THE GOOD AND THE BAD
by Sonic Youth

Tab by Chris Lawrence (silvercircle@shaw.ca)

TUNINGS
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Kim:	  EADGBE (right)
Lee:	  EADGBE (left)


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

A SECTION				00:00-00:05

B SECTION				00:05-01:40

Bass riff plays four times with just drums.
                 
Lee does random "skronk chord" crashes at the start of four of Thurston's riffs.

Then he comes in picking this chord over and over for eight of Thurston's riffs.

E---14---
B----0---
G---11---
D--------
A--------
E--------

Then there are four more "skronk chord" crashes, and he comes back in playing this chord:

E---7---
B---0---
G---4---		continue into next section
D-------
A-------
E-------

Kim does random "skronk chord" crashes at the start of four of Thurston's riffs.
Then she starts picking a single note over and over:

E--------                                    --------
B--------			             --------
G-------- for a while, then around 0:59 add: ---13---
D---13---				     --------
A--------                        	     --------
E--------                                    --------

Then there's another break with four skronk chord crashes. She comes back in on this note:

E--------			    --------
B---14---                           --------
G--------     around 1:40 she adds: ---14---		keep playing until next section
D--------		 	    --------		
A--------			    --------
E--------                           --------

A SECTION				01:41-01:58
            
Lee keeps playing:

E---7---
B---0---
G---4---
D-------
A-------
E-------

Kim keeps picking this shape:

E--------
B---14---
G---14---
D--------
A--------
E--------

C SECTION				01:58-04:49
              
Lee starts an ascending riff, following roughly the same pattern as Kim, but changing notes 
slightly behind or ahead of her. Play each note for much longer than it appears, and obviously 
just improvise although this is simply climbing one fret at a time.

He may be doing more than the droning D string for the last few notes - I don't know!

E-----------------------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------------------
D---0----0----0----0-------0-----0-----0-----0-----0------0------0------
A---7----8----9---10------11----12----13----14----15-----16-----17------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Around 2:13 Kim starts picking an E note. Over the course of the next 2 minutes she slowly goes up 
fret by fret while picking steadily, until she gets to the 21st fret at 4:30 where she hangs until 
the end of the section.

E-----------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------
A-----------------------------------------------------
E---12---13---14---15---16---17---18---19---20---21---

A SECTION				04:49-05:34

I'm not positive (and there may be an overdub) but it almost sounds like Lee is playing this:

E--------
B--------
G--------
D---16---      w/ incidental open strings etc that comes w/ frantic picking
A---17---
E--------

Kim:

E--------
B--------
G--------
D--------
A--------
E---21--- keep picking this note

B SECTION				05:34-06:55
      
Lee bangs out skronk chords at the start of Thurston's riff 12 times then starts playing droning 
chords with an emphasis on the open B and E strings.

Kim bangs out skronk chords at the start of Thurston's riff 7 times, then starts a descending riff:

E-------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------  some of this may be off...
A-------------------------------------
E---12---9---8---7---5---4---3---1----

That gets you to about 6:48 when she shifts to a G# note but I have no idea where, maybe:

E--------                  ---11---
B--------                  ---13---	she picks the higher notes quite fast while still playing the
G-------- which leads to:  --------      lower note so who knows what's going on...
D--------                  --------       
A---11---                  ---11---          this is why tuning doesn't matter for this song :)
E--------                  --------

I actually wonder if her G string was tuned up a bit and she's just hitting the open G string while
picking high up.

A SECTION				06:55-07:59

Lee just attacks a random droning chord.

Kim plays that last shape til the end - let's just pretend she's droning the open G string while
trem picking around the 11th-13th fret on the B and E strings.


Last updated: 08/31/23

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