Your Genius Hands

From "World Of Noise"

Tabbed by Dan Hill (dhill@reed.edu)

I have no idea how this song is really played, but I've found it easiest to play in drop-D.

The bass part during the verse, as far as I can tell, goes like this (the slashes are semi-wild bends; just try them until they sound good):

|------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|-5---5---5-7/-7/-7/7/7/-7/-7/-|-5---5---5-9/-/-9/-/-9/-9/-/-9//-9/-|
|------------------------------|------------------------------------|

The guitar part then is the ever exciting octave lick (ad-lib the rhythm here):

|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|-7---7--7-7-7-7-7-7-7---7---7-|
|------------------------------|
|-5---5--5-5-5-5-5-5-5---5---5-|
|------------------------------|

Then the energetic descending lick goes like this (with the guitar in drop-D, of course):

|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------| [back to the octave lick for a bar]
|-----------------|
|-9-8-7-0-7-6-5-4- |
|-9-8-7-0-7-6-5-4-|

with the bass going:

|-----------------|
|-----------------| [just bang on that D for a bar]
|-------5---------|
|-7-6-5---5-4-3-2-|

And finally

I long to touch your genius hands

|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------| [ooh, back to that exciting
|-2-2-2-2-2-2--2--2-|-5-----------------| octave riff]
|-2-2-2-2-2-2--2--2-|-5-----------------|
|-2-2-2-2-2-2--2--2-|-5-----------------|

With the bass playing an E and a G where appropriate.
When he says "I'm gonna shake..." there's a D thrown in at Genius (12th fret on the guitar, probably 5th fret on the A string of the bass).

There, that sounds pretty good.

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