Helter Skelter

	 



Intro:



-|-----0-- 

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-|--12\3-- 

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           When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the



-|-----0-- 

(repeat)--------------------------------------------------

-|-----2-- 

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    slide, where I stop and I turn and I go for a



                                                  G           

-|-----0-- 

(repeat)--------------------------------------------------

-|-----1-- 

(repeat)--------------------------------------------------

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-|------------------------------------------------5--5--6--6--------

-|------------------------------------------------3--3--3--3--------

    ride, till I get to the bottom and I see you again.



                           E

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-|--5--5--6---------6------2--2--2--2--3\2--2--2--2-----------------

-|--3--3--3---------3------0--0--0--0--1\0--0--0--0-----------------

          Yeah yeah  yeah!





Verse:



     E

Well do you don't you want me to make you



I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you

                                 G

Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer

          A                                E

Well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.







Chorus:

            A

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-|----------2---2---4---4--5--4--2----------------------------------

-|----------0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0----------------------

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    Well, Helter Skelter

     E

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-|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------

-|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------

    Helter skelter

     A                                    E

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-|--------------------------------------------5b 

(7)--3--5-----------

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-|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------

-|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------

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    Helter skelter                        Yeah



So much for verses and choruses.  The rest are pretty much the same,

except that the rest of the verses hit the G chord a little sooner

 

(at the beginning of the third line of the verse).



Here's the guitar solo in the middle:



    E                          A                      E

-|----------------------7--7--15b 

(17)--15b 

(17)--b 

(17)15-------------

-|----------------------0--0----------------------------------------

-|----------------------9--9----------------------------------------

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    'Cos here she comes

                                  A                                    E

-|--------------------------------------------------------------------------

-|--b 

(17)15b 

(17)15---------------13b 

(14)------------------b 

(17)15-----------

-|------------------b 

(14)12---------------b 

(14)12b 

(14)12-----------12-------

-|---------------------------14----------------------------------------14~--

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Later, there's a neat riff in one of the last verses.  I think it

comes right after  will you won't you want me to make you  or something

like that.  This is a cool riff with that looonnnng slide.



-|--12--15b 

(17)--b 

(17)15--12------12----------------------------------------

-|----------------------------15------15\10-----10b 

(12)--b 

(12)10--8---------

-|-------------------------------------------9-----------------------7--9---

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As the song fades into the first ending, there are some nice bend releases,

while the lyrics repeat  coming down fast :



-|--b 

(17)15------------------------------------------------------------

-|-----------b 

(17)15---------------------------------------------------

-|--------------------b 

(16)14------------------------------------------

-|-----------------------------b 

(14)12---------------------------------

-|--------------------------------------b 

(14)12------------------------

-|---------------------------------------------------------------------



Later, there's a whole lot of Hendrix-like guitar noise.



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Tab Special Notations:

----0----  play the open string  

('fret zero')

----5----  play fret five

----5~---  play fret five with vibrato

---5/7---  play fret five, slide up to fret seven

---7\5---  play fret seven, slide down to fret five

--7\5/7--  play fret seven, slide down to fret five, slide back up

--8b 

(9)--  play fret eight, bend the string  

(at fret eight) to reach

             the pitch of fret nine

--b 

(9)8--  play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,

             unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight

----h7---  hammer-on to fret seven

----p5---  pull-off to fret five

---/7----  slide up to fret 7  

(the starting fret of the slide is

             undefined, judge by ear)

---15\---  play fret 15, slide down  

(the ending fret of the slide is

             undefined, judge by ear)

---0h3---  play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret

             three

---7p5---  play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five