#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# @Song: Gold Soundz Written by Pavement Recorded by Pavement on album "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain" (Matador) Transcription by Gary Von Colln Here's the basic chord progression. The A-B-D progression is also used in the instrumental interlude. If you don't want to bother with the Dsus2 and Bsus2 just play D and B instead, it will still sound good. **************************************************************************** A Go back to those gold soundz B D And keep my affect to yourself A Because it's nothing that I don't like B D Is it a crisis or a boring change A When it's central, so essential B D It has a nice ring when you laugh A At the low-life opinions B D And they're coming to the chorus now F#m Dsus2 I keep my address to yourself Bsus2 Cause we need secrets Dsus2 We need secret, cret, cret, cret, crets A Back right now Because I never want to make you feel That you're social, never ignorant soul Believe in what you want to do And do you think that is a major flaw When they rise up in the falling rain And if you stay around with your knuckles ground down The trials over, the weapon's found Keep my address to myself Cause it's secret Cause it's secret, cret, cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret,cret, Back right now So drunk in the august sun And you're the kind of girl I like Because you're empty, and I'm empty And you can never quarantine the past Did you remember in December That I won't eat you when I'm gone And if I go there ,I won't stay there Because I'm sitting here too long I've been sitting here too long And I've been wasting Allocating outward For the last word Last words come up All you've got to wait **************************************************************************** Now for some "Pavement chords". First retune your guitar to C-G-D-G-B-B (fat E string down 4 frets in pitch, A string down 2 frets in pitch, thin E sting down 5 frets in pitch). Once you've retuned these are the chord shapes: A(I) A (2 fr.) B(I) B (2 fr.) Bsus2 D(I) D (2 fr.) Dsus2 F#m B-|------------------------------------------------------------------------ B-|--2-------10--------4-------12-----4--------7-----15------7-------10---- G-|--2--------9--------4-------11-----6--------7-----14------9-------11---- D-|--2-------11--------4-------13-----4--------7-----16------7-------11---- G-|--2--------9--------4-------11-----4--------7-----14------7-------11---- C-|-----------9----------------11--------------------14-------------------- The (I) or (II) just indicates position, e.g. A(I) is an A major, played in the first position (along the guitar neck), while A(II) is also A major but played in the second position. Note that the first string is not played in any of the above chords. Since the first and second strings are tuned the same, if you want, you can fret the first string the same as the second and play it. >From listening to the recording, I think the two guitars play as follows: verses: guitar 1: A(I) - B(I) - D(I) guitar 2: A(II) - A(II) - A(II) Here guitar 2 is playing the A(II) the whole time. Listen for those high notes on the record, especially during the first verse when guitar 1 is quit. chorus: both: F#m - Dsus2 - Bsus2 - Dsus2 intrumental interlude (roughly): guitar 1: A(I) - B(I) - D(I) guitar 2: A(II) - B(II) - D(II) The interlude is pretty free form so this simple pattern isn't the whole story, but you can play around with these chords and find a lot of the sounds on the record.