Nightswimming tab by R.E.M.

Tabs

Title: Nightswimming
Band: R.E.M.
Album: Automatic For The People (1992)

tabbed by scef (email: [email protected])

yes it's played on piano (duh) but if anyone's
interested I've attempted to make a conversion to
guitar, as after all it is one of my all-time
favourite songs ever...it's a lot easier to play on
piano, as then you can use your left and right hands
to play the low and high parts together, but if played
well on guitar it can also sound pretty good,
especially if played on a nylon strung acoustic...this
arrangement is for one guitar but it's probably a lot
easier to have 2, one playing the low parts and one
playing the high parts

played fingerstyle throughout (believe me it's easier
this way when playing with one guitar...)

intro (also used between verses)
e---3-5-----------|-----------------|
B-3-----3---0-----|-1---------------|
G-----------------|-0---------------|
D-0-----0---------|-----------------|
A-----------2-----|-3---------------|
E-3-----3---------|-----------------|

e---3-5-----------|-5---------------|
B-3-----3---0-----|-3---------------|
G-----------------|-2---------------|
D-0-----0---------|-0---------------|
A-----------2-----|-----------------|
E-3-----3---------|-----------------|

verse
e---3-7-------3-10-|-10-8-8-7-7-5-3-0-|
B-3-----3---3------|------------------|
G------------------|-0------0-----0---|
D-0-----0-----0----|------------------|
A------------------|--------------3---|
E-3-----3-----3----|-8------8---------|

e---3-7-------3-10-|-10-8-8-7-7-5-3-0-|
B-3-----3---3------|------------------|
G------------------|-0------0-----0---|
D-0-----0-----0----|------------------|
A------------------|--------------3---|
E-3-----3-----3----|-8------8---------|

e-3-5-0-3---5---0-|-3-5-0-3-3-2-0-2-|
B-----------------|-----------------|
G-2-----2-----2---|-0-----0-----0---|
D-0-----0-----0---|-----------------|
A-----------------|-3-----3-----3---|
E-----------------|-----------------|

e-3---7-------3-10-|-10-8-8-7-7-5-3-0-|
B---3---3---3------|------------------|
G------------------|-0------0-----0---|
D-0-----0-----0----|------------------|
A------------------|--------------3---|
E-3-----3-----3----|-8------8---------|

e---3-7-------3-10-|-10-8-8-7-7-5-3-0-|
B-3-----3---3------|------------------|
G------------------|-0------0-----0---|
D-0-----0-----0----|------------------|
A------------------|--------------3---|
E-3-----3-----3----|-8------8---------|

e-3-5-0-3---5---0-|-3-5-0-3-3-2-0-2-|
B-----------------|-----------------|
G-2-----2-----2---|-0-----0-----0---|
D-0-----0-----0---|-----------------|
A-----------------|-3-----3-----3---|
E-----------------|-----------------|

...and so on, you get the idea...there may be
ever-so-slight variations used as the song progresses
but they're not really that important, if you want
them they're easy to pick up, just listen to the song,
remember it's all in the key of G...enjoy

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