Pissant tab by The Smashing Pumpkins

Tabbed by Brian McCall


PISSANT  =  off the album Pisces Iscariot by Smashing Pumpkins
~~~~~~~     Written by William P. Corgan, Jr.

  Tune to Eb (Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb)

*1                            play 4x
|--------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------
|---------------7--7-7-----------------------
|-2---5---7/9---7--7-7X-7/(9)----------------
|-2---5---7/9---5--5-5X-7/(9)----------------
|-0-0-3-0-5/7-0-------X-5/(7)----------------

  at end of above riff, fourth time, play this:
|--------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------
|-9\-------9\-------7\-------9\--------------
|-9\-------9\-------7\-------9\--------------
|-7\-------7\-------5\-------7\--------------
|-7\-------7\-------5\-------7\--/12~--------
    ^got     ^got     ^can't
     me a...  me...    help...

then repeat *1 along with lyrics

*2
|--------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------
|------9\8-8\7-7------9\8-8\7-7------9\8-8\7-
|------9\8-8\7-7------9\8-8\7-7------9\8-8\7-
|-0--0-7\6-6\5-5-0--0-7\6-6\5-5-0--0-7\6-6\5-...and so on `till:

*3
|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5

|----------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------
|-----------------7---7-\-5-------7---7-\-5----
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---7-\-5---5---7---7-\-5---5
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5---5-\-3---5---5---5-\-3---5
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------------3---------------3 ...and on...

  Repeat *1 with solo
  Drum fill..."C'mon honey...

  Repeat *1
  End with *2

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                      PISSANT
               from Pisces Iscariot

             Transcribed by Adam Morris

   Tune guitar 1/2 a step down

   D# G# C# F# A# D#

 MAIN RIFF  (These chord changes are quite fast)
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------7--7-7/9-9-9\4---------------------------|
|-2--2-5/7--7--7-7/9-9-9\4---------------------------|
|-2--2-5/7--5--5-5/7-7-7\2---------------------------|
|-0--0-3/5-------------------------------------------|

 VERSE RIFF
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------7\----9\-------------------------------|
|-2\----2\----7\----9\-------------------------------|
|-2\----2\----5\----7\-------------------------------|
|-0-----0--------------------------------------------|

For the weird bendy sound, just slide your finger up
the 5th string (G#, usually A) and bend a fairly high
fret up there :)

Then back to the main riff again for the chorus.

Then another verse and chorus, and then the song
changes, and gets interesting.

This riff is played a few times:

|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|-2------------|
|-2-----9--8---|
|-0--0--7--6---|

Then this:
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------|
|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------|
|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3/5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-------|

 Then repeat this a few times.
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--7--7-7-7-7-5--5-5-5-5-----------------------------|
|--7--7-7-7-7-5--5-5-5-5-----------------------------|
|--5--5-5-5-5-3--3-3-3-3-----------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
  The back into the main riff and that is about it!

 No solo sorry

 E-mail with any suggestions, corrections, comments.

 Adam
 benmo@deakin.edu.au