Fall Of Because

Song: Fall of Because

Album: What's THIS for! (1981)

Artist: Killing Joke

Composer: Killing Joke

Guitarist: Geordie Walker

This song uses the open string extensively to create an

echo/sliding effect.

INTRO RIFF (SOLO)

||--------|----------|----------|----------|--0-------

||--------|23---3----|23---3----|23---3----|2---3-----

||--------|---0------|---0------|---0------|------4---

||-------4|---------4|---------4|---------4|---------4

||--------|----------|----------|----------|----------

||--------|----------|----------|----------|----------

1ST RIFF

* Thumb is used

||--------|----------|----------|----------|--0-------

||--------|23---3----|23---3----|23---3----|2---3-----

||--------|---0------|---0------|---0------|------4---

||-------4|---------4|---------4|---------4|---------4

||--------|----------|----------|----------|----------

||--------|-----*333-|------333-|------333-|----------

MAIN RIFF

! Third finger is used in conjunction with thumb

||--------|----------|----------|----------|--0-------

||--------|23---3----|23---3----|23---3----|2---3-----

||--------|---0------|---0------|---0------|------4---

||-------4|---------4|---------4|---------4|---------4

||--------|-----!555-|------555-|------555-|----------

||--------|-----*333-|------333-|------333-|----------

||----------|

||999-------|

||999-------| 4 TIMES THEN BACK TO MAIN RIFF

||999-------|

||777-------| (CHORUS)

||----000000|

REPEAT UNTIL END OF SONG

||---------|--0--------|--0--------|--0--------|--0--------

||---------|2---3------|2---3------|2---3------|2---3------

||---------|------4----|------4----|------4----|------4----

||--------4|----------4|----------4|----------4|----------4

||---------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------

||---------|------*333-|-------333-|-------333-|-------333-

||---------|--0--------|--0--------|--0--------|--0--------

||---------|2---3------|2---3------|2---3------|2---3------

||---------|------4----|------4----|------4----|------4----

||--------4|----------4|----------4|----------4|----------4

||---------|-------555-|-------555-|-------555-|-------555-

||---------|------*333-|-------333-|-------333-|-------333-

Just drop me a line and let me know what you think. I transcribed

this song in a way that only appears logical, unless of course

Geordie decided to use different open tunings, which I doubt very much!

Happy strummin'

by Eka Suma

(ha94sumae@wombat.admin.bhtafe.edu.au)