Silverchair - Surfin Bird guitar tab

Artist: Silverchair

Song: Surfin' Bird(Trashman & the Cramps Cover)

Album: The Door EP & Freak Box Singles Collection

Tabbed By: Simon Robson

Surfin' Bird is a cover of the Trashmen and the Cramps, recorded in less than two

hours in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia during late January 1996. It appears on

MOM, a compilation which is a benefit for the Surfrider Foundation. Very basic song

with three chords. I think the bass follows the guitar except in the second riff.

the first riff played eight times is:

E5 B5 E5 B5

e||-----------------------------------------------||

B||-----------------------------------------------||

G||-o--9-9--9-9------------9----9---------------o-||

D||-o--9-9--9-9----9-----9-9----9---9----9-9-9--o-||

A||----7-7--7-7----9-----9-7----7---9----9-9-9----||

E||----------------7-----7----------7----7-7-7----||

X8

G||-----------------------------------------------||

D||-o-------------------------------------------o-||

A||-o--7-7--7-7------------7----7---------------o-||

E||----------------7-----7----------7----7-7-7----||

"Everybody's heard a-bout the bird ..."

the following riff isn't the same for guitar and bass:

B5 A5

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

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

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

|--9-------------------------------7----------------------------------|

|--9-------------------------------7----------------------------------|

|--7-------------------------------5----------------------------------|

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

|--------------6---7---6-----------------------4---5------------------|

|------6---9---------------9---6-------4---7-----------7---4----------|

|--7-------------------------------5----------------------------------|

"Don't you know about the bird, everybody's heard about the bird."

The third is the same as the first

one, played twice, then a E5 chord that Daniel slides down.

E5 B5 E5 B5 E5

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

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

||-o--9-9--9-9------------9----9---------------o-||-9\-|

||-o--9-9--9-9----9-----9-9----9---9----9-9-9--o-||-9\-|

||----7-7--7-7----9-----9-7----7---9----9-9-9----||-7\-|

||----------------7-----7----------7----7-7-7----||----|

X2

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

||-o-------------------------------------------o-||----|

||-o--7-7--7-7------------7----7---------------o-||-7\-|

||----------------7-----7----------7----7-7-7----||----|

Order:

Repeat four times these three riffs one after another, with a pause of four

beats between the first and second times for drums, then a pause of four

beats between the second and third times for singing, and finally a pause

of eight beats between the third and fourth times for drums.