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Diseased is from STD's album titled "Sound The Alarm."
TUNED HALF A STEP DOWN! (Eb!)
Riff 1 This is the quick strumming part, first chords in the song, used throughout.
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-6-6-----------------------------------------|
|-6-6-----6-6-----7-7-----9-9-----------------|
|-4-4-----6-6-----7-7-----9-9-----------------|
|---------4-4-----5-5-----7-7-----------------|
Riff 1 ALTERNATE- Alternately (if you have a second guitarist), you can have someone
with a Capo on 4 playing: (Dave uses a Capo at some acoustic shows.)
Am E F G For Riff1, and eventually C (For the chorus, etc.)
|---| |---| |---| |---| |---|
|-1-| |---| |-1-| |-3-| |-1-|
|-2-| |-1-| |-2-| |-4-| |-0-|
|-2-| |-2-| |-3-| |-5-| |-2-|
|-0-| |-2-| |-3-| |-5-| |-3-|
|---| |-0-| |(1)| |(3)| |---|
Their Am, E, F, C will =
Your C#m, G#, A, E Make sense?.. Good.
Riff 2 This is the main background riff, plays at the beginning.
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|--5-----5-4-----4-4>5>4----------------------|
|----6-------5-----------6-4------------------|
|------6-------6-------------6----------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
Riff 2 ALTERNATE- Alternately (if you have a second guitarist), you can have someone
with a Capo on 4 playing:
|---------------------------------------------|
|--1-----1-0-----0-0>1>0----------------------|
|----2-------1-----------2-0------------------|
|------2-------2-------------2----------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
Riff 3 Very end of the song, very faint hard to notice unless you have speakers that
fail.
E~
|---------------------------------------------|
|--4>5-4--------------------------------------|
|--------4>6-4>->->1--------------------------|
|------------------2--------------------------|
|------------------2--------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
Chords used:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/saves_the_day/diseased_tab_ver_2.html ]
C#m G# A E G#2 E1 F#1 G#1 C#m2 B
|(0)| |---| |(0)| |---| |---| |---| |---| |---| |-9-| |---|
|-5-| |-4-| |-5-| |---| |-5-| |---| |---| |---| |-9-| |-7-|
|-6-| |-5-| |-6-| |-1-| |-5-| |-9-| |-11| |-13| |-9-| |-8-|
|-6-| |-6-| |-7-| |-2-| |-6-| |-x-| |-x-| |-x-| |-11| |-9-|
|-4-| |-6-| |-7-| |-2-| |-6-| |-7-| |-9-| |-11| |-11| |-9-|
|---| |---| |---| |-0-| |---| |---| |---| |---| |---| |---|
Riff1 > Riff2 x2
C#m G# A E C#m G# A E
C#m G# A E
Walkin' down the hall but all the doors are locked inside.
C#m G# A E
Searchin' for somebody just to stay with for the night.
C#m G#2, G# A E1 F#1 G#1
Please hear me please, I let my heart go.
C#m G#2 G# A E1 F#1 G#1
I'm dead, I'm diseased, I dream a life of sorrow.
C#m G# A E
Siftin' through the pictures of the ghost inside of my mind.
C#m G# A E
Somehow can't forget the times I failed to get things right.
C#m G#2, G# A E1 F#1 G#1
Please hear me please, I let my heart go.
C#m G#2 G# A E1 F#1 G#1
I'm dead, I'm diseased, I dream a life of sorrow.
C#m G#
Head hangs low, stare at the telephone.
C#m2 B A Riff 1
Forget the face you'll never know.
C#m G#
The Night is long, shadows grow on my wall.
C#m2 B A
I'm callin' out but no one's home.
Riff1 > Riff2 x2
C#m G# A E C#m G# A E
C#m G#2, G# A E1 F#1 G#1
Please hear me please, I let my heart go.
C#m G#2, G# A E1 F#1 G#1
I'm dead, I'm diseased, I dream a life of sorrow.
C#m G#2, G# A E
No strength left to scream, Oh-ho-hoo-wo-ho.
C#m, G#2, G# A E C#m G#2, G#, Riff3
