The Sprawl

Song

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SONIC YOUTH - THE SPRAWL

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Tabbed by: L Hulme

E-mail: songsforwalter@hotmail.co.uk

There's not a correct tab for Thurston's part anywhere online.

I play in a Sonic Youth Cover band in Manchester UK -

live vid of us playing Stereo Sancity here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO7aPonHFkc

Worked out after hours of watching Thurston play this on youtube clips.

Tuning: CCEBGD - At the very least you're best putting an A string as your 6 string.

As a general rule for SY tunes you're best putting G at least 0.17s as your 3 highest strings.

Up or down by these many semi tones : Eu8 Au3 Du2 Gu4 Bd4 Ed2

Intro/Spoken part- I'm not gonna tab the strumming but these are the chord shapes

slide down

D|-----------------3--5--------3------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------3--3--------3--5-/4/3/2/1------------------------------|
B|--------------5--3--3-----5--3--3--x-x-x-x------------------------------|
E|--------------3--3--3-----3--3--3--x-x-x-x------------------------------|
C|--0-0-0-0-----0--0--0-----0--0--0--0-0-0-0------------------------------|
C|--0-0-0-0-----0--0--0-----0--0--0--0-0-0-0------------------------------|

Chorus - Come on down to the store (This bits correct on other sites)

 D|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
 G|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
 B|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
 E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
 C|----0----2---0----2----3------0-----2----3-------0-----2-------3-----|
 C|----0----2---0----2----3------0-----2----3-------0-----2-------3-----|

The post chorus bit is really hard to work out what T is playing it definately involves:

D|--0--------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--12-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--12-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--0--------------------------------------------------------------------|
C|--0--------------------------------------------------------------------|
C|--0--------------------------------------------------------------------|

The Lead Riff is played like this - across 2 strings

Play that 22 times x 11 x8

D|--0----0---------------0---0---------0---0----------------------------|
G|--12---0---------------11--0---------12--0----------------------------|
B|--0----x---------------0---x---------0---0----------------------------|
E|--x---12---------------x---12--------0---12---------------------------|
C|--0----0---------------0---0---------0---0----------------------------|
C|--0----0---------------0---0---------0---0----------------------------|

Outro / after all the noise this beautiful riff emerges

repeat lots of times...

D|--4-5-7--4--4-4-5-7----9-9-------------------------------0--|
G|--4-4-4--4--4-4-4-5----0-0--7-7-7-7----------------------0--|
B|--0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0----8-8--8-8-8 8/10-10----------------0--|
E|--0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0------------------8-8-5--10-10-0--|
C|---------------------0-0-0------------------0-0-0--0--0-----|
C|---------------------0-0-0----------------------------------|

Then you can launch into cross the breeze - same tuning.

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| / slide up

| \ slide down

| h hammer-on

| p pull-off

| ~ vibrato

| + harmonic

| x Mute note

| b Bend

| pb Pre-bend

| br Bend release

| pbr Pre-bend release

| brb Bend release bend

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