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Radiohead - The Bends

Track 1Guitar
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Tuning: E A D G B E

Capo: No capo

BPM: 200

    1st Verse
    Radiohead - The Bends
    Intro                                               4x               Where do we go from here
N   D                                                                    Em        
e|--2-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----|0---------|
B|--3-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----|0---------|
G|--2-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----|0---------|
D|--0-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----|2---------|
A|----------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----|2---------|
E|----------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-----|0---------|

    The words are coming out all weird Where are you now, when I need you Alone on an aeroplane
N   G                         C                                     Em        
e|--3---------|---------------0----|--------------------|----------|0---------|
B|--3---------|---------------1----|--------------------|----------|0---------|
G|--4---------|---------------0----|--------------------|----------|0---------|
D|--5---------|---------------2----|--------------------|----------|2---------|
A|--5---------|---------------3----|--------------------|----------|2---------|
E|--3---------|--------------------|--------------------|----------|0---------|

[ preview ends at bar 10 — the interactive score has the rest ]

                                                                         Bridge
    Falling asleep against the window pane                               My blood will thicken
    G                                                        C

                                              I need to wash myself again
                                              2nd Verse  to hide all the dirt and pain Cus I’ve been scared that there’s nothing underneath
                                              Em         G                         C

                                                               Chorus
                                              Who are my real friends Have they all got the bends Am I really sinking this low
                                              Em         G                    C

                                                                                        Pos-Chorus
                         Baby’s got the bends, oh no                                    We don’t have any real friends, no no no
                         D                                                              D

                                                                         Just lying in the bar with my drip feed on

    Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
                                                                                        Em

                                         3rd Verse
    I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

                    Where do we go from here The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
         Em         Em         G                                                        C

                               They brought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines
          And where are you    Em
                                                                         G

    Chorus
    To blow me away, to blow me sky high                 baby’s got the bends
              C                                          D

                         Pos-Chorus
                         We don’t have any real friends
                         D

          Just lying in the bar with my drip feed on Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen

                                                                         Bridge
                                    I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen
                         Em

                                                                              I wanna live, breathe
                                                   Em         G         C          G

                                                                         Last Verse
    I wanna be part of the human race                    I wanna live, breathe I wanna be part of the human race, race, race, race
                                              C               G

                                                          D
                                                          Chords
                                    Where do we go from here The words are coming out all weird Where are you now, when I need you C9 G/B
                         C          Em         G                         C

              Em                                                         G         C7

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Instruments
Guitar
Genres
Pop
Tracks
1
Tempo
200 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Tuning
E A D G B E
Key
G major
Difficulty
Beginner
Bars
101
Frets used
Frets 0-8
Published 8 Jul 2019

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Radiohead - The Bends is a Guitar score arranged by DojiATR and filed under Pop. Read it as tablature or as standard sheet music notation, play it back at any tempo, and practise it a bar at a time.

It is written in 4/4 at 200 BPM. It is in G major, and the arrangement runs 101 bars. We grade it beginner — it stays between frets 0 and 8 and there are 4 chord shapes to learn. It is written as plain fretted notes, with no bends, slides or hammer-ons to learn first.

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