I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself tab by The White Stripes

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I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself by The White Stripes
from the album Elephant

Tabbed by Keith Railton (guitar @ mooworldorder.com)

Another awesome song from the Elephant album! This CD makes me so happy! Not
much to say about this guitar-wise, just attack the notes when you need to.


ODD SYMBOLS
-------------

  > = accent
  ^ = rake chord from bass to treble strings
  . = play note/chord staccato
*2nd = 2nd time only

============================================================================
==


INTRO

Listen to song for the rhythm, please...

||-----------------0---|-----------------------------||
||-----------------1---|-------x---------------------||
||---------0-------0---|---0---x---.-----------------||
||---------0-------2---|---0---x---0---0-------------||
||---------2-------3---|---2---x----------3--2-p-0---||
||---(3)---3-----------|---3-------------------------||
      G+G    C majorC    G+G


VERSE
               >    >
||-------------|-------------3-------3--------||
||---------1---|-------------3-------3--------||
||-0-------0---|-0-----------0-------0--------||
||-0-------2---|-0-----------0-------0--------||
||-2-------3---|-2-----------2-------2--------||
||-3-----------|-3-----------3-------3--------||
  G+G    C majorC   G+G      G+G    G+G


PRE-CHORUS THING
This is where it's important to listen to the song. You need to get the
palm-muting right, and get the raked chords in the right place.

||------^0---0-------------||---||---------------||--------------|
||------^1---1--------1----||---||---------------||-----^0---0---|
||*-----^2---2--------2---*||---||*---3---------*||-----^0---0---|
||*--2--^2---2----2---2---*||---||*---3---------*||-----^2---2---|
||---0--^0--------0---0----||---||----3----------||--2--^2---2---|
||-------------------------||---||----1----------||--0--^0-------|
  p.m.----|   p.m.       (...same rhythm
                  * see note)

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

 * NB: I think this is about the right chord. It's so heavily muted
 and distorted it's hard to really tell. There's certainly an FF and
 that Bb majorBb in there. Try changing the C majorC on the A augmentedA string to an open A augmentedA
 for more dissonance.

CHORUS-THING

||------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------|
||*----------------------------------*|
||*--5-------5-------5---5---5-------*|
||---5-------5-------5---5---5---0----|
||---3-------3-------3---3---3---0----|

 |-----------------------------------------|------------------|
 |-----------------------------------------|-->------->-------|
 |*-----------------------------------*---*|--3--!----3---!---|
 |*--3-------3-------3---3---3-------(0)--*|--3--!----3---!---|
 |---3-------3-------3---3---3---0---(0)---|--1-------1-------|
 |---1-------1-------1---1---1---0---------|------------------|
                   *2nd

 |--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------|-5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---|
 |-3------3-------3-------3-------|-5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---|
 |-3------3-------3-------3-------|-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---|
 |-1------1-------1-------1-------|---------------------------------|

 |-----------||
 |---5-------||
 |---5-------||
 |---5-------||
 |---3-------||
 |-----------||


EXTENDED CHORUS THING
                          1, 2, 3 ¬    4¬
||-----------------------------|---------------------------|--3-------|
||-----------------------------|------15---15--13--12~~~---|--0-------|
||-----------------------------|-----x--------------------*|--0-------|
||-5-------5\------3-------3/--|-5--x---------------------*|--0-------|
||-5-------5\------3-------3/--|-5-------------------------|--2-------|
||-3-------3\------1-------1/--|-3-------------------------|--3-------|


Fin.

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