Windowpaine - by Smashing Pumpkins from the album Gish
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hbr - half-bend release
fbr - full-bend release

Bass and drums open:

|-----------------------------
|-----------------------------
|-----------------------------
|-7-0---7-0---7-0---7-0-------

Riff 1

G1 - Tremolo, clean

  Window...     pay..ayne

|-----------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------
|--------9hbr-----------------------------------
|-9hb-9---------7----6--------------------------
|-------------------------7hbr------5-----7-----
|---------------------------------0-----0-------

Riff 2

  Do..gonna do       and say..gonna say

|-0---0-------0----------0----0-----------------
|-3---0---------0--------3----0--------------0--
|-2---1-----------1------2----1------------1----
|-0---2-------------2----0----2----------2------
|-0---2------------------0----2--------2--------
|-----0-----------------------0-----------------

  Do..gonna do      yeah start today    start today..

|-0---0-------0----------0----3----0-----------------
|-3---0---------0--------3----3----0-----------------
|-2---1-----------1------2----0----2-----------------
|-0---2-------------2----0----0----2-----------------
|-0---2------------------0----X----0-----------------
|-----0-----------------------3----------------------

Riff 2

G1 (same) G2 lightly distorted

|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|-7---9---9hbr---7---9----------7---9------------
|-7---9----------7---9----------7---7------------
|-5---7----------5---7---7hbr---5---7------------
|-----0--------------0--------------0------------ etc...

|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|-7-7-7-9---9hbr---7-7-7-9----------7-7-7-9------
|-7-7-7-9----------7-7-7-9----------7-7-7-7------
|-5-5-5-7----------5-5-5-7---7hbr---5-5-5-7------
|-------0----------------0----------------0------ etc...

Riff 3

Both guitars heavy distortion

|-0---0-------0---0----------------------------------
|-3---0-------3---0----------------------------------
|-2---1-------2---1----------------------------------
|-0---2-------0---2----------------------------------
|-0---2-------0---2----------------------------------
|-----0-----------0----------------------------------

after the pause -> drum roll:

|-0---0-------0---0----------------------------------
|-3---0-------3---0----------------------------------
|-2---1-------2---1----------------------------------
|-0---2-------0---2----------------------------------
|-0-0-2-------0-0-2----------------------------------
|---0-0---------0-0----------------------------------

after long pause and Billy's monologue and Jimmy's solo:

|-0---0---------0---0--------------------------------
|-0---0-X-X-X-X-3---3-X-X-X-X------------------------
|-1---1-X-X-X-X-2---2-X-X-X-X------------------------
|-2-2-2-X-X-X-X-0-0-0-X-X-X-X------------------------
|-2-2-2-X-X-X-X-0-0-0-X-X-X-X--ect...----------------
|-0-0-0----------------------------------------------

Song ends on E open and G (i think) pitched feedback.


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