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Hideous Towns

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The Sundays 
Hideous Towns, from Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic 


Opening bassline 
G|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
D|---------0--0-|---------0--0-|--------------|--------------|| 
A|-0-2-4-5--5---|-0-2-4-5--5---|-repeat-------|--------------|| 
E|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 

Guitar 
E|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
B|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------3--3--|| 
G|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
D|--------------|--------------|-12/slide/-0--|---0-0--------|| 
A|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
E|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 

This is really simple, you can play around and add in other notes 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||-2--0---------|-2--0---------|-2--0---------|-2--0---2-----|| 
||-------4----4-|-------4------|-------4---4--|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 

Chorus: Hideous towns made me throw...up! and Stick and stones... 
Very simple, quick strum and then arpeggio of the G chord (open or barred) 
||3-3-3--3--3--3|---3---3---3--|--------------|--------------|| 
||3-3-3---3--3--|-----3---3----|--------------|--------------|| 
||4-4-4-4--4--4-|-4-----4--4---|---repeat 2 more times-------|| 
||5-5-5---------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 

go back to simple verse part above, with modifications, then to Chorus again, throw in  
another quick verse and Chorus again 

Middle - heres where the song begins to speed up around 1:43 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--3-------3---|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||-2--2-2-2-----|--repeat 7 more times--------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 

then go to quickly strumming the D chord, opening up the hi e string at the start of  
each bar 
||-0-2-2-2-2-2--|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||-3-3-3-3-3-3--|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||-2-2-2-2-2-2--|--repeat------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 


in the second half of the song, a little bit of extra stuff is added to the verse and  
Chorus parts 

2nd half verse (make a Bm7 chord shape to play this, throw in variations) 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||-3------------|-3------------|--3-----------|-3------------|| 
||--------2-----|----------2---|-----------2--|-----------2--|| 
||-4-2-4--------|-4--2--4------|--4--2--4-----|-2--4---5-----|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 

2nd half Chorus, again start with G chord, but 3rd and 4th bars differ 
||3-3-3--3--3--3|--3----3---3--|--0---0----0--|--2---2-----2-|| 
||3-3-3---3--3--|----3---3-----|---3----3-----|---3----3-----|| 
||4-4-4-4--4--4-|-4----4---4---|-0---0----0---|-0---0----0---|| 
||5-5-5---------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|| 

For the ending, around the 3 min mark, start the sped-up middle part again, the A and D  
notes on the B and E strings, and then the D chord. 

And around the 3:23 mark, a second guitar playing D and C# notes at a higher octave  
comes in. You incorporate this by playing the D chord like this 

||-10-10-10--9-9|--------------|-10-10-10--9--9|--------------|| 
||-7--7---7--7-7|--------------|-10-10-10-10-10|--------------|| 
||-7--7---7--7-7|-or like this-|-11-11-11-11-11|--------------|| 
||-7--7---7--7-7|--------------|-12-12-12-12-12|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|---------------|--------------|| 
||--------------|--------------|---------------|--------------|| 

End on a D chord in the 1st position and let ring. Thats it!  

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