SMASHING PUMKINS - "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" Tablature

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Song: Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Release: MC&IS, TAFH
Artist: The Smashing Pumpkins
Author: Roy Stevenson (are_you_done@yahoo.com)
Tuning: Eb
Notes: transcribed as performed live at the Double Door

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Version 1
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"The world is a vampire..."

*1

G1 and G2 mid/light distortion

|---------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------
|-4-4-4-4-(4)----------2-2-2-2----------------------------
|-4-4-4-4--5--2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------------------------
|-2-2-0-2--5--2--2-2-2-0-0-0-0----------------------------
|----------3--0--0-0-0------------------------------------
^repeat

*2
< <
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|---------------------------------------------------------
|-4-4-4-------------------2---2---------------------------
|-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-2-2-2-2-------------------------
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-0-0-0-0-------------------------
|-------0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3---------------------------------
^repeat
^ that little '<' is for emphasis.

*3

Heavy Distortion!!!

|---------------------------------------------------------
|-------------3-(3-3)---------------------------3---------
|-4--4-4------2--2-2-2--2-9\----------4--4-4----2---------
|-4--4-4-5----0--0-0-2--2-9\--5----4--4--4-5----0---------
|-2--2-0-5----0--0-0-0--0-7\--X----2--2--0-5----0---------
|--------3-0--------------0---3------------3-0---...------
^repeat
^one of the guitars
somehow tremolos a
G in here - don't ask me :)
Chorus ends with:

|---------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------
|-------------2-------------------------------------------
|-2---5---4---2-------------------------------------------
|-2---5---4---0-------------------------------------------
|-0---3---2-----------------------------------------------
^repeated several times after second chorus
back to *1...

End riff
(similar to *3)

|---------------------------------------------------------
|---------3-----------------------------------------------
|-4-------2-X-2-------------------------------------------
|-4-X-5---0-X-2-------------------------------------------
|-2-X-5---0-X-0-------------------------------------------
|-----3---------------------------------------------------
add rhythm there as appropriate...

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