Helter Skelter

The Beatles

Composição de: Paul Mccartney / Beatles (The)
Tom:
Afinação:
E|-----0--(r| epeat)--------------------------------------------------
B|--12\3--(r| epeat)--------------------------------------------------
G|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 

         When I get to the bottom I go back to the top of the

E|-----0--(r| epeat)--------------------------------------------------
B|-----2--(r| epeat)--------------------------------------------------
G|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 

  slide, where I stop and I turn and I go for a

                                                  G
E|-----0--(r| epeat)--------------------------------------------------
B|-----1--(r| epeat)--------------------------------------------------
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|------------------------------------------------5--5--6--6--------| 
E|------------------------------------------------3--3--3--3--------| 

  ride, till I get to the bottom and I see you again.

                           E
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|--5--5--6---------6------2--2--2--2--3\2--2--2--2-----------------| 
E|--3--3--3---------3------0--0--0--0--1\0--0--0--0-----------------| 

        Yeah yeah  yeah!


[Verse]
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     E
Well do you don't you want me to make you

I'm coming down fast but don't let me break you
                                 G
Tell me tell me tell me come on tell me the answer
          A                                E
Well you may be a lover but you ain't no dancer.



[Chorus]

            A
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|----------2---2---4---4--5--4--2----------------------------------| 
A|----------0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0----------------------| 
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 

   Well, Helter Skelter

     E
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
G|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------| 
E|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------| 

  Helter skelter

       A                                    E
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
B|--------------------------------------------5b(7)--3--5-----------| 
G|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
D|---2---2---4---4--5--4--2-----------------------------------------| 
A|---0---0---0---0-----------5--4--2--0-----------------------------| 
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 

   Helter skelter                        Yeah


So much for verses and choruses.  The rest are pretty much the same,
except that the rest of the verses hit the G chord a little sooner
(at the beginning of the third line of the verse).
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[Guitar solo in the middle]


    E                          A                      E
E|----------------------7--7--15b(17)--15b(17)--b(17)15-------------| 
B|----------------------0--0----------------------------------------| 
G|----------------------9--9----------------------------------------| 
D|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
A|------------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|------------------------------------------------------------------| 

   'Cos here she comes

                                    A                                 
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------
B|--b(17)15b(17)15---------------13b(14)------------------b(17)15-----
G|------------------b(14)12---------------b(14)12b(14)12-----------12-
D|---------------------------14---------------------------------------
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------
     E
E|------| 
B|------| 
G|------| 
D|-14~--| 
A|------| 
E|------| 

Later, there's a neat riff in one of the last verses.  I think it
comes right after "will you won't you want me to make you" or something
like that.  This is a cool riff with that looonnnng slide.


E|--12--15b(17)--b(17)15--12------12---------------------------------
B|----------------------------15------15\10-----10b(12)--b(12)10--8--
G|-------------------------------------------9-----------------------
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------
E|-------| 
B|-------| 
G|7--9---| 
D|-------| 
A|-------| 
E|-------| 

As the song fades into the first ending, there are some nice bend 
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releases,
while the lyrics repeat "coming down fast":

E|--b(17)15-----------------------------------------------------------
B|-----------b(17)15--------------------------------------------------
G|--------------------b(16)14-----------------------------------------
D|-----------------------------b(14)12--------------------------------
A|--------------------------------------b(14)12-----------------------
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------

Later, there's a whole lot of Hendrix-like guitar noise.


Tab Special Notations:

E|----0----| play the open string ('fret zero')                  
B|----5----| play fret five                                      
G|----5~---| play fret five with vibrato                         
D|---5/7---| play fret five, slide up to fret seven              
A|---7\5---| play fret seven, slide down to fret five            
E|--7\5/7--| play fret seven, slide down to fret five, slide back
E|--8b(9)--| play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to 
E|      
B|      
G|      
D|      
A|      
E| up   
reach 

             the pitch of fret nine
E|--b(9)8--| play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine, 

             unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
E|----h7---| hammer-on to fret seven                               
B|----p5---| pull-off to fret five                                 
G|---/7----| slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is 

             , judge by ear)
E|---15\---| play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide 
E|is 

             , judge by ear)
E|---0h3---| play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret 

             three
E|---7p5---| play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five 
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  • A
  • E
  • G
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