• Song:

    Tristessa

  • Artist:

    Smashing Pumpkins

  • Album:

    Party All Night

Title: Tristessa
Artist: Smashing Pumpkins
Album: Gish
Tuning: E A D G

After guitar into bass comes in with this:
Riff 1 
G|--------------------------------------|
D|-----------------4--------------------|
A|2/5-------7-------h5--------7---------|
E|----0-0h0---0-0h0-----0-0h0----0-0h0--|

Then go to this:
Riff 2
G|--------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|
A|7-7-7-7-7-7-5-7--5-7-5-7-5------|
E|---------------------------7-5--|

Pull a slide on the E string,
then go back to Riff 1

Then another Riff 2

Then pull another E string slide, after go right into this:
Riff 3
G|----------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------3--|
E|0-0-0h3-3-3h5-5-5-6-5-3-0-0-0h3-3-3h----|

then:
Thing
G|------------|
D|------------|  Then play another Riff 3, repeat as needed
A|2-----2-----|
E|---5-----5--|

Go back to Riff 1 and play an ocansional:
G|-------------------|
D|-------------------|
A|2h5-2h5-2h5-2h5-5--|
E|-------------------|

Go back to Riff 2, then pluck a few notes from Riff1 one
and your set to start the next song.
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