Gold Sounds by Pavement guitar tab (text):

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hello



here is a new tab that gary von collin was kind enough to send me.

also included is a pavement tuning spiel. 



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From:             Gary Von Colln 

Date sent:        Thu, 25 Apr 96 17:58:14 EDT

To:               pavement@uts.edu.au

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        jasepiol@leland.stanford.edu, rabst59@pitt.edu

Subject:          Gold Sounds Tab





@Song: Gold Soundz

Written by Pavement

Recorded by Pavement on album "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" (Matador)

File format: tab

Transcription by Gary Von Colln



(lyrics taken from http://www.pitt.edu/~rabst59/pave/lyrics/gold)



Here's the basic chord progression.  The A-B-D progression is also

used in the instrumental interlude.  If you don't want to bother with

the Dsus2 and Bsus2 just play D and B instead, it will still sound

good.



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A

Go back to those gold soundz

            B             D

And keep my affect to yourself

             A

Because it's nothing that I don't like

        B                  D

Is it a crisis or a boring change

          A

When it's central, so essential

         B                  D

It has a nice ring when you laugh

       A

At the low-life opinions

            B                    D

And they're coming to the chorus now



          F#m             Dsus2

I keep my address to yourself

              Bsus2

Cause we need secrets

        Dsus2

We need secret, cret, cret, cret, crets

           A

Back right now



Because I never want to make you feel

That you're social,  never ignorant soul

Believe in what you want to do

And do you think that is a major flaw

When they rise up in the falling rain

And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down

The trials over, the weapon's found



Keep my address to myself

Cause it's secret

Cause it's secret, cret, 

cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,

Back right now



So drunk in the august sun

And you're the kind of girl I like

Because you're empty, and I'm empty

And you can never quarantine the past

Did you remember in December

That I won't eat you when I'm gone

And if I go there ,I won't stay there

Because I'm sitting here too long

I've been sitting here too long

And I've been wasting

Allocating outward

For the last word

Last words come up

All you've got to wait



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Now for some "Pavement chords".  First retune your guitar to

C-G-D-G-B-B (fat E string down 4 frets in pitch, A string down 2 frets

in pitch, thin E sting down 5 frets in pitch).  Once you've retuned

these are the chord shapes:



     A(I)    A(II)     B(I)    B(II)  Bsus2    D(I)  D(II)   Dsus2

F#m

B-|------------------------------------------------------------------------

B-|--2-------10--------4-------12-----4--------7-----15------7-------10----

G-|--2--------9--------4-------11-----6--------7-----14------9-------11----

D-|--2-------11--------4-------13-----4--------7-----16------7-------11----

G-|--2--------9--------4-------11-----4--------7-----14------7-------11----

C-|-----------9----------------11--------------------14--------------------



The (I) or (II) just indicates position, e.g. A(I) is an A major,

played in the first position (along the guitar neck), while A(II) is

also A major but played in the second position.



Note that the first string is not played in any of the above chords.

Since the first and second strings are tuned the same, if you want,

you can fret the first string the same as the second and play it.



From listening to the recording, I think the two guitars play as

follows:



verses:

   guitar 1:  A(I)  - B(I)  - D(I)

   guitar 2:  A(II) - A(II) - A(II)



Here guitar 2 is playing the A(II) the whole time.  Listen for those

high notes on the record, especially during the first verse when

guitar 1 is quit.



chorus:

   both: F#m - Dsus2 - Bsus2 - Dsus2



intrumental interlude (roughly):

   guitar 1: A(I)  - B(I) - D(I)

   guitar 2: A(II) - B(II) - D(II)



The interlude is pretty free form so this simple pattern isn't the

whole story, but you can play around with these chords and find a lot

of the sounds on the record.









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