#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## # #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:10:09 -0500 (EST) From: KELLOGG@center.colgate.edu "CHARACTER ZERO" by Phish (music by Trey Anastasio, words by Tom Marshall) >From BILLY BREATHES Transcribed by Dave Biszick (KELLOGG@CENTER.COLGATE.EDU) December 16, 1996 ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* The Riff (usually done on bass): p = pull off / =slide to E ------------------------------------------| B ------------------------------------------| G ------------------------------------------| D ------------------------------------------| A -----2p0-5-2-0-2-5-2/7--------------------|(let note ring as line is sung) E -3p0--------------------------------------| [RIFF] I was taught a month ago [RIFF] To bide my time and take it slow [RIFF] But then I learned just yesterday [RIFF] To rush and never waste the day [RIFF] Now I'm convinced the whole day long [RIFF] That all I learn is always wrong [RIFF] And things are true that I forget [RIFF] Well no one taught that to me yet [lightly strum an A chord, getting gradually louder, then forcefully hit A G] E (022100@1) G (320003@1) AI-I'm (x02220@1)off to see the man Mulcahey, I'm off to see the man Mulcahey (x4) E (022100@1) G (320003@1) AI (x02220@1)was taught a month ago . . . . E (022100@1) G (320003@1) ATo (x02220@1)bide my time and take it slow . . . . E (022100@1) G (320003@1) ABut (x02220@1)then I learned just yesterday . . . . E (022100@1) G (320003@1) ATo (x02220@1)rush and never waste the day . . . . E (022100@1) G (320003@1) ANow (x02220@1)I'm convinced the whole day long . . . . E (022100@1) G (320003@1) AThat (x02220@1)all I learn is always wrong . . . . E (022100@1) GAnd (320003@1)things are true that I forget . . . . E (022100@1) G (320003@1) A------A GWell (320003@1)no one taught that to me yet . . . . E (022100@1) G (320003@1) AI (x02220@1)- I'm off to see the man Mulcahey, I'm off to see the man Mulcahey (x4) E (022100@1) EI (022100@1)- I . . . . Mulcahey, I'm off to see the man Mulcahey E (022100@1) EI (022100@1)- I . . . . Mulcahey, I - 'Cahey, 'Cahey . . . . [SOLO over E G A (x4)] [Continue solo and stuff along with E G A progression, and fade out with refrains along the lines of:] I - I . . . . I - . . . . I - I . . . . I - . . . . I - I'm off to see the man Mulcahey, I'm off to see the man Mulcahey..... (BLAH BLAH BLAH.....) ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* That should hold you rascals for now! (when I play this tune, I put an Asus4-A-Asus4-A quick change at the verse ends that isn't necessary...Trey doesn't play it, but if you're playing alone on a guitar - as I usually do - it substitutes in for Page's piano fills.) (Oh, and I didn't transcribe the solo because, well... I don't have the patience, and I can barely solo anyway.
