Cardinal Rule

"Cardinal Rule" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins that was recorded during the March-April 2014 – Pumpkinland II sessions and likely intended for Day For Night, which was the abandoned sister-album to Monuments to an Elegy. Ultimately it was never officially released along with many other songs from those sessions, though it was performed live a number of times in late 2015 and during the In Plainsong tour. Billy Corgan described it as a "gorgeous as a fingerpicking-type song, we started breaking apart the internal rhythms to be voiced on various 'things.'" Was able to turn the corner on it by stripping back the busy/arpeggiating figures taken from the original guitar part; until all that was left was a simple chimed guitar and strings.