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Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts Tab

by Arctic Monkeys


Arctic Monkeys - Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts

Figure timings by ear.

Guitar 1 - Intro                  
||--7-5-5-5----2-2-1-/7        
||--5-5-7-5----2-2-1-/5        
||--6---6-6----2-2-2-/6   x4   
||--7---7-7----4-4-3-/7        
||---------------------        
||---------------------              

Guitar 2 - Intro              
||-------------------         
||-------------------         
||--6--------3-3--2--   x4    
||--7--------4-4--3--        
||--7--------4-4--3--         
||--5--------2-2--1--      

Guitar 1 - Verse
||--5-5-5---2-2-1
||--5-5-5---2-2-1
||--6-6-6---3-3-2
||--7-7-7---4-4-3
||---------------
||---------------
  "there's always somebody..."
 Guitar 2 - Verse 
||-------------------
||--------5----------
||--6-6-6-6-6--------
||--7-7-7---7---4-4-3
||--7-7-----7---4-4-3
||--5-5-----5---2-2-1
 
Both Guitars - Interlude / Chorus
||-0--x2-------------------------------5-5-5--x-7-7-7
||-0--x2--7--1-------------------------5-5-5--x-7-7-7
||-1--x3--7--2-------------------------6-6-6--x-7-7-7
||-2--x4--7--3-------------------------7-7-7--x-7-7-7
||-2--x4--5--3-------------------------7-7-7--x-5-5-5
||-0--x2-----1-------------------------5-5-5--x------
  " they've got engaged...."          "bigger boys and..."

SOLO!!!! 
Guitar 2 - Backing 
||-------------------------
||-------------------------
||-------------------------  plays through whole solo
||-----5-5-----------------
||---7-----7---------------
||-5-----------2-2-1--1,1/5

Guitar 1 - Solo

||------------/--------------------------------------------------------------------------------8-5-
||------------/---------------------------------------------------------------------5-8---5-8------
||------------/----------------5-7-5-7-7b9p5-----5-7b9b7-5-------7-5-7-5-7-5-----7b9-----7---------
||-7-----7----/------------5-7---------------5h7-----------7-5h7-------------5h7-------------------
||---7--------/----------7-------------------------------------------------------------------------
||------------/--------5---------------------------------------------------------------------------

/-------8-10b1212p10------8-----8-------
/-8h10---------------8h10--10-8--8h10---   
/-------------------------------------9-          
/---------------------------------------   with the solo its just a case of
/---------------------------------------   knowing an A major scale on the 
/---------------------------------------   5th fret n just going crazy. I 
 Guitar 1 - Verse?                         tabbed the noticeable cool bits.

 ||--5----7-5--2-2--1
 ||--5----5-5--2-2--1
 ||--6----6-6--3-3--2
 ||--7----7-7--4-4--3
 ||------------------
 ||------------------
 " what she's been doing...."
Both Guitars - Interlude + Variation
||-0----2------------2------------------
||-0----2----7---1---0---2---7---1-------111111111
||-1----3----7---2---1---3---7---2-------222222222
||-2----4----7---3---2---4---7---3-------333333333
||-2----4----5---3---2---4---5---3-------333333333
||-0----2--------1---0---2-------1-------111111111
 " got engaged....."

Both Guitars - Chorus

/----5-5-5--x-7-7-7
/----5-5-5--x-7-7-7
/----6-6-6--x-7-7-7    repeat until ending
/----7-7-7--x-7-7-7
/----7-7-7--x-5-5-5
/----5-5-5--x------
 "bigger boys and...."

 Guitar 1 - Ending
 ||-13---5
 ||-13---5
 ||-14---6
 ||-15---7
 ||------7
 ||------5

Phew!