The Cure

Prayers For Rain

The Cure


Tom: D

Standard Tuning (Eadgbe) 
 
This is an awesome song by The Cure and it's very simple to play. 
 
Main Riff 
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|----2---2-----0---0---| 
|--00-0-0-0--33-3-3-3--| 
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Another guitar overlays this part with something similar.  It occassionally adds an A on the G string if you want to play it as well. 
 
Riff 2 
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|--8-8-8-10--10--10--(10)-| 
|-9-9-9-------------------| 
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The last A note is only played at certain parts of the song. 
 
Fill 1 
|-7----------------| 
|----10----8-------| 
|-------------10-9-| 
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This is sometimes added onto Riff 2.