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Androgynous Mind Guitar Tablature
ANDROGYNOUS MIND

tabbed by chris lawrence

Thurston: EGDGED  Lee: GGCGCD

Thurston's riff: Play thru most of the song:

D-----------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------
G-7--X-X--0-7-6--X-X--0-0-0-9--X-X--0-9-8--X-X--7-7-7-7-----
D-7--X-X--0-7-6--X-X--0-0-0-9--X-X--0-9-8--X-X--7-7-7-7-----
G-7--X-X--0-7-6--X-X--0-0-0-9--X-X--0-9-8--X-X--7-7-7-7-----
E-----------------------------------------------------------

Lee's part, much like on Bone, is far more complicated. I'm sure I
screwed up too many times to count but this is what I got:

A lot of notes have delay and trem bar effects on them, so experiment.  

 0:03            0:05   0:07      0:11
D--0-(that's wrong)-------0---------1917-17-17--1917-17-17--19----
C-------------------------(bend violently with trem bar)------------
G------------------12-----------------------------------------------
C-------------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------
                      0:29			
D---19~17~19-19-----------------------------------------------------
C---(trill with trem bar fast)--------------------------------------
G----------------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-etc.-------------
C-------------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------

"Androgynous Mind":
   0:42   0:46             0:48
D-----------------------------------------  This repeats a few times
 -----------------------------------------     il "Hey hey its okay"
G---------12-14-1514-------14--12--15----
C---10-----------------------------------
G---//------------------------------------
G---//------------------------------------
    ** fast trem picked slide backwards

 1:12                            1:39   (trills)          
D-------------------------------------19~17~19~17~19--etc.-------------19~17~19--etc.-
C-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G--14--14-14--14--14-----------14---------------------------0-0-0-0-0-etc.------------
C------------------------10----------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------//-----------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------//-----------------------------------------------------------
  Bend furiously with trem bar

At 1:53 Lee turns on a phaser, then at 2:07 plays:

D---19---17---19--(bend up!!!)-----
C---//--------//-------------------
G---//--------//-------------------
C----------------------------------
G----------------------------------
G----------------------------------

Trem pick the 19's and play the 17 briefly, then bend the second 19 up.
Lee plays this a few times, then dissolves into total noise. Use lots
of feedback, delay, phaser, and wild trem bar effects.

Then, when it gets quiet:

 2:37               ****  2:47      2:51          2:57
D-------------------     ------------------------------------------------
C-------------------     ------------------------------------------------
G-------------------     ------------------------------------------------
C-----------7---10--     ---710-----75710----------*7*(harmonic)-----
G--4---7------------     ------------------------7--5--------------------
G--4---7------------     ------------------------------------------------
  
Notes aren't picked, just fretted and sustained. Where the **** Lee "plays" some hand slides.

  3:04       3:10                       3:18              3:23
D------------------------------------------------------------------------
C------------------------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------------------------------
C------------------------------------------------------------------------
G--75/9-----98765---5/7--5/7-9-----9--7-75----54---2--3--4--5-
G------------------------------------------------------------------------
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