Guitar Tab:Slow
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| Slow |
| By: They Might Be Giants |
| Key: |
| Year: 2026 |
| Tabbed By: sapphirebullets |
This song is in 31-Tone Equal Temperament (TET), meaning the octave is divided into 31 notes. If you have an instrument that can play microtones, you can use microharmonic.com for pitch references.
The song revolves around the normal, 12-TET C note, so for simplicity, any other note will be notated with a number, and a ± depending on if the note is above or below the home base of C.
The "-5" chord, or the 27th note in the scale, is SUPER close to a Bb; a Bb above Middle C is 466.16 Hertz, the 31-TET note is 467.78 Hertz. You can just play a Bb chord there :p.
Good luck.
||: -5 C :|| x2
-5 C -5 C
You accidentally mixed the magic potion bottles up
-5 C -5 C
And drank the one that slows reality down
C +2
Until now, you never noticed
+4 +6
The subtle interplay of colors and shapes all around you
+7 +9
And the underlying harmonious randomness
C +2
You never realized how much
+4 +6
The hideous architectural choices of the last 50 years
+7 +9
Have profaned and desecrated this world
-5 C
In groping for the antidote
-5 C -5 C
You accidentally swallowed even more
-5 C
Of what is slowing down time
[Can't Keep Johnny Down Interlude] (W.I.P, will add later)
C +2
All of the coded expressions and gestures
+4 +6
That used to be inscrutable are now transparent
+7 +9
And it's obvious what everyone is thinking and what they really mean
C +2
Hyperaware but unable or unwilling to express
+4 +6
Your newfound godlike knowledge
+7 +9
You sit atop a mountain and silently observe
-5 C -5 C
You jump, you fall, continue to decelerate
-5 C
Secure in knowing at this rate
-5 C
You'll never reach the ground
-8 -5 -3 C
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