Straws in the Wind - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
As with the other singles from K.G, this song is played on microtonal instruments. I tabbed this out on a 
24 TET guitar fretted the same way that King Gizz fret theirs. The actual song uses microtonal acoustics but 
I don't have one so I used my electric. There will be microtonal notes in this tab which will be written in 
brackets  e.g. (X.5). For example, the fret halfway between the first and second frets would be written as 
(1.5) on the tab.
I tabbed this in the Flying Microtonal Banana tuning as I assume that's what they used for this song too. It's
C#, F#, C#, F#, B, e.
This was a really tricky song to figure out so it might not be fully accurate in some parts but on the whole
its fairly close. It might take a few listens to get a feel for it. Use your ear to pick up on all of the 
subtleties of this song.
For the most part, I only tabbed out the main guitar part for each section,(which is usually double tracked
anyway)but there are some bits where the left and right guitars are doing slightly different things and I 
didn't tab them both out. 
[Intro/Verse 1]
e |----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
F#|----------------------------------|
C#|-0-----3-------0-----3------------|
F#|-----------5--------------5-(6.5)-|
C#|----------------------------------|
e |-------------------------|
B |-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-|
F#|-------------------------| x2
C#|-------------------------|
F#|-------------------------|
C#|-------------------------|
[Chorus]
e |----------------------------------------------------------------|
B |-9---9-(10.5)-12-9h(10.5)p9-7h9p7------------7h9p7--------------| 
F#|-7--------------------------------5--5h(8.5)-------5tr(8.5)-5-5-| x2
C#|-0--------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|----------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|----------------------------------------------------------------|
e |-----------------9--------------------------|
B |-9---9-(10.5)-12---(10.5)-9-7h9-7h9--7------| 
F#|-7--------------------------------------7-7-| x2
C#|-0--------------------------------------0-0-|
F#|--------------------------------------------|
C#|--------------------------------------------|
[Post Chorus]
e |-----------|
B |---------2-|
F#|-5p2-5p2---| x6
C#|-----------|
F#|-----------|
C#|-----------|
e |-------------------|
B |-5p(3.5)-5p(3.5)-2-|
F#|-------------------|
C#|-------------------|
F#|-------------------|
C#|-------------------|
[Instrumental Break]
e |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|-7-7-------7-7---7-7-------7-7-(8.5)-7-7-------7-7---7-7---------7-(8.5)-| X4
B |-----(8.5)-----9-----(8.5)---------------(8.5)-----9-----(8.5)-----------|
F#|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 2]
e |-------------------------|
B |-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-|
F#|-------------------------| x4
C#|-------------------------|
F#|-------------------------|
C#|-------------------------|
[Chorus]
e |----------------------------------------------------------------|
B |-9---9-(10.5)-12-9h(10.5)p9-7h9p7------------7h9p7--------------| 
F#|-7--------------------------------5--5h(8.5)-------5tr(8.5)-5-5-| x2
C#|-0--------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|----------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|----------------------------------------------------------------|
e |-----------------9--------------------------|
B |-9---9-(10.5)-12---(10.5)-9-7h9-7h9--7------| 
F#|-7--------------------------------------7-7-| 
C#|-0--------------------------------------0-0-|
F#|--------------------------------------------|
C#|--------------------------------------------|
e |-----------------9--------------------------|
B |-9---9-(10.5)-12---(10.5)-9-------------9-9-| 
F#|-7--------------------------------------7-7-| 
C#|-0--------------------------7h9-7h9--7--0-0-|
F#|--------------------------------------------|
C#|--------------------------------------------|
[Post Chorus]
Guitar 1:
e |-----------|
B |---------2-|
F#|-5p2-5p2---| x6
C#|-----------|
F#|-----------|
C#|-----------|
e |-------------------|
B |-5p(3.5)-5p(3.5)-2-|
F#|-------------------|
C#|-------------------|
F#|-------------------|
C#|-------------------|
Guitar 2:
This riif alternates with guitar 1, you can merge them both together into one if you want to.
e |---------|
B |-------0-|
F#|-0h2h5---| x7
C#|---------|
F#|---------|
C#|---------|
[Solo]
e |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |-7--7--7--7--7--7-7/9--9--9--5--(3.5)-(3.5)tr4--2----/9-7--7--7--7--7--7--\5--5--5--5--5--5--\(3.5)tr4--2|
F#|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e |-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |-/2-5-5--5-5--5-5--5-5--5-5--5-5--5-5--(3.5)-(3.5)--5-5--5-5--5-5--5-5-|
F#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
e |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|-/5-(3.5)-2--/5-(3.5)--2-----2-------2---/5-(3.5)-2--/5-(3.5)--2-----2-------|
C#|--------------------------/5---5-3-5------------------------------/5---5-3-5-|
F#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|-/5-(3.5)-2--/5-(3.5)--2-----2-------2---/5-(3.5)-2--/5-(3.5)--2--/7-5-5-5-/9-9-|
C#|--------------------------/5---5-3-5--------------------------------------------|
F#|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Verse 3]
I'm not sure this part is correct as it's a bit all over the place, but playing this will get you close to 
the original.
e |-------------------------|
B |-7-----------------------|
F#|---10-(8.5)-7------------| x14
C#|--------------10-(8.5)-7-|
F#|-------------------------|
C#|-------------------------|
[Alt Chorus]
e |---------------|
B |-4-(3.5)-2-----|
F#|-----------5-3-| x10
C#|---------------|
F#|---------------|
C#|---------------|
[Solo]
e |----------------------------------------------------------|
B |-/5-(3.5)h4p(3.5)-5--5-(3.5)h4p(3.5)-5--5-(3.5)h4p(3.5)-2-|
F#|----------------------------------------------------------| x2
C#|----------------------------------------------------------|
F#|----------------------------------------------------------|
C#|----------------------------------------------------------|
[Alt Chorus]
The riff has a few variations when it repeats but this can be played all the way through.
e |-----------------------------|
b |-----------------------------| 
F#|-----------------------------| x8 
C#|-3-0-0-(1.5)-0-0---0-0---0-0-|
F#|-----------------5-----5-----|
C#|-----------------------------|
e |------------------|
b |------------------| 
F#|------------------| x10 
C#|-(1.5)-2--(1.5)-2-|
F#|------------------|
C#|------------------|
[Bridge]
e |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|-7-7-------7-7---7-7-------7-7-(8.5)-7-7-------7-7---7-7---------7-(8.5)-| x2
B |-----(8.5)-----9-----(8.5)---------------(8.5)-----9-----(8.5)-----------|
F#|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Chorus/Outro]
e |-------------------------|
B |-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-|
F#|-------------------------| x4
C#|-------------------------|
F#|-------------------------|
C#|-------------------------|
e |----------------------------------------------------------------|
B |-9---9-(10.5)-12-9h(10.5)p9-7h9p7------------7h9p7--------------| 
F#|-7--------------------------------5--5h(8.5)-------5tr(8.5)-5-5-| x2
C#|-0--------------------------------------------------------------|
F#|----------------------------------------------------------------|
C#|----------------------------------------------------------------|
e |-----------------9--------------------------|
B |-9---9-(10.5)-12---(10.5)-9-7h9-7h9--7------| 
F#|-7--------------------------------------7-7-| x4 (or until end)
C#|-0--------------------------------------0-0-|
F#|--------------------------------------------|
C#|--------------------------------------------|
************************************
| h     Hammer-on
| p     Pull-off
| /     Slide up
| \     Slide down
| TR    Trill
| (X.5) Quarter Note
************************************

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