Tablature helium - Mark Eitzel

          



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  Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:43:42

  From: Peter Mosinskis <pmosinsk@popmail.lmu.edu>

  Subject: CRD: Helium by Mark Eitzel

  

  

  Mark Eitzel, "Helium"

  by: Peter Mosinskis

  date: Oct. 24, 1997

  

  This transcription is from the album _West_ on Warner Bros., released early

  1997.

  Peter Buck of R.E.M. plays great acoustic guitar on this song and

  throughout this beautiful, haunting album. This is Track 3, my favorite song. 

  

  Chords

  ------

  

  Strings	Frets (in parentheses are optional)

  1 (hi)	(0)		0	0	0	  0	0	

  2	(0)		0	1	3	  1	0

  3	(4) or open	0	0	0	  2	0

  4	4		2	2	4	  3	2

  5	2		2	3	5	  x	3

  6 (low)	X		0	X	X	  x	x

  

  Chord	B5		Em	C	D(add G)  F7	C7

  

  

  Intro:	B5 to E repeated

  

  **Note: For verse, pick high open-E followed by open-B at end of each line

  

  Verse 1:

  B5	E		B5	E

  Life is short in the laughing gallery

  B5	E		     B5		E	

  A secret handshake gets you ice cream and a key

  To a brand new car that only drives into walls

  They'll cut their eyes, All they want...

  

  

  Pattern 1  for chorus (approximate arpeggiations):

  

  1-----------------------------------2--------0-------------------

  2-----------------------3-----------3------------3-------3-------

  3-------------------0---------0-----2----2-----------2-------------

  4-----------2-----------------------0-----------------------------

  5-------2--------------------------------------------------------

  6---0-----------2----------3---------------------------------------

  

   	(Em)	  (G/F#)    (G)	    (D)  --> these are the chords being outlined	

  

  

  Chorus:

  D(add G)   C	

  Is your silence

  

  D(add G)   C	

  Is your silence

  

  D(add G)   C	

  Is your silence

  

  (Pattern 1)

  Breathing helium

  

  (Pattern 1)

  Throw away the key

  

  (Pattern 1)

  Dissolve in the air

  

  C7

  Never free

  

  Verse 2: same music as verse 1

  Chorus: same music

  

  Bridge: F7 to C (with feedbacky guitar solo)

  	end with 2x Pattern 1

  

  Verse 3: same music as verse 1

  

  

  Have fun!!

  

   


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 Helium, de Mark eitzel 

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