Mercury tab by Bloc Party

Tabs

Bloc Party.Mercury

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Alrigh! The song has a synthesiser in it so I tabbed it as if you were using just guitars.
I based it on a live vid on the net at Lollapalooza so Russell’s guitar is almost right.

/= slide up
\= slide down


Intro: Singing and Drums


Verse 1:
Synth
e|----------------------------|
BB|----------------------------|
G+G|----------------------------| repeated x4
D MajorD|----11---------11-11-11-----|
A augmentedA|----------7-----------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|

e|-------------------9--9-----|
BB|-------------------9--9-----|
G+G|-------------------9--9-----| repeated x4
D MajorD|----11---------11-11-11-----|
A augmentedA|----------7-----------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|

Pre Chorus 1:
Synth
e|----9-----------------------|
BB|----9-----------------------|
G+G|----9-----------------------| x2
D MajorD|------------hold------------|
A augmentedA|----------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|


Chorus 1:
Russell and synth(or bass)
e|-------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------tremolo picking throughout--------------|
G+G|-------------------------------------------------| x2
D MajorD|-------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-9----/12\-4----/12\-5----/12\-2----/15----------|

Verse 2:
Synth
e|----------------------------|
BB|----------------------------|
G+G|----------------------------| repeated x4
D MajorD|----11---------11-11-11-----|
A augmentedA|----------7-----------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|

e|-------------------9--9-----|
BB|-------------------9--9-----|
G+G|-------------------9--9-----| repeated x4
D MajorD|----11---------11-11-11-----|
A augmentedA|----------7-----------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|

Russell
e|----------------------------|
BB|----------------------------|
G+G|----------------------------| x4
D MajorD|-----5----------------------|
A augmentedA|--7-------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|

e|----------------------------|
BB|----------------------------|
G+G|----------------------------| x4
D MajorD|-----5----6-6-5-------------|
A augmentedA|--7-------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|

Pre Chorus 2:
Synth
e|----9-----------------------|
BB|----9-----------------------|
G+G|----9-----------------------| x2
D MajorD|------------hold------------|
A augmentedA|----------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|

Russell
e|-----------------------------------|
BB|-----------------------------------|
G+G|--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--| x2
D MajorD|--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--|
A augmentedA|--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|   down strokes
E MajorE|-----------------------------------|

Chorus 2:
The same as before

Pre Chorus 3:
Synth
e|----9-----------------------|
BB|----9-----------------------|
G+G|----9-----------------------| x2
D MajorD|------------hold------------|
A augmentedA|----------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|

Russell
e|--18bend---------------- ----21bend----------------|
BB|----------15/bend/17---- ------------15/bend/21----|
G+G|------------------------ --------------------------|
D MajorD|------------------------ --------------------------|
A augmentedA|------------------------ --------------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------ --------------------------|


Cool Drum Part:
Russell
(“...that this could be the start of...”)
e|----------------------------|
BB|----------------------------|
G+G|--9-11-10-9-11-10-9---------| until chorus
D MajorD|----------------------------|
A augmentedA|----------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------|


Chorus 3:
Synth(or bass)
e|-------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------tremolo picking throughout--------------|
G+G|-------------------------------------------------| x2
D MajorD|-------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-9----/12\-4----/12\-5----/12\-2----/15----------|

Russell
e|---------------------------------------------------|
BB|--14-13-12-11-10-9--14-13-12-11-10-9--14-13-12-11--|
G+G|---------------------------------------------------| x4
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------|


 ....And then something like this....
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|----------11-11-11-11------11-11-11-11—------11-11-11-11—------|
D MajorD|--3/--11--11-11-11-11--11--11-11-11-11—--11--11-11-11-11—------|
A augmentedA|--3/--11---------------11----------------11--------------------|
E MajorE|--1/---9----------------9-----------------9--------------------|

 ---------------------------------------------------------------|
 ---------------------------------------------------------------|
 -11-10-9-8------11-11-11-11------11-11-11-11------11-11-11-11--|
 ------------11--11-11-11-11--11--11-11-11-11--11--11-11-11-11--|
 ------------11---------------11---------------11---------------|
 -------------9----------------9----------------9---------------|

 --|keep---|----------------------------------------------------|
 --|bending|----------------------------------------------------|
 --11/-/16\---\13-------11-11-11-11------11-11-11-11------11----|
 -------------------11—-11-11-11-11—-11--11-11-11-11--11--11----|
 -------------------11---------------11---------------11--------|
 --------------------9----------------9----------------9--------|

 --------------5/--------/18-----------------------------------|
 --------------------------------------------------------------|
 --11-11-11----------------------------------------------------|
 --11-11-11----------------------------------------------------|
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