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Bittersweetheart  Soul Asylum

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 16:34:22 0500
From: Bryan Pero
Soul Asylum
"Bittersweetheart"
>From "Let Your Dim Light Shine"
Transcribed by Bryan Pero (perob@willow.uml.edu)
Intro:
For the intro Dave Pirner pounds out an A chord. Then Dave
repeats the intro riff while Dan Murphy (Gtr.2) strums the A
chord once and lets it sustain through Dave's little stop-time
riff. It looks like this:
Gtr.1 (Intro Riff)
 
 E--------------------------
 B--x--2---2-2---2--2--2-2--
 G--x--2---2-2---2--2--2-2-- repeat
 D--x--2---2-2---2--2--2-2--
 A--------------------------
 E--------------------------

Gtr. 2(played right before Dave repeats intro riff)
Chorus: D E A
Verse II
Bridge: D E A
Back to Chorus
Play Intro riff, then:
With Intro riff:
"In time inside you find you always wind up with a
bitterweetheart..."
Then play Chorus riffs and Outro riff. Repeat and Fade.
Chorus riffs: (Gtr.1 strum chords above tab)
[A] [D] [E]  
 
 E----------------------------------------
 B----------------------------------------
 G-----------------------------------1-1--
 D----------------------------4~-2~--2-2--
 A--0--2--2-2--2--4~-0---0--0--------2-2--
 E----------------------------------------

[A] [D] [E] 
 
 E----------------------------------------------------
 B----------------------------------------------------
 G----------------------------------------------------
 D----------------------------------------------------
 A--0--2--2-2--2--2-2--2--4---4br-4-2-0-2--2~-0-2~-4--
 E----------------------------------------------------

Outro Riff: (I¹ve include the time on the CD to help you
follow the tab)
2:58 3:05
A| D E A|
 
 E---V------------------------------------------V-------------
 B--------------------------7-7-------------------------------
 G--------------------------7-7-------------------------------
 D--------------------------5-5----------------------------7--
 A--0--2--2-2--2-2--2-2-2-4--------------------5--7-7--7-9----
 E------------------------------0--5--5-5--7-5----------------

3:10
|
 
 E----------V---------------------------------------------
 B-----------------------14-------------------------------
 G--7-------/14-14-14----14----7--------7-------7-7-------Repea

t and Fade
 
 D----9--7--/14-14-14----14----7----7---7---7---7-7----7--
 A-------------------------------9--------9---------9-----
 E--------------------14----------------------------------

Also during the Outro, while Dan Murphy is playing the solo
stuff,
Dave Pirner, while playing his A and D chords, plays a D like
this: D-007777-
The rest of the chord forms are first position for Dave
Pirner(Gtr.1) and power chords for Dan Murphy.
Well, that¹s it!! Send me any comments!!

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