Tunings
Pavement / Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Guitar Tunings
These are mostly Stephen Malkmus' tunings. I've studied a few bootlegs and live videos to come up with these.
* = my educated guess, but unconfirmed.
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Tabs Sorted by Tuning:
Standard Tuning (EADGBE)
Cataracts (*)
Craw Song (*)
Date With Ikea (SM only)
Deado (*)
False Skorpion (*)
For Sale: The Preston School Of Industry (Spiral only)
Mama (*)
My Radio (*)
Nigel (*)
Painted Soldiers (*)
Passat Dream (*)
Raft (*)
Saganaw (*)
Tartar Martyr (*)
The Hexx (capo 1st fret)
Vague Space (*)
Western Homes (*)
Winner Of The (SM only)
Half-Step Down
(Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb):
CGDGAD:
(Thanks to http://members.shaw.ca/silvercircle/andthen for this tuning)
DADABE:
Church On White (tuned down a half-step on record)
Flux=Rad (*)
Home (*)
Internal K-Dart (*)
Krell Vid-User (tuned down a half step) (*)
Nail Clinic (*)
Perfect Depth (*)
Price Yeah! (*)
Recorder Grot (*)
DECGBE:
EG#BEBE:
(Thanks to http://members.shaw.ca/silvercircle/andthen for this tuning)
BEBEBE:
(Thanks to http://members.shaw.ca/silvercircle/andthen for this tuning)
Tunings For Each Album:
Slanted and Enchanted
Summer Babe (DADABE)
Trigger Cut (CGDGBE)
No Life Singed Her (CGDGBE)
In The Mouth A Desert (CGDGBE)
Conduit For Sale! (DADABE)
Zurich Is Stained (CGDGBE)
Chesley's Little Wrists (DADABE)
Loretta's Scars (CGDGBE)
Here (DADABE)
Two States (CGDGBE)
Perfume-V (DADABE)
Fame Throwa (DADABE)
Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era (CGDGBE)
Our Singer (DADABE)
Watery, Domestic
Texas Never Whispers (DADABE)
Frontwards (DADABE)
Lions (Linden) (CGDGBE)
Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Verse) (CGDGBE)
Westing, By Musket and Sextant
You're Killing Me (EADGBE)
Box Elder (EADGBE)
Maybe Maybe (DADABE)
She Believes (DADABE)
Price Yeah! (DADABE)
Forklift (EADGBE)
Spizzle Trunk (DADABE)
Recorder Grot (DADABE)
Internal K-Dart (DADABE)
Perfect Depth (DADABE)
Recorder Grot (Rally) (no guitar)
Heckler Spray (CGDGBE)
From Now On (CGDGBE)
Angel Carver Blues/Mellow Jazz Docent (CGDGBE)
Drive-By Fader (no guitar)
Debris Slide (CGDGBE)
Home (DADABE)
Krell Vid-User (DbAbDbAbBbEb)
Summer Baby (DADABE)
Mercy: The Laundromat (EADGBE)
Baptist Blacktick (CGDGBE)
My First Mine (CGDGBE)
And My Radio (EADGBE)
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Silence Kit (DADABE)
Elevate Me Later (CGDGBE)
Stop Breathin' (D#A#DFA#D)
Cut Your Hair (CGDABE)
Newark Wilder (CGBGBE)
Unfair (EADGBE)
Gold Soundz (DADABE)
5-4=Unity (DADABE)
Range Life (EADGBE)
Heaven Is A Truck (EADGBE)
Hit The Plane Down (CGDGBE)
Fillmore Jive (CGDABE)
Wowee Zowee
We Dance (EADGBE)
Rattled By The Rush (DADABE)
Black Out (DADABE)
Brinx Job (EADGBE)
Grounded (DAC#G#BE)
Serpentine Pad (EADGBE)
Motion Suggests (DADFBE)
Father To A Sister Of Thought (EADGBE)
Extradition (EADGBE)
Best Friend's Arm (EADGBE)
Grave Architecture (FGDGBE)
AT&T (DADABE)
Flux=Rad (DADABE)
Fight This Generation (CGDGBE)
Kennel District (DADABE)
Pueblo (D#A#DFA#D)
Half A Canyon (EADGBE)
Western Homes (EADGBE)
Rattled By La Rush
Rattled By The Rush (DADABE)
Brink Of The Clouds (EADGBE)
False Skorpion (EADGBE)
Easily Fooled (EADGBE)
Pacific Trim
Give It A Day (EADGBE)
Gangsters And Pranksters (D#A#DFA#D)
Saganaw (EADGBE)
I Love Perth (EADGBE)
Brighten The Corners
Stereo (DADABE)
Shady Lane (EADGBE)
Transport Is Arranged (DADABE)
Date With Ikea (EADGBE)
Old To Begin (D#A#DFA#D)
Type Slowly (DADF#AD)
Embassy Row (CGDGBE)
Blue Hawaiian (DADFBE)
We Are Underused (D#A#DFA#D)
Passat Dream (EADGBE)
Starlings Of The Slipstream (DADABE)
Fin (EADGBE)
Shady Lane
Shady Lane (EADGBE)
Slowly Typed
Cherry Area (EADGBE)
Wanna Mess You Around (EADGBE)
No Tan Lines (EADGBE)
Terror Twilight
Spit On A Stranger (EADGBE)
Folk Jam (EG#BEBE)
You Are A Light (DADF#BE)
Cream Of Gold (DADABE)
Major Leagues (EbAbDbGbBbEb)
Platform Blues (DADF#BE)
Ann Don't Cry (DECGBE)
Billie (EbAbDbGbBbEb)
Speak, See, Remember (EADGBE)
The Hexx (EADGBE, capo 1st fret)
Carrot Rope (EADGBE)
Stephen Malkmus
Black Book (DADGAD)
Phantasies (EADGBE)
Jo Jo's Jacket (EADGBE)
Church On White (DbAbDbAbBbEb)
The Hook (DADF#BE)
Discretion Grove (EADGBE)
Troubbble (D#A#DFA#D)
Pink India (DADF#BE)
Trojan Curfew (D#A#DFA#D)
Vague Space (EADGBE)
Jenny and the Ess-Dog (EADGBE)
Deado (EADGBE)
Pig Lib
Water and a Seat (CGAEAD)
Ramp Of Death (EADGBE)
(Do Not Feed the) Oyster (DADF#AD)
Vanessa from Queens (EADGBE)
Sheets (EADGBE)
Animal Midnight (EADGBE)
Dark Wave (EADGBE)
Witch Mountain Bridge (DADGBE)
Craw Song (EADGBE)
1% of One (DABF#BF#)
Us (BEBEBE)
Face The Truth
Pencil Rot (CGAEAD)
It Kills (EADGBE)
I've Hardly Been (CGDGBE)
Freeze the Saints (EbAbDbGbBbEb)
Loud Cloud Crowd (EADGBE)
No More Shoes (CGDGBE)
Mama (EADGBE)
Kindling for the Master (EADGBE)
Post-Paint Boy (DADF#BE)
Baby C'mon (EADGBE)
Malediction (EbAbDbGbBbEb)
Real Emotional Trash
Dragonfly Pie (EADGBE)
Hopscotch Willie (CGDGAD)
Cold Son (CGDGAD)
Real Emotional Trash (CGDGBE)
Out of Reaches (CGDGAD)
Baltimore (CGDGAD)
Gardenia (EADGBE)
Elmo Delmo (CGDGAD)
We Can't Help You (CGDGBE)
Wicked Wanda (CGDGBE)
Mirror Traffic
Tigers (CGDGAD)
No One Is (As I Are Be) (CGDGBE)
Senator (DADGBE)
Brain Gallop (DADGBE)
Jumblegloss (CGDGBE)
Asking Price (CGDGBE)
Stick Figures in Love (CGDGBE)
Spazz (DADGBE)
Long Hard Book (CGDGAD)
Share The Red (CGDGBE)
Tune Grief (DADGBE)
Forever 28 (CGDGBE)
All Over Gently (DADF#BE)
Fall Away (CGDGBE)
Gorgeous Georgie (DADGBE)
Wig Out At Jagbags
Planetary Motion (DADF#AD)
The Janitor Revealed (DADF#AD)
Lariat (DADF#AD)
Houston Hades (DADF#AD)
Shibboleth (DADF#AD)
J Smoov (CGDGBE)
Rumble at the Rainbo (DADF#AD)
Chartjunk (DADF#AD)
Independence Street (CGDGBE)
Scattegories (DADF#AD)
Cinnamon and Lesbians (DADGBE)
Surreal Teenagers (DADF#AD)
Sparkle Hard
Cast Off (CGDGBE)
Future Suite (CGDGBE)
Solid Silk (BF#C#F#A#D#)
Bike Lane (CGDGBE)
Middle America (CECEGC)
Rattler (CECEGC)
Shiggy (CGDGBE)
Kite (DADF#AD)
Brethren (D#GD#GA#D#)
Refute (CECEGC)
Difficulties (CGDGBE) / Let Them Eat Vowels
Traditional Techniques
ACC Kirtan (BF#BD#F#B)
Xian Man (C#G#C#FG#C#)
The Greatest Own In Legal History (BF#BD#F#B)
Cash Up (BF#BD#F#B)
Shadowbanned (BF#DF#BD)
What Kind of Person (BF#BD#F#B)
Flowin' Robes (BF#C#F#A#D#)
Brainwashed (BF#BD#F#B)
Signal Western (EADGBE)
Amberjack (BF#BD#F#B)
Juliefuckingette (CGCEGC)