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"CHARACTER ZERO" by Phish
(music by Trey Anastasio, words by Tom Marshall)
>From BILLY BREATHES

December 16, 1996

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The Riff (usually done on bass):
p = pull off    / =slide to

Chord diagramE MajorE -----------------------------------------
Chord diagramBB -----------------------------------------
Chord diagramG+G -----------------------------------------
Chord diagramD MajorD -----------------------------------------
Chord diagramA augmentedA -----2p0-5-2-0-2-5-2/7-(let note ring as line is sung)
Chord diagramE MajorE -3p0-------------------------------------

[RIFF] I was taught a month....

[lightly strum an Chord diagramA augmentedA chord, getting gradually louder, then
forcefully hit Chord diagramA augmentedA  Chord diagramG+G]

Chord diagramE MajorE                           Chord diagramG+G                    Chord diagramA augmentedA
I-I'm off to see the man Mulcahey, ...
Mulcahey (x4)

Chord diagramE MajorE                   Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramA augmentedA
I was taught a month ago . . . .
     Chord diagramE MajorE                        Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramA augmentedA
To bide my time and take it slow . . . .
      Chord diagramE MajorE                  Chord diagramG+G           Chord diagramA augmentedA
But then I learned just yesterday . . . .
     Chord diagramE MajorE             Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramA augmentedA
To rush and never waste the day . . . .
        Chord diagramE MajorE                       Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramA augmentedA
Now I'm convinced the whole day long . . . .
    Chord diagramE MajorE                Chord diagramG+G                Chord diagramA augmentedA
That all I learn is always wrong . . . .
    Chord diagramE MajorE                    Chord diagramG+G
And things are true that I forget . . . .
     Chord diagramE MajorE                  Chord diagramG+G            A------A  Chord diagramG+G
Well no one taught that to me yet . . . .

Chord diagramE MajorE                      Chord diagramG+G             Chord diagramA augmentedA
I - I'm off to see the ....
Mulcahey      (x4)
Chord diagramE MajorE                       Chord diagramE MajorE
I - I . . . . Mulcahey,  I'm ...
Chord diagramE MajorE                       Chord diagramE MajorE
I - I . . . . Mulcahey,  I - 'Cahey, 'Cahey . . . .

[SOLO over Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramA augmentedA (x4)]

[Continue solo and stuff along with Chord diagramE MajorE  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramA augmentedA progression, and
fade out with refrains along the lines of:]

I - I . . . . I - . . . .

I - I . . . . I - . . . .

I - I'm off to see the man Mulcahey,  I'm off to see the man
Mulcahey.....  (BLAH BLAH BLAH.....)

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That should hold you rascals for now!
(when I play this tune, I put an Asus4-A-Asus4-A quick
change at the verse ends that isn't necessary...Trey doesn't
play it, but if you're playing alone on a guitar - as I
usually do - it substitutes in for Page's piano fills.)

(Oh, and I didn't transcribe the solo because, well... I
don't have the patience, and I can barely solo anyway.

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