The Mall And Misery Chords & Tabs
Artist: Broken Bells (Brian Burton a.k.a. Danger Mouse / James Mercer)
Album: Broken Bells (Self titled)
Song: The Mall and Misery
Track: Track 10(CD) | Side 2 Track 5(Vinyl)
Duration: 4:07
Transcriber: Kevin Burress (mekevin1917@gmail.com)
-Intro-
Rhythm: Play first half x2 then second half x2, repeat (x2 + x2) x4.
[--------------(x2)-------------]|[--------------(x2)-------------]
[ ]|[ ]
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6-|--9---9---9---9---9---9---9---9-|
E|11--11--11--11--11--11--11--11--|14--14--14--14--14--14--14--14--|
Slide: I tried to line it all up right, the first three lines are
correct, the last one is a rest for 5-3/4 beats.. (the 6-11 and 3/4 of
the 14-9 for the rhythm before the slide starts again.)
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|------------------------11/13/11|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|13------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
e|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|----13------------------11/13/11|--------------------------------|
A|9/13----------------------------|13------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
e|---------------------------16/18|18----------------------18/xx-11| --*1
B|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
*1 - Slide down to 11 muting the tone just before plucking 11.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/broken_bells/the_mall_and_misery_tab.html ]
_ Rest 5-3/4 beats,
/ _ Then play this.
\/ /
\/
e|-[]-|----------------------------------------------------|
B|-[]-|----------------------------------------------------|
G|-[]-|--------------11/15-15/11-11-11/13-13/15-15/18-18/20|---*2
D|-[]-|----------------------------------------------------|
A|-[]-|----------------------------------------------------|
E|-[]-|----------------------------------------------------|
*2 - the first slide you can hardly hear, it may be unintentional,
it is there on the album.
-/Intro-
-Verse 1-
Wah accent: F# played 9th fret barred, and d# 6th fret barred(*3):
F# d#
e|--x-| |--x-|
B|--x-| |--7-|
G|-11-| |--8-|
D|-11-| |--8-|
A|--9-| |--x-|
E|--x-| |--x-|
Rhythm: (One bar of tab == four beats; 12 bars total.)
(*3 Play chords in time with bars:
[F#----------------------------F#-----------------------------]
then:
[d#----------------------------d#-----------------------------])
While lead #1:
[-------------------------(Repeat x12)------------------------]
[ ]
e|------------------------------|------------------------------|
B|------------------------------|------------------------------|
G|--------------8---------------|------------8-----------------|
D|--8---8---11------11--8---8---|8---8---11------11--8---8---8-|
A|------------------------------|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|------------------------------|
Lead #2: Rest six bars, play pattern x4 (over two bars), rest two bars, play pattern
x4 in a similar manner.
e|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|
D|11--11--11----8---------8-------|
A|------------------11------------|
E|----------------------------11--|
-/Verse 1-
-Chorus-
Lead #1 plays F# and d# light staccato:
[----F#-----F#-----F#----F#------|----F#-----F#-----F#----F#------]
[----d#-----d#-----d#----d#------|----d#-----d#-----d#----d#------]
-/Chorus-
-Verse 2-
Lead #1: Same pattern as previous verse x12.
Lead #2: Rest two bars, play pattern x4 similar to previous verse,
rest two bars, play pattern x4 again.
-/Verse 2-
-Chorus-
Same as before.
-/Chorus-
-Outro-
Lead #1: Play verse pattern x12
Lead #2: Rest two bars, Play verse x4, rest two bars, Play verse x4 Then:
Alt pattern x8 over four bars:
e|--------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------|
D|13--13--13----11--11----13------|
A|----------------------------13--|
E|--------------------------------|
Fade guitars out last two bars.
Have some synthesized instruments in the background playing along with bass four bars.
Whistle along last four bars, fade out all over last bar.
-/Outro-