Twist & Shout
as played by The Beatles

Tabbed by Marc Hertzberg (hertzberg@cornmuffin.com)
          of HELP! (cornmuffin.com/help)


  Intro:
             D     G     A7
-|----------------------------------------
-|--------------------------8--8--8--8----
-|--------------------------6--6--6--6----  repeat 2X
-|--------------4-----------5--5--5--5----
-|--0--2--4--5--5--5--5--7----------------
-|-----------------3--3--5----------------

The above pretty much repeats throughout the whole song.
If you look close, you'll see it's really built around
standard D7, G, and A7 chords... these ones... 

     D7   G    A7
 -|-------3----5----
 -|--3----3----8----
 -|--5----4----6----
 -|--4----5----5----
 -|--5----5----7----
 -|-------3----5----

...but I tend to leave out quite a few notes.  Gotta leave 
holes in the sound for the other lads to fill.

Now what are the guitars doing on the middle part?  The standard
version of the riff goes like this.

    D     G     A     G
-|----------------------------
-|-----------3--2--2----------
-|--------4--4--2--2--4--2----  repeat four times
-|--4--4--5-----------5--4----
-|--5--5----------------------
-|----------------------------

Often, there's clearly a slide up into the notes of the G chord...

    D     G       A     G
-|------------------------------
-|-------------3--2--2----------
-|--------3/4--4--2--2--4--2----
-|--4--4--4/5-----------5--4----
-|--5--5------------------------
-|------------------------------

... and maybe even when it comes back down to those notes, too... 

    D     G       A     G
-|--------------------------------
-|-------------3--2--2------------
-|--------3/4--4--2--2--3/4--2----
-|--4--4--4/5-----------4/5--4----
-|--5--5--------------------------
-|--------------------------------

OK so far. You have to listen carefully for yourself to as many
versions as you can get your hands on and do what you like.

But what always bugged me on various boots of audio and
video performances were other notes, perhaps played by 
John, never very clear.  Lately, I spent a few hours scouring
various sources and heard quite a few variations which seemed
to be centered around 6th chords... making the G a G6 chord
and also which make the A an A6 chord.  So lately, I've
been playing around with the following...

    D     G  G6 A     
-|----------------- ...
-|-----------5--2-- ...
-|--------4--4--2-- ...
-|--4--4--5--5--2-- ...
-|--5--5----------- ...
-|----------------- ...

and also...

    D     G     A6
-|-----------2--2-- ...
-|-----------3--2-- ...
-|--------4--4--2-- ...
-|--4--4--5-------- ...
-|--5--5----------- ...
-|----------------- ...

I like this last one quite a bit, and heard it very clearly
on I_forget_which recording.  It was probably a goof.  ;^)

With my band now, I play some combinations of all of the above
when we perform the song.  Again, listen for yourself and play
what you like and/or what you hear or think you hear.

As for the finale, there's no doubt about the ascending chromatic
scale, but I've seen the final chord, a D9, played two ways.  Either...

-|--------------------5---
-|--------------------5---
-|--------------------5---
-|--------------------4---
-|--0--1--2--3--4--5--5---
-|------------------------

... or my preference, which is ...

-|--------------------5---
-|--------------------5---
-|--------------------5---
-|--------------------7---
-|--0--1--2--3--4--5--5---
-|------------------------

Remember to take a synchronized bow at the end of this one.


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Tab Special Notations:
---5/7---  play fret five, slide up to fret seven
---7\5---  play fret seven, slide down to fret five
--8b(9)--  play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
             the pitch of fret nine
--b(9)8--  play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
             unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
---/7----  slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is
             undefined, judge by ear)
---15\---  play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
             undefined, judge by ear)
---1h3---  play fret one and hammer-on to fret three
---7p5---  play fret seven and pull-off to fret five
-7b(9)r7-  play fret seven, bend up to fret nine, release back to fret
           seven
--5h7p5--  play fret five, hammer on to fret seven, pull off to fret five