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Pavement Tune

The Frames
Tab
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Song

Pavement Tune

By The Frames

Intro:

Repeat the following a few times:

	e|-----------------------------------------------|
	-|-----------------------------------------------|
	-|-----------------------------------------------|
	-|---11-11-11-11-9--9--11------------------------|
	-|---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--9-h-11-11-11-11-11-----|
	E|------------------------0---0--0--0--0--0------|

Verses:

Play the first half of the intro riff (the bit with the open A string)

followed by a few big ringing E majors.

Play this a few times.

Then ("I can imgaine what they'd say" bit):

     e|------------------------------------------------|
    -|-------------------------------------------------|
    -|-------------------------------------------------|
    -|-------------------------------------------------|
    -|------6-----6---7--------------------------------|
    E|--4-4---4-4---4-5--------------------------------|

Play this a few times and mix in the first half of

the intro riff in between each one.

Then onwards to the chorus...("I want my life to make more sense")

Chorus:

All I can say for definite is that the chorus begins on an

E chord and ends on an A chord.

In between I normally just add F# and G# notes on the low

E string but I've a feeling there's more going on than this, so...

E->F#, G#->A

(pick some of the bassier strings in the E and A rather than strumming them).

Bridge:

This bit is tricky. There's some frenetic muted riffing on high strings

most of the way through it, but the chord structure *seems* to be...

C#m, B, F#m

I'm not entirely sure about the F#m, you might prefer to use A.

Comments

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