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From 1991's 'Pretty on the Inside'. This is the album closer made up of two songs but
was recorded as a single piece, so I figured I'd give a tab for the entire track as it is
on the album, recorded conjointly. The first song is the title track, "Pretty on the
Inside", which serves as a prologue to a noisy cover of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides, Now",
under the title "Clouds". Two guitars are used in each song: Courtney Love is playing
the less-distorted rhythm and Eric Erlandson is playing heavily distorted lead and uses a
wah-pedal in "Clouds". Both are actually really easy to play if you can nail the rhythm
patterns. Listen to the song(s) for help.
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Pretty On The Inside / Clouds by Hole
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Tuning: Standard (played with heavy distortion)
*****PRETTY ON THE INSIDE*****
"Slutkiss girls, won't you promise her smack?"
e|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------|
D|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8------|
A|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6------|
E|--------------------------------------|
"Is she pretty on the inside? Is she pretty from the back?"
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-----|
A|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8-----|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
"Slutkiss girls, won't you water her rack?"
e|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------|
D|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8------|
A|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6------|
E|--------------------------------------|
"Is she pretty on the inside, baby, pretty from the back?..."
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-----|
A|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8-----|
E|-----------------------------------------------|
Repeat this chord progression as tabbed through the remainder of "Pretty on the Inside".
****CLOUDS*****
All you do here is repeat the G and C chords throughout the song alternately for its
entire duration; this same chord progression is used for every verse so it's pretty simple.
You can play the open chords if you like, but the G and C power chords work as well. I
believe they play the power chords on the album version. A tab for these chords is
provided below if for some reason you don't know them. A wah-pedal is also used on these
to give them an almost siren-like effect.
"Bad boy..... Rows and flows of angel hair / And ice cream castles in the air..."
"Well now my friends are acting strange / They shake their heads, man, they say I've
changed, well..."
"I've looked at life from both sides now / From win and lose and still somehow, it's
life's illusions I recall, I,
I really don't know, I really don't know, I really don't know, I really don't know, I
really don't know life at all."
(Open chords:)
e|--3---------3---------3------------------------|
B|--3----1----3----1----3----1-------------------|
G|--0----0----0----0----0----0-------------------|
D|--0----2----0----2----0----2-------------------|
A|--2----3----2----3----2----3-------------------|
E|--3---------3---------3------------------------|
(Power chords, if you wanna keep it simple:)
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|------5-------5-------5------------------------|
D|--5---5---5---5---5---5------------------------|
A|--5---3---5---3---5---3------------------------|
E|--3-------3-------3----------------------------|
