The Numbers tab by Radiohead

Tabs

The Numbers - Radiohead

From the album "A Moon Shaped Pool"


Tuning:
--------
From low to high: CGCFAD

From standard tuning, tune all strings down a tone, then tune the
bottom string down one more tone. It's like dropped D MajorD but with
everything one tone lower.


Main riff:
-----------

The song is built on one riff, shown in the tab below
(chord names given above the tab)

  Cm7Cm7      Gm/C F/CF/C    C majorC

D--------5----5---5----7--------5---5---------5---5---------
A--------6----6---5----8--------7---7---------7---7---------
F--------5----5---5----7--------7---7---------7---7---------
C-(0)-------------------------------------------------------
G-(0)-------------------(0)------------(0)------------------
C--0--0------------------0--0-----------0--0----------------


The open top string is sometimes used for the last C majorC chord,
giving Cadd2Cadd2 (000770), but for much of the time you just play
the plain C majorC chord (000775).

You can play the open G+G and middle C majorC strings along with the
low C majorC string, though the bottom C majorC string is the dominant sound.


In one or two places (e.g. "The future is inside us"), some
higher chord voicings are used for the riff, like this:

D--------10----10---8----12--------0-------------------------
A--------10----10---8----12--------10---10---------10---10---
F--------10----10---9----12--------11---11---------11---11---
C-(0)----10----10---10---12--------12---12---------12---12---
G-(0)--------------------------------------------------------
C--0--0----------------------0--0-----------0--0-------------


During the intro and early verses, a few short hammer-on riffs
are played between riffs:

D-----------------------------------------------------------
A--------7--------------------------------------------------
F----7h9---h9--7h9------------------------------------------
C------------------9----------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------
C-----------------------------------------------------------

For most of the song, a simple hammer-on fill on the FF string
(at the 7th and 9th frets) is used between riffs.

All chord shapes are given at the end of the tab (based on the
alternative guitar tuning).


Verse 1
---------

(Repeat the main riff throughout)

He holds us like a phantom
The touch is like a breeze
It shines its understanding
See the moon smiling


Verse 2
---------

(Main riff continues)

Open all channels
Ready to receive
Cos we're not at the mercy
Of your shimmers or spells
Your shimmers or spells


Verse 3
---------

(Main riff continues)

We are of the earth
To her we do return
The future is inside us
It's not somewhere else
It's not somewhere else

Cm7Cm7  Gm/C    Bb majorBb    FF    (main riff restarts)
It's not somewhere else (one day at a time)


Chorus 1
---------

Bb majorBb FF    Abmaj7Abmaj7
One day at a time

E MajorE GbGb AbAb  G+G  Bb majorBb  F/AF/A

(the AbAb sounds like it might be played as Ab/C on the guitar)


Verse 4
---------

(Main riff continues)

We call upon the people
People have this power
The numbers don't decide
The system is a lie
The river running dry
The wings of a butterfly


Verse 5
---------

(Main riff continues)

And you may pour us away like soup
Like we're dreary broken flowers
We'll take back what is ours

Cm7Cm7  Gm/C    Bb majorBb   FF F minorFm
Take back what is ours


Chorus
-------

E MajorE GbGb AbAb G+G

Bb majorBb F/AF/A   Abmaj7Abmaj7
One day at a time

G7sus4G7sus4  C(no 3rd)

Other versions of The Numbers

Alternative guitar chords and tabs for The trickster by Radiohead