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Radio Friendly Unit Shifter Guitar Tablature
//Song: Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
//As recorded by: Nirvana 
//Album: In Utero (1993)

//Written by Kurt Cobain

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Radio Friendly Unit Shifter



Tuning: Regular E-A-D-G-B-E
TEMPO: 152


PM = PALM MUTED


//First off, you do not need to tune down a half step. Kurt may have done so
//during the recording of this song, but it can be played in standard tuning
//I find this much easier, because tuning all your strings down a half step 
//can be a big hassle and a waste of time. 


Intro


//The Intro of RFUS consists of a strange feedback, many have  failed to 
//exactly replicate. I've spent many hours trying to get the right sound, 
//and I believe this comes close, if not nearly 99% exact to what Kurt did.


//Supposedly Kurt used a Poly chorus vibrato pedal. Well, most of us do not
//have one, or feel like buying one just to play this song. We use what we
//have to work with. Now I don't know about anyone else  but I have a Zoom
//PS - 02 Digital 3-Track, which has effects  you can create on it. This
//being said, here are the   settings I use in order to achieve the effect 
//of the intro:


"Intro" effect 

Using a Zoom PS-02 Palmtop Studio 3 Track:

DISTORTION: MTZONE - GAIN: 30
THRESH: 15
HIGH: 12
MID: 8
LOW: 5
EQ LVL 3
EFFECT: VIBE (MOST IMPORTANT) - RATE 10 - DEPTH: 10 - BALANCE: 30 
ROOM (REVERB) - ALL SETTINGS = 0
P-LVL: 30


//If you are lucky enough to have one of these devices, then you will in
//fact see how darn close it comes. If you happen to have a distortion
//petal with the VIBE or VIBRATO effect, try the following settings:

VIBE - RATE 10 - DEPTH 10 - BALANCE 30	
//ON top of that effect, try and use a "Crunchy" yet sustaining distortion.


Here's the guitar part:



INTRO - (USING  VIBRATO AND CRUNCHY DISTORTION)

     pick UPWARDS AND LET RING
                                         
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---10------------10-----------10----------15---------10--------|
G|---13------------13-----------13----------18---------13--------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------|



     pick UPWARDS AND LET RING                     RINGS INTO VERSE
                                                  
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---15-----------10---------15------10---15--------------------|
G|---18-----------13---------18------13---18--------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------4------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------8------|



//Again, if you do not have VIBRATO or the PS-02, you could mess with
//different chorus or whatever effects, maybe even bend the strings 
//up and down to get that sound. However, this is the actual guitar
//part of the intro. 




VERSE  

DRUMS 1..2...3..4 THEN

    
(WITH A CRUNCHY DISTORTION AND A LOT OF MID LEVEL. ALSO PLAY WITH 
VERY LOUD VOLUME - CLOSE TO AN AMP FOR FEEDBACK)

       PM
E|---------------------------|
B|---------------------------|   STRUM THIS CHORD PLAM MUTED
G|---------------------------|   WITH EVERY SNARE HIT - 
D|-----6---------------------|   LOTS OF FEEDBACK
A|-----6---------------------|       
E|-----4---------------------|         




CHORUS INTRO

           /PM
E|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------| 
G|-------------4-4------------3-3---------------------|   x 4
D|-----6--6----4-4----4-4-4---3-3---3-3-3-3-----------|
A|-----6--6----2-2----4-4-4---1-1---3-3-3-3-----------|       
E|-----4--4-----------2-2-2---------1-0-1-0-----------|         




VERSE
     
E|---------------------------|
B|---------------------------|   WHILE THIS IS PLAYING - A SECOND GUITAR
G|---------------------------|   IS USING THE VIBRATO EFFECT ALONG WITH
D|-----6---------------------|   VARIOUS AMP FEEDBACK - IMPROV
A|-----6---------------------|      
E|-----4---------------------|         
       SINGLE STRUM UNTIL FEEDBACK CUTS IN


LYRICS:
Use just once and destroy 
Invasion of our piracy 
Afterbirth of a nation 
Starve without your skeleton key 
I love you for what I am not 
I do not want what I have got 
A blanket acne'ed with ciggarette burns 
Speak at once while taking turns 




CHORUS
           
E|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------| 
G|-------------4-4------------3-3---------------------|   
D|-----6--6----4-4----4-4-4---3-3---3-3-3-3-----------|
A|-----6--6----2-2----4-4-4---1-1---3-3-3-3-----------|       
E|-----4--4-----------2-2-2---------1-0-1-0-----------|         

                              What is wrong with me 
                              What is wrong with me 
                              What is wrong with me 



VERSE 2

       
E|---------------------------|
B|---------------------------|   WHILE THIS IS PLAYING - A SECOND GUITAR
G|---------------------------|   IS USING THE VIBRATO EFFECT ALONG WITH
D|-----6---------------------|   VARIOUS AMP FEEDBACK - IMPROV
A|-----6---------------------|      
E|-----4---------------------|         
       SINGLE STRUM UNTIL FEEDBACK CUTS IN


LYRICS:
Nothing to do with what you think 
If you ever think at all 
Bi-polar opposites attract 
All of a sudden my water broke
I love you for what I am not 
I do not want what I have got 
A blanket acne'ed with ciggarette burns 
Second-rate third burns 



CHORUS
       
E|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------| 
G|-------------4-4------------3-3---------------------|   
D|-----6--6----4-4----4-4-4---3-3---3-3-3-3-----------|
A|-----6--6----2-2----4-4-4---1-1---3-3-3-3-----------|       
E|-----4--4-----------2-2-2---------1-0-1-0-----------|         

                              What is wrong with me 
                              What is what I need
                              What do I think I think



BRIDGE
   
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------| 
G|-----------------------------------------------------|   
D|------9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-/----13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13---|
A|------9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-/----13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13---|       
E|------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-/----11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11---|
                      
                             Hate...............your  


E|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------| 
G|-----------------------------------------------------|   
D|----6-6-9-9-6-6-6-6---4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4----------------|
A|----6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6---4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4----------------|       
E|----4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4---2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------------|
       
      enemies..........................



BRIDGE LYRICS:
hate your enemies 
Save, save your friends 
Find, find your place 
Speak, speak the truth



CHORUS


then 3rd VERSE (WHICH HAS AN INTRO WITH NO LYRICS) WITH FEEDBACK

VERSE 3
Use just once and destroy 
Invasion of our piracy 
Afterbirth of a nation 
Starve without your skeleton key 


CHORUS X 2 (2ND TIME OF CHORUS USES HEAVIER SYMBOLS)


THEN MIDDLE PART with DRUM CHANGES:

USE FEEDBACK WITH VIBRATO EFFECT
AND THEN KICK INTO "INTRO" RIFF VARIATIONS


ENDING EFFECT IS RANDOM PALM MUTED PICKING ON THE
E-B-G STRINGS VERY CLOSE TO THE BRIDGE.



THE END. : )


HAVE FUN!! REMEMBER: YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET THE FEEDBACK AND EVERYTHING 100% 
CORRECT. EVEN NIRVANA HAD MANY VARIATIONS OF THIS SONG.
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