Paint a Vulgar Picture The Smiths
Paint A Vulgar Picture<br/> ----------------------<br/> Lyrics by Morrissey<br/> Music by Johnny Marr<br/> Performed by the Smiths<br/> from their last LP "Strangeways Here We Come"<br/> <br/> Transcribed by Pablo Kang (pkang@cs.buffalo.edu) December 12, 1995<br/> Corrections and comments are encouraged.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> The whole song begins with...<br/> <br/> ... a strum on ...then another strum<br/> the 9th position for another 4 beats...<br/> for 4 beats... |<br/> | |<br/> V V<br/> F# (9th pos) F# (2nd pos)<br/> x===== ======<br/> |1|||x ix ||||||<br/> ------ ------<br/> |||||| x 1|||1x<br/> ------ ------<br/> ||333| xi |||2||<br/> ------ ------<br/> |34|||<br/> ------<br/> <br/> ...then with vigor...<br/> <br/> A (strum 4x) [key of D]<br/> <br/> ...then...<br/> <br/> D, G, A<br/> D, G, A<br/> Bm, G, A, G, A<br/> Bm, G, A<br/> <br/> D, G, A "At the record company meeting..."<br/> ...<br/> <br/> ...then the aforementioned pattern repeats until the key change, where <br/> from the last _A_ chord in the pattern slides down to the _F#_ chord and a<br/> similar pattern ensues with a different key.<br/> <br/> i.e.<br/> <br/> ... "...you could walked away...couldn't you?"<br/> Bm, G, A <br/> <br/> F#, [down to B key]<br/> B, E, F# "I touched you at the soundcheck..."<br/> B, E, F#<br/> G#m, E, F#<br/> G#m, E, F#<br/> ...<br/> <br/> <br/> ...then the solo follows:<br/> <br/> <br/> ...really know...aw! [key of D] q q q q. e e e e e==<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------5-----|--7--------7--8--7--------<br/> |-------------------------|--------7-----7-----------|--------------------7--7==<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + <br/> <br/> <br/> =(e) e e q q e e e q e e e e e e e e e e e <br/> |----------5--7-----5-----|--------------------------|--------------------7-----<br/> |-------------------------|--8--7-----------5--5--5--|-5/7-10-7--10-8--10----10=<br/> =(7)-6--6-----------------|--------7--7--------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + <br/> <br/> <br/> h q. e q q e e e e w <br/> |----------------------10-|--10----------------------|--------------------------<br/> =(10)========(10)---------|--------7-----8--7--------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------9--9====(9)----------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + <br/> <br/> <br/> e e h q e q q q e e e e e h <br/> |-7^^5--------------------|--7--5--------------------|--------------9-----------<br/> |-pull--------------------|--------------------------|--------8-----------------<br/> |-off---7==========(7)----|-----------6-----7-----7--|--7-7/9----9--------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + <br/> <br/> <br/> e e e e e e e e e q e h e e e e e e e e <br/> |-------9^^7--------7--5--|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-5--5--pull--5--5--------|--------------------------|-----------------------12-<br/> |-------off---------------|--7--7-----9--9-----------|-9-9/11-14-11-14-12-14----<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + <br/> <br/> <br/> q e h q w [key of B] Best of, most of... <br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-12----10-10=========(10)|--11----------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> |-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------<br/> 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + <br/> <br/> <br/> ...etc.<br/> <br/> You can pretty much figure it out from here.<br/> </div> </div> <div class="breadcrumbs">
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