 1/2 steps down)
| 0 | | | |
| 0 | | | |
8 0 | | | |
| 0 | | | |
| 0 | | | |
| 0 | | | |
\ /
|
matching pitches
Heart-Shaped Box
Intro (Verses Riff) (Second guitar hits matching chords a little after the
first guitar) (clean tone)
|-------------------|--------------------|------------------|---------------|
|-------------------|--------------------|------------------|---------------|
|-------------------|--------------------|------------------|---------------|
|-----6--------2----|--------------------|-----6--------2---|--3-3---3--3-4-|
|---6---6----2---2--|---------4(4)---4---|---6---6----2---2-|------2--2---2-|
|-7--------3--------|-0(0)--7------7---7-|-7--------3-------|-(0)--------(0)|
\_____________/
|
chorus distorted before chorus
(distorted) (both guitars transcribed on same staff, second guitar higher)
(U-B)
uni-bend U-B U-B 6x
|------|-----|--|------------|---|-------------------------------------|
|-----0|----0|--|-----------0|---|-------------------------------------|
|.----3'----3'--|-----------3'--.|.-----------------------------------.|
|.--------------|-3-3-3-3-------.|.-----------------------------------.|
|---------------|---------2-2(2)-|--9---9---9--9--9--9--6--6-6-6--6-6--|
|-7-7---3-3-----|----------------|-10--10--10-10-10-10--7--7-7-7--7-7--|
Hey! Wait! Your..
(uni-bend: [unison bend] note is bent up to match higher note's pitch)
solo: (no second guitar behind it)
|-bend and return---------------------|-----------|--------------|
|-------------------------------------|-----------|--------------|
|.----9/\-----5/\------2/-\--0-------.|-----------|--------------|
|.7-7------3-3------0-0--------4-2---.|-----------|--------------|
|-------------------------------------|-6-(6)-----|*6-(6)--------|
|-------------------------------------|-7-(7)-----|*7-(7)--------|
* chord is hit w/fingers
outro U-B
|--------------------------------|-----|----------------------|---------|
|-------------------------------0|-----|----------------------|---------|
|.------------------------------3'\---.|----------------------|---------|
|.------------------------------------.|-3-3-3-3--3-3-(3)-----|---------|
|--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--6--6-6-6--6-|----------2-2-(2)-----|---------|
|-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10--7--7-7-7--7-|----------------------|-X/------|
pick slide
If anyone has the bass part for this, please post it!
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|Leper.Messiah@Rushnet.com|
|Leper.Messiah@njackn.com |
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