Elliott Smith – Figure 8 (Guitar Tab)

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There are two guitar parts to this song since it's originally played on piano. I structured it similar to piano sheet music: the first guitar part is the right hand (treble) and the second guitar part is the left hand (base). The second guitar part is mostly triplets which was hard to line up with the first part but hopefully it's intuitive The tab for the Intro is just repeated for the first and second verse [Intro]

Part 1:
e|------------3-2-|3---------2-3---|1-----------1-0-|1---------0-1---|------------3-2-|
B|------------4-3-|4---------3-4-4-|2-----------2-2-|3---------2-3-3-|4-----------4-3-|
G|----------------|--------------5-|----------------|--------------4-|5---------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

Part 2:
                  |-3-|-3-|-3-|    |-3-|-3-|-3-|    |-3-|-3-|-3-|    |-3-|-3-|-3-|
e|----------------|--- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|
B|----------------|--1 --1 --1 ----|--2 --2 --2 ----|--- --- --- ----|--1 --1 --1 ----|
G|----------------|-0- -0- -0- ----|-1- -1- -1- ----|--0 --0 --0 ----|-0- -0- -0- ----|
D|----------------|--- 0-- 1-- ----|--- 1-- 3-- ----|-0- -0- -0- ----|--- 0-- 1-- ----|
A|----------------|3-- --- --- ----|4-- --- --- ----|--- 0-- 2-- ----|3-- --- --- ----|
E|----------------|--- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|3-- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|

Part 1:
e|3---------2-3---|1-----------1-0-|1---------0-1---|----------------|----------------|----------------|
B|4---------3-4-4-|2-----------2-2-|3---------2-3-3-|4-----------4-4-|4-3-3-1-1-0-0-1-|1---------------|
G|--------------5-|----------------|--------------4-|5---------------|----------------|----------------|
D|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|--1-1-0-0-------|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------3-3---|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

Part 2:
 |-3-|-3-|-3-|    |-3-|-3-|-3-|    |-3-|-3-|-3-|    |-3-|-3-|-3-|
e|--- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|----------------|----------------|
B|--1 --1 --1 ----|--2 --2 --2 ----|--- --- --- ----|--1 --1 --1 ----|----------------|----------------|
G|-0- -0- -0- ----|-1- -1- -1- ----|--0 --0 --0 ----|-0- -0- -0- ----|----------------|----------------|
D|--- 0-- 1-- ----|--- 1-- 3-- ----|-0- -0- -0- ----|--- 0-- 1-- ----|----------------|----------------|
A|3-- --- --- ----|4-- --- --- ----|--- 0-- 2-- ----|3-- --- --- ----|3-------2-------|3---------------|
E|--- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|3-- --- --- ----|--- --- --- ----|4-------3-------|3---------------|

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|-3-| = triplet
|-3-|-3-|-3-| = set of three triplets

************************************ [Verse 1] Figure eight is double four Figure four is half of eight If you skate you would be great If you could make a figure eight That's a circle that turns round upon itself [Verse 2] Figure eight is two times four Four times four is two times eight If you skate upon thin ice You'd be wise if you thought twice Before you made another single move