Title: Zero Artist: Smashing Pumpkins Album: Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (1995) Tuning: Standard: EADGBEIntro:
e:----------------------------|-------------------------------|
B:----------------------------|-------------------------------|
G:----------------------------|-------------------------------|
D:10\9--l(8)--l(8)--l(7)--l(7)|10-10\9--l(8)--l(8)--l(7)--l(7)|
A:10\9--l(8)--l(8)--l(7)--l(7)|10-10\9--l(8)--l(8)--l(7)--l(7)|
E:-8\7--l(6)--l(6)--l(5)--l(5)|-8--8\7--l(6)--l(6)--l(5)--l(5)|
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|-5-\4-4---------5-5\4-4---------5-\4-4---------5-3\4-4--------
|-X--X-X---------X-X-X-X---------X--X-X---------X---X-X--------
|-3-\2-2---------3-3\2-2---------3-\2-2---------3-3\2-2--------
|--------0-0-0-0---------0-0-0-0--------0-0-0-0---------0-0-0-0
^-----^ ^-----^ ^-----^ ^-----^
harmonics* harm. harm. harm.
* These harmonics are produced by lightly applying your index
finger to the low E and gradually sliding from around fret 1.75
to 4 or so. A good way of looking at this is letting your finger
touch the E while setting back up for the C octave chord.
*2
|---------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------
|-9-----11----9-----12----11\7--7-------
|-X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----X-------
|-7-----9-----7-----10----9-\5--5-------
|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---------------
^repeat
Put in Es (|022100| or |079900|) in the part that goes:
"Emptiness is lovliness and\Lovliness is cleanliness and\
Cleanliness is godliness and\God is empty just like me."
*3 (after slide and under solo)
G2
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------5-5\4-4-------------------------5-5\4-4--------
|---------------X-X---X-------------------------X-X---X--------
|-3-2---2-------3-3\2-2---------3-3-2---2-------3-3\2-2--------
|-----3---0-0-0---------0-0-0-0-------3---0-0-0---------0-0-0-0
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|-3-3-2---2-------2-3-2-2--------------------------------------
|-------3---0-2-3---------0-0-0-0-...and so on-----------------
*4 (You blame yourself...)
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|-9-----9-----9-----9-----11---12------------------------------
|-X-----X-----X-----X-----X----X-------------------------------
|-7-----7-----7-----7-----9----10------------------------------
|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0----0----0----------------------------
^repeat
at the end of this riff G2 plays:
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|-9-9-9-111111121212-------------------------------------------
|-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--------------------------------------------
|-7-7-7-9-9-9-101010-------------------------------------------
|-------------------....on up----------------------------------
Those high sceams (like the end of the above) are the high E on the 24th
fret (it's james on his V or flood in the production room).
then repeat *1 and that's Zero!
Chorus:
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|-9-----11-----9-----12-----11---7---|
|-9-----11-----9-----12-----11---7---|
|-7-----9------7-----10-----9----5---|
|---0-0----0-0---0-0----0-0----0---0-|
Bridge: ("emptiness is lonliness" bit)
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|-9-9-9--9-9-9--9-9-9--9-9-|
|-9-9-9--9-9-9--9-9-9--9-9-|
|-7-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-|
|--------------------------|
Fill 1: (over main riff)
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|------7---7-9-slide-up-the-neck-|
|-7->0---7-----and-full-bend-----|
Solo Backing:
|----------------|------------------|
|----------------|------------------|
|-5->4---4-------|-5-5->4-4-X-------|
|-5->4---4-2-2-2-|-5-5->4-4-X-2-2-2-| X2
|-3->2---2-2-2-2-|-3-3->2-2-X-2-2-2-|
|------0---0-0-0-|----------X-0-0-0-|
|----| |----|
PM PM
|----------------|------------------|
|----------------|------------------|
|-5->4---4-----4-|-5-5->4-4-X-------|
|-5->4---4---4-4-|-5-5->4-4-X-2-2-2-|
|-3->2---2---4-2-|-3-3->2-2-X-2-2-2-|
|------0---0-2---|----------X-0-0-0-|
|----|
PM
|----------------|------------------|
|----------------|------------------|
|-5->4---4-------|-5-5->4-4-X-------|
|-5->4---4-2-2-2-|-5-5->4-4-X-2-2-2-|
|-3->2---2-2-2-2-|-3-3->2-2-X-2-2-2-|
|------0---0-0-0-|----------X-0-0-0-|
|----| |----|
PM PM
Coda: ("you blame yourself" bit)
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|-9-----9-----9-----9-----12-11-7-|
|-9-----9-----9-----9-----12-11-7-|
|-7-----7-----7-----7-----10-9--5-|
|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---------|
Fill 2: (over coda)
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|---------------14-16-17-19-21-21-full-|
|-8-10-12-14-15-------------------bend-|
|--------------------------------------|
_ _ _ _ =20
/ \/ \ \ \__/ / =20
/_/=AF=AF\_\ \_/\_/ =20
m.worsley@bbcnc.org.uk
Zero - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Transcribed by Adam Morris
I haven't seen this tabbed yet, so here it is.
1/2 step down
* above note means harmonics. If 2.5 is written that means
that you place your finger RIGHT in the middle of the third
fret.
Practice may be needed to get the right sound out of these
harmonics, but I assure you..they are correct.
Main Riff
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-5-4-4-------------------5-5-4-4---------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-3-2-2--*----*----*---*--3-3-2-2--*----*----*---*---|
|-------2.25-2.75-3.5-4.5---------2.25-2.75-3.5-4.5--|
VERSE 1
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-5-4-4---------5-5-4-4-------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-3-2-2---------3-3-2-2------------------------------|
|-------0-0-0-0---------0-0-0-0----------------------|
CHORUS
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----9----11-----9-----12-----9/11--7--/------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----7-----9-----7-----10-----7/-9--5--/------------|
|-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0----0-0-----------------------|
VERSE2 - Same as VERSE 1 but with the harmonics as well.
Then main riff for a while.
"Emptiness is loneliness..."
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--9-9-9-----9-9-9-----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--7-7-7-----7-7-7-----------------------------------|
|--0-0-0-----0-0-0-----------------------------------|
Weird solo thingy
It stops..then this pick slide thingy from about the 14th
fret.
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--x-\-----------------------------------------------|
|--x-\-----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
Main riff simile all through this bit.
2 and 3 on the low E string every now and then.
Then it goes to this
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----9-----9-----9-----9-----9/11--7--/-------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----7-----7-----7-----7-----7/-9--5--/-------------|
|-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0----0-0-----------------------|
That is pretty much it. Please send me comments and
corrections. benmo@deakin.edu.au
Correction on ZERO
From DANNY WARREN (WARREND@IHS.ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU)
This sound better that what was previousely posted
Harmonics...........
e:-------------------------------|
B:-------------------------------|
G:-------------------------------|
D:-------------------------------|
A:-3\2-2-------------------------|
E:---------3--3.75--4--4.75--5---|
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Lay your finger on the third and slide up to the fifth
Song: Zero
By: The Smashing Pumpkins
Tab by: Carlos Bustos
Email: cab144@mail.usask.ca
Tuning: 1/2 step down
Comment: ok, I went away on holliday WITH my guitar. So to pass the time
I thought i'd tab out some songs. I beleive this is very close if
not right. If you use this tab or have comments please email me
as i would like to know that someone has used it.
[INTRO RIFF]: 1 x's left channel, then both channels.
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---5\4--4------------------------5--5\4--4------------------------------|
||---x-x--x------------------------x--x-x--x------------------------------|
||---3\2--2-------2f---------------3--3\2--2-------2f---------------------|
||------------2f------1.5f--1.5f---------------2f------1.5f--1.5f--1.5f---|
|-Natural harmonics-| |--Natural Harmonics-----|
THEN: When singing starts.
[MAIN RIFF]: Repeated.
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---5\4--4-------------------5--5\4--4-----------------------------------|
||---x-x--x-------------------x--x-x--x-----------------------------------|
||---3\2--2-------------------3--3\2--2-----------------------------------|
||------------0---0---0---0---------------0---0---0---0---0---------------|
My reflection dirty mirrirs
There's no connection to myself
I'm your lover i'm your zero
I'm the face in your dreams of glass
[RIFF A]
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---9-------11--------9--------12-------11--7----------------------------|
||---x--------x--------x---------x----------------------------------------|
||---7--------9--------7--------10--------9--5(let ring)------------------|
||------0--0-----0--0-----0--0------0--0----------------------------------|
So save your breath
[RIFF B]
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---9-------11--------9--------12-------11--14---------------------------|
||---x--------x--------x---------x--------x---x---------------------------|
||---7--------9--------7--------10--------9--12(let ring)-----------------|
||------0--0-----0--0-----0--0------0--0----------------------------------|
For when your really gonna need em
[RIFF C]
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---9-------11--------9--------12-------11--7----------------------------|
||---x--------x--------x---------x--------x--x----------------------------|
||---7--------9--------7--------10--------9--5(let ring)------------------|
||------0--0-----0--0-----0--0------0--0----------------------------------|
Throw out your
[RIFF D]
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---9-------11--------9--------12-------11--7----------------------------|
||---x--------x--------x---------x--------x--x----------------------------|
||---7--------9--------7--------10--------9--5(let ring)------------------|
||------0--0-----0--0-----0--0------0--0----------------------------------|
cares and fly_______
Wanna go for a ride
[INTRO RIFF]: 2 x's and then under singing.
She's the one for me
She's all I really need
Cause she's the one for me
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--9--9--9------------------------------9--9--9--------------------------|
||--x--x--x------------------------------x--x--x--------------------------|
||--7--7--7------------------------------7--7--7--------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Emptiness is loneliness and loneliness is cleanliness and
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--9--9--9------------------------------9---9----------------------------|
||--x--x--x------------------------------x---x----------------------------|
||--7--7--7------------------------------7---7----------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty, just like me.
[INTRO RIFF]: under crazy fill/solo.
then
[MAIN RIFF]: Repeated.
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---5\4--4-------------------5--5\4--4-----------------------------------|
||---x-x--x-------------------x--x-x--x-----------------------------------|
||---3\2--2-------------------3--3\2--2-----------------------------------|
||------------0---0---0---0---------------0---0---0---0---0---------------|
Intoxicated with the madness
I'm in love with my sadness
Bullshit fakers enchanted kingdoms
The fashion victoms chew their charcoal teeth
[RIFF A]
I never let on
[RIFF B]
That I was on a sinking ship
[RIFF C]
I never let on
[RIFF D]
That I was down
[pick scrape]
[crazy solo]
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||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||----9--------9--------9--------9-------11--7----------------------------|
||----x--------x--------x--------x--------x--x----------------------------|
||----7--------7--------7--------7--------9--5----------------------------|
||-------0--0-----0--0-----0--0-----0--0----------------------------------|
You blame yourslef
For what you can't ignore [|*|]
You blame yourself
For wanting MORE!
[|*|]: Crazy ascending fill. (approx.)
*: Tab in brackets is trem picked 4x's
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--------*----------*----------*----------*----------*----------*--------|
||--9/11-(11)-11/12-(12)-12/14-(14)-14/16-(16)-16/18-(18)-18/19-(19)-19/21|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
* * * *
||--------------*----------*---16/18-(18)-18/19-(19)-19/21-(21)-21b(23)---|
||---*---17/19-(19)-19/21-(21)--------------------------use artificial----|
||--(21)------------------------------------------------pinch harmonics---|
||------------------------------------------------------to get that squeal|
||------------------------------------------------------at the end.-------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
then
[INTRO RIFF]:
She's the one for me
She's all I really need
She's the one for me
She's my one and
only.