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From Visscher@ALG.FRG.eur.nl Fri Apr 4 17:01:34 1997
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 97 13:07:45 ^?^?^?
From: Visscher@ALG.FRG.eur.nl
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: posted tab: `Ironic' (Alanis Morissette)
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IRONIC - ALANIS MORISSETTE
From the album `Jagged little pill'
Transcribed by Louis Visscher .
This tablature would not have come about without the help of Jeff Elkins
. He transcribed the chord-version with a
capo at the 4th fret. I use his chords in this transcription.
He distinguishes 3 guitars.
I also would like to thank Evan C. Parker for his
initial transcription of this song, just like Shawn Maschino
and Maarten Klaassen .
My tab is for 1 guitar only. For the other guitar parts, look at Jeff's tab!
In verse 2, a clean guitar plays the tab, a clean guitar strums the chords,
and a semi-distorted guitar plays a few riffs. I have incorporated those
riffs in the tab, in such away that one guitar can play both the tab and
the riffs.
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Chords. Capo on 4th fret! Numbers are relative to capo.
Intro, verses and bridge Chorus
F#/A#: 2x023x F#: x00232 (D-shape)
B2: 3x020x B: 320033 (G-shape)
G#m: 0x00xx G#m: 022000 (Em-shape)
Emaj7: x32003 A: 133211 (F-shape)
x32033 E: 032010 (C-shape)
F#6add4: x54005 (Not sure about name. Maybe Bmaj7/F#add9?)
F#6add4add13: x54007 (Not sure about name. Maybe Bmaj7/F#?.
In this transcription, I call this chord F#@)
INTRO (clean guitar):
|--3-----2--------------------|
|--------------3--------------|
|---------------------0-----2-|
Emaj7 F#6add4 Emaj7 |-----0-----0-----------------|
|--3-----3-----3--------------|
|-----------------------------|
" Hey-ey, hey,..." etc etc
VERSE 1 (chord progression: | F#/A# B2 | F#/A# G#m | etc. Clean guitar)
+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-------0---------|-3---------------|-3--3--3---------|----3------------|
|-2-----2---------|-2-----0---------|-2---2-2---------|-2-----0---------|
|-0---------------|-------0-------0-|-----------------|-0-----0---------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-2-----3---------|-2-----0---------|-2-----3---------|-2-----0---------|
An old man turned 98. He won the lottery, and died the next day
+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-3-----0---------|-3---------------|-----------------|----3------------|
|-2--2--2---------|-2-----0---------|-2--2--2---------|-2-----0---------|
|-----------------|-0-----0---------|-0-----0---------|-0-----0---------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-2-----3---------|-2-----0---------|-2-----3---------|-2-----0---------|
It's a black fly in your Chardonnay. It's a death row pardon 2 minutes too
late.
+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |
|-----------------|-----------------|
|----3--------3---|---3-------------|
|-2-----2---2---2-|-2-----0---------|
|-0-----0---------|-0-----0---------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-2-----3---------|-2-----0---------|
Isn't it ironic...don't you think?
CHORUS (Overdriven guitar):
F# B F# G#m
Its like rain on your wedding day
F# B F# G#m
It's a free ride when you've already paid
F# B F# G#m
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
A E F#
And who would have thought...it figures
VERSE 2 (clean) Guitar 2 strums the chords in the usual progression.
+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . +. | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |
|------------------|----------------|------------------|---------------------|
|----3--0----0-----|----0-----------|----3--0----------|----0--------0-------|
|-2-----2---2--2-0-|-2-----0--------|-2-----2----------|-2-----0---2-----2-0-|
|-0----------------|-0-----0--------|-0----------------|-0-----0-------------|
|------------------|----------------|------------------|---------------------|
|-2-----3----------|-2-----0--------|-2-----3----------|-2-----0-------------|
Mr. Play It Safe was afraid to fly. suitcase and kids goodbye. He
He packed his kissed his waited his
+ . + . + . + .| + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + .+.
|
|----------------|---------------0-------|-------------------|----------------
|
|----3--0--------|-----0-------3-----3-0-|----3--0-----------|-----0----------
|
|-2-----2--------|--2-----0--------------|-2-----2-----------|--2-----0-------
|
|-0--------------|--0-----0--------------|-0-----------------|--0-----0-------
|
|----------------|-----------------------|-------------------|----------------
|
|-2-----3--------|--2-----0--------------|-2-----3-----------|--2-----0-------
|
whole damn life just to take that.. plane crashed down isn't this
..flight. And as the he thought "well nice..."
+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |
|-------------------5-3h5-|-----------------|
|-----3----0-----0h3------|----0------------|
|-2--------2--------------|-2-----0---------|
|-0-----------------------|-0---------------|
|-------------------------|-------0---------|
|-2--------3--------------|-2-----0---------|
And isn't it ironic.... don't you think?
CHORUS (distortion)
BRIDGE (clean)
Emaj7
Well life has a funny way
F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4
of sneaking up on you when you think everything is okay and
Emaj7 F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4
everything is going right
Emaj7
And life has a funny way
F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4
of helping you out when you think everything's gone wrong and
Emaj7
everything blows up in your face
|--3--2--------|
|--------3-----|
|-----------0--|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|
VERSE 3
A clean guitar strums the chords in the normal progression, and throughout the
verse, keybords play something like this:
|-------------|--------------|
|---3--0~~~~--|---0----------|
|-2-----------|-2----0~~~~---|
|-------------|--------------|
|-------------|--------------|
|-------------|--------------|
A traffic jam, when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife.
And isn't it..
+ . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . | + . + . + . + . |
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------3-2p0--|-----------------|
|----3-----3------|----3-----3------|----3--3--3-----3-|----3------------|
|-2-----2---------|-2-----0---------|-2-----2----------|-2-----0---------|
|-0-----0---------|-0-----2---------|-0----------------|-0-----0---------|
|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-2-----3---------|-2-----0---------|-2-----3----------|-2-----0---------|
ironic....don't you think a little too ironic..and yeah I really do think
CHORUS (distortion)
OUTRO (clean)
Emaj7 F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4
Emaj7 F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4
Life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
Emaj7 F#6add4 F#@ F#6add4 Emaj7
Life has a funny, funny way of helping you out
Emaj7 Emaj7
Helping you out
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