STALKER 
by Sonic Youth

tab by Chris Lawrence (silvercircle@shaw.ca)

TUNINGS:

Thurston: F#F#F#F#EB (right)
Lee: F#F#F#F#EB (left)


A SECTION (VERSE)			00:00-00:31

Thurston's verse riff:

B-------------------0--------------
E-------------------0--------------
F#-----------X---------------------   XXX = strum strings behind bridge
F#-----------X------3--3-3-3-3\5---
F#---3\5-----X------3--3-3-3-3\5---
F#---3\5------------3--3-3-3-3\5---

Lee's verse riff:

B------------7---------5-5-5-5\7---
E------------7---------5-5-5-5\7---   he doesn't always play the high notes on the EB strings
F#--3\5------5------3--3-3-3-3\5---
F#--3\5------5------3--3-3-3-3\5---
F#--3\5-------------3--3-3-3-3\5---
F#--3\5-------------3--3-3-3-3\5---


There are also some pick scrapes/behind the bridge strums pasted and panned at various points.

B SECTION (SHORT CHORUS)		00:31-00:39

Thurston plays these notes, listen for timing:

B------------------
E------------------
F#-----------------
F#-----------------
F#-----10-----8----
F#-----10-----8----
	
Lee plays these chords:

B------------------
E------------------
F#-----10-----8----
F#-----10-----8----
F#-----10-----8----
F#-----10-----8----


A SECTION				00:39-01:11

In the second verse, there's a panned guitar kinda playing this note while
bending and sliding backwards...

B-------------
E-------------
F#-----15-----
F#-----15-----
F#------------
F#------------

B SECTION (FULL CHORUS)			01:11-01:25

Thurston plays these notes, listen for timing:

B-------------------------------
E-------------------------------
F#------------------------------
F#------------------------------
F#-----10-----8------3------1---
F#-----10-----8------3------1---
	
Lee's part:

B-------------------------------
E-------------------------------
F#-----10-----8------3------1---
F#-----10-----8------3------1---
F#-----10-----8------3------1---
F#-----10-----8------3------1---



C SECTION				01:25-02:04

Thurston plays something like:

     1:25                  1:34
B---------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------
F#--------------------------------------------------
F#--------------------------------------------------
F#---3\5-5--------7-8-------10-------8--10--12------
F#---3\5-5--------7-8-------10-------8--10--12------

    1:42                                            1:54
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
F#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
F#-------------------------------------------------------------------------10---
F#---13----12----13\15----12--------10-----12-13-----8----7----5----7------10---
F#---13----12----13\15----12--------10-----12-13-----8----7----5----7------10---

All notes are trem picked, I tried to leave different amount of space to indicate 
the length of each note but it's not exact...

I can't pick out anything specific that Lee is playing in the midsection. There's so much 
going on with the drum echo, panning effects, guitar sampling/processing/whatever...it sounds like 
he might be doing some kind of phaser/wah noise (he uses a phaser for a lot of his parts on the 
demo versions) but I'm not going to overthink it. Just make a racket!


B SECTION				02:05-02:20

A SECTION				02:20-03:02





The deluxe edition version has Lee weaving around this line:

B--------------------------------------
E---------------------0-0^2------------
F#--3\5---5/3---1--0------------0-1-3--
F#-------------------------------------
F#-------------------------------------
F#-------------------------------------

The mix tape version has him playing around with something like this:

B------------------------------
E------------------------------
F#--3\5-----7--8--10/8-7--3\5--  sometimes he does the octave on the low F# as well
F#-----------------------------
F#-----------------------------
F#-----------------------------

This is the "rock" version of the main riff as heard in the coda to the mix tape version:

B----------------------------5~-5~------  bend/pinch last notes slightly
E---------------------------------5~~~--
F#--3\5--x-x-x--8/5---x-x-x-------------
F#-------x-x-x--------x-x-x-------------
F#--3\5--x-x-x--8/5---x-x-x-------------
F#--------------------------------------


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