From: "Hughes, Mike" <HughesME@bergelect.com>    
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 21:50:13 -0600

Helicopter - Red House Painters.
standard tuning down a whole step.

the beginning in just fingerstyle   C   G   Dmin7   G   pattern. you'll
have to work out what's best harmonized to your own ear...

then comes...

D|-------------1-|--------------|------------3-|--------------|
A|---------1-----|--------1-----|--------3-----|--------3-----|
F|-------0---0---|------0---0---|------0---0---|------0---0---|
C|---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
G|--1------------|--1-----------|--3-----------|--3-----------|
D|---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|


 |-------------0-|--------------|------------0-|--------------|
 |---------1-----|--------1-----|--------1-----|--------1-----|
 |-------3---3---|------3---3---|------3---3---|------3---3---|
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
 |--1------------|--------------|--3-----------|--------------|
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|


 |-------------1-|--------------|------------3-|--------------|
 |---------1-----|--------1-----|--------3-----|--------3-----|
 |-------0---0---|------0---0---|------0---0---|------0---0---|
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
 |--1------------|--1-----------|--3-----------|--3-----------|
 |---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|


into the oddly harmonized part...
  repeat 4x
||--6----6------||
||--6------6----||
||.-0--------0-.||
||.------------.||
||--------------||
||--6-----------||


get the strumming  off recording for the following chord forms
  repeat 12x
||------6--------|-------0------|-------3------|-------0------||
||------6--------|-------6------|-------3------|-------3------||
||.-----0--------|-------0------|-------0------|-------0-----.||
||.--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------.||
||------6--------|-------6------|--------------|--------------||
||------6--------|-------6------|-------3------|-------3------||


experiment with the following chords from "daylight..." to end

 |--5---0---2---0---------------------------------------------|
 |--3---3---3---3------4---4---4------------------------------|
 |--0---0---0---0------3---3---3------------------------------|
 |--4---4---4---4------5---5---3------------------------------|
 |--5---5--------------6---3---3------------------------------|
 |----------3---3---------------------------------------------|


final end ascension is              end with

 |--3---5---6----8---5---2--|       |---1---|
 |--3---5---6----8---3---3--|       |---1---|
 |--0---0---0----0---0---0--|       |---0---|
 |--0---7---8---10---4---4--|       |---3---|
 |------7---8---10---5---5--|       |---3---|
 |--3-----------------------|       |-------|