• Song:

    Bullet With Butterfly Wings

  • Artist:

    Smashing Pumpkins

  • Album:

    Freedom!

BULLET WITH BUTTERFLY WINGS - by Smashing Pumpkins as
====== ==== ========= =====   performed at the Double Door

Tabbed By Dan Paterson
All guitars tuned Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb

"The world is a vampire..."

*1

G1 and G2 mid/light distortion

|---------------------------------------------------------
|----------------------0-0-0-0----------------------------
|-4-4-4-4-----4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4----------------------------
|-4-4-4-4--4--4--4-4-4-4-4-4-4----------------------------
|-2-2-0-2--2--2--2-2-2-0-0-0-0----------------------------
|----------3--0--0-0-0------------------------------------
                              ^repeat

*2
                          <   <
|---------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------0-0-0-0-------------------------
|-4-4-4-------------------4-4-4-4-------------------------
|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-------------------------
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-0-------------------------
|-------0-0-0-0-0-3-3-3-3---------------------------------
                                 ^repeat
                          ^ that little "<" 
                          is for emphasis.

*3

Heavy Distortion!!!

|---------------------------------------------------------
|-------------3-(3-3)---------------------------3---------
|-4--4-4------2--2-2-2--2-9----------4--4-4----2---------
|-4--4-4-5----0--0-0-2--2-9--5----4--4--4-5----0---------
|-2--2-0-5----0--0-0-0--0-7--X----2--2--0-5----0---------
|--------3-0--------------0---3------------3-0---...------
                                   ^repeat
                               ^one of the guitars
                               somehow tremolos a
                               G in here...don't ask
                               me :>
Chorus ends with:

|-------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------
|-----------2-------------------------------------------
|-4-----4---2-------------------------------------------
|-4-----4---0-------------------------------------------
|-2--0--2-----------------------------------------------
                ^repeated several times after second chorus
back to *1...

End riff
(similar to *3)

|---------------------------------------------------------
|---------3-----------------------------------------------
|-4-------2-X-2-------------------------------------------
|-4-X-5---0-X-2-------------------------------------------
|-2-X-5---0-X-0-------------------------------------------
|-----3---------------------------------------------------
              add rhythm there as appropriate...
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