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Welcome to my Pavement / Malkmus & Jicks guitar tab site. I've done my best to figure out how to play these songs in the proper manner, using live videos whenever possible as confirmation. I hope you enjoy what you find here!

Note: Because many Pavement songs involve improvisation and subtle variations throughout, many of these guitar tabs are minimalist and contain only Stephen Malkmus' parts in what I believe is the proper tuning. Consider the tab a starting point for you to add your own flourishes and feelings. For most songs, Spiral usually plays the appropriate power chords in standard tuning and contributes some backing lead parts.

Some tabs may be incomplete. They may be updated, and new tabs added, when time permits.

Click here for an alphabetical list of all tabs on this site.

Send me (Evan) comments and feedback here: "evkcowan" [at] "gmail.com"

Updates:

February 1, 2026:

Back after a long break. New tab has been added for Chartjunk. On the album recording the song is in open-D tuned down a half step, but when played live it seems Malkmus just plays in regular open-D tuning.

July 13, 2025:

Added another new Pavement tab, for their great cover of the R.EM. song Camera.

June 16, 2025:

Switching back to Pavement, two more tabs have been added: Ed Ames, and Baby Yeah. The tuning for Ed Ames is a shot in the dark, a guess, but I could never get it to sound quite right in regular old CGDGBE tuning. So I thought, maybe Malkmus tried writing another song in the Newark Wilder tuning before recording that song?

June 10, 2025:

Added a tab for the Jicks song Cast Off.

May 28, 2025:

Added a tab for the Silver Jews song Pan American Blues.

May 24, 2025:

Added another song from Traditional Techniques: check out Signal Western.

May 19, 2025:

Added basic tabs for a couple of Malkmus solo songs from Traditional Techniques: The Greatest Own in Legal History, and What Kind of Person.

April 4, 2025:

Continuing the run of new Pavement tabs, here's one that I should have finished tabbing a long time ago: Rain Ammunition. The tab has both the Peel Session version that is found on the deluxe version of Slanted & Enchanted, as well as the slightly different instrumental version found on the Cut Your Hair single, which is at the bottom of the tab.

March 19, 2025:

A couple more new Pavement b-side tabs, although these are basically solo-Spiral Stairs songs. But they're both very solid tracks, and can be found on the deluxe version of Terror Twilight if you are not familiar with them. Check out Stub Your Toe, and Your Time to Change.

March 5, 2025: