The Shape Is In a Trance Tabs & Lyrics by Thurston Moore

The Shape Is In a Trance

guitar tabs lyrics

Thurston Moore

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THE SHAPE IS IN A TRANCE - Thurston Moore
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Tabbed by: Chapman Li (aka SonicYouthRules)
Email: [email protected]

Tuning: Standard

What a fantastic album by Thurston - as you can tell from my nicname, I'm probably
a little biased anyways ;-) Just missing one riff, which follows riff1 in the

intro but i think i can nail it sometime soon, as i have the chords progression
figured. Enjoy, and plz rate!


Riff 1 (00:00)
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----13--12----------13-12-----------10-----------10--11-----------------|
G|-----------12-------------12------------10----10-------------------------|
D|--10---10------10--10-------10---8-8---8--8~-8--8---8--------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Riff 2 (00:29)
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------h----------h---------------------------------|
G|---h-------------h---------3-5-7~-7~--3-5-7~-7~--------------------------|
D|--5-7--8~-8~~---5-7--8~-8~-----------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|


Riff 3 (00:37) [VERSES also]
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------3-5------------55555-----------------------------------------------|
D|--5-5~----3-3-3~-3-3-33333-----------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|


CHORUS - Riff 4 (01:11)

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------etc-----------------------------|
A|---8888888--555555--888888--5555555--------------------------------------|
E|---6666666--333333--666666--3333333--------------------------------------|


| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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