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- #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
- #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
- #------------------------------------------------------------------------------##
- From: hertzberg@netcad.enet.dec.com (Marc Hertzberg
- Subject: TAB: Helter Skelter by The Beatles
-
-
- Helter Skelter
- (Lennon/McCartney)
-
- Intro:
-
- -|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
- -|--12\3--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the
-
- -|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
- -|-----2--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- slide, where I stop and I turn and I go for a
-
- G
- -|-----0--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
- -|-----1--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------5--5--6--6--------
- -|------------------------------------------------3--3--3--3--------
- ride, till I get to the bottom and I see you again.
-
- E
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|--5--5--6---------6------2--2--2--2--3\2--2--2--2-----------------
- -|--3--3--3---------3------0--0--0--0--1\0--0--0--0-----------------
- Yeah yeah yeah!
-
-
- Verse:
-
- E
- Well do you don't you want me to make you
-
- I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
- G
- Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
- A E
- Well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.
-
-
-
- Chorus:
- A
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|----------2---2---4---4--5--4--2----------------------------------
- -|----------0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0----------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- Well, Helter Skelter
- E
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------
- -|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------
- Helter skelter
- A E
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|--------------------------------------------5b(7)--3--5-----------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------
- -|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- Helter skelter Yeah
-
- 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 A E
- -|----------------------7--7--15b(17)--15b(17)--b(17)15-------------
- -|----------------------0--0----------------------------------------
- -|----------------------9--9----------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|------------------------------------------------------------------
- 'Cos here she comes
- A E
- -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|--b(17)15b(17)15---------------13b(14)------------------b(17)15-----------
- -|------------------b(14)12---------------b(14)12b(14)12-----------12-------
- -|---------------------------14----------------------------------------14~--
- -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- 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------15\10-----10b(12)--b(12)10--8---------
- -|-------------------------------------------9-----------------------7--9---
- -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
- -|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-
- 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.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Tab Special Notations:
- ----0---- play the open string ('fret zero')
- ----5---- play fret five
- ----5~--- play fret five with vibrato
- ---5/7--- play fret five, slide up to fret seven
- ---7\5--- play fret seven, slide down to fret five
- --7\5/7-- play fret seven, slide down to fret five, slide back up
- --8b(9)-- play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
- the pitch of fret nine
- --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
- undefined, judge by ear)
- ---15\--- play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
- undefined, judge by ear)
- ---0h3--- play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret
- three
- ---7p5--- play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five
-
-