Bullet With Butterfly Wings Chords & Tabs
Bullet With Butterfly Wings Tab
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Author/Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Title: Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Album: Mellon Collie and the Infinte Sadness
Transcribed by: Justin
Email: JustMtnBk4@aol.com
All guitars tuned half step down: Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb
I have yet to find a complete tab for this song, so here is my best shot.
The song is quite easy to follow along with.
Credit for the intro/verse and a few other parts goes to Brian McCall and Raman Bhatia,
as I put together a bunch of tabs I found and fixed some parts and added others.
Any questions, comments or corrections email me.
Intro and Verse (clean)
Guitar 1
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--4-4-4-4-------------2-2-2-2-------------------------------------------------
--4-4-4-4-5-2--2-2-2--2-2-2-2-------------------------------------------------
--2-2-0-2-5-2--2-2-2--0-0-0-0-------------------------------------------------
----------3-0--0-0-0----------------------------------------------------------
Guitar 2 (comes in later)
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--------------------------2--2--2--2--4--4--4--4--
--2--2--2--5--5--5--5--5--2--2--2--2--4--4--4--4--
--2--2--2--5--5--5--5--5--0--0--0--0--2--2--2--2--
--0--0--0--3--3--3--3--3--------------------------
Chorus (distortion)
Both guitars
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--4-4-2-4--4-4--7-7-7--2-2-2-2--4-2-4--4-4-4----------------------------------
--4-4-2-5--5-5--7-7-7--2-2-2-2--4-2-5--5-5-5------x4--------------------------
--2-2-0-5--5-5--5-5-5--0-0-0-0--2-0-5--5-5-5----------------------------------
--------3--3-3----------------------3--3-3-3----------------------------------
End of first Chorus
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--5-4-5-7------------------------------------
--5-4-5-7------------------------------------
--3-2-3-5------------------------------------
Repeat verse
Guitar 1 same as before
Guitar 2 plays this:
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--14~~--12--------------------------12-----
------------14--16~~~--16-16-16-16-----14--
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Then it repeats this until the chorus.
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--9--
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Repeat chorus
Both Guitars same as before
Bridge Part 1
------------7----------------5---------------7-----------------10------------
------------10b--------------8b--------------10b---------------13b-----------
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--7-6-7-9-----------5-4-5-7---------7-6-7-9-----------5-4-5-7-------------x2-
--7-6-7-9-----------5-4-5-7---------7-6-7-9-----------5-4-5-7----------------
--5-4-5-7-----------3-2-3-5---------5-4-5-7-----------3-2-3-5----------------
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/smashing_pumpkins/bullet_with_butterfly_wings_tab_ver_5.html ]
These are octave bends; put your first finger on 7, second on 9 and third on 10,
then use both 2nd and 3rd fingers to bend the 10 until the pitch matches that
of the 7 note and do the same for the other frets. With some practice it gets easy.
I would say Guitar 1 plays the bar chords and Guitar 2 plays the bends.
Bridge Part 2
Both Guitars
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--2--5-5--4-4-4-7--(4)-----------2--5-5--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--------------
--2--5-5--4-4-4-7--(4)---x4------2--5-5--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--------------
--0--3-3--2-0-2-5--(2)-----------0--3-3--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--------------
Interlude (clean)
Guitar 1
I'm not positive on this picking, but this works and the chords are right
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---4-4-----------7-7----2-2--------------------------
---4---4--5-5----7---7--2---2--2-2----5-5------x4----
---2------5---5--5------0------2---2--5---5----------
----------3--------------------0------3--------------
Guitar 2 comes in with this on third time:
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---10----8----7-----8p7-----------
-------------------------9--7h9---
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Guitar 1 (distortion, right before final chorus)
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---2-2-2-5--------------
---2-2-2-5--------------
---0-0-0-3--------------
Final Chorus
Guitar 1
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---4-4-2----------7--7-7--2-2-2-2---------------------------------------------
---4-4-2--5--5-5--7--7-7--2-2-2-2---------------------------------------------
---2-2-0--5--5-5--5--5-5--0-0-0-0---------------------------------------------
----------3--3-3--------------------------------------------------------------
Guitar 2
is playing this lead with some kind of wah effect:
(Repeat This One a Few Times)
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---2h4---4--4--2h4--4-4--2h4--4-4b--2h4---2h4--2h4--4--4b---
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(Then To This)
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----10h12---12b---10--10h12---12--10h12--12--10h12---12b----
-2----------------------------------------------------------
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(Then This...)
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--10h12--10h12--10h12--12b--12b--7h8---7h8--7h8--7s5s3------
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ENDING:
Guitar 2
This is the lead to the final verse:
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---5b---5-----3---2--3p2p0-----
----------------------------2--
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-14b--14p12-------11-----
-------------14v---------
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End on
Guitar 1
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---4-2--------------------------
---4-2-5--4-\-------------------
---2-0-5--4-\-------------------
-------3--2-\-------------------
