Notes On Performance and Tuning
As with many Sonic Youth songs, the guitars are unconventionally tuned; in this case, Thurston Moore's pentatonic tuning is (reading from left to right the lowest pitched string to the highest pitched string) GABDEG and Lee Ranaldo's tuning is GGDDGG, as published in a Guitar World interview with the band.
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