Title: 1979
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Album: Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (1995)
Tuning: Standard EADGBE
MAIN RIFF
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|-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-9----------------------------------------
|-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-9-9-9-9-9-9-9---6hbr-4---2---4---6---9-
|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-7-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-0----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
|-----------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-X------------------------
ENDING BIT BEFORE CHORUS
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" you.... and i... should meet" later = "end to it all"
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|--9-9-9----------
|--X-X-X--9-9-9---
|--7-7-7--X-X-X----
|---------7-7-7----
CHORUS
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"and I don't even care to shake these zipper blues"
during these two chords
(open strings are a must) there's a second guitar doing:
(you can mute the Bb string
if you like)
|--0-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-- |--16--14--12--9-----
|--0-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0-- |--------------------
|--9-9-9-9-9--6-6-6-6-6-- |--------------------
|--9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-- |--------------------
|--7-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-7-- |--------------------
|--0-0-0-0-0--5-5-5-5-5-- |--------------------
ENDING BIT OF CHORUS
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"forgotten and absorbed into the earth below"
F# B - back to riff 1
BRIDGE
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(I play the open strings too for added effect)
"assured to the lights and towns below..."
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|--4-4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6-6-6--------- ------------- -------4-4-4--
|--4-4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6-6-6-7-7----- x 3 end with- -4-4-4-4-4-4--
|--2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-7-7----- ------------- -4-4-4-2-2-2--
|---------------------------------5-5----- ------------- -2-2-2--------