INHUMAN

tab by chris lawrence

Okay, this is another one of those 'guidance' tabs. Lee and Kim
play the guitars on this song (Lee also contributes zither!). 
Thurston's bassline is the root of the song. If you've seen the
clip of Inhuman from Brighton Beach '85 at the beginning of the
Screaming Fields of Sonic Love video, you'll see that pretty much
everybody is just having a good time.

As for tunings, I don't have any idea what was originally used.
For the '85 concerts, Lee used EG#EG#EG#, and Kim used pretty
much whichever guitar Thurston had been using before they
traded instruments. So basically, any of SY's tunings will
do the trick, or even random peg-twisting. I think Kim uses
a drumstick and Lee may use a slide (Thurston does). 

The guitar parts aren't completely random, of course. For the intro,
Thurston's bass randomly spills between the speakers, while one
guitar bangs out long chords and what I believe is Lee's zither 
plink-plink-plinks away. Thurston's bass begins to drone solidly on
the low E. Thurston's "a-ha-a-ha" vox enter, accentuated by
a clanging guitar in the right speaker... you could pull a Burning 
Spear and put a drumstick under the strings at the 12th fret and beat 
it repeatedly with another drumstick. This guitar bangs out a 
1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 pattern. A guitar in the left speakers rings out
atonal chords on the first beat of each 2 bars. Soon it moves up
to some picking in the higher frets, listen to the album to see how
it gradually gets higher, yet still remains random. Thurston's vocals 
enter and that's pretty much how the verse goes.

The bass hangs on F after the first verse and the guitars just do
standard strumming/drumstick noise.. when the riff comes back in,
the left guitar bangs out open chords while the right guitar keeps
doing drumstick style stuff. Verse has wild improvisation on both
guitars. End on long droned chords, skronky noise... standard sonic 
screwdriver sound. 

Thurston drones the low E towards the very end and I think Lee
starts up with zither again, could be guitar, keeps on C#... the other 
guitar drifts back in strumming in a similar pattern, and they all
end together.

I realize this is just a general musical description of what happens
in the song, but I think it should be fairly easy if you really want
to play it, using basically any tunings. Improvisation is yr friend.
Good luck...

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