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Metal Mickey

Suede
Chords & TabKeyGbeginner
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Chords in this song6

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From: Daniel L. Lovall <lovall@physics.purdue.edu>
Subject: /Suede/MetalMickey.crd
To: jamesb@animal-farm.nevada.edu
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 93 19:54:32 EST
Cc: lovall@animal-farm.nevada.edu (Daniel L. Lovall)
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]
> Metal Mickey is the first single released in the US. There's a lot of
> guitar lines and doodles in this song, and unfortunately I really wasn't
> able to pick most of them out of the mix. So call this a rough outline, if
> you will. The original key is Ab, so tune each string down a half step if
> you want to play along with the CD.
> Corrections/improvements/additions/comments are most definitely welcome.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Bob
> rpaley1@cc.swarthmore.edu
Artist: Suede
Title: Metal Mickey
Notation: fb = feedback 2(p)0 = pull off
INTRO:
 -----------------------------------------------|
 ---------------------1-------------------------|
 -0(fb)--2(p)0------0---0-----------------------|
 -------------2(p)0-------0---------------------|
 ---------------------------3--0----------------|_(effects) (I think he scrapes the pick
-----------------------------------------------| along the A string)
The main rhythm is A5 A5 G A5:
 -----------------------------------|
 -----------------------------------|
 -2-2-0-2-2-------------------------|
 -2-2-0-2-2-------------------------|
 -0-0---0-0---etc.------------------|
 -----------------------------------|
so the rest of the intro, as well as the verses, are
A5 G D C A (with this lick thrown in:E|-2-3-2-3----|
                                              B|-2-2-2-2----|
                                              G|------------|
Well she's show showing it off then the glitter in her lovely eyes
Show show showing it off then and all the people shake their money in time
CHORUS:
She sells heart, she sells meat
Oh Dad, she's driving me mad, come see
We shake shake shake to the trumpet and through the slippery city we ride
Skyline swine on the circuit where all the people shake their money in time
Repeat Chorus:
then A5 G A5 G A5 G etc. into solo (A blues pentatonic scale, centered
around 5th position: notes are A C D E G)
Repeat Chorus:
CODA:
She sells heart, she sells meat (repeat and fade)

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