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Tea+Party - Transmission

Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:25:17 -0500
From: "Jeff Martin" 
Subject: t/tea_party/transmission.crd

Artist:The Tea Party
Song:Transmission
Album:Transmission
Tabbed by:Matt Jones slant_of_light@hotmail.com

Tab key:
~ = let ring
% = pick scrape

Tuning: CGCGCD (low to high)

The opening is just wierd guitar noises and a lebonese funeral dirge. If 
your that picky about how to play this then your lost already. The music of 
the Tea Party is to be interpeted, not replecated.
The drums kick in and the song continues. When Jeff Martin starts singing 
the guitar comes in.

VERSE

D|-----------------------------------------------|
C|-0-0-----------0-0-----------0-0-----------0-0-|
G|-5-5-----------6-6-----------3-3-----------6-6-|
C|-0-0-----------0-0-----------0-0-----------0-0-|
G|-5-5-----------6-6-----------3-3-----------6-6-|
C|-----------------------------------------------|
   fear          see           distance
   shattered     life's        deceit

Its up to you if you want to let the chords ring, stop right there, or mute 
between them. Do what sounds best to you.

PRE-CHORUS

D|-0~~~~-|        D|----|
C|-0~~~~-|        C|----|
G|-0~~~~-|    or  G|-%\-|
C|-0~~~~-|        C|-%\-|
G|-0~~~~-|        G|-%\-|
C|-0~~~~-|        C|-%\-|

Depending on whether you like the live version or the studio version, this 
is up to you. For the live version, slap on all your crazy fun effects and 
turn the distortion off and just let it ring. For the studio version, start 
at about the 12th fret and slowly pick scrape towards the lower regions of 
the fret board. Don't do a straight slide up, randomly move the pick upwards 
and downwards on your way, and really dig the pick into the strings.

CHORUS

D|------------------------------------------*
C|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0-0-*
G|-3/5-5-5-5-5-3/5-5-5-5-5-3/5-5-5-5-5--5-6-*
C|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0-0-*
G|-3/5-5-5-5-5-3/5-5-5-5-5-3/5-5-5-5-5--5-6-*
C|------------------------------------------*

Yet another point of your own discretion: after the final chord there are a 
number of things you can do before starting the riff over again. You can do 
a 6th or 12th fret harmonic, a deep bend on the 6th fret of the G string, 
another pick scrape or a (my favorite) a huge slide up to the 12th fret and 
pull out some major vibrato.

Repeat that till youve broken the minds of all your friends. (Great for 
parties where everybodies on acid)