Here ye, here ye! This here is a tab done by myself, Jason "I Like My Scotch Like I Like My Women - 16 Years Old!" Warden for the exalted and holy colormeimpressed.com website. This tab may be reproduced any and everywhere as long as this header paragraph remains INTACT. Comments, suggestions, requests, porn may be sent to - jason!at?benalto^dot*com. You can also find me browsing/lurking the forums of http://www.colormeimpressed.com/bb ,especially the Guitar Geeks section. If you're going to the colormeimpressed.com forums, be sure to wear a flower in your hair. You're bound to meet a lot of nice people there. This is a much requested tab that I'm finally getting around to - I always knew how about 90% of it went, but finally got prodded enough. It's for We May Be The Ones, from Stereo. It is in one of Paul's favourite tunings, the lovely open F#. Relax, it's just open G minus a semitone! high e - F# b - A# g - F# d - C# a - F# e - C# This song is really awesome and shows real versatility from Paul in wrestling unique chordal shapes from a tuning that's really almost a century old. Let's break the parts of the song down. The INTRO (like, "I wanna know, I wanna know" is played THUSLY: F# G# C# ---0-0-0----0-0-0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0---------------------------------- -0-0-0-0--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3---------------------------------- -0-0-0-0--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2---------------------------------- -0-0-0-0--2-2-2-2--0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0---------------------------------- -0-0-0-0--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2---------------------------------- -------------------0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0---------------------------------- I mean, you know the rhythm...DA (da da da) DA (da da da) DA (da da da) DA (da da da). Lotsa triplets. I know that G# is really a G#sus4add9 or whatever, so DON'T YOU DARE GET ALL MUSIC THEORY ON MY ASS BECAUSE I'M NOT GONNA FIGURE OUT EVERY GODDAMN PARTIAL. Ahem. Okay, verse section time. Let's go through the first verse: F# Was the garage your playground G# Your pool a hose C# Did you piss in the alley F# C# and get your toes caught F# G# In the spokes of a bike with a banana seat C# A#7sus4 A#7 Did you carry a knife that was rusted shut tight D#min C# G# You got drunk after church at 13 The 'trick' with this song is he always plays that G# like a G#sus4. Let's go through these chords: F# G# C# A#7sus4 A#7 D#min -0----0---0----2--------1-------0--- -3----3---3----0--------0-------0--- -4----2---2----2--------2-------0--- -0----2---0----4--------4-------5--- -0----2---2----4--------4-------4--- ----------0---------------------2--- That A#7sus4-A#7 part...took me a bit to figure out. In the video I've seen, he ALWAYS looks down at his guitar at this point and wrenches the neck up to his face so he can twist his hand. What you do is play the 4th fret A and D strings with your third and fourth fingers, respectively. For the sus4 you use your FIRST finger on the G string and your SECOND on the HIGH E. For the A#7 you use your first finger for the HIGH E and your SECOND for the G string. OUCH. Hope you're playing on a smaller neck, or have Giant Hands. Don't blame me, that's how it's done, man. Alright, we'll go through the chorus now: --0---0-----0-----------0-------------------------------------------------------- --3---3-----3-----------0-------------------------------------------------------- --0---0-----2-----------0-------------------------------------------------------- --5---0-----4-----------5-------------------------------------------------------- --5---x-----4-----------4-------------------------------------------------------- ------5-----------------2-------------------------------------------------------- We may well be the ones to set this world on it's ear We may well be the ones --0-----------0----------0-------------------------------------------------- --3-----------3----------3-------------------------------------------------- --0-----------2----------2-------------------------------------------------- --5-----------4----------2------------------------------------------------- --5-----------4----------2-------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- if not then why are we here? For most of the song, after he does that he goes right back into the intro "I wanna know I wanna know"..but there's that one part where he extends this with --0------------0-----------0-------------------------- --3------------3-----------3-------------------------- --0------------2-----------0-------------------------- --5------------0-----------0-------------------------- --5------------2-----------0-------------------------- ---------------0-------------------------------------- Why the hell else are we here? Just for reference! Okay, that's just about all the guitar parts, save the bridge: ----------0-----------0------------------------------------------ -5--------3-----------3------------------------------------------ -0--------2-----------2------------------------------------------ -0--------4-----------2------------------------------------------ -4--------4-----------2------------------------------------------ -2--------------------------------------------------------------- You may well be the next one someone sell me a handgun Goodbye Ma, I'm done for It's the law, tell me what for Okay, you mash 'em up and play the song! Note, there's a couple times in the song where Paul MAKES A MISTAKE (listen to his first attempt at a C#, the second time the intro is played) but I'm not tabbing that out....don't be like Paul, practice the damned thing!