The Rip Chords
by Radiohead
The Rip by Radiohead is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, F, C, Bm, Am, A# and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Here is a tab of the guitar line that both Thom and Jonny play in their cover of Portishead’s The Rip.
There are a lot of notes here so I am just going to tab out the picking pattern for each chord once then note
how many times to repeat it. Hopefully it will be a bit easier on the eye that way. A video of the cover can
be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt4XhAZDTA0
Em F Em
e|-------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------|
B|----8--------------|----10----------------|----8---------------------------|
G|------9---(All x4)-|-------10----(All x4)-|------9---(All x4)--------------|
D|--------9----------|----------10----------|--------9-----------------------|
A|--7----------------|--8-------------------|--7-----------------------------|
E|-------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------|
C Bm Am
e|-------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------|
B|----8--------------|----7-----------------|----5---------------------------|
G|------9----(All x3)|------7---(Just once)-|------5---(All x4)--------------|
D|--------10---------|--------9-------------|--------7-----------------------|
A|-------------------|----------------------|--------------------------------|
E|--8----------------|--7-------------------|--5-----------------------------|
A# Am G
e|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------------|
B|----6--------------|----5--------------|----3------------------------------|
G|------7---(All x4)-|------7---(All x4)-|------4---(All x4)-----------------|
D|--------8----------|--------8----------|--------5--------------------------|
A|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------------------|
E|--6----------------|--5----------------|--3--------------------------------|
Repeat all that throughout the track.