COSMOPOLITAN GIRL
by CKM
as performed by Sonic Youth 09/18/81

Tab by Chris Lawrence (silvercircle@shaw.ca)

TUNINGS
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Lee:      EADGBE
Kim:	  EADGBE


LAYOUT: A - B - A - B - A - B - A - B - A - B - A - B - A - B - A

A SECTION				00:00-00:34
              
Lee comes in during the 4th rep of Thurston's bass riff:

E---*12*----
B---*12*----
G---*12*---- then he starts picking 12th fret harmonics, focusing on G
D-----------
A-----------
E-----------

When Kim starts singing, he mostly sticks to playing the G string, switching between 12th fret
harmonics and the open string. This continues through the first chorus.

Kim has a heavy amount of wet reverb on her guitar and steadily attacks muted strings:

E---X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X---
B---X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X---
G---X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--- etc
D---------------------
A---------------------
E---------------------

It almost sounds like she could be using the side of her pick to scrape the string right
over the pickup, in that steady rhythm, for the really trebley wet sound w/ the reverb.

Whatever she's doing, she does it for the whole song!

B SECTION				00:34-00:43
               
Lee continues playing 12th fret harmonics on the G string.

A SECTION				00:43-00:53

Lee keeps playing the G string and at the end of this verse he hits some harmonic chords:

E---*12*--*7*---
B---*12*--*7*---
G---*12*--------
D---------------
A---------------
E---------------

B SECTION				00:53-01:03

Lee plays a semi-random harmonic figure:

E------*7*----------0----*7*---*7*------*7*----------*12*----*7*---0---*7*-------------
B----------*7*------0----------*7*----------*7*------*12*-----------------*7*---*12*---
G---*7*--------*7*--0----------------*7*--------*7*--*12*--------------------*7*-------
D--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A SECTION				01:04-01:13

Lee continues playing 12th fret harmonics on the G string.

B SECTION				01:14-01:23

Lee continues playing 12th fret harmonics on the G string.

A SECTION				01:24-01:34

Lee continues playing 12th fret harmonics on the G string.

B SECTION				01:34-01:43

At the start of this chorus Lee hits some harmonic chords:

E---*12*--*7*----*7*--*12*----*7*-----*7*--*12*---
B---*12*--*7*----*7*--*12*----*7*-----*7*--*12*---
G---*12*---------*7*------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------
A-------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------

A SECTION				01:44-02:01

Lee keeps playing the G string and at the end of this verse he hits some harmonic chords:

E---*12*--*7*---
B---*12*--*7*---
G---*12*--------
D---------------
A---------------
E---------------

B SECTION				02:01-02:11

Lee continues his harmonic chords:

E---*7*--*12*---
B---*7*--*12*---
G---*7*--*12*---
D---------------
A---------------
E---------------

Then he goes back to playing the 12th fret harmonics on the G string.

A SECTION				02:11-02:31

Lee continues playing 12th fret harmonics on the G string. You can probably see the pattern
here so I'm going to stop tabbing every random harmonic chord.

He basically strikes 12th to 7th fret, or 7th to 12th fret, with some open strings bleeding in 
here and there. Then he goes back to the G string.

B SECTION				02:31-02:41

Lee continues playing 12th fret harmonics on the G string.

A SECTION				02:41-03:05

Lee does more harmonic blasts, then continues playing 12th fret harmonics on the G string.

Around 2:53, Kim starts getting more aggressive with her muted attack. This continues til the end.

B SECTION				03:05-03:14

Lee starts playing harmonic chords at the 12th fret across the GBE strings, sometimes pulling
off to add open strings. It sounds like he slips a few more 7th fret harmonichords in there too.

A SECTION				03:14-03:33

Lee continues 12th fret harmonic/general skronk til the end.

At the very end, Kim starts to hit harmonics then plays the open B string til end.


Last updated: 08/31/23

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