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The Beatles - Helter Skelter guitar tab

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From: hertzberg@netcad.enet.dec.com (Marc Hertzberg

Subject: TAB: Helter Skelter by The Beatles

Helter Skelter

(Lennon/McCartney)

Intro:

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-|--12\3--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------

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When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the

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-|-----2--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------

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slide, where I stop and I turn and I go for a

G

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-|-----1--(repeat)--------------------------------------------------

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-|------------------------------------------------5--5--6--6--------

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

ride, till I get to the bottom and I see you again.

E

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-|--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

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-|----------2---2---4---4--5--4--2----------------------------------

-|----------0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0----------------------

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Well, Helter Skelter

E

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-|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------

-|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------

Helter skelter

A E

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-|--------------------------------------------5b(7)--3--5-----------

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-|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------

-|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------

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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----------------------------------------

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'Cos here she comes

A E

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-|--b(17)15b(17)15---------------13b(14)------------------b(17)15-----------

-|------------------b(14)12---------------b(14)12b(14)12-----------12-------

-|---------------------------14----------------------------------------14~--

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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---

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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------------------------

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Later, there's a whole lot of Hendrix-like guitar noise.

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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

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