X-Authentication-Warning: yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU: Host pcb22.cs.rmit.EDU.AU [144.205.201.222] didn't use HELO protocol Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:19:31 +1000 From: Mark Ord MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eharty@prairienet.org Subject: Hold Me Down TAB X-URL: http://www.prairienet.org/~eharty/guitar.html ARTIST:Gin Blossoms TITLE:Hold Me Down (4:50) appearing on 'New Miserable Experience'. Track #5. WRITTEN BY:Doug Hopkins TRANSCRIPED BY:Mark Ord (29/4/96) A B5 - C#5 - D5 - A5 - E B5 - C#5 - D5 - A5 - D5 - A5 B5 C#5 D So I guess I must have just been dreaming A5 E When I thought I heard myself say no B5 C#5 D A5 D5 A5 Anyway it looks like no one heard me so here I go (continue with these chords. Solo and solo and end is over A chord) Cause when you're in the company of strangers Or just the strangers you call friends You know before you start just how it's going to end When the doors swing open and all the drinks are passed around Anytime the pickins look too easy...hold me down I can't remember why I like this feeling When it only seems to let me down Soon I find I'm searching for the exit from the ground If I think the room is turning faster Then I think the music is too loud By then I've lived another broken story to let me down When those doors swing open and all the drinks are passed around When half the party moves into the bathroom...hold me down Or if you're at the tail end of the evening And Dr. Feelgood comes around Anytime the pickins look too easy...hold me down Down if I want that part Down if I've gone too far Well I guess I must have just been reeling When I felt myself begin to fall I realize I'm bounding down the hallways and off the walls If my bed was standing in the corner I could just fall into it right now And know that I'd just be staring at the ceiling going round When those doors swing open and all the drinks are passed around Anytime the pickins look too easy...hold me down Intro and chorus rythmn guitar part: B5 C#5 D A E |------------2p0-2p0--------------------0--0-0-0-0--| |---------3--3-3-3-3-3----2--3p2-3p2-0--0--0-0-0-0--| |---------2--2-2-2-2---2--2--2-2-2-2----1--2p1-2p1--| |-4---4-6-0---------------2--2-2-2-2----2--2-2-2-2--| |-2---2-4-----------------0-------------2-----------| |---------------------------------------0-----------| B5 C#5 D A D5 A |------------2p0-2p0--------------------------------| |---------3--3-3-3-3------2--2---3-3--2--2----------| |---------2--2-2-2-2------2--2---2-2--2--2----------| |-4---4-6-0---------------2--2---0-0--2--2----------| |-2---2-4-----------------0--0--------0--0----------| |---------------------------------------------------| Verse rythmn guitar part B5 C#5 D A E |---------------------------------------| |---------------------------------------| |----------------------1--1-1-----------| |-4---4-6-7---7--7-----2--2-2-----------| |-2---2-4-5---7--7-----2--2-2------0----| |-------------5--5-4-2-0--0-0--0-2------| B5 C#5 D5 A5 D5 A5 |---------------------------------------| |---------------------------------------| |--------------------7--7---------------| |-4---4-6-7---7--7---7--7--7--7---------| |-2---2-4-5---7--7---5--5--7--7---------| |-------------5--5---------5--5---------| Hold me down would have to be one of my favorite Gin Blossoms songs. It's straight out rock'n'roll (and it the story of my life - When those doors swing open and all the drinks are passed around/When half the party moves into the bathroom...hold me down). At the very start it's an A5 chord strummed, slightly bend it and get that feedback happening. Throught the song, Doug and Jessie get this really cool guitar thang happening by playing the same chords but in different ways (I don't mean different voicings.) For example during the verses, they do this unorthodox thing where one plays and a normal strum and the other plays with palm muting and then they swap. Unfornately I can't really put what if sounds like into words. It's sort of like their having this guitar war, creating the somewhat choatic rythmn, which just sound so cool when you really listen to it. I know parts of the fills, but not enought to tab it though. However this is a poor attenmpt at the ending (I can't be stuffed doing it properly): |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-7-7-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-11-12-12| |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| ---------------------------------------- |I'll drink enough of anything | Mark Ord |To make this girl look new again | Melbourne, Australia |I'm drunk, drunk, drunk | |In the gardens and the graves | e-mail:ord@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU ----------------------------------------