The Smile | You Will Never Work In Television Again | Guitar Cover + Tabs on Screen

The Smile just released their new track "You Will Never Work In Television Again". This is a cool post-punk sort of song from Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Co. Hope you enjoy my cover and have fun playing along!

[@zacharydelaney6306]

i just got a guitar, i want this to be the first song i learn. here we go!

[@ZackRyan]

Best of luck!

[@lenonel3286]

Well how'd that go?

[@eqx7168]

Very simple angular chording just rocking a C with some variety! Thom doesn't get enough credit for his guitar playing. He very much is radiohead's third guitarist. All three come at it differently. It's cool to see when anyone of them take the "lead" so to speak.

[@lotusglobe2671]

At first I thought that I could play this in standard tuning. But when I first heard this song, I immediately thought of Sonic Youth and that made it clear to me that Thom was playing in an alternate tuning of some kind. Channeling his inner Thurston Moore/Lee Ronaldo. Now I just have to pick apart the song's chord structure and play with the up's and downs of each tone of the strings.
I'm seeing a lot of mixed perspectives about Thom playing in drop D and open C tuning so I don't know which is which. This is really one where tabs can't do justice haha. But that just encourages me to follow my inner ear instead.

[@louiscocksman7114]

Lmao I was literally just now looking for a cover/tutorial. Thanks for this man, nice playing

[@ZackRyan]

Thanks Louis, have fun!

[@thebmc5969]

Spot on! Well done sir

[@dilluvcj]

Nice work!

[@oksoundmm]

super nice! really helpful

[@ZackRyan]

Thanks so much!

[@treshuffy5093]

I don’t have much to say, but god DAMN that tone fucking slays!

[@louieb2563]

fantastic, gotta learn this now and annoy my neighbours

[@ColeJohnstone]

I like your guitar

[@MrPeter924]

Awesome great music song. So sound playing guitar 🎸. 👍

[@ZackRyan]

Thanks Peter!

[@davidtermolen1268]

Excellent! Are you sure about the 10-x-10-9-0-10 tab? Sounds off when I play, but maybe just need more dirt in my sound. 😀

[@holdenshower]

this doesnt sound right for me either - playing on an acoustic

[@ZackRyan]

You guys may be right. @elmington has a lesson on this in Drop C, and that chord sounds a little cleaner in his version.

[@dbkarp]

the chord thom plays is all D notes with an A on the open string (it's a weird kinda drop-C tuning). in standard tuning, 10-12-12-x-x-10 actually hits all the same pitches.

[@cagaming9724]

I'm seeing mixed things about the tuning, I know you're playing in standard and it sounds ALMOST right but I saw someone else play it in drop C or something like that and it sounds close too so I'm not entirely sure which is actually right

[@kolokolo9889]

There is a video of Thom playing it and he plays in drop C. But this version is fine if you want to play along without tuning your guitar I guess.

[@tbwatch88]

it's drop D, mate.

[@gabriellindberg5407]

is that last chord right according to the tab?

[@ZackRyan]

I'm not sure if it's perfect, but I think it's close!

[@GV_covers]

bro nice!! , where did you make ur tabs??

[@ZackRyan]

Thanks Gustavo! They have some pretty decent tab templates on Ultimate Guitar, that's what I typically use.

[@memetherapy]

Nice. But aren't you hitting each chord 10 times instead of 8? Sounds right, but the tab says 8.

[@memetherapy]

I slowed it down just to confirm. Yeah. Songs in 10/8. Wonderful demonstration.

[@lenonel3286]

I didn't realize people always put the number of strums in the tab, I thought they just put it a bunch of times and you had to figure it out, that's how I've been doing it these past 10 years lmao

[@dinkelberchs3697]

​@@memetherapy is there any difference to a 5/4 or is it just another way to express it?

[@kevinmagee8955]

What's the tuning on this one? It really sounds like Radiohead!!! I want a new Radiohead album released soon and I want Radiohead to perform in my home town of Magee,Mississippi

[@boobomb7648]

not normal tuning. not these position.