Smoke Like Ribbons - Ugly Casanova
Smoke Like Ribbons
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Smoke Like Ribbons - Ugly Casanova
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Tabbed by:007ads2
E-mail:[email protected]
Tuning: Standard, Capo 1
I haven't seen a correct tab to this song, so I decided to learn how to play it by ear and post the tab myself.
I have most of the song down, but the chorus needs a little bit of touching up.
INTRO - PLAY VARIATIONS OF THESE NOTES
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1------1------1-----1-----1--------1-------------------------------------|
G|--2------0------2-----2-----2---OR---0-------------------------------------|
D|--2------2------3-----0-----0--------2-------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------3--------3-------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE - LISTEN FOR STRUMMING PATTERNS
"Smoke was pulled in ribbons.."
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--0--------------------------0------------------0\-------------------------|
G|--9\-------------------------2/-----------------9\----------REPEAT---------|
D|--9\-------------------------2/-----------------9\-------------------------|
A|--7\-------------------------0------------------7\-------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE - WHILE YOU'RE PLAYING THE x0220x YOU CAN DO THE SLIDES
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---0----0------0----1------------------------------------------------------|
G|---2/---4------4\---1------------------------------------------------------|
D|---2/---4------4\---1------------------------------------------------------|
A|---0----0------0----0------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
CHORUS - AS SOON AS HE SAYS "DIME" PLAY THE FOLLOWING CHORD
WHEN HE'S DONE SINGING "SMOKE LIKE RIBBONS," DURING THE LITTLE BREAK PLAY
x7990x
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------0---------------------------------------|
G|---2-------------------------------9---------------------------------------|
D|---0-------------------------------9---------------------------------------|
A|---0-------------------------------7---------------------------------------|
E|---2-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
CHORUS - RIGHT BEFORE HE STARTS SINGING "SMOKE LIKE RIBBONS,"
PLAY THIS LITTLE LEAD PART AS MANY TIMES AS ON THE RECORDING
e|--------13-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
If you find a better way to play some parts, please post them in the comments and I'll gladly edit the tab!
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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Smoke Like Ribbons tabs @ 911Tabs
About the artist behind Smoke Like Ribbons:
Isaac Brock has since revealed that Edgar Graham was "a fiction thing that [Brock] started a while back to eliminate [himself] from the band," to escape having to do interviews.[1] One bit of evidence that had previously suggested that story was false: Modest Mouse's 1996 EP The Fruit That Ate Itself was credited to having been under the production company Ugly Casanova, which suggested it was a name Brock made up to retain creative control and publishing rights to his music while under a major label. The band lineup now consists of Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse), Tim Rutili (Califone, Red Red Meat), Pall Jenkins (The Black Heart Procession), John Orth (Holopaw), and Brian Deck.
Two tracks released by Ugly Casanova, "Baby's Clean Conscience" and "Parasites", appear earlier as unreleased demos of Modest Mouse in the Paracite Sessions purportedly recorded in 1993 at Calvin Johnson's Dub Narcotic Studio. In 1997 the single To Roads To Go was released [1] on the apparently now defunct Magic Eye Records, however, this is likely considered an entirely different incarnation of Ugly Casanova by Brock et al.
It seems that another release is unlikely, owing to contract issues between Modest Mouse's label, Epic Records, and the contract Brock signed with Sub Pop Records to produce the record.
Diggin Holes b/w Babys Clean Conscience (Sub Pop Records, 2002)
Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop Records, 2002)
Indexed at Wikipedia.