Biography:
Jonathan Coulton is a geek rock / folk rock musician active since 2003 from Brooklyn, known for his songs about geek culture. He is best known for such compositions as "Still Alive" and "Code Monkey", as well as his cover of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back". He is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman's Little Gray Book Lectures.
Every week for a year Coulton released a new song for free on his website as part of his Thing a Week podcast
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Other songs:
- A Talk With George
- Alone At Home
- Artificial Heart
- Baby Got Back (acoustic Version)
- Baby Got Back Acoustic
- Betty And Me
- Big Bad World One
- Chiron Beta Prime
- Code Monkey
- Dissolve
- Down Today
- Drinking With You
- Famous Blue Raincoat
- First Of May
- Glasses
- Good Morning Tuscon
- I Crush Everything
- I'm Your Moon
- Ikea
- Mr. Fancy Pants
- My Monkey
- Nemeses
- Not About You
- One Christmas At A Time
- Portal - Still Alive - Valve (full)
- Re: Your Brains
- Shopvac
- Skullcrusher Mountain
- Soft Rocked By Me
- Still Alive
- Still Alive- Artificial Heart Version
- The Future Soon
- Tom Cruise Crazy
- When You Go
- You Ruined Everything
- Want You Gone
- A Laptop Like You
- All This Time
- Always The Moon
- Baby Got Back
- Ball And Chain
- Better
- Blue Sunny
- Blue Sunny Day
- Bozos Lament
- Brave
- Brookline
- Cave
- Christmas Is Interesting
- Creepy Doll
- Curl
- Dance Soterios Johnson Dance
- De
- Dont Talk To Strangers
- Flickr
- Fraud
- Furry Old Lobster
- Gamblers Prayer
- Good Morning Tucson
- I Feel Fantastic
- I Hate California
- I Will
- If The Earth Were A Sandwich
- Im Having A Party
- Im Your Moon
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis
- Love Aint No Billy Goat
- Madelaine
- Mandelbrot Set
- Millionaire Girlfriend
- Mr Fancy Pants
- My Beige Bear
- Nemesese
- Nobody Loves You Like Me
- Nobodys Above The Law
- Now I Am An Arsonist
- Octopus
- Ordinary Man
- Over There
- Overhead
- Pizza Day
- Podsafe Christmas Song
- Popsci Podcast On The Moon
- Previously On Braindead
- Re Your Brains
- Red Shirt
- Screwed
- Shop Vac
- So Far So Good
- Solid State
- Someone Is Crazy
- Space Doggity
- Square Things
- Sticking It To Myself
- Sucker Punch
- The Big Boom
- The Presidents
- The Presidents Song
- The Princess Who Saved Herself
- The Town Crotch
- The World Belongs To You
- There You Are
- Today With Your Wife
- Todd The T1000
- Under The Pines
- You Could Be Her
- You Wouldnt Know
- Your Tattoo
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Cheerfully stolen from:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Mandelbrot_Set/Tabs
Fear not, though! It falls under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported
license! Yay! Yay? Yes, yay! As long as credit is given and this is not used for commercial
purposes, you can use it. Which I did. Hurray.
Original transcription by M_pony, revised by Suuuupaadave.
E Riff
Eadd9 E Esus4 E
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|
|--4----6--6h7---6-|
|--2----7--7-----7-|
|--0----0--0-----0-|
Intro:
Esus2 E E-Esus4 E Esus2-E
Verse 1
E(riff) A F#m
Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
A B7 E
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
E
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
A F#m
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
A B7 E
The Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
Amaj7 Emaj7 Amaj7 Emaj7
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
Amaj7 Emaj7 F#m B7 E(riff) 2x
On a cold November day.. a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born
Verse 2
E(riff) A F#m
His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
A B7 E(riff)
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
E A F#m
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
A B E
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
Amaj7 Emaj7
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
Amaj7 Emaj7
A bulbous pointy form
F#m B E B7 E B7
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down
Pre Chorus
E B7 E B7
Take a point called C in the complex plane
E B7 E B7
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
E B7 E B7
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
E B7 E (break)
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A B7
If the series of Z's should always stay
Ab C#m B
Close to C and never trend away
A B7 E (break)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Chorus
B7
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
B7
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You're one badass fucking fractal
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7 E(riff)4x
You can change the world in a tiny way
Verse 3
E (hold) A F#m
Mandelbrot's in heaven, at least he will be when he's dead
A B7 E(riff)
Right now he's still alive and teaching math at Yale
E(riff) A F#m
He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
A B7 E
And his geometry succeeds where others fail
Amaj7 Emaj7 Amaj7 Emaj7
If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
Amaj7 Emaj7 F#m B7 E B7 E B7
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home
Pre Chorus
E B7 E B7
Take a point called C in the complex plane
E B7 E B7
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
E B7 E B7
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
E B7 E (break)
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A B7
If the series of Z's should always stay
Ab C#m B
Close to C and never trend away
A B7 E (break)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Final Chorus
B7
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
B7
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You're one badass fucking fractal
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7 E(riff)
You can change the world in a tiny way
Tag
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7
You can change the world in a tiny way
F#11 Amaj7
Go on change the world in a tiny way
F#11 Amaj7
Come on change the world in a tiny way
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/index.php/Mandelbrot_Set/Tabs
Fear not, though! It falls under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported
license! Yay! Yay? Yes, yay! As long as credit is given and this is not used for commercial
purposes, you can use it. Which I did. Hurray.
Original transcription by M_pony, revised by Suuuupaadave.
E Riff
Eadd9 E Esus4 E
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|
|--4----6--6h7---6-|
|--2----7--7-----7-|
|--0----0--0-----0-|
Intro:
Esus2 E E-Esus4 E Esus2-E
Verse 1
E(riff) A F#m
Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
A B7 E
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
E
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
A F#m
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
A B7 E
The Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
Amaj7 Emaj7 Amaj7 Emaj7
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
Amaj7 Emaj7 F#m B7 E(riff) 2x
On a cold November day.. a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born
Verse 2
E(riff) A F#m
His disdain for pure mathematics and his unique geometrical insights
A B7 E(riff)
Left him well equipped to face those demons down
E A F#m
He saw that infinite complexity could be described by simple rules
A B E
He used his giant brain to turn the game around
Amaj7 Emaj7
And he looked below the storm and saw a vision in his head
Amaj7 Emaj7
A bulbous pointy form
F#m B E B7 E B7
He picked his pencil up and he wrote his secret down
Pre Chorus
E B7 E B7
Take a point called C in the complex plane
E B7 E B7
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
E B7 E B7
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
E B7 E (break)
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A B7
If the series of Z's should always stay
Ab C#m B
Close to C and never trend away
A B7 E (break)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Chorus
B7
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
B7
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You're one badass fucking fractal
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7 E(riff)4x
You can change the world in a tiny way
Verse 3
E (hold) A F#m
Mandelbrot's in heaven, at least he will be when he's dead
A B7 E(riff)
Right now he's still alive and teaching math at Yale
E(riff) A F#m
He gave us order out of chaos, he gave us hope where there was none
A B7 E
And his geometry succeeds where others fail
Amaj7 Emaj7 Amaj7 Emaj7
If you ever lose your way, a butterfly will flap its wings
Amaj7 Emaj7 F#m B7 E B7 E B7
From a million miles away, a little miracle will come to take you home
Pre Chorus
E B7 E B7
Take a point called C in the complex plane
E B7 E B7
Let Z1 be Z squared plus C
E B7 E B7
And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C
E B7 E (break)
And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on
A B7
If the series of Z's should always stay
Ab C#m B
Close to C and never trend away
A B7 E (break)
That point is in the Mandelbrot Set
Final Chorus
B7
Mandelbrot Set you're a Rorschach Test on fire
E
You're a day-glo pterodactyl
B7
You're a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
E E7
You're one badass fucking fractal
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7 E(riff)
You can change the world in a tiny way
Tag
F#11 Amaj7
And you're just in time to save the day
F#11 Amaj7
Sweeping all our fears away
F#11 Amaj7
You can change the world in a tiny way
F#11 Amaj7
Go on change the world in a tiny way
F#11 Amaj7
Come on change the world in a tiny way
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