Author/Artist: U2
Title: Bullet the Blue Sky
Album: Rattle and Hum
Transcribed by: Scott Hashbarger
Email: scootermuhbob@yahoo.com
Tune down 1/2 step. Most of the chords use a slide,
except for the Chorus.
For the slide parts (and solo) he uses distortion
with some slap back delay and echo.
Intro (also played before solo)
----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------
-12\0---12\0---12\0---12\0--------|-------------------------------------------
-12\0---12\0---12\0---12\0--------|-------------------------------------------
-12\0---12\0---12\0---12\0--------|-------------------------------------------
----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------
----------------------------------|-0-----------------------------------------
Verse (second verse w/feedback)
-|-----------|-----------------|-------------------------------|--------------
-|-----------|-x--x--x--x--x---|---14v-------------------------|--------------
-|-----------|-x--x--x--x--x---|-------------------------------|--------------
-|-----------|-x--x--x--x--x---|-------------------------------|--------------
-|-----------|-x--x--x--x--x---|-------------------------------|--------------
-|-0v--------|-x--x--x--x--x---|-------------------------------|--------------
Chorus (repeat 6 times)(no slide)
-----------------------|---------|--------------------------------------------
-7-7-9----------9-9----|---------|--------------------------------------------
-7-7-9----------9-9----|---------|--------------------------------------------
-7-7-9----------9-9----|---------|--------------------------------------------
-----------------------|--7v-----|--------------------------------------------
-----------------------|---------|--------------------------------------------
Solo
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-12-----12------12-----12-----12/14--12/14--14--------------------------------
---12-----12------12-----12---12/14--12/14-----14-----------------------------
-----12-----12------12-----12-12/14--12/14--------14--------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-12-----12------12-----12-----12/14--14---14-----14----15---15----17\---------
---12-----12------12-----12---12/14----14---14------14---15---15--17\---------
-----12-----12------12-----12-12/14-----------14------------------------------
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No slide here:
----14-----14-----14-----14----14-----14\-------------------------------------
-16b----16b---16b-----16b---16b---16------------------------------------------
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repeat 4 times fun w/feedback more feedback
-|-------------------------|-----------------------------|--------|-----------
-|-----16--16/18\16/18\16--|-----------------------------|--------|-----------
-|-----16--16/18\16/18\16--|-----------------------------|---14v--|-----------
-|-----16--16/18\16/18\16--|-----------------------------|--------|-----------
-|-------------------------|-----------------------------|--------|-----------
-|-0-0---------------------|-0\/v------------------------|--------|-----------
"...fighter planes..." (fade notes in and out)
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-0----------------------|--0--------------------------------------------------
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somewhere in the song he does this as a fill
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-19\--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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