Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette - Ironic guitar tab

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From Visscher@ALG.FRG.eur.nl Fri Apr 4 17:01:34 1997

Date: Mon, 10 Mar 97 13:07:45 ^?^?^?

From: Visscher@ALG.FRG.eur.nl

To: guitar@olga.net

Subject: posted tab: `Ironic' (Alanis Morissette)

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IRONIC - ALANIS MORISSETTE

>From the album `Jagged little pill'

Transcribed by Louis Visscher .

This tablature would not have come about without the help of Jeff Elkins

. He transcribed the chord-version with a

capo at the 4th fret. I use his chords in this transcription.

He distinguishes 3 guitars.

I also would like to thank Evan C. Parker for his

initial transcription of this song, just like Shawn Maschino

and Maarten Klaassen .

My tab is for 1 guitar only. For the other guitar parts, look at Jeff's tab!

In verse 2, a clean guitar plays the tab, a clean guitar strums the chords,

and a semi-distorted guitar plays a few riffs. I have incorporated those

riffs in the tab, in such away that one guitar can play both the tab and

the riffs.

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Chords. Capo on 4th fret! Numbers are relative to capo.

Intro, verses and bridge Chorus

F#/A#: 2x023x F#: x00232 (D-shape)

B2: 3x020x B: 320033 (G-shape)

G#m: 0x00xx G#m: 022000 (Em-shape)

Emaj7: x32003 A: 133211 (F-shape)

x32033 E: 032010 (C-shape)

F#6add4: x54005 (Not sure about name. Maybe Bmaj7/F#add9?)

F#6add4add13: x54007 (Not sure about name. Maybe Bmaj7/F#?.

In this transcription, I call this chord F#@)

INTRO (clean guitar):

|--3-----2--------------------|

|--------------3--------------|

|---------------------0-----2-|

Emaj7 F#6add4 Emaj7 |-----0-----0-----------------|

|--3-----3-----3--------------|

|-----------------------------|

" Hey-ey, hey,..." etc etc

VERSE 1 (chord progression: | F#/A# B2 | F#/A# G#m | etc. Clean guitar)

+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

|-------0---------|-3---------------|-3--3--3---------|----3------------|

|-2-----2---------|-2-----0---------|-2---2-2---------|-2-----0---------|

|-0---------------|-------0-------0-|-----------------|-0-----0---------|

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

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

An old man turned 98. He won the lottery, and died the next day

+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

|-3-----0---------|-3---------------|-----------------|----3------------|

|-2--2--2---------|-2-----0---------|-2--2--2---------|-2-----0---------|

|-----------------|-0-----0---------|-0-----0---------|-0-----0---------|

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

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

It's a black fly in your Chardonnay. It's a death row pardon 2 minutes too

late.

+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |

|-----------------|-----------------|

|----3--------3---|---3-------------|

|-2-----2---2---2-|-2-----0---------|

|-0-----0---------|-0-----0---------|

|-----------------|-----------------|

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

Isn't it ironic...don't you think?

CHORUS (Overdriven guitar):

F# B F# G#m

Its like rain on your wedding day

F# B F# G#m

It's a free ride when you've already paid

F# B F# G#m

It's the good advice that you just didn't take

A E F#

And who would have thought...it figures

VERSE 2 (clean) Guitar 2 strums the chords in the usual progression.

+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . +. | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |

|------------------|----------------|------------------|---------------------|

|----3--0----0-----|----0-----------|----3--0----------|----0--------0-------|

|-2-----2---2--2-0-|-2-----0--------|-2-----2----------|-2-----0---2-----2-0-|

|-0----------------|-0-----0--------|-0----------------|-0-----0-------------|

|------------------|----------------|------------------|---------------------|

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

Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly. suitcase and kids goodbye. He

He packed his kissed his waited his

+ . + . + . + .| + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + .+.

|

|----------------|---------------0-------|-------------------|----------------

|

|----3--0--------|-----0-------3-----3-0-|----3--0-----------|-----0----------

|

|-2-----2--------|--2-----0--------------|-2-----2-----------|--2-----0-------

|

|-0--------------|--0-----0--------------|-0-----------------|--0-----0-------

|

|----------------|-----------------------|-------------------|----------------

|

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

|

whole damn life just to take that.. plane crashed down isn't this

..flight. And as the he thought "well nice..."

+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |

|-------------------5-3h5-|-----------------|

|-----3----0-----0h3------|----0------------|

|-2--------2--------------|-2-----0---------|

|-0-----------------------|-0---------------|

|-------------------------|-------0---------|

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

And isn't it ironic.... don't you think?

CHORUS (distortion)

BRIDGE (clean)

Emaj7

Well life has a funny way

F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4

of sneaking up on you when you think everything is okay and

Emaj7 F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4

everything is going right

Emaj7

And life has a funny way

F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4

of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and

Emaj7

everything blows up in your face

|--3--2--------|

|--------3-----|

|-----------0--|

|--------------|

|--------------|

|--------------|

VERSE 3

A clean guitar strums the chords in the normal progression, and throughout the

verse, keybords play something like this:

|-------------|--------------|

|---3--0~~~~--|---0----------|

|-2-----------|-2----0~~~~---|

|-------------|--------------|

|-------------|--------------|

|-------------|--------------|

A traffic jam, when you're already late

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.

And isn't it..

+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------3-2p0--|-----------------|

|----3-----3------|----3-----3------|----3--3--3-----3-|----3------------|

|-2-----2---------|-2-----0---------|-2-----2----------|-2-----0---------|

|-0-----0---------|-0-----2---------|-0----------------|-0-----0---------|

|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|

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

ironic....don't you think a little too ironic..and yeah I really do think

CHORUS (distortion)

OUTRO (clean)

Emaj7 F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4

Emaj7 F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4

Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you

Emaj7 F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4 Emaj7

Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out

Emaj7 Emaj7

Helping you out

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