The Sprawl

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                        SONIC YOUTH - THE SPRAWL
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Tabbed by: L Hulme
E-mail: songsforwalter@hotmail.co.uk

There's not a correct tab for 
Thurston's part anywhere online.
I play in a Sonic Youth Cover band 
in Manchester UK.

Worked out after hours of watching 
Thurston play this on youtube clips.

Tuning: CCEBGD - At the very least 
you're best putting an A string as 
your 6 string.
As a general rule for SY tunes 
you're best putting G at least 0.17s
 as your 3 highest strings.

 Up or down by these many semi tones
 : Eu8 Au3 Du2 Gu4 Bd4 Ed2

 Intro/Spoken part- I'm not gonna 
tab the strumming but these are the 
chord shapes


                                    slide down
E|-----------------3--5--------3--
B|-----------------3--3--------3--
G|--------------5--3--3-----5--3--
D|--------------3--3--3-----3--3--
A|--0-0-0-0-----0--0--0-----0--0--
E|--0-0-0-0-----0--0--0-----0--0--

E|----------------------------------
B|5-/4/3/2/1------------------------
G|3--x-x-x-x------------------------
D|3--x-x-x-x------------------------
A|0--0-0-0-0------------------------
E|0--0-0-0-0------------------------

Continues after the ad
  Chorus - Come on down to the store
  (This bits correct on other sites)
E|--------------------------------
B|--------------------------------
G|--------------------------------
D|--------------------------------
A|----0----2---0----2----3------0-
E|----0----2---0----2----3------0-

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B|----------------------------------
G|----------------------------------
D|----------------------------------
A|----2----3-------0-----2-------3--
E|----2----3-------0-----2-------3--

  The post chorus bit is really hard
 to work out what T is playing it 
definately involves:
E|--0-----------------------------
B|--12----------------------------
G|--12----------------------------
D|--0-----------------------------
A|--0-----------------------------
E|--0-----------------------------

  The Lead Riff is played like this 
- across 2 strings

   Play that 22 times    x 11       
    x8
E|--0----0---------------0---0----
B|--12---0---------------11--0----
G|--0----x---------------0---x----
D|--x---12---------------x---12---
A|--0----0---------------0---0----
E|--0----0---------------0---0----

E|-----0---0------------------------
B|-----12--0------------------------
G|-----0---0------------------------
D|-----0---12-----------------------
A|-----0---0------------------------
E|-----0---0------------------------

   Outro / after all the noise this 
beautiful riff emerges
   repeat lots of times...
E|--4-5-7--4--4-4-5-7----9-9------
B|--4-4-4--4--4-4-4-5----0-0--7-7-
G|--0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0----8-8--8-8-
D|--0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0------
A|---------------------0-0-0------
E|---------------------0-0-0------

E|-------------------------0--|  
B|7-7----------------------0--|  
G|8| 8/10-10----------------0--| 
D|------------8-8-5--10-10-0--|  
A|------------0-0-0--0--0-----|  
E|----------------------------|  

  Then you can launch into cross the
 breeze - same tuning.


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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