I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself tab by The White Stripes

I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself by The White Stripes
from the album Elephant

Tabbed by Keith Railton (guitar @ mooworldorder.com)

Another awesome song from the Elephant album! This CD makes me so happy! Not
much to say about this guitar-wise, just attack the notes when you need to.


ODD SYMBOLS
-------------

  > = accent
  ^ = rake chord from bass to treble strings
  . = play note/chord staccato
*2nd = 2nd time only

============================================================================
==


INTRO

Listen to song for the rhythm, please...

||-----------------0---|-----------------------------||
||-----------------1---|-------x---------------------||
||---------0-------0---|---0---x---.-----------------||
||---------0-------2---|---0---x---0---0-------------||
||---------2-------3---|---2---x----------3--2-p-0---||
||---(3)---3-----------|---3-------------------------||
      G    C    G



VERSE
               >    >
||-------------|-------------3-------3--------||
||---------1---|-------------3-------3--------||
||-0-------0---|-0-----------0-------0--------||
||-0-------2---|-0-----------0-------0--------||
||-2-------3---|-2-----------2-------2--------||
||-3-----------|-3-----------3-------3--------||
  G    C   G      G    G



PRE-CHORUS THING
This is where it's important to listen to the song. You need to get the
palm-muting right, and get the raked chords in the right place.

||------^0---0-------------||---||---------------||--------------|
||------^1---1--------1----||---||---------------||-----^0---0---|
||*-----^2---2--------2---*||---||*---3---------*||-----^0---0---|
||*--2--^2---2----2---2---*||---||*---3---------*||-----^2---2---|
||---0--^0--------0---0----||---||----3----------||--2--^2---2---|
||-------------------------||---||----1----------||--0--^0-------|
  p.m.----|   p.m.       (...same rhythm
                  * see note)

 |----------------|-3-------3---3---|-0-------|-3-----||
 |-1----------1---|-3-------3---3---|-1-------|-3-----||
 |-2----------2---|-0-------0---0---|-0-------|-0-----||
 |-2----------2---|-0-------0---0---|-2-------|-0-----||
 |-0--------------|-2-------2---2---|-3-------|-2-----||
 |----------------|-3-------3-------|---------|-3-----||

 * NB: I think this is about the right chord. It's so heavily muted
 and distorted it's hard to really tell. There's certainly an F and
 that Bb in there. Try changing the C on the A string to an open A
 for more dissonance.



CHORUS-THING

||------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------|
||*----------------------------------*|
||*--5-------5-------5---5---5-------*|
||---5-------5-------5---5---5---0----|
||---3-------3-------3---3---3---0----|

 |-----------------------------------------|------------------|
 |-----------------------------------------|-->------->-------|
 |*-----------------------------------*---*|--3--!----3---!---|
 |*--3-------3-------3---3---3-------(0)--*|--3--!----3---!---|
 |---3-------3-------3---3---3---0---(0)---|--1-------1-------|
 |---1-------1-------1---1---1---0---------|------------------|
                   *2nd

 |--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------|-5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---|
 |-3------3-------3-------3-------|-5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---|
 |-3------3-------3-------3-------|-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---|
 |-1------1-------1-------1-------|---------------------------------|

 |-----------||
 |---5-------||
 |---5-------||
 |---5-------||
 |---3-------||
 |-----------||



EXTENDED CHORUS THING
                          1, 2, 3 ¬    4¬
||-----------------------------|---------------------------|--3-------|
||-----------------------------|------15---15--13--12~~~---|--0-------|
||-----------------------------|-----x--------------------*|--0-------|
||-5-------5\------3-------3/--|-5--x---------------------*|--0-------|
||-5-------5\------3-------3/--|-5-------------------------|--2-------|
||-3-------3\------1-------1/--|-3-------------------------|--3-------|


Fin.

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