Smashing Pumpkins 1979 acoustic

[sable]

anyone here play 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins) on the acoustic. if so can you teach me?

[ryopan]

ive never learned it because from what i saw, you need to tune down half a step. i could be wrong. too lazy for that crap though. same goes for our lady peace songs. anywho, i dunno why i responded cuz i dont know how. sorry.
ryan

[sable]

i also don't like tuning down so i don't. i just play standard.

[ericwormann]

You'd probably get more responses in the general guitar discussion.

[pearljammer]

Anyone wanna post a good tab for this?

[dmfollower]

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INTRO/MAIN RIFF
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------| 
|-8--8-8-8-8-9--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6b--4--2--4--6--9-|
|----------------------------------6b--4--2--4--6--9-|
|-6--6-6-6-6-7--2-2-2-2-2-2-2- 
|-0--0---0---0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----------------------| 
Those 6's, 4's, 2's and 9's are all supposed to be played together
i.e. 6
     6

Then this once.
|-------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------| 
|-9---------8--------------------------------------------| 
|-7---------9---------------------------------------------|
|-9---------9---------------------------------------------| 
|-0---------7---------------------------------------------| 

Then back to the main riff x 3 (I think it is 3)

Then play this as the chorus.
|-0---0------------------------------------------------|
|-0---0-------2-------------------------------------------| 
|-9---9---4---2------------------------------------------| 
|-9---9---4---2------------------------------------------|
|-7---6---2---0------------------------------------------| 
|-7---7---0---0------------------------------------------| 

Then off the A chord play f#m and then B.  From there you can go back to the verse or you can play c#m after the B and then an A and then f#m and then B.  Thats pretty much the whole song, you go back to the verse and after the 09 part end on a standard E.  
Ask questions if you must.


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[nugsta25]

Chords:
Emaj7 E A F#m B C#m
E x x 0 2 2 4
B x x 2 2 4 5
G 1 1 2 2 4 6
D 1 2 2 4 4 6
A 2 2 0 4 2 4
E 0 0 0 2 2 4

Tune down 1 half step (so the E shown is actually Eb, and so on)

Emaj7 E A
Emaj7 E A

Emaj7 E A
Shakedown 1979,

Emaj7 E A
cool kids never have the time

F#m B Emaj7 E A
on a live wire right up off the street, you and I should meet

Emaj7 E A
junebug skipping like a stone

Ema7 E A
with the headlights pointed at the dawn

F#m B
we were sure we'd never see an end to it all

E A E
and I don't even care to shake these zipper blues

A E A
and we don't know just where our bones will rest to dust I guess

F#m B
forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Emaj7 E A
Emaj7 E A Emaj7 E A
double cross the vacant and the bored

Emaj7 E A
they're not sure just what we have in store

F#m A
morpine city slippin dues down to see

E A E
that we don't even care as restless as we are

A E
we feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts

A B
and poured cement, lamented and assured

C#m A
to the lights and towns below

B C#m A
faster than the speed of sound

B C#m A F#m B Emaj7 E A
faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope

Emaj7 E A
Justine never knew the rules

Emaj7 E A
hung down with the freaks and the ghouls

Emaj7 E A
no apologies ever need be made

F#m
I know you better than you fake it

B E A E
to see that we don't even care to shake these zipper blues

A E A
and we don't know just where our bones will rest, to dust I guess

F#m B Emaj7 E A
forgotten and absorbed into earth below

Emaj7 E A
the street heats the urgency of sound

E
as you can see there's no one around





this worked pretty well for me. It's not too bad once you get all the barring down. I don't play this ofetn becuase it's annoying to tune down every time. hope this helps.

[nugsta25]

i copy and pasted, and the chords didnt go above the words in the right spot. You will need to listen for the changes.
here's a link that shows where the changes are:

http://www.tabcrawler.com/archive.php?a ... &song=1979

[dmfollower]

you can probably find a live acoustic version done on european mtv. i have a concert that has a really close-up version, that's how i got my tab.