These Things Take Time

Here is the complete score from the "Louder Than Bombs:Off The Record" book:














Here are the scans from the Complete Chord Dictionary:






I have uploaded a guitar pro file here. This tab is based off a live version of the song.


Here's a great version by Daniel Earwicker:




Here's davidguitarist91:




thirdynumberone does a quick run through here:




Another awesome cover by johnnymare:

This Night Has Opened My Eyes

I have uploaded a Guitar Pro file here.

Here is the complete score from the "Louder Than Bombs:Off The Record" book:
















Here are the scans from the Complete Chord Songbook:




There are also several great versions up on youtube.

Here's Peter Weldon with an amazing multi-guitar version:


 

 Here's viniciuskiko:




Here's buckleyboyben:





Here's djs1986, on guitar and bass:




Here's JRLGuitar on electric and acoustic:






Here's modfather1965:

Handsome Devil

"'Handsome Devil': It took a week or two to get my head round it. I knew I wanted to do it, but it took a while to get used to, with him singing those sort of lyrics."

-Andy Rourke


"At the time I wasn't too sure about Hatful Of Hollow being released - although the radio sessions were great, I was keen for them to remain just being that. In hindsight, I realised there were certain tracks - particularly Handsome Devil - that had something the produced version just didn't."

- Johnny Marr

I have uploaded a guitar pro file here.

Here are the scans from the Complete Chord Dictionary:






Daniel Earwicker does a cool multi-instrumental version here:




Here's another great cover by cdwheel:




Here's johhnymare on a tele:




Here's davidguitarist91 on his Les Paul:

Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

"'Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want', I did in a period of about four to five days when I was living in a flat in Earls Court. That was done when we needed a follow-up to 'Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now'."

"I think the mandolin was suggested by the producer John Porter, I had the tune and he thought the mandolin would be good. The music was written because I was thinking about my childhood in Ardwick Green."

"There's a sad song by Del Shannon called 'The Answer To Everything' that my parents used to play, and it struck a chord in me because it sounded so familiar. That song was the inspiration for 'Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want'. I tried to capture the essence of that tune; its spookiness and sense of yearning."

-Johnny Marr

Another beautiful song. I have uploaded a Guitar Pro tab file here. It has 9 tracks, including 4 guitar tracks and 2 mandolin tracks for the outro. Thanks again goes to Nanuke for his help with this tab file.

Here is a short snippet of Johnny playing the song:




Here is the complete score from the "Louder Than Bombs:Off The Record" book:















Here are the scans from the Smiths Best Complete Score:









Dan, a reader, sent word of this great video below. Johnny plays it with Neil Finn and you can get a great view of his hands:




There are a lot of great solo covers of this song on youtube with vocals, but to stay focused I've posted the most helpful non-vocal versions:


Here is kfb76 with no capo:




ResidentSmith78 plays a nice version with the capo at the 2nd fret. He does a nice job with some of the little movements between chords.




KintrickPinch does another capoed version:




Here's backinnyc playing along with his own backing track. He also plays the mandolin solo on his Rick 12-string which sounds really good:




Pandaprops does another great version on an acoustic 12 string:




325C58 does an awesome multi-instrumental version here. Look out for a cool surprise when he does the outro solo:




Here's davidguitarist91 on his Les Paul:

Girl Afraid

"I had just got back from New York and was obsessed with Little Richard. I just kept thinking, 'What'd sound like Little Richard on guitar?', which is how I came up with it."

"I started to think about piano melodies. For example, Girl Afraid, which is an extra track on the Heaven Knows single; I started off playing 'pidgin' piano in the studio one day and transferred it to guitar. When I wrote the song I was conscious that it should have a fast New Orleans piano part. It turned into a Kinks-style, real 60's erratic drum beat bop, which is fine but it started off as a piano part!"

- Johnny Marr

Girl Afraid is one of my favorite Smiths songs. The intro is just jaw-dropping in it's virtuosity, and I love the way it just ramps up from an awesome intro, to a menacing verse riff, to the amazing harmonized chorus chords/riffs. It's like packing 3-4 songs worth of great riffs into a single 2 minute song.

I have uploaded 2 Guitar Pro tab files here.


Here is the complete score from the "Louder Than Bombs:Off The Record" book:














Here are the chords from the Complete Chord Songbook:





Here's Daniel Earwickers first attempt, on a Rick 12 string:




Here's his second, which he does in more of an "instructional" style. Really cool! We could definately use some more videos like this:




ResidentSmith78 does a good attempt here. It's rough in a few places, but one thing to note is that he starts the riff at the 3rd fret, which is what Johnny does.




Here is a really awesome version by markpaterson, on a strat through a JC-120:




Here's a full length(!) cover by isisluna23:




adameater does a slowed down, step by step lesson here:



His full version is here:




moz77 does a slowed down version here:




barjabulon does a great job here, and the camera angle is perfect:



Here's his slowed-down tutorial of the intro:




Masterful version by johnnymare:




And here is viniciuskiko, with a cool version of Rourke's bass part: