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From: email protected(Marc Hertzberg
Subject: TAB: Helter Skelter by The Beatles
-|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
-|--123--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
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When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the
-|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
-|-----2--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
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slide, where I stop and I turn and I go for a
-|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------G------------------
-|-----1--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
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-|------------------------------------------------5--5--6--6--------
-|------------------------------------------------3--3--3--3--------
ride, till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
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-|--5--5--6---------6------2--2--2--2--32--2--2--2-----------------
-|--3--3--3---------3------0--0--0--0--1--0--0--0-----------------
Well Edo you don't you want me to make you
I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
Tell me tell me tell me come on tGell me the answer
Well you mAay be a lover but you ain't no daEncer.
-|----------A--------------------------------------------------------
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-|----------2---2---4---4--5--4--2----------------------------------
-|----------0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0----------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|---E---------------------------------------------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
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-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------
-|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------
-|---A-------------------------------------E--------------------------
-|--------------------------------------------5b(7)--3--5-----------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------
-|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------
-|------------------------------------------------------------------
So much for verses and choruses. The rest are pretty much the same,
except that the rest of the verses hit the G chord a little sooner
(at the beginning of the third line of the verse).
Here's the guitar solo in the middle:
-|--E--------------------7--7--1A5b(17)--15b(17)--b(17)1E5-------------
-|----------------------0--0----------------------------------------
-|----------------------9--9----------------------------------------
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-|------------------------------------------------------------------
-|--------------------------------A-------------------------------------E-----
-|--b(17)15b(17)15---------------13b(14)------------------b(17)15-----------
-|------------------b(14)12---------------b(14)12b(14)12-----------12-------
-|---------------------------14----------------------------------------14~--
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Later, there's a neat riff in one of the last verses. I think it
comes right after "will you won't you want me to make you" or something
like that. This is a cool riff with that looonnnng slide.
-|--12--15b(17)--b(17)15--12------12----------------------------------------
-|----------------------------15------1510-----10b(12)--b(12)10--8---------
-|-------------------------------------------9-----------------------7--9---
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As the song fades into the first ending, there are some nice bend releases,
while the lyrics repeat "coming down fast":
-|--b(17)15------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------b(17)15---------------------------------------------------
-|--------------------b(16)14------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------b(14)12---------------------------------
-|--------------------------------------b(14)12------------------------
-|---------------------------------------------------------------------
Later, there's a whole lot of Hendrix-like guitar noise.
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----0---- play the open string ('fret zero')
----5~--- play fret five with vibrato
---5/7--- play fret five, slide up to fret seven
---75--- play fret seven, slide down to fret five
--75/7-- play fret seven, slide down to fret five, slide back up
--8b(9)-- play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
--b(9)8-- play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
----h7--- hammer-on to fret seven
----p5--- pull-off to fret five
---/7---- slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is
---15--- play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
---0h3--- play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret
---7p5--- play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five