This Island Life Violent Femmes
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 22:24:23 -0500
From: Bryson Meunier
Subject: TAB:"This Island Life" by "Violent Femmes"
"THIS ISLAND LIFE" by the Violent Femmes
>From the album "NEW TIMES"(1994)
Written by Gordon Gano
Transcribed by Bryson Meunier
Here's a pretty cool song off of "New Times." It should be right but
if it's not(or if you just have additions, comments or questions) e-mail me
at meunier.1@osu.edu
intro(clean electric)-
B5 (palm mute)
E-----------------------------| B-----------------------------| G-----------------------------| D------------4--4--4--4-------| (strum quietly) A-----0---2--2--2--2--2-------| E-----------------------------|
A lot of the verse just sounds like straight bass. The guitar
pattern that I could decipher sounds like this:
verse-
"This tea is too strong for me..."
E----------------------------------------------| B----------------------------------------------| G----------------------------------------------| D-----------------4---4---4\5---4----2----4----| A----0---2----2--------------------------------| E----------------------------------------------|
repeat that a couple of times and then go into this:
E-----------------------------------------------| B-----------------------------------------------| G-----------------------------------------------| D--------------9--9--9\10---9---7---9-----------| A----0--7--7------------------------------------| E-----------------------------------------------|
The chorus is just an A chord followed by a B5
"This Island Life..."
[A] [B5]
E-----------------------------------------------| B----2------------------------------------------| G----2-----(strum)----------4-------------------| D----2----------------------4-------------------| A---------------------------2-------------------| E-----------------------------------------------|
The overdub part of the solo sounds like this:
E----------------------------------------------------| B--7~~~~~~~----8p7~~~~~~~------7p0-------------------| G-------------------------7h9---------------7--------| D--------------------------------------7h9------(9)--| A----------------------------------------------------| E----------------------------------------------------| E----------------------------------------------------| B--------------------------------7--7\8----7--7--7\8-| G---------------7-------8--------7--7\8----7--7--7\8-| D---------7h9-------9--------------------------------| A---7h9----------------------------------------------| E----------------------------------------------------| E--0--0--0-------9h10----7h9p7----5h7p5-------------| B--5--8--7--------------------------------7---------| G---------------------------------------------7---4-| D---------------------------------------------------| A---------------------------------------------------| E---------------------------------------------------|
(electric sitar outro)
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