Night On The Sun Tab

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Night On The Sun - Modest Mouse
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All of the tabs ive seen of this song arent true to what Isaac Brock is actually playing so i have written my
own version that is more accurate to what he is actually playing. If you watch a live performance of the song
Isaac never really moves his hand away from the 2nd fret when playing the intro riff and all of the tabs for
this song have had some notes in the 4-7 fret range for the intro and it didnt really match up. Ive discovered
that Isaac is using a heavy guage of strings and has tuned to a lower version of the tunings most people have
listed in their tabs and with this tuning the finger movements for the intro riff match up with Isaacs.
 
Tuning: E G# B E G# B
How to tune: Es Ad1 Dd3 Gd3 Bd4 Ed5
 
[Intro] (This is played a second time at 1:25)
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|x2
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------2-3h-2p-0p------------------2-3h-2p-0p------------------2-3h-2p-0p---------2-4-5-4\2-2-0p-0-0---|
G#|--0-2-0------------2-3h-0p----0-2-0------------2-3h-0p----0-2-0------------2-3h-0p--------------------0-|
E|-0---------------------------0---------------------------0-----------------------------------------------|
 
[Verse] (this is played on both verses, when the drums pick up turn this into strumming)
B|---12*-----------7*------------|
G#|--12*-----------7*------------|
E|---12*-----------7*------------|
B|---12*-----------7*------------|
G#|--12*-----------7*------------|
E|---12*-----------7*------------|
 
[Solo/outro] 2:53 - 4:02
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------9-----------------9-9-11-11-11-11-11-12h-11/9-9-7--11-11-11-11-12-11-9-7-|
B|---12-9----12--12---12-9----12--12--------------------------------------------------------|
G#|-------10---------------10---------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|x3
E|-7-9-11-12-11-9-7--7-9-11-12-11-9-7/14--12-11-12-11-----14--12-11-12-11-9-----|
B|----------------------------------------------------12--------------------12--|
G#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
The Last 5 minutes of the song is alot of guitar improvisation so im going to be tabbing the main important
riffs that repeat throughout this outro section and ill provide time stamps at which they appear.
 
4:02 and 6:05 (This is the main riff used througout most of the outro section usually has some variation)
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------11----9----11----9----11----9----11----9-----|
B|--9-12h-12-12-9-12h-12-12-12-12-9-12h-12-12-9-12h-12-12-12-12----12---12----12---12----12---12----12---12--|
G#|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
4:25 and 5:11 (This riff is played breifly at 4:25 and is played by an acoustic guitar at 5:11 all
the way to 6:37)
B|----------------------------|
G#|-------10------------------|
E|---9-11h---11-9-------------|
B|----------------12-11-9-11--|
G#|---------------------------|
E|----------------------------|
 
7:05 (The final half of the outro is just improvised guitar but it all revolves around an acoustic playing
this riff after creeping in with the main riff of the outro at 6:45)
B|------------------------|
G#|-----------------------|
E|--------11---9----------|
B|---9-12---12---12-11-12-|
G#|-----------------------|
E|------------------------|
 
| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| *  harmonic
| x  Mute note
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