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Phish - Character Zero guitar chord

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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

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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.....)

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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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