SMASHING PUMPKINS - "to forgive" Tablature

From: ROOKSTOOLT@TEN-NASH.TEN.K12.TN.US
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 22:49:49 -0600 (CST)
Subject: s/smashing_pumpkins/to_forgive.tab

To Forgive by Smashing Pumpkins

Intro:
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------7-----2--------4----4----4--2--0------------------------------------|
|----5-------0------2-----2----2-----------2---------------------------------|
|-3--------2------0----------------------------------------------------------|

The rest of the song is correct in the other tabs...just thought I'd send
my version of the intro. Remember the tuning is Eb. I think the rattling
in the background is the rattle of the drums. You'll recognize it if
you've ever played in a room with drums. Enjoy. :-) Alex Spitzer.

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TO FORGIVE
Transcribed By Adam Morris

One of the most emotional sounding songs on the
double CD... great stuff.

1/2 step down (Duh)

Intro (Fig 1)
*
|--------------|---------------|------------------|---------|
|------------3-|---------------|------------------|---------|
|-------2------|---------------|------------------|---------|
|----0-----0---|-------2-----2-|-------4----4---4-|---------|
|--------------|----0-----0----|----2-----2-------|-2-0-----|
|--3-----------|-2-------------|-0------------0---|-----0-2-|

* At times this note is played with a 2 on the G-string as well.

|----------------------------------------------------|
|------------0-----------0---------------------------|
|------------0-----------0---------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--7---/9-\5----0---2--3-----------------------------|

Really unsure about the open strings up there :)

CHORUS - Main riff except where it says "Nothing is Important"
it goes to this instead of the normal bit.

|-------------|---------------------------------------|
|-------3-----|---------------------------------------|
|-------2-----|-----0---------------------------------|
|----4------4-|-----2---------------------------------|
|-2-------2---|---2-----------------------------------|
|-------------|-0-------------------------------------|

The rise thingy goes like this
* Same octave as previous
A B C# D E F# G A B C#
Back down... *
Higher Octave then previous

A B C# D E
B C# D E F

I hope you like it. I LOVE this song Darcy and Billy sound
great together.

Tell me what you think benmo@deakin.edu.au

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Tab: To forgive
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
KEY: p= pull off
Tuning: Down 1/2 step ^= bend up

intro/verse
G5 F#5 Em
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-----5---5------2----------4---4-------4p2----------------
---5---5------4---4-0----2---2---2----------2-------------
-3----------2----------0------------0---------0-----------

verse part 2
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----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
------3^--0-----------------------------------------------
--0-------------------------------------------------------

chorus

G Asus2 Em(use Em part from intro)
holding back...

chorus chords
EADGBE

G- 320003
Asus2-x02200


Any questions or comments email me at Riffhead@aol.com

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|||||||||||||||||||||To Forgive|||||||||||||||||||
-----------by William Corgan----------
///from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness\\\
----------by Smashing Pumpkins---------


the song's tuned a half step down to Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb

main riff:
D9/G A5/F# B5/E a
e--------0----------------------------
b-------2-----------------------------
g-----3-------------------------------
d-------------2--2----4--4----4-------
a-----------0---0---2---2--2-2---2-0--
e-3-------2-------0-------------------

repeats 2x then:
B C# A E F# G
g--4--/6-------------------------------------
d--4--/6--7----2--/4--5----------------------
a--2--/4--7----2--/4--5----------------------
e---------5----0--/2--3----------------------
(band comes in here)

repeats 2x then back to main riff for verse
ten times...

goes to chords when he goes 'right as rain'
B C# A E F# G

then chorus you strum these chords in half notes until the B5/E:

holding back... .
G D/F# E B5/E a
g--0-----------------2------------------------
d--0-----------------0-------2---4--4----4----
a--2-----------------0-------2-2---2--2-2--2-0
e--3-----------------2-------0----------------

G D/F# E B5/E a
g--0-----------------2------------------------
d--0-----------------0-------2---4--4----4----
a--2-----------------0-------2-2---2--2-2--2-0
e--3-----------------2-------0----------------

G D/F# B A
g--0----------------2---------4------------2-----
d--0----------------0---------4------------2-----
a--2----------------0---------2------------0-----
e--3----------------2----------------------------

G D/F# E B5/E a
g--0-----------------2------------------------
d--0-----------------0-------2---4--4----4----
a--2-----------------0-------2-2---2--2-2--2-0
e--3-----------------2-------0----------------

then the verse part again .

this time on the verse it stays on the riff without going to the chords
then, on the chorus the last time, instead of going down to the E:

holding back...
G D/F# A
g--0-----------------2--------2--
d--0-----------------0--------2--
a--2-----------------0--------0--
e--3-----------------2-----------

then there's some cool synth part that I haven't figured out yet. and
the chords keep going up the neck until you hit a G on the 10th fret.
That's pretty much all there is to the song. you'll have to listen to
it to get the exact rhythms right, but I think the notes are all
right. =P

Comments or corrections: Geek Ak@AOL.Com