Skull Bubbles

Date: 06/02/01
From: Alan Tignanelli

Tuning (low to high):

D – A – D – G – B – E

Riff A

--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
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--------------------------------|5----5----4-------2-------0-----|
2-----------4----------5--------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|3---3---------------------------|
--------------------------------|----------1---------------------|
5---5-------4--------2-----0----|-----------------4-----2----0---|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Chorus

Bm Bb(or some D variant?)
2-------------------------------|2-------------------------------|
3-------------------------------|3-------------------------------|
4-------------------------------|3-------------------------------|
0-------------------------------|0-------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

D(sus2?) E7
0-------------------------------|0--------------|----------------|
3-------------------------------|0--------------|----------------|
2-------------------------------|1--------------|----------------|
0-------------------------------|0--------------|----------------|
--------------------------------|---------------|----------------|
--------------------------------|---------------|----------------|

--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
3----3--------------------------|3----3--------------------------|
-----------1--------------------|-----------1--------------------|
------------------4----2----0---|-----------------4-----2----0---|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Bridge

D Bb (or D mutant)
2-------------------------------|2-------------------------------|
3-------------------------------|3-------------------------------|
2-------------------------------|3-------------------------------|
0-------------------------------|0-------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Bm E7
2-------------------------------|0-------------------------------|
3-------------------------------|0-------------------------------|
4-------------------------------|1-------------------------------|
0-------------------------------|0-------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Bridge Melody

D Bb (or D mutant)
------0---2----5--2----0-----2--|0-------0------2----5--2---0-2-0|
3-------------------------------|----2---------------------------|
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When I was seven years of age I learned the sweetest holiday

Bm E7
------------0---2------5--2--0--|-2---2----2---------------------|
3------3------------------------|--------------------------------|
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song How the hell’s everything gone so wrong?

INTRO (Riff A 4 times)

VERSE (Riff A 3 times)

CHROUS

VERSE

CHORUS

Riff A 2 times

BRIDGE

Riff A 2 times

VERSE

Riff A repeats until head rips off

NOTE: In the first measure of Riff A, the D on the fifth string, fifth fret is sometimes replaced by the open sixth string.

posted by Yogi
ammk, 6/2/01

Bb(or some D variant?)

I haven't A/B'd your transcription to the recording, but I can identify the chord you reference above: it is in fact, an AUGMENTED triad. Two major
thirds stacked on top of each other (B flat to D, D to F#).

Yogi
www.wonky.net

posted by Bill Tindall
ammk, 6/6/01

Yogi wrote ...
Mike plays a lot of chords that I don't even know what they ARE (um, "Uglytown" verses, anyone?). I just ordered my copy of Ted Greene's "Chord Chemistry" (thanks for the suggestion, Dougie!), so maybe I can like, get a clue or something.

Mike is the Question Mark and the Mysterians of chord architects, ain't he? The more I delve into his stuff, the more I find things that are implied but ever actually played, y'know? Not just implied motion, but implied NOTES, fercryin'outloud! Sometimes there'll be one note just screaming "I'm here!" in a certain part, and when I sit down and work it out...it's not there. It just ain't even there. That's weird, man. That kind of thinking is just so wonderful... what a playful character. I love figuring out that, say, chord X in part Y is a C# dominant of some ilk, and I work out all the voicings I can think up for that sucker, and then find out it's actually NONE of them. Either that or I can't figure out which one it is... I've been playing around with Natty Trousers, by the way, and I hope to have that up soonly. Well, maybe soonly-ish...ly. The tuning is EGDGAE. Or possibly something else... What was that other tuning again, Dougie?

Best,
Bill T