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[many versions]
Tabbed by Brian McCall 

ZERO - By Smashing Pumpkins as performed at one of the
====   Double Door shows.

All guitars tuned to Eb (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)

*1

G1 (G2 enters later) Distortion

|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|-5-\4-4---------5-5\4-4---------5-\4-4---------5-3\4-4--------
|-X--X-X---------X-X-X-X---------X--X-X---------X---X-X--------
|-3-\2-2---------3-3\2-2---------3-\2-2---------3-3\2-2--------
|--------0-0-0-0---------0-0-0-0--------0-0-0-0---------0-0-0-0
         ^-----^         ^-----^        ^-----^         ^-----^
          harmonics*       harm.           harm.           harm.

* These harmonics are produced by lightly applying your index
finger to the low E and gradually sliding from around fret 1.75
to 4 or so.  A good way of looking at this is letting your finger
touch the E while setting back up for the C octave chord.

*2

|---------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------
|-9-----11----9-----12----11\7--7-------
|-X-----X-----X-----X-----X-----X-------
|-7-----9-----7-----10----9-\5--5-------
|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---------------
                                 ^repeat

Put in Es (|022100| or |079900|) in the part that goes:

"Emptiness is lovliness and\Lovliness is cleanliness and\
 Cleanliness is godliness and\God is empty just like me."

*3 (after slide and under solo)

G2

|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------5-5\4-4-------------------------5-5\4-4--------
|---------------X-X---X-------------------------X-X---X--------
|-3-2---2-------3-3\2-2---------3-3-2---2-------3-3\2-2--------
|-----3---0-0-0---------0-0-0-0-------3---0-0-0---------0-0-0-0

|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|-3-3-2---2-------2-3-2-2--------------------------------------
|-------3---0-2-3---------0-0-0-0-...and so on-----------------

*4 (You blame yourself...)

|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|-9-----9-----9-----9-----11---12------------------------------
|-X-----X-----X-----X-----X----X-------------------------------
|-7-----7-----7-----7-----9----10------------------------------
|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0----0----0----------------------------
                                   ^repeat

at the end of this riff G2 plays:

|--------------------------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------------------------------
|-9-9-9-111111121212-------------------------------------------
|-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--------------------------------------------
|-7-7-7-9-9-9-101010-------------------------------------------
|-------------------....on up----------------------------------

Those high sceams (like the end of the above) are the high E on the 24th
fret (it's james on his V or flood in the production room).

then repeat *1 and that's Zero!


Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 17:01:01 +0100
From: David Worsley 

ZERO - Smashing Pumpkins

This is the one of the coolest songs off the new album Mellon Collie and the
Infinite Sadness. This was tabbed by David Worsley at m.worsley@bbcnc.org.uk=
=20
Sorry, but you=92re on your own with the solo.
Tune the whole guitar down half a step.
Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb

Main Verse Riff:
|----------------|--------------------|
|----------------|--------------------|  In some cases, the Es are
|-5->4-4-X-------|-5-5->4-4-X-------X-|  replaced by E harmonics and/or
|-5->4-4-X-2-2-2-|-5-5->4-4-X-2-2-2-X-|  mutes and octaves.
|-3->2-2-X-2-2-2-|-3-3->2-2-X-2-2-2-x-|
|--------X-0-0-0-|----------X-0-0-0-X-|
           |----|             |----|
	PM                 PM
Chorus:
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|-9-----11-----9-----12-----11---7---|
|-9-----11-----9-----12-----11---7---|
|-7-----9------7-----10-----9----5---|
|---0-0----0-0---0-0----0-0----0---0-|

Bridge: ("emptiness is lonliness" bit)
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|-9-9-9--9-9-9--9-9-9--9-9-|
|-9-9-9--9-9-9--9-9-9--9-9-|
|-7-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-7--7-7-|
|--------------------------|

Fill 1: (over main riff)
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|------7---7-9-slide-up-the-neck-|
|-7->0---7-----and-full-bend-----|

Solo Backing:
|----------------|------------------|
|----------------|------------------|
|-5->4---4-------|-5-5->4-4-X-------|
|-5->4---4-2-2-2-|-5-5->4-4-X-2-2-2-|  X2
|-3->2---2-2-2-2-|-3-3->2-2-X-2-2-2-|
|------0---0-0-0-|----------X-0-0-0-|
           |----|             |----|
             PM                 PM
|----------------|------------------|
|----------------|------------------|
|-5->4---4-----4-|-5-5->4-4-X-------|
|-5->4---4---4-4-|-5-5->4-4-X-2-2-2-|
|-3->2---2---4-2-|-3-3->2-2-X-2-2-2-|
|------0---0-2---|----------X-0-0-0-|
                              |----|
                                PM

|----------------|------------------|
|----------------|------------------|
|-5->4---4-------|-5-5->4-4-X-------|
|-5->4---4-2-2-2-|-5-5->4-4-X-2-2-2-|
|-3->2---2-2-2-2-|-3-3->2-2-X-2-2-2-|
|------0---0-0-0-|----------X-0-0-0-|
           |----|             |----|
             PM                 PM

Coda: ("you blame yourself" bit)
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|-9-----9-----9-----9-----12-11-7-|
|-9-----9-----9-----9-----12-11-7-|
|-7-----7-----7-----7-----10-9--5-|
|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---------|

Fill 2: (over coda)
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|---------------14-16-17-19-21-21-full-|
|-8-10-12-14-15-------------------bend-|
|--------------------------------------|
    _  _    _    _ =20
   / \/ \  \ \__/ /       =20
  /_/=AF=AF\_\  \_/\_/    =20

m.worsley@bbcnc.org.uk


     Zero - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
            Transcribed by Adam Morris

I haven't seen this tabbed yet, so here it is.


1/2 step down

* above note means harmonics.  If 2.5 is written that means
that you place your finger RIGHT in the middle of the third
fret.

Practice may be needed to get the right sound out of these
harmonics, but I assure you..they are correct.

Main Riff
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-5-4-4-------------------5-5-4-4---------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-3-2-2--*----*----*---*--3-3-2-2--*----*----*---*---|
|-------2.25-2.75-3.5-4.5---------2.25-2.75-3.5-4.5--|

VERSE 1
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-5-4-4---------5-5-4-4-------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-3-2-2---------3-3-2-2------------------------------|
|-------0-0-0-0---------0-0-0-0----------------------|

CHORUS
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----9----11-----9-----12-----9/11--7--/------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----7-----9-----7-----10-----7/-9--5--/------------|
|-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0----0-0-----------------------|

VERSE2 - Same as VERSE 1 but with the harmonics as well.

Then main riff for a while.

"Emptiness is loneliness..."
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--9-9-9-----9-9-9-----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--7-7-7-----7-7-7-----------------------------------|
|--0-0-0-----0-0-0-----------------------------------|

 Weird solo thingy

 It stops..then this pick slide thingy from about the 14th
 fret.
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|--x-\-----------------------------------------------|
|--x-\-----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|

 Main riff simile all through this bit.
 2 and 3 on the low E string every now and then.

 Then it goes to this
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----9-----9-----9-----9-----9/11--7--/-------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-----7-----7-----7-----7-----7/-9--5--/-------------|
|-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0----0-0-----------------------|

  That is pretty much it.  Please send me comments and
  corrections.  benmo@deakin.edu.au


Correction on ZERO

From DANNY WARREN (WARREND@IHS.ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU)

This sound better that what was previousely posted


           Harmonics...........
e:-------------------------------|
B:-------------------------------|
G:-------------------------------|
D:-------------------------------|
A:-3\2-2-------------------------|
E:---------3--3.75--4--4.75--5---|
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       Lay your finger on the third and slide up to the fifth


Song:    Zero
By:      The Smashing Pumpkins
Tab by:  Carlos Bustos
Email:   cab144@mail.usask.ca
Tuning:  1/2 step down
Comment: ok, I went away on holliday WITH my guitar.  So to pass the time
         I thought i'd tab out some songs.  I beleive this is very close if
         not right.  If you use this tab or have comments please email me
         as i would like to know that someone has used it.



f = indicated where the natural harmonics are played over the acual fret.

[INTRO RIFF]: 1 x's left channel, then both channels.
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---5\4--4------------------------5--5\4--4------------------------------|
||---x-x--x------------------------x--x-x--x------------------------------|
||---3\2--2-------2f---------------3--3\2--2-------2f---------------------|
||------------2f------1.5f--1.5f---------------2f------1.5f--1.5f--1.5f---|
             |-Natural harmonics-|            |--Natural Harmonics-----|

THEN: When singing starts.

[MAIN RIFF]:  Repeated.
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---5\4--4-------------------5--5\4--4-----------------------------------|
||---x-x--x-------------------x--x-x--x-----------------------------------|
||---3\2--2-------------------3--3\2--2-----------------------------------|
||------------0---0---0---0---------------0---0---0---0---0---------------|
          My reflection              dirty mirrirs
          There's no connection      to myself
          I'm your lover             i'm your zero
          I'm   the   face   in   your   dreams   of   glass

[RIFF A]
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---9-------11--------9--------12-------11--7----------------------------|
||---x--------x--------x---------x----------------------------------------|
||---7--------9--------7--------10--------9--5(let ring)------------------|
||------0--0-----0--0-----0--0------0--0----------------------------------|
                                          So save your breath

[RIFF B]
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---9-------11--------9--------12-------11--14---------------------------|
||---x--------x--------x---------x--------x---x---------------------------|
||---7--------9--------7--------10--------9--12(let ring)-----------------|
||------0--0-----0--0-----0--0------0--0----------------------------------|
                                For when your really gonna need em


[RIFF C]
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---9-------11--------9--------12-------11--7----------------------------|
||---x--------x--------x---------x--------x--x----------------------------|
||---7--------9--------7--------10--------9--5(let ring)------------------|
||------0--0-----0--0-----0--0------0--0----------------------------------|
                                          Throw out your


[RIFF D]
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---9-------11--------9--------12-------11--7----------------------------|
||---x--------x--------x---------x--------x--x----------------------------|
||---7--------9--------7--------10--------9--5(let ring)------------------|
||------0--0-----0--0-----0--0------0--0----------------------------------|
     cares         and          fly_______



Wanna go for a ride
[INTRO RIFF]:  2 x's and then under singing.
She's the one for me
She's all I really need
Cause she's the one for me



||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--9--9--9------------------------------9--9--9--------------------------|
||--x--x--x------------------------------x--x--x--------------------------|
||--7--7--7------------------------------7--7--7--------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    Emptiness is loneliness     and      loneliness is cleanliness   and

||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--9--9--9------------------------------9---9----------------------------|
||--x--x--x------------------------------x---x----------------------------|
||--7--7--7------------------------------7---7----------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
    cleanliness is godliness,     and    god is empty, just like me.


[INTRO RIFF]:  under crazy fill/solo.
then
[MAIN RIFF]:  Repeated.
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---5\4--4-------------------5--5\4--4-----------------------------------|
||---x-x--x-------------------x--x-x--x-----------------------------------|
||---3\2--2-------------------3--3\2--2-----------------------------------|
||------------0---0---0---0---------------0---0---0---0---0---------------|
          Intoxicated               with the madness
          I'm in love      with     my sadness
          Bullshit fakers           enchanted kingdoms
          The fashion victoms chew their charcoal teeth

[RIFF A]
        I never let on
[RIFF B]
        That I was on a sinking ship
[RIFF C]
        I never let on
[RIFF D]
That     I      was      down

[pick scrape]
[crazy solo]

||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||----9--------9--------9--------9-------11--7----------------------------|
||----x--------x--------x--------x--------x--x----------------------------|
||----7--------7--------7--------7--------9--5----------------------------|
||-------0--0-----0--0-----0--0-----0--0----------------------------------|
                                        You blame yourslef
                                        For what you can't ignore [|*|]
                                        You blame yourself
                                        For wanting MORE!

[|*|]:  Crazy ascending fill.  (approx.)
        *:  Tab in brackets is trem picked 4x's
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--------*----------*----------*----------*----------*----------*--------|
||--9/11-(11)-11/12-(12)-12/14-(14)-14/16-(16)-16/18-(18)-18/19-(19)-19/21|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
                                      *          *          *       *
||--------------*----------*---16/18-(18)-18/19-(19)-19/21-(21)-21b(23)---|
||---*---17/19-(19)-19/21-(21)--------------------------use artificial----|
||--(21)------------------------------------------------pinch harmonics---|
||------------------------------------------------------to get that squeal|
||------------------------------------------------------at the end.-------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|

then

[INTRO RIFF]:
She's the one for me
She's all I really need
She's the one for me
She's my one and


only.