DINOSAUR JR. - "start choppin" Tablature

From: Brett Mellor <mellob@rpi.edu>
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Start Choppin (Dinosaur Jr)

intro:
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-XX--10--10-10--10--10-XX--10--10-10--10---
-XX--9---9--9---9---9--XX--9---9--9---11--
-XX--9-h-11-9---9---9--XX--9-h-11-9---12--
-XX--0---0--0---0---0--XX--0---0--0-------
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main riff looks like A D A A-B with the main guitar playing

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-4-6-4-6-4-6-4-6--------------------
-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--------------------
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in the chorus, sometimes D sounds like Bm and vice versa...


A D
There's no ....
A D
Some of them ...
A D
Didn't say ...
A D
But we are dealing ...

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in the chorus, sometimes D sounds like Bm and vice versa...


A D
There's no going ...
A D
Some of them can't ...
A D
Didn't say ...
A D
But we are ...

D
I ain't telling ....---> CHORUS
Bm A D A A B (+ 9)
I ain't telling ...

(main riff)
It's the last thing ...

Still you won't ...

Instead it stayed ...

Can't you hear a ....(CHORUS)

(main riff)
When you call, ...

It's the last ...

I can't deal, ...

Still I wish you'd ...(CHORUS)

D
I'm telling you for ...
A E
It's not just you, the ....
D
I waited it out ...
A E
If you need it, sure ...

solo: D A E D A E A

A D
There's no going ..
A D
Some of them ....
A D
Didn't say ...
A D
But we are ....(CHORUS)

Goodbye...Goodbye...Goodbye...

D
I'm telling you ...
A E
It's not just you, the ...
D
I waited it out ...
A E
If you need it, sure I ...

D
I'm taking away alot ...
A E
I'm telling you it's rough ....

D ...

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I'm sure of all the lyrics except for two parts:
Where it goes: cause HER
you're GONE

From: "Simon A. Morgan" <se4sm@de-montfort.ac.uk>

NOTE: Somebody has already submitted a partial tab of this song to
the archive, but it doesn't include this (important) riff.

Dinosaur Jr.
"Start Choppin" (from the 1993 album "Where You Been")

This is the main riff used;

^ ^ v v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v (v = upstrum)
E--------------------------------------------------- (^ = downstrum)
B----------7----5------------2-----2-----2-----2----
G--2--2--------------2-/-4------4-----4-----4-------
D--2--2----4----2----2-/-4--------------------------
A---------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------
1 1 4 4 4 4 1 4 1 4 1 4 1
1 1 3 3

(Numbers below tab showing the fingering I use)

Simon Morgan : se4sm@dmu.ac.uk / simon@altworld.demon.co.uk