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Paint A Vulgar Picture
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Lyrics by Morrissey
Music by Johnny Marr
Performed by the Smiths
from their last LP "Strangeways Here We Come"
Transcribed by Pablo Kang (pkang@cs.buffalo.edu) December 12, 1995
Corrections and comments are encouraged.
########## Legend ##########################
# #
# e : eigth note #
# q : quarter #
# q. : quarter + eigth #
# h : half #
# w : whole note #
# #
# (n) : ghost note #
# (i.e. do not play, it's there #
# for musical correctness) #
# ^ : pull off #
# / : slide up #
# \ : slide down #
# = : continued note #
# #
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The whole song begins with...
... a strum on ...then another strum
the 9th position for another 4 beats...
for 4 beats... |
| |
V V
F# (9th pos) F# (2nd pos)
x===== ======
|1|||x ix ||||||
------ ------
|||||| x 1|||1x
------ ------
||333| xi |||2||
------ ------
|34|||
------
...then with vigor...
A (strum 4x) [key of D]
...then...
D, G, A
D, G, A
Bm, G, A, G, A
Bm, G, A
D, G, A "At the record company meeting..."
...
...then the aforementioned pattern repeats until the key change, where
from the last _A_ chord in the pattern slides down to the _F#_ chord and a
similar pattern ensues with a different key.
i.e.
... "...you could walked away...couldn't you?"
Bm, G, A
F#, [down to B key]
B, E, F# "I touched you at the soundcheck..."
B, e, F#
G#m, e, F#
G#m, e, F#
...
...then the solo follows:
...really know...aw! [key of D] q q q q. e e e e e==
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------5-----|--7--------7--8--7--------
|-------------------------|--------7-----7-----------|--------------------7--7==
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/smiths/paint_a_vulgar_picture_tab.html ]
=(e) e e q q e e e q e e e e e e e e e e e
|----------5--7-----5-----|--------------------------|--------------------7-----
|-------------------------|--8--7-----------5--5--5--|-5/7-10-7--10-8--10----10=
=(7)-6--6-----------------|--------7--7--------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
h q. e q q e e e e w
|----------------------10-|--10----------------------|--------------------------
=(10)========(10)---------|--------7-----8--7--------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------9--9====(9)----------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e e h q e q q q e e e e e h
|-7^^5--------------------|--7--5--------------------|--------------9-----------
|-pull--------------------|--------------------------|--------8-----------------
|-off---7==========(7)----|-----------6-----7-----7--|--7-7/9----9--------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e e e e e e e e e q e h e e e e e e e e
|-------9^^7--------7--5--|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-5--5--pull--5--5--------|--------------------------|-----------------------12-
|-------off---------------|--7--7-----9--9-----------|-9-9/11-14-11-14-12-14----
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
q e h q w [key of B] Best of, most of...
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-12----10-10=========(10)|--11----------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
|-------------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
...etc.
You can pretty much figure it out from here.
