Fugazi tab for "Give me the Cure" This interpretation/transcription is by Christoph Borst (mohawk@tamu.edu), 1994 www.xoph.net At the beginning, it's like this: --------------------------------- -----3-----2---0-----0-----2---3- --------------------------------- (repeat many times) -2-2---2-2---2---2-2---2-2---2--- --------------------------------- --------------------------------- (let ring on most notes) Note: At one point, the second half of that part is left off. Also, some chorus or an overdub is added for a while. Then, it does this: ------- --- ------- and it ends up just --- -----3- (repeat strumming this -3- -2-2--- several with crescendo: -2- ------- times) --- ------- --- Then something like this chord is struck: -0- -5- -4- -2- --- --- The second half uses these chords: (I have not indicated how many times each is struck) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- -7- -6- -4- -6- -7- -7- -6- -4- -6- -7- -5- -4- -2- -4- -5- --- --- --- --- --- ^^ Note: you may want to strike the open E string or an E chord at the beginning and again, but with high part added --- --- --- ------- --- --- --- ------- -7- -6- -4- -8/9\8- -7- -6- -4- -6/7\6- -5- -4- -2- ------- --- --- --- ------- ^^ Note as above This riff is thrown in sometimes: (the last chord is cut from the figure that precedes it) ------------------------ --- ------------------------ --- ------------------------ --- -5--5--5--5--7--7--7-5-- -2- -5--5--5--5--7--7--7-5-- -2- -3--3--3--3--5--5--5-3-- -0- ^^^ This last chord just begins the next figure, which was given about 30 lines up. the song approaches its end by varying the previous riff -- the following is added: ----------------------------- ----------------------------- ----------------------------- ----------------------/\----- (make the last note waver by bending the -9-----9-10---9-----9//\\---- neck forward or using the whammy bar or -7-----7--8---7-----7/sl\--0~~ whatever you've got, or you can simulate it with a bent note one 7th up) Finally there's a mess during which I just hold the following chord. I emphasize different tones in it to make it sound more like the recording, e.g. by hitting just the open E or A strings sometimes and the other 4 strings other times. -0- -5- -4- -2- -0- -0-