'Ask' by Smiths - Guitar Tutorial

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From: [email protected] (Johnny Mnemonic)
Subject: Smiths - Ask.tab
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 1994 04:35:48 -0500 (CDT)

ASK
note:the intro on Rank is G , C C, G, much simpler than this intro

A new corrected version with the bass thrown in for fun.

some notes before you go on:
This tab is a two guitar song tab'd out for one guitar.
It's also tabbed out in mind that not everyone (myself included)
and lay just like Mr. Marr.)  For example, I _do_ know that there
are three more strings on the guitar :), but I can play through this
version and it sounds good.  If you can crank through it, it wont
be too hard for you to round out the chords a little.  Corrections,
comments etc etc to [email protected]

Tom Chess


~ = bend, tremolo bar, whatever
s = slide to next notes            |-->I'm partiularly shaky about
                                |  | @ |  what happens here
              |          tab-A  |      |  | tab B|
e-5-3-5-10~---|-7-10-----12----------8----|------|
b-7-5-7-12~---|-8-----8------------8---10-|-8s10-|
g-7-5-7-12~---|-------9----------9-----11-|-9s11-|
d-7-5-7-12~---|---------------10-------12-|------|
a-------------|---------------------------|------|
e-------------|---------------------------|------|
                                          |
g------------------------------------------------|
d--------------------------------------0---------|
a---------------------0-------3------------------|
e-----5s3-s0----3---3----------------------------|


    Shyness is nice      and shyness can stop you from
e-7-7--5----7--7-----10------7--7----7---10---10--8----|
b-8-8--5-------8-----10--10--8---8-------9----10-------|
g------5-------9-----11------7---7-------9----11-------|
d------------------------------------------------------|
a------------------------------------------------------|
e------------------------------------------------------|

g------------------------------------------------------|
d--------------------0---------------------------0-----|
a-----0------------3------------0----------3-----------|
e-3-3----------------------3--3------------------------|

(that's pretty much how the bass goes so I'm gonna stop writing it
out.  There may may a feww notes missing from it anyway, but that's
the general idea of it).

  do-ing all the things in life you'd like to
e-10-12--10--8---8------7--5----------7----|
b-12-----10------8---------7----8----------|
g-12-----9-------9---------7---------------|  intro tab A and B
d------------------------------------------|
a------------------------------------------|
e------------------------------------------|

Repeat for shyness is nice... then again for then again for coyness,
but now we have the So, if there's something part so end only with
tab A and go to...

  So if there's something you'd like to try
e-10-10-10------10--10----10----12---10-10-----|
b---------------12--12----12----13------7---10-|
g---------------12--12----12----14------7---11-|
d----------------------------------------------| x2
a----------------------------------------------|
e---------------------------------Z------------|

  ask me, I won't say no, how could I?
e-10--7---7-7-----7---3---7---7-----|
b-12--------------8---5---8---------|
g-12--------------9---5---9---------|  tab A and B
d-----------------------------------|
a-----------------------------------|
e-----------------------------------|

then it makes its way to the Spening warm summer days apart...

         Spending warm summer days indoors
e-----8--7---7----7----5--7---7----5-7------5-3-|
b-5-8----7---7----8----------------7--------5-5-|
g-5------7---7----7----------------7--------5-5-|
d-----------------------------------------------|
a-----------------------------------------------|
e-----------------------------------------------|

  writing frightening verse   to a  bucktoothed girl in Luxemburg
e-5--7----10------7---7----10-10-10-10--10------7--3-3--3--5-7---|
b-7-------12---12-8---8----10-------12--12------5-------5----7---|
g-7-------12------9---9----11-------12--12------5-------5----7---|
d----------------------------------------------------------------|
a----------------------------------------------------------------|
e----------------------------------------------------------------|

  Ask me, ask me, ask me.
e-10--7---10--7---10--7----8--8--|
b-8-------8-------8---7----8--8--|
g---------------------7----9--9--| twice, but the second time instead
d--------------------------10-10-| of the C C go...
a--------------------------------|
e--------------------------------|

    because if it's not love then it's the bomb, the bomb
e-7-5-3--2--3--5----7---7----8----7----5---3-----5---7-----|
b-7-7-5--3--0--5----8---8---------7--------0---------8-----|
g-7-7-5--2--0--5----7---7---------7--------0---------7-----|
d--------0--0------------------------------0---------------|
a----------------------------------------------------------|
e----------------------------------------------------------|

   the bomb, the bomb.  The bomb, the bomb the bomb
e--8---10----12--10-----12--10----8---7----8---8---|
b------12--------10---------12--------8--------8---|
g------12--------12---------12--------7--------9---|
d--------------------------------------------------|
a--------------------------------------------------|
e--------------------------------------------------|

  that will bring us together
e-7----5----5-----7--8-7---3-----5-----3-|
b-----------7--------------5-----7-----5-|
g-----------7--------------4-----7-----5-|  strum that C till
d--------------------------------7-----5-|   nature
a----------------------------------------|
e----------------------------------------|

  Nature is a language can't you read?             So
e-7-7----7--7-7--7-----3-----7---7-----5---3---2---7-----------..  go to the:
b-8-8----8--8-8--8-----5---------8-----5---5---3---7- ask me.--..
g-7-7----7--7-7--7-----5---------7-----5---5---2---7-----------..
d----------------------------------------------0---------------.. second time:
a--------------------------------------------------------------..continue on
e--------------------------------------------------------------..

  (togeth)er               If it's not love
e---------3---5---3---2----3--5----7---7----3--|
b---------3---5---5---3----------------8----5--|
g---------4---5---5---2----------------7----5--|
d---------------------0------------------------|
a----------------------------------------------|
e----------------------------------------------|

  then it's the bomb     then it's the bomb that will bring us
e-3----5----7---7-----3--3----5----7---7----5----5----5-----7--|
b---------------8-----5----------------8--------------7--------|
g---------------7-----5----------------7--------------7--------|
d--------------------------------------------------------------|
a--------------------------------------------------------------|
e--------------------------------------------------------------|

  together       So
e-8-7---3--5--3--7--|
b-------0--5--5--7--|  ask me ask me ask me part
g-------0--5--5--7--|
d----------7--5-----|
a-------------------|
e-------------------|

and end with
  Da da da da da da da da
e-7--7--7--7--7--7--7--5--|
b-8--8--5-----------5--7--|
g-7--7--5-----------5--7--|
d-------------------------|
a-------------------------|
e-------------------------|