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Talking Heads  - Artists Only
                      Standard Tuning: EADG
Transcribed by Jamie Miller


     w  e  H  e  q  q  q  q  q  q  q  q                                 
||----------------------------------------||----------------------------
||*--------------------------------------*||----------------------------
||*--7--6--7--6--7--6--5--6--7--6--5--6--*||----------------------------
||----------------------------------------||----------------------------
     Part I                                                             

     e  e  q  e  e  q  e  e  q  q  e  e                                 
||----------------------------------------||----------------------------
||*--------------------------------------*||----------------------------
||*--0--7--7--0--6--6--0--5--5--5--6--7--*||----------------------------
||----------------------------------------||----------------------------
     Part II                                                            

     e  Q  e  e  q  e  Q  e  e   q                                      
||---------7--------------7----------||---------------------------------
||*-----------8--5-----------10--5--*||---------------------------------
||*--5--7-----------7--9------------*||---------------------------------
||-----------------------------------||---------------------------------
     Part III                                                           

     q  q  q  q  q  q  e  e  q                                          
||-------------------------------||-------------------------------------
||*-----------------------------*||-------------------------------------
||*--7--7--7--7--7--7--5--6--7--*||-------------------------------------
||-------------------------------||-------------------------------------
     Part IV                                                            

Order: Part I x 4 
Part II x 4 
Part III x 4 
Part IV x 8 
Part III x 4 
Part I x 4 
Part IV x 8* 
Part II x 4 
Part III x 4 
Part I x 4+ 
 
*= Includes some variations not tabbed this time round (basically, 
descending 987 instead of ascending 567) 
+= For the last time round, play the very last three notes slower... 
 
This is roughly correct, but I have a terrible ear for music, so 
apologies if it annoys you.


Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/t/talking_heads/128718.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Brenton Average	#1 by Brenton Giordano at Apr 25, 1982 at 10:21 PM EST
	This song most likely relates to Byrne's art school days at the Rhode Island School of Design. The lines "I'm cleaning...I'm cleaning my brain" refers to the transfer of ones ideas to something like a painting, music, etc.--cleaning out ideas. The second verse is the frustration after using up the ideas and being left with a "clean" brain. He throws in "You can't see it 'til it's finished" because it is a very common phrase among artists (I know. I go to Savannah College of Art and Design...but I won't be dropping out to start an AWESOME band :p ). The thought of being seen incomplete (the art piece or the person) is very stressful. "All my pictures are confused." He, himself is a confused mess. "And now I'm going to take me to you." He's going to impose his thoughts, etc on others (through art/music?). Yeah...

No Picture brent Rhythm Player	#2 by brent west at Dec 22, 1992 at 11:45 PM EST
	Well, at the risk of sounding a bit uh... insensitive... I love how David Byrne sings like a retard throughout this song. I wish I had been around when the Talking Heads were just putting out their albums, just so I could see how people reacted to their unconventionality.

No Picture Zoe Wanna Be	#3 by Zoe that thing at Jan 13, 2007 at 1:00 PM EST
	Hey SpooktheHerd, I was around then. Saw them in Austin in the late 70's, "Psycho Killer" was already out and I think "Warning Sign" was too. We caught them at the Armadillo. Anyway, I came away almost feeling scared....like, geez, they let this guy out? He was definately a different sort of dude. Not really spastic but moved his neck out really far and turned his head in this weird, David Lynch-esque kinda way. He was certainly a visual as well as vocal performer.