• Song:

    Debris Slide

  • Artist:

    Pavement

  • Album:

    1992-05-19: The Cattle ...

Band: Pavement
Song: Debris Slide
Album: Westing (By Musket & Sextant)

tab by Jackie Joyner

The main guitar on this song is probably in an alternate tuning, 
but it's easily playable without it. Once again I am tabbing this
for one guitar though there are clearly 2.

Structure:
Intro
Verse
Chorus
Verse 
Chorus
Instr. Break/Bridge
Chorus

The man riff in the intro and verses revolves around a bend/pull off
that looks like this:

Fig 1:
E|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-3b4p0-----------|
D|-5---------------|
A|-----------------|
E|-----------------|

After playing this in the verse 2x the next riff goes like this:
[note: since the song is fairly noisy/sloppy, some combination of
hitting all the notes like a chord and picking them individually
should work]

Fig 2:
E|-----------------------|
B|----0--0-----0-0-3p0---|
G|---5--5-----5-5-5------|
D|--3--3----2------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|

Intro:
Fig 1 x4

Verse:
Fig1          Fig1
     maybe she    is
Fig2
    maybe she's not
Fig1      Fig1
    maybe we's
Fig2
    we's hack cough wheeze hack... 

Chorus:
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...cough   (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...

Verse:
   Fig1        Fig1
...slide   maybe he is
Fig2
     maybe he's not
Fig1      Fig1
     maybe I's, I's in the..
Fig2
socket eyes in the socket so i'm gonna...

Chorus:
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...sock it (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...

Instr. Break/Bridge:

   B5(hold for 8 measures)
...slide

Chorus:
   G5       C5    A5     C5
           (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5       C5    A5     C5
...slide   (ba ba bada ba) debris...
   G5
...slide
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