The Cure tab by Fugazi

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Fugazi tab for "Give me the Cure"

This interpretation/transcription is by Christoph Borst ([email protected]), 1994
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At the beginning, it's like this:

---------------------------------
-----3-----2---0-----0-----2---3-
--------------------------------- (repeat many times)
-2-2---2-2---2---2-2---2-2---2---
---------------------------------
---------------------------------
(let ring on most notes)

 Note: At one point, the second half of that part is left off.
    Also, some chorus or an overdub is added for a while.

Then, it does this:
   -------                     ---
   -------          and it ends up just  ---
   -----3- (repeat        strumming this  -3-
   -2-2--- several        with crescendo:  -2-
   ------- times)                 ---
   -------                     ---

Then something like this chord is struck:

   -0-
   -5-
   -4-
   -2-
   ---
   ---

The second half uses these chords:
(I have not indicated how many times each is struck)
 --- --- ---  --- ---
 --- --- ---  --- ---
 -7- -6- -4-  -6- -7-
 -7- -6- -4-  -6- -7-
 -5- -4- -2-  -4- -5-
 --- --- ---  --- ---
^^
Note: you may want to strike the open E MajorE string
   or an E MajorE chord at the beginning

and again, but with high part added

 --- --- ---  -------
 --- --- ---  -------
 -7- -6- -4-  -8/9\8-
 -7- -6- -4-  -6/7\6-
 -5- -4- -2-  -------
 --- --- ---  -------
^^
Note as above

This riff is thrown in sometimes:
(the last chord is cut from the figure that precedes it)

------------------------ ---
------------------------ ---
------------------------ ---
-5--5--5--5--7--7--7-5-- -2-
-5--5--5--5--7--7--7-5-- -2-
-3--3--3--3--5--5--5-3-- -0-
             ^^^
             This last chord just begins the next figure,
             which was given about 30 lines up.

the song approaches its end by varying the previous
riff -- the following is added:

-----------------------------
-----------------------------
-----------------------------
----------------------/\-----  (make the last note waver by bending the
-9-----9-10---9-----9//\\----  neck forward or using the whammy bar or
-7-----7--8---7-----7/sl\--0~~  whatever you've got, or you can simulate
                 it with a bent note one 7th up)


Finally there's a mess during which I just
hold the following chord. I emphasize different tones in
it to make it sound more like the recording, e.g. by hitting just
the open E MajorE or A augmentedA strings sometimes and the other 4 strings other times.

   -0-
   -5-
   -4-
   -2-
   -0-
   -0-