Passover tab by Warsaw

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Joy Division - 'Passover'
Album: Closer
(I.Curtis, B.Summner, P.Hook, S.Morris)
Tabbed by gavin ([email protected])
This is all my own work.

I'm not sure how Bernard gets that slightly wonky distorted sound, sorry. In any case, this probably won't sound exactly right if you play it alongside the record. I think its pretty accurate though.

Intro

e ---7----5----2----0----|----7-7-7---5-5-5---2-2-2---0-0-0
b -----------------------|---0-0-----0-0-----0-0-----0-0


Verse one

During verses guitar strums the following pattern with left hand muting at the third fret

e ---x-x---x--
b ---x-x---x--
g ---x-x---x--
d ---x-x---x--
a ---x-x---x--
E MajorE ---x-x---x--

At "is this the role....?":

e ---x----0----x----x----x
b ---x----0----x----x----x
g ---0----4----5----7----9
d ---2----2----2----5----6 Let ring
a ---2----2----3----5----7
E MajorE ---0----0----0----0----0


Chorus

e --------------------------|--------------------------
b --------------------------|--------------------------
g ----9-9---7-7---5-5---4-4-|--9-9---7-7---5-5---4-4---
d -----0-----0-----0-----0--|---0-----0-----0-----0----
a --------------------------|--------------------------
E MajorE ---0-----0-----0-----0----|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0

Verse two

Repeat the left hand muting from verse one.
>From the 5th line you can use the low E MajorE to boost the bass sound like so:

e ---x-x---x-------
b ---x-x---x-------
g ---x-x---x-------
d ---x-x---x-------
a ---x-x---x-------
E MajorE ---x-x---x--0-0-0

At end of 2nd verse:

e ---x----0----x----x----x
b ---x----0----x----x----x
g ---0----4----5----7----9
d ---2----2----2----5----6  Let ring
a ---2----2----3----5----7
E MajorE ---0----0----0----0----0

Chorus (slightly different this time - listen to the song to get the timing right on both choruses)

e -------------------------------|------------------------------
b -------------------------------|------------------------------
g ----9-9-9--7-7-7--5-5-5--4-4-4-|--9-9-9--7-7-7--5-5-5--4-4-4--
d -----0------0------0------0----|---0------0------0------0-----
a -------------------------------|------------------------------
E MajorE ---0------0------0------0------|-0------0------0------0------0


'Solo' at end of third verse:

e --------------------------|-----------------------
b --------------------------|-----------------------
g ----3-4-6-4-3-4-3-4-3-4-4-|--3-4-6-4-3-4-4-4-3-4-4
d ---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---
a --------------------------|-----------------------
E MajorE --------------------------|-----------------------

Then back into the intro riff for the short verse at the end:

e ----7-7-7---5-5-5---2-2-2---0-0-0
b ---0-0-----0-0-----0-0-----0-0

Just keep repeating this till the end.

(On the live version on 'Still' Bernard plays 7--5--3--2 for two bars at the end instead of 7--5--2--0. Whether this is a mistake or deliberate i don't know, but it does sound kind of cool, so mix it up a bit if you want.)

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