Teeth Like God's Shoeshine by Modest Mouse

This song is published by SONY/ATV HARMONY, SONY/ATV HARMONY OBO CRAZY GNOME, SONY/ATV HARMONY OBO TSCHUDI MUSIC, SONY/ATV HARMONY OBO UGLY CASSANOVA and displayed here with permission.
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Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine
OPENING:

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         b=bend …do not bend it with your finger though, apply pressure to the bridge or whammy-bar, 
so 
         that the note is only bent slightly-much of the first part of the song is played this way (listen to 
the     
         record to pick it up) as are many other modest mouse riffs; i.e., this indicative of Issac Brock’s   
         “style.”

VERSE 1:

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         this is played throughout  the verse, until…

END OF VERSE 1:

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d-----4-4-4-4---5-5-5-5---------x -x -x -x ---7-7-7-7-------------------------------------------------------------------
a-----------------5-5-5-5---------9 -9 -9 -9----7-7-7-7-------------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------3-3-3-3--------------------------5-5-5-5-------------------------------------------------------------------

“OH! If you could compact your conscience…”

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                 m=mute…but pretty much all of this is muted except the notes on the “b” string. This is 
the only         
                  part that I am not too sure about, but it sounds about right, anyways…just listen to the 
record to                             
                  get the rhythm and to figure out when and when not to mute the strings…

SLOW PART:

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             play this twice.


“And the television’s gone…”

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           **very important**  these notes are all harmonics!! If you don’t know what harmonics means, 
listen
           to the record, and if you still don’t get it, ask someone who knows how to play guitar…also on 
“3b”
           play this note right on the metal part of the fret that separates the 3rd and 4th fret, does that 
make 
           sense? Also, on that same note, bend it by pulling up on the bridge of your guitar, i.e. 
pressing down 
           your whammy bar.

“Here’s the man with teeth like…”
Just play “SLOW PART” again.
Then it goes into this…

FAST PART #1: (Take ém all for the long ride…)

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     …and it changes right on “comes from deep down in side”

“Comes From deep down inside…” FAST PART #2:

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d----x---x---x---x---x---x----x---x----x---x---x---x----x----x---x---x---x---x------------------------------------------
a---- 9---7---5---4---5---4---9---7----5----4---5---4----9---7---5---4---5---4-------0-4-5^4-0-4-5^4---------------
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            repeat this twice, then go into…

FAST PART #3 “and it’s all all wrong…”

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a----9-----9-----9---9---10^9-------9----9----9---10^9------9-----9----9---10^9------9-----9-----9-------------------
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       play this for awhile-listen to the record-then go back into FAST PART #2(but only play it 
once)…then  it goes back into the 
“slow part”of the song again, and I’ve tabbed out everything for that already, so I trust that you can 
figure out the pattern yourself
…then it goes back in to the fast part of the song again, which you can also figure out, then it ends 
on this:

OUTRO PART 1:



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a---9-----9----9----7----7---7---5---5---10---9----9-----9---7----7---7---5---5---5------------------------------------
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OUTRO PART 2:

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       **again, it is very important to understand that all of these notes are HARMONICS**
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^=bend this note up and down with your bridge or whammy-bar.
       Play this several times-I’m not sure how many.

FINAL OUTRO: 

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   let ring.


Fin