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Climbing Up the Walls

Radiohead
Tab
★4.7(11)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

^ Bend

¶ Light Vibrato

( ) harmonics

* Pick String Behind nut

~ Let ring

\ Slide

/ Slide Down

Intro and Verse -Acoustic

Sounds in the beggining are all made by jonny apparently he plays no guitar in this song

use all your modulation effects to make the sounds (whammy,ring modulator, and tremolo

best)

thom- Acoustic 0:31

e|-------------||-------------------|
b|-------------||-------------------|
g|--4-0---0----||-4-----------------|
d|----5-2-5----||---5-2-------------|
a|--2----------||-2---2-------------|
E|----3-0-3----||---3-0-------------|

Pitch shifter or whammy and Delay/reverb or pick behind the nut of your guitar

e|--(12)-(12)--------------||--------------------|
b|-------------------------||--------------------|
g|-------------------------||---*-*--------------|

Chorus Thom ...the walls

e|------------------------------------------|
b|----------------------------------------0-|
g|-0------------------0-------------------4-|
d|-2------------------2-------------------2-|
a|-2--2/4-5--------2--2--2/4-5---------2--2-|
E|-0--------0-2/3-----0---------0-2/3-----0-|

Chorus- Ed

x3 "clibiming up the walls~"

e|------------------------||---------------|
b|----10h12-12-12-10------||---10-12~------|
g|------------------12-11-||---------------|
d|------------------------||---------------|
a|------------------------||---------------|
E|------------------------||---------------|

Second Verse

(X2 2nd w/delay effect) X2

e|-------------------------|
b|-------------------------|
g|---77-66-44--44-22-0-----|
d|--------------------4----|
a|----------------------2~-|
E|-------------------------|

Short Delay, Long repeats.

"Lock the kids up safe tonight" "Ive got the..Lonliest feeling

e|-14-17--14-12-12----14-----14----15~---14-14---------14-14-----12~-|
b|--12--12-------------15-12--15----------12-15---------15-15--------|
g|-----------------------------16-------------12------------16-12----|
d|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
a|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus

for this part its hard to emulate the exact sound on guitar for the smooth sond

But for this I pluged my Sk-1 synth into my pedals and used the distoriton

And delay and it came out fairly well, but here it is on guitar

Jonny -Bride/solo (Delay effect(or reverb)/distoriton)

e|---------------------1414---------------------------|
b|11/12-----------18/191919-----------11/12-----------|
g|15/16----------------------16-16-16-15/16-----------|
d|------14p12h14--15-----------------------14p12h14---|
a|-------------------------------------------------14-|
E|----------------------------------------------------|
e|--------14\------------------------------|
b|--18/19-19\------------------------------|
g|-----------------------------------------|
d|-----------------------------------------|
a|-----------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|

Ed 3:33 "Climbing up.."

e|---------------------------------------------||-----------|
b|---------------------------------------------||-----------|
g|-14h16-16-16-16-14h16-16-16-16-14h16-16-16-16||-------14--|
d|---------------------------------------------||--15-16----|
a|---------------------------------------------||-14--------|
E|---------------------------------------------||-----------|

String Simulation- At the end Use long Delays and slide

back and forth from the 12th-20th fret

But mainly tremolo pick on the 20th

Tremolo pick

e|12/20¶2020¶20\20¶20¶20/2020¶202020\12-202020~--|
b|---------------------------------------------0-|
g|---------------------------------------------4-|
d|---------------------------------------------2-|
a|---------------------------------------------2-|
E|---------------------------------------------0-|

-RS- @ Ultimate-guitar.com

Questions or suggestion Email me @ Salisburysteak89@comcast.net

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