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                        SONIC YOUTH - THE SPRAWL
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Tabbed by: L Hulme
E-mail: songsforwalter@hotmail.co.uk

There's not a correct tab for Thurston's part anywhere online.
I play in a Sonic Youth Cover band in Manchester UK.

Worked out after hours of watching Thurston play this on youtube clips.

Tuning: CCEBGD - At the very least you're best putting an A string as your 6 string. 
As a general rule for SY tunes you're best putting G at least 0.17s as your 3 highest strings. 

 Up or down by these many semi tones : Eu8 Au3 Du2 Gu4 Bd4 Ed2

 Intro/Spoken part- I'm not gonna tab the strumming but these are the chord shapes


                                    slide down
E|-----------------3--5--------3------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------3--3--------3--5-/4/3/2/1------------------------------|
G|--------------5--3--3-----5--3--3--x-x-x-x------------------------------|
D|--------------3--3--3-----3--3--3--x-x-x-x------------------------------|
A|--0-0-0-0-----0--0--0-----0--0--0--0-0-0-0------------------------------|
E|--0-0-0-0-----0--0--0-----0--0--0--0-0-0-0------------------------------|

  Chorus - Come on down to the store  (This bits correct on other sites) 

E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|----0----2---0----2----3------0-----2----3-------0-----2-------3-----|
E|----0----2---0----2----3------0-----2----3-------0-----2-------3-----|

  The post chorus bit is really hard to work out what T is playing it definately involves:

E|--0--------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--12-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--12-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--0--------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--0--------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--0--------------------------------------------------------------------|
  
  The Lead Riff is played like this - across 2 strings
  
   Play that 22 times    x 11           x8

E|--0----0---------------0---0---------0---0----------------------------|
B|--12---0---------------11--0---------12--0----------------------------|
G|--0----x---------------0---x---------0---0----------------------------|
D|--x---12---------------x---12--------0---12---------------------------|
A|--0----0---------------0---0---------0---0----------------------------|
E|--0----0---------------0---0---------0---0----------------------------|

   Outro / after all the noise this beautiful riff emerges 
   repeat lots of times...
     
E|--4-5-7--4--4-4-5-7----9-9-------------------------------0--|
B|--4-4-4--4--4-4-4-5----0-0--7-7-7-7----------------------0--|
G|--0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0----8-8--8-8-8| 8/10-10----------------0--|
D|--0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0--0-0-0------------------8-8-5--10-10-0--|
A|---------------------0-0-0------------------0-0-0--0--0-----|
E|---------------------0-0-0----------------------------------|

  Then you can launch into cross the breeze - same tuning.


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| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| +   harmonic
| x   Mute note
| b   Bend
| pb  Pre-bend
| br  Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend