Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:10:09 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
«CHARACTER ZERO» by Phish
(music by Trey Anastasio, words by Tom Marshall)
From BILLY BREATHES
Transcribed by Dave Biszick ([email protected])
December 16, 1996
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The Riff (usually done on bass):
p = pull off / =slide to
E ——————————————
B ——————————————
G ——————————————
D ——————————————
A ——2p0-5-2-0-2-5-2/7-(let note ring as line is sung)
E -3p0————————————-
[RIFF] I was taught a month ago
[RIFF] To bide my time and take it slow
[RIFF] But then I learned just yesterday
[RIFF] To rush and never waste the day
[RIFF] Now I’m convinced the whole day long
[RIFF] That all I learn is always wrong
[RIFF] And things are true that I forget
[RIFF] Well no one taught that to me yet
[lightly strum an A chord, getting gradually louder, then
forcefully hit A G]
E G A
I-I’m off to see the man Mulcahey, I’m off to see the man
Mulcahey (x4)
E G A
I was taught a month ago . . . .
E G A
To bide my time and take it slow . . . .
E G A
But then I learned just yesterday . . . .
E G A
To rush and never waste the day . . . .
E G A
Now I’m convinced the whole day long . . . .
E G A
That all I learn is always wrong . . . .
E G
And things are true that I forget . . . .
E G A——A G
Well no one taught that to me yet . . . .
E G A
I — I’m off to see the man Mulcahey, I’m off to see the man
Mulcahey (x4)
E E
I — I . . . . Mulcahey, I’m off to see the man Mulcahey
E E
I — I . . . . Mulcahey, I — ‘Cahey, ‘Cahey . . . .
[SOLO over E G A (x4)]
[Continue solo and stuff along with E G A progression, and
fade out with refrains along the lines of:]
I — I . . . . I — . . . .
I — I . . . . I — . . . .
I — I’m off to see the man Mulcahey, I’m off to see the man
Mulcahey….. (BLAH BLAH BLAH…..)
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That should hold you rascals for now!
(when I play this tune, I put an Asus4-A-Asus4-A quick
change at the verse ends that isn’t necessary…Trey doesn’t
play it, but if you’re playing alone on a guitar — as I
usually do — it substitutes in for Page’s piano fills.)
(Oh, and I didn’t transcribe the solo because, well… I
don’t have the patience, and I can barely solo anyway.
