Track: the everlasting gaze
Artist: the smashing pumpkins
Album: machina
Firstly I?d just like to say that everybody else who tried to tab this song must be tone deaf because
all bollocks.
First of all the tuning is drop-d one tone down, so tune to (low to high) C-G-C-F-A-D this is much quicker
tune to and is a lot kinder to your guitar and allows the chord voicings on the chorus.
As for effects use a thick fuzz on the intro and main riff, for the chorus, if you have a decent
you?ll need it now, for those of you who own a boss GT3 use the ?fantasy? setting on bank 71, for the rest of you
a mild overdrive and a wah pedal with the polarity down and some chorus (unless of course you have a keyboard player you can play with, in which case don?t bother.
INTRO:
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--0^1-------1-1--0---------------------------------0^1-------1-1--0--------------------|
One bar hi-hat only and again
MAIN RIFF:
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----------------------------------3----3--------------------------3----3----------------------|
----------------------------------5/7--5/7-----------------------5/7--5/7---------------------|
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--0^1------------1-1--0-------------------0^1------1-1--0-------------------------------------|
VERSE: guitar drops out, bass plays the same riff
BRIDGE: guitar comes back and plays this
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----------------5--5---3-------0^1--1--1--------------------------------------------------------|
-------0^1----5--5---3-------0^1--1--1----------------------------------------------------------|
-0^1----------5--5---3-------0^1--1--1----------------------------------------------------------|
Then
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------------------5--5--------------------------|
-------0^1------5--5----------------------------|
-0^1------------5--5----------------------------|
Instead of the next chord in the riff the chorus begins, this is when you?ll need those effects.
CHORUS: (the rhythm here isn?t accurate, this is an attempt to illustrate how many bars the chords are
because barlines and rhythm notation are impossible to type)
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-6---6---6---6---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-------------------------------------------|
-5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-------------------------------------------|
-3---3---3---3---5---5---5---5---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-------------------------------------------|
-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5-------------------------------------------|
-3---3---3---3----------------------5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5----------------------------------------|x2
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-1---1---1---1--6---6---6---6---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3--------------------------------------|
-3---3---3---3--5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---0---0---0---0--------------------------------------|
-3---3---3---3--3---3---3---3---5---5---5---5---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--0-------|
-1---1---1---1--3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---5---5---5---5---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--0-------|
-------------------3---3---3---3---------------------5---5---5---5---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--0--|x2
Go back to fuzz here
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-1---1---1---1--6---6---6---6---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3--------3-----3----|
-3---3---3---3--5---5---5---6---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0--------5/7---5/7--|
-3---3---3---3--3---3---3---3---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-------------------|
-1---1---1---1--3---3---3---3---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5-------------------|
-------------------3---3---3---3---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5----------------|
Play the main riff again
Next is verse 2
Then another bridge
And another chorus
Then there?s the a cappella part
Then the band comes back and plays the bridge
On the last time through the riff it goes,
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----------------5---5---3-----------------------------------------|
-------0^1----5---5---3-------------------------------------------|
-0^1----------5---5---3---hold------------------------------------|
And then,
OUTRO:
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--0--0------0--0------0--0------0--0------0--0--0--0--|
--0--0------0--0------0--0------0--0------0--0--0--0--|
--0--0------0--0------0--0------0--0------0--0--0--0--|play this a few times
And then
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-------------------3^5---3^5^3---1^0---------------------3^5?3^5^3----6^5--------------------|
-0--0---0-----------------------------------0--0---0-----------------------------------------|x4