Tablature character zero - Phish

          



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  Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:10:09 -0500 (EST)

  From: KELLOGG@center.colgate.edu

  

  

  "CHARACTER ZERO" by Phish

  (music by Trey Anastasio, words by Tom Marshall)

  >From BILLY BREATHES

  

  Transcribed by Dave Biszick (KELLOGG@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU)

  December 16, 1996

  

  ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

  

  The Riff (usually done on bass):

  p = pull off    / =slide to

  

  E -----------------------------------------

  B -----------------------------------------

  G -----------------------------------------

  D -----------------------------------------

  A -----2p0-5-2-0-2-5-2/7-(let note ring as line is sung)

  E -3p0-------------------------------------

  

  [RIFF] I was taught a month ago

  [RIFF] To bide my time and take it slow

  [RIFF] But then I learned just yesterday

  [RIFF] To rush and never waste the day

  [RIFF] Now I'm convinced the whole day long

  [RIFF] That all I learn is always wrong

  [RIFF] And things are true that I forget

  [RIFF] Well no one taught that to me yet

  

  [lightly strum an A chord, getting gradually louder, then

  forcefully hit A  G]

  

  E                           G                    A

  I-I'm off to see the man Mulcahey, I'm off to see the man

  Mulcahey (x4)

  

  E                   G              A

  I was taught a month ago . . . .

       E                        G         A

  To bide my time and take it slow . . . .

        E                  G           A

  But then I learned just yesterday . . . .

       E             G                 A

  To rush and never waste the day . . . .

          E                       G                   A

  Now I'm convinced the whole day long . . . .

      E                G                A

  That all I learn is always wrong . . . .

      E                    G

  And things are true that I forget . . . .

       E                  G            A------A  G

  Well no one taught that to me yet . . . .

  

  E                      G             A

  I - I'm off to see the man Mulcahey,  I'm off to see the man

  Mulcahey      (x4)

  E                       E

  I - I . . . . Mulcahey,  I'm off to see the man Mulcahey

  E                       E

  I - I . . . . Mulcahey,  I - 'Cahey, 'Cahey . . . .

  

  [SOLO over E  G  A (x4)]

  

  [Continue solo and stuff along with E  G  A progression, and

  fade out with refrains along the lines of:]

  

  I - I . . . . I - . . . .

  

  I - I . . . . I - . . . .

  

  I - I'm off to see the man Mulcahey,  I'm off to see the man

  Mulcahey.....  (BLAH BLAH BLAH.....)

  

  ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

  

  

  That should hold you rascals for now!

  (when I play this tune, I put an Asus4-A-Asus4-A quick

  change at the verse ends that isn't necessary...Trey doesn't

  play it, but if you're playing alone on a guitar - as I

  usually do - it substitutes in for Page's piano fills.)

  

  (Oh, and I didn't transcribe the solo because, well... I

  don't have the patience, and I can barely solo anyway.

  

  

   


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