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TSUNAMI – Manic Street Preachers
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Tabbed by: Matthew Belson
E-mail: [email protected]
This is how I play the song on an acoustic guitar. Fun fact: if you don't own a sitar,
slide something that fits snugly underneath your strings near the bridge, like a wooden spoon, you can make
your guitar sound more like one for this song. Anyway, it’s all an octave lower than the recording but
should suffice.
Tuning: Open F#add11 (C# F# C# F# A# B) for the studio version. If you’re willing to sing a little higher so
you don’t have to spend as much time tuning, do (D G D G B C), which is just open G with the high E tuned down
to C.
Main Sitar Riff
B |------0-------0-------------|
A#|-----0-0-----0-0------------|
F#|----0---0---0---0-----------|
C#|---0-----0-0-----0----------|
F#|--0-------0-----------------|
C#|-0--------------------------|
…Holy shit that was impossible, how does James do it?
Verses (All eighth notes and down picked)
F# A#m D#m B
B |------0-------0-------2-------2-------7-------7------6--------6----------|
A#|-----0-0-----0-0-----2-2-----2-2-----7-7-----7-7------5--------5---------|
F#|----0---0---0---0---4---4---4---4---9---9---9---9---5--5-----5--5--------|
C#|---0-----0-0-----0-4-----4-4-----4-9-----9-9-----9-5----5---5----5-------|
F#|--0-------0-------4-------4-------9-------9-------5------5-5------5------|
C#|(0)----------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus (Strum these in whatever pattern you feel, I ain’t writing it in)
C# C#sus4 C# Badd11+ B
B |----9----------------------------6---------------------------------------|
A#|----7------8------7--------------5---5-----------------------------------|
F#|----7------7------7--------------5---5---5--4-5-7-5-4--------------------|
C#|----7------7------7--------------5---5----------------5------------------|
F#|----7------7------7--------------5---5-----------------------------------|
C#|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Tsunami, Tsunami, Came Washing…Over Me
A#m F A#m/F
B |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A#|----3----------------2---------------------------------------------------|
F#|----4----------------3----------(4)--------4-4---4---4-4-(4)-------------|
C#|----4----------------4----------(4)------------4---2---------------------|
F#|----4----------------x----------(4)--------------------------------------|
C#|---------------------4-----------4---------------------------------------|
Can’t Speak Can’t Talk…Won’t Walk
Bridge is the same as the verse, but with just one strum per chord (I'd avoid the notes on the B string though).
The outro is just the intro gradually slowing down.
...That’s all, folks!
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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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