Windowpaine Tab by The Smashing Pumpkins

Windowpaine tab by The Smashing Pumpkins

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Windowpaine - by Smashing Pumpkins from the album Gish
===========

hbr - half-bend release
fbr - full-bend release

Bass and drums open:

|-----------------------------
|-----------------------------
|-----------------------------
|-7-0---7-0---7-0---7-0-------

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Riff 1

G1 - Tremolo, clean

  Window...     pay..ayne...

|-----------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------
|--------9hbr-----------------------------------
|-9hb-9---------7----6--------------------------
|-------------------------7hbr------5-----7-----
|---------------------------------0-----0-------

Riff 2

  Do..gonna do...

|-0---0-------0----------0----0-----------------
|-3---0---------0--------3----0--------------0--
|-2---1-----------1------2----1------------1----
|-0---2-------------2----0----2----------2------
|-0---2------------------0----2--------2--------
|-----0-----------------------0-----------------

  Do..gonna do...

|-0---0-------0----------0----3----0-----------------
|-3---0---------0--------3----3----0-----------------
|-2---1-----------1------2----0----2-----------------
|-0---2-------------2----0----0----2-----------------
|-0---2------------------0----X----0-----------------
|-----0-----------------------3----------------------

Riff 2

G1 (same) G2 lightly distorted

|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|-7---9---9hbr---7---9----------7---9------------
|-7---9----------7---9----------7---7------------
|-5---7----------5---7---7hbr---5---7------------
|-----0--------------0--------------0------------ etc...

|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|-7-7-7-9---9hbr---7-7-7-9----------7-7-7-9------
|-7-7-7-9----------7-7-7-9----------7-7-7-7------
|-5-5-5-7----------5-5-5-7---7hbr---5-5-5-7------
|-------0----------------0----------------0------ etc...

Riff 3

Both guitars heavy distortion

|-0---0-------0---0----------------------------------
|-3---0-------3---0----------------------------------
|-2---1-------2---1----------------------------------
|-0---2-------0---2----------------------------------
|-0---2-------0---2----------------------------------
|-----0-----------0----------------------------------

after the pause -> drum roll:

|-0---0-------0---0----------------------------------
|-3---0-------3---0----------------------------------
|-2---1-------2---1----------------------------------
|-0---2-------0---2----------------------------------
|-0-0-2-------0-0-2----------------------------------
|---0-0---------0-0----------------------------------

after long pause and Billy's monologue and Jimmy's solo:

|-0---0---------0---0--------------------------------
|-0---0-X-X-X-X-3---3-X-X-X-X------------------------
|-1---1-X-X-X-X-2---2-X-X-X-X------------------------
|-2-2-2-X-X-X-X-0-0-0-X-X-X-X------------------------
|-2-2-2-X-X-X-X-0-0-0-X-X-X-X--ect...----------------
|-0-0-0----------------------------------------------

Song ends on E open and G (i think) pitched feedback.

---

                 Window Paine
                  from Gish
            Transcribed by Adam Morris
 From: benmo@deakin.edu.au (BENJAMIN JAMES MORRIS)


 This is another song that wasn't at Nevada,
 so here is my version.

 b=bend
 r-release bend
 h=hammer on
 p=pull off

 Standard tuning

*
E-----x------x------x------x------x------x----------|
B-----x------x------x------x------x------x----------|
G-----x------x------x------x------x------x----------|
D-----x------x------x------x------x------x----------|
A-----x------x------x------x------x------x----------|
E-0-0-x--0-0-x--0-0-x--0-0-x--0-0-x--0-0-x--0-0-----|

* This is actually for bass, but it doesn't really matter.
  The x's are done by hitting all the strings with you palm
  above the pick-ups.

E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G-----9b--r9------9b-r--9b--r9------------------9---|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A-----7b--r7------------7b--r7---7b-r--5--7--5--7---|
E-0-0------0--0-0------------0----------------------|
      Window            Paine...
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G-----------9---------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5--7--5--7---------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|

E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G-----9b--r9------9b-r--9b--r9------------------9---|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A-----7b--r7------------7b--r7---7b-r--5--7--5--7---|
E-0-0------0--0-0------------0----------------------|

E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G-----------9---------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5--7--5--7---------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|

                        <-*->
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7--------9-----------7p6p5p4---------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5--------7---------------------------------------|
E--0--------0---------------------------------------|


* Heaps of delay

E------------------------------------------------------|
B------------------------------------------------------|
G--7--------9----------------------7-------------------|
D--------------------------------7---------------------|
A--5--------7----------------5/7-----------------------|
E--0--------0------------------------------------------|


                        <-*->
E------------------------------------------------------|
B------------------------------------------------------|
G--7--------9-----------7p6p5p4------------------------|
D------------------------------------------------------|
A--5--------7------------------------------------------|
E--0--------0------------------------------------------|


* Heaps of delay

E------------------------------------------------------|
B------------------------------------------------------|
G-----7------------------------------------------------|
D--------------5--5--5-5--7--7--7-7--------------------|
A-----5------------------------------------------------|
E-----0--------3--3--3-3--5--5--5-5--------------------|


E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G-----9b--r9------9b-r--9b--r9-----------7---9------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A-----7b--r7------------7b--r7---7b-r----5---7------|
E-0-0------0--0-0------------0----------------------|


E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|


E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G-----9-9-9-9-----9b-r--9-9-9-9-----------7-7-7-9---|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A-----7-7-7-7-----------7-7-7-7---7b-r----5-5-5-7---|
E-0-0-------0--0-0------------0---------------------|


E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-7-7-7--9---------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5-5-5-5--7---------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|

 Then comes the distorted part.  Two guitars here.

Guitar 1
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|
 Guitar 2
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D--7-----9------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|
 This is repeated a few times

Guitar 1
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|
 Guitar 2
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D--7-----9------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|
 What are you coming to...

Guitar 1
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|
 Guitar 2
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D--7-----9------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|


Guitar 1
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|
 Guitar 2
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7-----9------------------------------------------|
D--7-----9------------------------------------------|
A--5-----7------------------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|


Guitar 1
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7------------------------9-----------------------|
D------5-----7--------------------------------------|
A--5------------------------7-----------------------|
E------3-----5--------------------------------------|
Guitar 2
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7------------------------9-----------------------|
D--7---5-----7--------------9-----------------------|
A--5---5-----7--------------7-----------------------|
E------3-----5--------------------------------------|


Guitar 1
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7------9--9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9-----------------------|
D-----7---------------------------------------------|
A--5------7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-----------------------|
E-----5---------------------------------------------|
Guitar 2
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--7------9--9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9-----------------------|
D--7--7---9--9-9-9-9--9-9-9-9-----------------------|
A--5--7---7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-----------------------|
E-----5---------------------------------------------|
 This is repeated a many times.

There is a solo here that I will post as soon as I work it out.

Guitar 1      *
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--------------7-----9------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--------------5-----7------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|
Guitar 2      *
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--------------7-----9------------------------------|
D--------------7-----9------------------------------|
A--------------5-----7------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|

* Clean tone

Distortion back on now!
Guitar 1
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--9--9-9-9-7--7-7-7--------------------------------|
D---------------------------------------------------|
A--7--7-7-7-5--5-5-5--------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|
Guitar 2
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G--9--9-9-9-7--7-7-7--------------------------------|
D--9--9-9-9-7--7-7-7--------------------------------|
A--7--7-7-7-5--5-5-5--------------------------------|
E---------------------------------------------------|

Then it ends like this:
E---------------------------------------------------|
B---------------------------------------------------|
G-----9---------------------------------------------|
D-----9---------------------------------------------|
A-----7---------------------------------------------|
E-------------13b-----------------------------------|
Play this bit 4 times and then end on the x799xx


         This took me hours to figure out and type up so if
         you are reading this now send me a message, even if
         you have nothing to say, I just want to know that
         people are getting it and maybe using and enjoying
         it.  I think most of what I have here is right.
         Once again, PLEASE tell me what you think (good and bad).
         Any corrections gladly welcomed.

         Adam Morris

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