31Knots - Vanish
Polemics EP (2006)
for acoustic guitar, standard tuning
Intro/verse fill
6/8
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 +
|-------------(0)----------|
|----1---------1-----------|
|--2---2-2---2---2-2---2---|
|--------------------------|
|--0-----0---0-----0---0---|
|--------------------------|
This is the A minor riff that appears throughout. Add articulation as you please.
verse, quarter time
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 +
|-----------------------------------|--(0)----------------|
|----0-------0-------0-------0------|---0-----------------|
|--------2-------2-------2-------2--|---2---F major 7----|
|--3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3----|---3----flat 5-------|
|-----------------------------------|--(3)----------------|
|-----------------------------------|--(1)----------------|
verse, back to triplet time
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 +
|--------------------------|-------NOTE: we're in triplet time.-|
|-(0)---------(0)----------|--(0)------Both chords are----------|
|--1---/---/---1---/---/---|--\4--------just B diminished.------|
|--3---/---/---3---/---/---|--\6--------I'm not gonna bother----|
|--2-----------2-----------|--\5--------tabbing out the---------|
|--------------------------|------------strumming pattern.------|
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/0-9/31knots/vanish_tab_ver_2.html ]
chorus, now in quarter time
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 +
|-(0)----------2-----3-----5--------|
|--5-----6-----5-----5-----5--------|
|--5-----5-----5-----5-----5--------| E
|--x-----x-----x-----x-----x--------| MAJORR!!
|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0--------|
|-----------------------------------|
basically just A minor again. you could also barre A minor, at your leisure. Directly
the chorus, just strum a big E Major chord, in triplet time again. The only bass line I
really detect in the song is the bass playing an A open and sliding down from an octave
during the chorus.
[a min]
[F Maj7 b5]
These are the days of immortal (a minor?) horizons
Building a home in a place soon to be your fate.
So dapper and daft, what a passionate madhouse.
But did you take note how there's not even one empty?
[a min]
[B dim]
So curiously to me.
No one ever speaks.
[a min]
[F Maj7 b5]
And birds of a feather, make suspicion together.
(rendering it petty???) and as pompous as one's beliefs.
[a min]
[F Maj7 b5]
So, modern man, run, while you can,
The devil's stride is as long as the eye can see.
[a min]
[B dim]
By the time you heed these words,
You still won't know what's worse.
[chorus, a minor]
Oh, sweet surrender.
Take my hand and learn to fly.
I see flames, they see fire.
But I see with my heart,
And they see with their eyes.
And so, I will vanish.
Disappear into the sky.
[E Maj]
[a min]
They will never trust us just like we don't trust
Those who trespass, trespass against us.
[F Maj7 b5]
Suspect yourself,
Deny your conclusions
and always arrive at doubt
a min
[B dim]
'Cause one can only be
Too sure of nothing.
[chorus, a minor]
Oh, sweet surrender
Take my hand and learn to fly
I see flames, they see fire.
But I see with my heart,
And they see with their eyes.
And so, I will vanish.
Disappear into the sky.
If you haven't heard more of this fantastic, fantastic band, check them out now!
For their talent they are pretty much the most underrated group out there.
http://www.lala.com/#artist/31Knots
http://www.last.fm/music/31knots
