The Cure - Fascination Street guitar tab

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From: Winston Campbell

Subject: Fascination Street by The Cure

FASCINATION STREET

(words by Robert Smith, music by Porl Thompson, Simon Gallup, Boris

Williams, Laurence Tolhurst, Roger O-Donnel, and Robert Smith)

I am actually transcribing the extended version of Fascination Street that

appears on -Mixed Up-. Although I like the original version, I find this

version more fun to play around with. I have not put anything in order,

all I did was to transcribe the millions of riffs there are to this song.

I have not transcribed the solo, though. The chords are mainly Cm, Ab, Gm,

which is played during the verses by that clean guitar. Here are the riffs

though:

This is the riff that opens up the song and appears near the end of the

song:

E ------------------------------------

B -----4-------4------4------1---3----

G -2-3-----2-3----2-3----2-3--------3-

D ------------------------------------

A ------------------------------------

E ------------------------------------

After this riff is played three times, the keyboard riff that appears is:

E -------3--------3----------------------3--------3--6--6-6-6--4--3--

B -4--6-----4--6-----4--1--1--1--4-4--6-----4--6---------------------

G -------------------------------------------------------------------

D -------------------------------------------------------------------

A -------------------------------------------------------------------

E -------------------------------------------------------------------

This is played two times, then the drums come in and then a weird effect

appears, I think it is harmonics played like:

E -----------------------------------------

B --7-7--7--7-7--7-7---5--5-5--5--5--5-5-5-