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the Smashing Pumpkins
Hummer
Off Siamese Dream (1993)
Written by Billy Corgan
Tabbed by Jimi
Drop D Tuning
One of Billy´s masterpieces, with a couple of
delay and fuzz effects in some parts. I was
polite enough to transcribe the whole song.
Intro:
Billy
|--2h3p2-------------2h3p2-----2-3---|
|--------4-3-1-3-3-3-------x-x-------|
|------------------------------------| 2 times
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
Billy
|--2h3p2-------------2h3p2-----2-3---|
|--------4-3-1-3-3-3-------x-x-------|
|------------------------------------| 8 times
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
James 4x 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
|--------------|----|----|----|----|
|--------------|----|----|----|----|
|--11b12r11----|-11-|-12-|-11-|-16-| 4 times
|--------------|----|----|----|----|
|--9-b10r9---0-|-9--|-10-|-9--|-14-|
|------------0-|----|----|----|----|
I hope you can understand this. James goes with heavy,
fuzzy distortion, the second time.
Intro Solo:
Billy (heavy Fuzz)
|-----------------------------------------------------10---------|
|-----------------------------------------------10/12-10-12-10---|
|--7------0-2/4-4--------------11-9p7h9b11~~~~--9-/11-9--11-9----|
|-----------------5-4b5r4-----------------------7-/9-----9--7----|
|--5----------------------5/7------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------|
Billy (heavy Fuzz)
|-------------------------------------10---------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------10-----10-----------------------|
|-----------------11b12r11-12b14~~~~--------11-----11p9-11b12r11-9~~~~---|
|--------------------------12b14~~~~-----------------------------10~~~---|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--3p0~~gr~~-------------------------------------------------------------|
James (heavy Fuzz)
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------5--5---| 4 times
|--0---0--0--0---0--0---2--2--5--5---|
|--0---0--0--0---0--0---2--2--3--3---|
|--0---0--0--0---0--0---2--2---------|
Verse:
Billy (clean/chorus)
|--0--------0----0-----|
|--3--------3----1-----|
|--2--------0----0-----| 4 times
|--0--------2----2-----|
|----------------------|
|----------------------|
James (clean/chorus)
|--0--------0----0-----|
|--3--------3----1-----|
|--2--------0----0-----| 4 times
|--0--------2----2-----|
|--0--------2----3-----|
|--0--------2----------|
"Faith lies in the ways of sin…"
This is the brigde over Billy´s vocals "In their eyes I was alive":
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|--2--2-2--2-2/5--5-5--5-5