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/ Smashing Pumpkins / Gish (1991) / I Am One guitar tab

I Am One  -- Smashing Pumpkins (Corgan/Iha)

Transcribed by Chris Carman (cecarman@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu)

This is the best I can do with this song.  I only have an acoustic guitar, so
I can't tab out guitar solos very well.  Hope you like it.

4 bar drum intro

4 bars of bass: (repeat 2x)
-------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------
--2--0-0-2--0-2--0-0-0-2--0-2--0-0-2--0-2--0-0-0-2--0--

Guitar intro:                                    pick slide
--------------------0-----------------------0--------
--------0---------0-------------0---------0----------
------3---------3-------------3---------3------------
----4---------4-------------4---------4----------x\--
--4---------2-------------4---------2------------x\--
--2---------0-------------2---------0------------x\--


Main rhythm guitar part (verse):

|Billy (2x)
|----------------------------------------------------------------
|--11--9-9-11--9-11--9-9-9-14-14--11--9-9-11--9-11--9-9-9-14-16-- <-- not sure
|--11--9-9-11--9-11--9-9-9-14-14--11--9-9-11--9-11--9-9-9-14-16--
|--11--9-9-11--9-11--9-9-9-14-14--11--9-9-11--9-11--9-9-9-14-16--
|---9--x-x--9--x--9--x-x-x-12-12---9--x-x--9--x--9--x-x-x-12-14--
|----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|James (2x)
|----------------------------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------------------------
|---4--x-x--4--x--4--x-x-x--7--7---4--x-x--4--x--4--x-x-x--7--9--
|---4--x-x--4--x--4--x-x-x--7--7---4--x-x--4--x--4--x-x-x--7--9--
|---2--0-0--2--0--2--0-0-0--5--5---2--0-0--2--0--2--0-0-0--5--7--


(Some guitar solo that I can't figure out with some pinch artificial harmonics.)

(with verse guitar part):

I am one as you are three
Try to find messiah in your trinity
Your city to burn
Your city to burn
Try to look for something in your city to burn

You'll burn (unison guitars)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------13------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------12--14--
-----------------------------------11----------------------------12--14--
--------12p0-0-0-12p0-0-12p0-0-0-0-----12p0-0-0-12p0-0-12p0-0-0--10--12--

        Am              I               as             I 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------13------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------12--14--
-----------------------------------11----------------------------12--14--
--------12p0-0-0-12p0-0-12p0-0-0-0-----12p0-0-0-12p0-0-12p0-0-0--10--12--

..seem?   Undone          Love    So mellow(?)
--------------------0-----------------------0--------
--------0---------0-------------0---------0----------
------3---------3-------------3---------3------------
----4---------4-------------4---------4----------x\--
--4---------2-------------4---------2------------x\--
--2---------0-------------2---------0------------x\--

(Another Billy fill....)


(verse)
Time is right for a guiding light
Try to turn to reasons in your bitter life
Your city to burn
Your city to burn
Try to look for something in your city to burn

You'll burn (unison guitars, play twice)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------13------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------12--14--
-----------------------------------11----------------------------12--14--
--------12p0-0-0-12p0-0-12p0-0-0-0-----12p0-0-0-12p0-0-12p0-0-0--10--12--


(verse guitar part):
See you.. you're the only one who
See you.. I am one
---------------------
---------------------
----------9-11-------
---------------11~\--
---------------------
---------------------
See you.. you're the only one who
See you.. (obviously I'm not sure about the lyrics)

Bridge: (there are two guitar parts to this, but they're tough to separate..)
 A
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------7-------------------------------------7-----------------7---7-8~-
---7-6--7--7/9---9--7h9p7-6--7--9-7-6----7-6--7--7/9---9--7h9p7-6-7-9----9------
-7-------------------------------------7----------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

(...into the double guitar solo.. both James & Billy solo for 8 bars or so)

Out of solo:
  E                           (wah pedal on each note..)
--12--10--9----------------------------------------------
-------------12--10--9-----------------------------------
------------------------11--9----------------------------
-------------------------------12--11--9--7--6--4--2--0--
---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------

Bass alone: (2x)
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------
---2--0-0--2--0--2--0-0-0--5--5\--2--0-0--2--0--2--0-0-0--5--7\--

(Back into more of Billy soloing and James playing his rhythm part with D'arcy.
  This goes on for about 8 bars or so)

Basically the "See you... blah blah" part again with Billy playing some sort of
 F#7 chord over it... either:

-----    --11-or-9--
-----    --10--
--9--    --11--
-11-- or ------ which isn't really an F#7, but you get the idea.
--9--    ------
-----    ------

End on the F# chord hits.


From: Eric.Moreau%roy@absint.login.qc.ca (Eric Moreau)


I Am One  -  The Smashing Pumpkins        Tab by: loase@mn.ecn.purdue.edu

Intro Riff
e---------------------------------------------------------------0----------
B------------------0------------------------------------0------------------
G--------------3------------------------------------3----------------------
D--------------------------------------------------------------------------
A----------4------------------------------------4--------------------------
E--2-2-2--------------------------------2-2-2------------------------------

Riff 1
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------2---2---------------------------2---4--------------
4---2-3-4---2-4---4-2-4-2---2---4---2-3-4---2-4---4-2-4-2---4--------------
4---2-3-4---2-4---4-2-4-0---0---4---2-3-4---2-4---4-2-4-0---2--------------
2---0-1-2---0-2---2-0-2---------2---0-1-2---0-2---2-0-2--------------------

Riff 2  (Those are frets 11, 12, and 14, not frets 1 and then 2)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------11---11-------------------------------12---14--
0-12-0-0-12-0-0-12-0-12-0-0-----------0-12-0-0-12-0-0-12-0-12-0-0----------

Bridge  (That ' means a bend up and the 3532 is a pulled triplet)
------------------------------------------------------
----3-2-----3---5---7-5---3532-3-2---3-0-----2--------
2----------------------------------------------2------
2-----------------------------------------------------
0-----------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------
----3-2-----3---5---7-5---3532-3-5---7-5-----7---7'---
2-----------------------------------------------------
2-----------------------------------------------------
0-----------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------

End of solo  (The , is just a slide down)
12---10---9------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------12---10---9----------------------------------------------------
----------------------------11---9---7---6-----------------------------------
---------------------------------------------9---7---6-----------------------
---------------------------------------------------------9---7---4-----------
---------------------------------------------------------------------2,------


The song goes:
Intro/Riff 1/Riff 2/Intro/Riff 1/Riff 2/Riff 1/Bridge/Solo in F#/End of solo/
Pause/Riff 1

I will not post Siamese stuff people will kill me and pisces, I only
have Soothe...


Smashing Pumpkins albums
2000 Machina: The Machines of God
1998 Adore
1996 Aeroplane Flies High
1995 Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Twilight To Starlig
1995 Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Dawn To Dusk
1994 Pisces Iscariot
1993 Siamese Dream
1991 Gish
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09Window Paine tabbass tab
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