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Here’s a few tabs for some excellent songs from Modest Mouse.

This first one is the intro to Dramamine off This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About. The timing is 3/4.

e ------------------------
B ------------------------
G ------------------------
D --5-----4-----2-----4---
A 7---7-5---5-3---3-----5-
E ------------------3-----

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You can see the video after the jump.

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I’ve never written a tab before, but I tried to find one for the song Forever by Little Dragon and there weren’t any, so I worked it out and wrote one:
e |13---------------------------------
B |---------------6------------------
G |----------------------------------
D |----------------------------------
A |----------------------------------
E |----------------------------------

e |----------------------------------
B |----------------------------------
G |----------------------------------
D |------6-4-6-4-3-------------------
A |1---------------------6-4-8-------
E |----------------------------------
That’s the intro, I don’t know what happens when she starts singing.

Doing what they do best – creating fantastic music together. I’ve scoured the internet, and these are my favourite four recordings that they’ve done together as a duo – Knives Out, There There, No Suprises, Please, and from Yorke’s solo album, Cymbal Rush. No Suprises, Please is a great version that has different lyrics to the one on OK Computer (which is also titled slightly differently), and the version of Cymbal Rush sounds totally different (and also features Nigel Godrich pressing play on a drum machine, then standing awkwardly around whilst the song finishes, as you can see in the original video). After the jump. you can listen to Knives Out right now, just to whet your appetite.

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Trent Reznor (of Nine Inch Nails fame) has put out a teaser song from his new band How To Destroy Angels. It’s called A Drowning, and it actually sounds quite a bit like something NiN could have done, if he’d had a woman (actually Reznor’s wife) singing. It certainly has the very industrial beats combined with elegant piano music and heavily distorted guitars that we’ve come to expect from Reznor. The further in to the song you get, the more you feel it could have just been lifted straight from something towards the end of With Teeth. You can hear the song after the jump.

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Playing video games and playing a musical instrument aren’t two things that a lot of people would put together as similar, but they actually are. Now, this isn’t going to be whiney article by some kid whose jaded with the previous generation’s “video games are bad for you” fox-news take on things – I’m not just going to say “Creative input” and leave it at that. I’m actually going to try and explain how excelling at one leads to excelling at the other, and it’s got very little to do with creativity.

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