e: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 14:33:02 -0500

"Transistor"
Performed by 311
From the album "Transistor" on Capricorn/Mercury Records
Music by: Chad Sexton
Lyrics by: Nick Hexum and Doug Martinez
(c) 1997 Hydroponic Music BMI
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Tabbed by Fred Lidskog 

NOTE: ANOTHER INTERPRETATION OF THIS SONG, AND ONE THAT I NOW THINK IS THE
RIGHT WAY TO PLAY IT, IS TO PLAY ONLY THE NOTES LISTED ON THE LOW "E"
STRING, AND NOT THE ONES ON THE "A" STRING. IN OTHER WORDS, PLAY THE
SINGLE NOTES ON THE "E" STRING INSTEAD OF THE POWER CHORDS LISTED BELOW,
BUT ONLY IN "VERSE RIFFS 1 & 2", "CHORUS RIFF 1", AND "RIFF 3". THE OTHER
RIFFS SHOULD BE PLAYED AS LISTED BELOW.

Verse Riff 1:
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e---------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------
G---------------------------------------------------------
D---------------------------------------------------------
A--2--4--5--7--4--4----7--4--2--7b7.5---2--4--5--7--4--4--
E--0--2--3--5--2--2----5--2--0--5b5.5---0--2--3--5--2--2--

e--------------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------------------------
A--7--4--2--7--4--2--------------------------------------
E--5--2--0--5--2--0--------------------------------------

Verse Riff 2:
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e--------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------------------
A--7--4--2--7--4--2--2--2--7--4--2--7--4--2--2--2--
E--5--2--0--5--2--0--0--0--5--2--0--5--2--0--0--0--

e-----------------------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------------------
G-----------------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------7--7--7-----------
A--7--4--2--7--4--2--2--2--7--4--2--7--4--5--5--5-----------
E--5--2--0--5--2--0--0--0--5--2--0--5--2--------------------

Chorus Riff 1:
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e--------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------------------
D--7--7--7--8--------------------------------------
A--5--5--5--6--6--6--6--6---6--6--8--6--4----------
E--------------4--4--4--4---4--4--6--4--2----------

Chorus Riff 2:
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e---------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------
G---------------------------------------------------
D-----------7---------------------------------------
A--4--4--4--5--6--6--6--6---6--6--8--6--4-----------
E--2--2--2-----4--4--4--4---4--4--6--4--2-----------

Riff 3:
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e-------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------------------
D-----------------9--7----------------------------------------
A--5--5--5--5--5--7--5-------5--5--5--5--9--7--9--------------
E--3--3--3--3--3--7--5-------3--3--3--3--7--5--7--------------

Bridge:
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e------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------------------
D------------9--7--------------9--7--------------------------
A---5--5--5--7--5----5--5--5---7--5----5--5--9--7------------
E---3--3--3----------3--3--3-----------3--3--7--5------------

Reggae Part:
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e---3--3--------------1--1----1--1-----------------------
B---3--3-----5--5-----1--1----1--1-----------------------
G---4--4-----5--5-----2--2----2--2-----------------------
D------------5--5----------------------------------------
A--------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------

Ending:
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e----------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------------
G-----------5--5-------------------------------
D---5--5----5--5---3------3-----3------3-------
A---5--5----3--3---3------3-----3------3-------
E---3--3----3--3---1--0---1--0--1--0--1--0-----

e---------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------
G-----------5--5------------------------------
D---5--5----5--5---3---3---3--------3---------
A---5--5----3--3---3---3---3--------3---------
E---3--3----3--3---1---1---1---0----1---------

Lyrics/Song Structure:
=====================
--- Play Verse Riff 1 over:
	If you want more beats for your buck there's no luck
	If you want more beats for your buck there's no luck
	If you want more beats for your buck there's no luck
	If you want more beats for your
--- Play Verse Riff 2 over:
	buck there's no luck, then there's no luck
	Then again if you came for drama then I can't understand
	Music critics, music critics
	Not afraid of a guy who'll tell you he's never been in a mix
        Been in a mix, been in a mix
	From the grass roots so big up to our friends
	Every crew every click and every posse
	Big up to all the heads not of hypocrisy
--- Play Chorus Riff 1 over:
	You're a Transistor
--- Play Chorus Riff 2 over:
	Lightning resistor
	Conducting to the mother star
	That's what you
--- Play Riff 3 over:
	are, yeah heh heh heh heh, yeah heh heh heh heh
        yeah heh heh heh heh, yeah heh heh heh heh
--- Play Verse Riff 1 over:
	Renegade sound system Three Eleven
	Renegade sound system Three Eleven
	Renegade sound system Three Eleven
	Renegade sound system
--- Play Verse Riff 2 over:
	Three Eleven, Three Eleven
	Brothers from another planet and here once again
	Automatic, automatic wanna take to the universe in a holographic
	Cosmic remix, cosmic remix,
	From the mysterious blue planet we can breathe anywhere
	Underwater, out in space or in L.A.
	Your polluted air's no problem for these homeys
--- Play Chorus Riff 1 over:
	You're a Transistor
--- Play Chorus Riff 2 over:
	Lightning resistor
	Conducting to the mother star
	That's what you
--- Play Riff 3 over:
	are, yeah heh heh heh heh, yeah heh heh heh heh
        yeah heh heh heh heh, yeah heh heh heh heh
--- Play Bridge (x4)
--- Play Reggae Part (x4) over:
	You're a Transistor
	Lightning Resistor
	Conducting to the Mother Star
	That's what you
--- Play Ending (x2) over:
	are, yeah heh heh heh heh, yeah heh heh heh
	yeah heh heh heh heh, yeah heh heh heh

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