SECRET GIRL
by Sonic Youth

Tab by Chris Lawrence (silvercircle@shaw.ca)

This is basically just the piano part transcribed for standard tuning guitar.
All of the actual guitar in this song is just improvised noise.


LAYOUT: A - B

A SECTION				00:00-01:14

This section uses two non-melodic piano "samples" recorded by Thurston.

The first sound at 0:02 is the piano's sustain pedal being pressed and released.
The pitch may have been altered. It leaves the mix around 0:22 and returns 
around 0:56, continuing until the end of the section.

The second sound at 0:07 is just lots of keys being slammed at once with his arm or
something, while holding the sustain pedal down. He does this 17 times.
                
Lee can be heard making squeaky reverb noise with a drumstick guitar, no notes in
particular, just shaking the stick and letting that springy thing ring. There is also
some droning feedback hum.

It's possible that one of the guitar overdubs is Thurston and not Lee.

B SECTION				01:14-02:54

Thurston plays a figure like this on piano. Hold the sustain pedal down. The bass
or root notes would be D# then E.

E---6-------6-------6-------6-------0--------0--------0--------0-----------
B-------7-------7-------7-------7-9---9----9---9----9---9----9---9----11---
G-----8---8---8---8---8---8---8---------11-------11-------11-------11------
D--------------------------------------------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                
Lee's drumstick maneuvers continue throughout the verse, though they're less
steady and more accentual, swooping in here and there til the end, where some
strangled notes are squeezed through the fade.


Last updated: 08/18/24

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