Elliott Smith | Angeles

[Richard Peikoff]

Elliott Smith | Angeles

'I didn't have a hard time making it, I had a hard time letting it go.' E. S.


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Notes:

Capo 5th {Mr. Smith de-tunes to D-Standard (DGCFAD) and capos 7th fret}
'--': 1 bar of 4/4
bpm: 116/120
RT: 2:56

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E...A...D...G...B...E
6...5...4...3...2...1: Chords (in order of appearance)

0...2...4...0...3...2: Em9
X...0...2...2...2...0: A
X...2...4...0...3...0: GM6|7/B
X...0...2...2...3...0: Asus4
3...2...4...0...3...0: GM6/7
2...X...4...0...3...0: GM6|7/F#
2...4...4...3...2...2: F#
X...X...0...2...3...2: D
0...2...2...1...0...0: E
2...X...0...2...X...X: D/F#
3...2...0...0...0...3: G or
3...2...0...0...3...3: G
3...0...0...0...0...3: G2 (Gadd9) or
3...0...0...4...3...X: G2
X...0...4...0...3...X: D4/A
2...4...4...3...0...0: F#7/11
4...2...2...3...0...0: E(#4)/G#or
4...X...2...3...0...0: E(#4)/G#
X...4...6...6...6...X: C#

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4th __4___2_____
............................ : (F#EA)
5th __________0_

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5th __0________
............................ : (AF#G__)
6th _____2___3_

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6th __3__2__0_ : (GF#__E)


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Arrangement:

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Intro: [0:00]

Em9-- A-- GM6|7/B Asus4-- GM6/7 GM6|7/F#--
Em9-- A-- GM6|7/B Asus4-- GM6/7--
__F# A-- G D-- E D/F#-- G G2-- G (F#EA)-- GM6|7/B D4/A-- G G2-- G--

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Verse: [0:38]

Em9--_____________A--_______________GM6|7/B Asus4-- GM6/7 GM6/7/F#--
__Someone's always coming around here trailing some new kill,

Em9--_____________A--________GM6|7/B__Asus4-- GM6/7--
__Says, 'I seen your picture on a hundred dollar_____bill.'

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Sec B: [0:54]

________F#__A-- G_______D-- E__________D/F#-- G G2-- G___
What's a game of chance to you, to him is one_____of real skill?

(F# E A)-- GM6|7/B D4/A-- G G2-- G--
So glad to meet you Angeles.

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Verse: [1:12]

Em9--__________A--______________GM6|7/B Asus4-- GM6/7 GM6|7/F#--
__Picking up the ticket shows there's money__to be___made.

Em9--______________A--____________GM6|7/B Asus4-- GM6/7--
__Go on and lose the gamble that's the history__of the__trade.

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Sec B: [1:28]

_________F# A-- G____D--_______E D/F#-- G G2-- G___
That you add up all the cards left to play___to zero

(F# E A)--______GM6|7/B D4/A-- G G2-- G--
And sign up with evil_____Ange__les.

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Sec B Variation: [1:44]

_____F#7/11 E(#4)/G#-- A C#-- F#_____A--____G______D-- E D/F#-- G G2-- G
Don't start___me_______trying__now, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, ah ah___ah ____

__________(F#EA)-- GM6|7/B D4/A-- G G2-- G (GF#__E)--
Because I'm all over___it______Angel_es.

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Verse: [2:05]

Em9--_____________A--______GM6|7/B Asus4--__GM6/7 GM6|7/F#--
__I could make you satisfied in every___thing you do.

Em9--__________A--___________GM6|7/B Asus4-- GM6/7--
__All your secret wishes could right now be__coming true.

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Sec B Ride Out: [2:20]


_______F# A-- G_____D--___E D/F#--___G G2-- G__
And be forever_with my poison arms______around you.

(F# E A)--______GM6|7/B D4/A--___GM6/7__
No one's going to fool ___around with us,

(F# E A)--______GM6|7/B D4/A--___GM6/7__
No one's going to fool ___around with us,

(F# E A)-- GM6|7/B D4/A-- G G2--G G2--G G2--G (AF#__G)-- G_____
So glad to meet you Ange_les.

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End: [2:53]
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rPeikoff
Special thanks to Jeremy Blow


||||| Two right hand techniques employed by Elliott Smith in this song, with both traditional applications and unique variations:

*Carter Family picking, also known as "'thumb brush' technique or the 'Carter lick,' and also the 'church lick' and the 'Carter scratch'", is a style of fingerstyle guitar named for Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family's distinctive style of rhythm guitar in which the melody is played on the bass strings, usually low E, A, and D while rhythm strumming continues above, on the treble strings, high E, B, and G. This often occurs during the break.

With the technique Carter "helped to turn the guitar into a lead instrument" and she, "was among the first," to use it as such. Maybelle had first played the autoharp and five-string banjo, and the style appears based on the frailing style of banjo playing, as, "she played a bass or melody note on the downbeat with a brush stroke on the upbeat [backbeat] played with the back of the fingernail of the index or 2nd finger," and is the rhythm Bill Monroe adapted for bluegrass music two decades later.


*Travis picking

This style is commonly played on steel string acoustic guitars. Pattern picking is the use of "preset right-hand pattern[s]" while fingerpicking, with the left hand fingering standard chords, sometimes named Travis picking after Merle Travis, and popularized by Chet Atkins and Tommy Emmanuel. Travis' own playing was much more complicated and not limited to simple patterns; he referred to his style of playing as "thumb picking", possibly because the only pick he used when playing was a banjo thumb pick. The thumb (T) alternates between bass notes, often on two different strings, while the index (I) and middle (M) fingers alternate between two treble notes, usually on two different strings, most often the second and first.


** Source: Wikpedia