Stone Sour - Bother Acoustic Chords & Tabs

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		BOTHER - Stone Sour (acoustic arrangement)
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Tabbed by: donGiorgio (G. Kuhn) for Ultimate-Guitar
Email: gkuhn@hotmail.de

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This is an easy to play but beautiful moving song. If you can't play the fast
hammer-ons/pull-offs just go with the chords, it still sounds great!

Stone Sour usually play half step down (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) tuned guitars.
This is a transcription to standard tuning. 

Theres lots of half accurate tabs for this song already but I wasn't satisfied 
so I had to put up my acoustic version.

I did not add any solo, the original solo is just some D# minor pentatonic
stuff. Be creative ;)


Just listen to the song for the strumming/chord voicing.


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Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)

Chords:


   D#m      C#/D#       C#       F#         B         A#

e|-(6)-|  e|-(6)-|  e|-(4)-|  e|-(2)-|  e|-(2)-|  e|-(6)-|
B|--7--|  B|--6--|  B|--6--|  B|--2--|  B|--4--|  B|--6--|
G|--8--|  G|--6--|  G|--6--|  G|--3--|  G|--4--|  G|--7--|
D|--8--|  D|--6--|  D|--6--|  D|--4--|  D|--4--|  D|--8--|
A|--6--|  A|--6--|  A|--4--|  A|--4--|  A|--2--|  A|--8--|
E|-----|  E|-----|  E|-----|  E|--2--|  E|-----|  E|--6--|


  Intro/Lick I                       

e|-----------------------|       
B|--7-----6----6h7p6-----|       
G|--8-----6---------8p6--| X 4    
D|--8-----6--------------|     
A|--6-----6--------------|       
E|-----------------------|  


  Verse 1:
   D#m   C#/D#    D#m   C#/D#     C#              D#m
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--7------6------6h7-----6-------6---------------7-----6h7p6----------------|
G|--8------6------6h8-----6-------6---------------8----------8p6-------------|
D|--8------6------6h8-----6-------6---------------8-------------8p6----------|
A|--6------6------6-------6-------4---------------6--------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|     
    Wish I was to dead to cry, my self affliction fades
 

   D#m      C#/D#     D#m  C#/D#   C#          F#      C#
e|---------------------------------------------(2)---------------------------|
B|--7--------6--------6h7----6-----6------------2-------6--------------------|
G|--8--------6--------6h8----6-----6------------3-------6--------------------|
D|--8--------6--------6h8----6-----6------------4-------6--------------------|
A|--6--------6--------6------6-----4------------4-------4--------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------2----------------------------|
   Stones to throw at my creator - masochist to which I cater


[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/stone_sour/bother_acoustic_tab.html ]
Chorus:
  D#m              C#/D#    D#m              A#  D#m               C#/D#
e|------------------------------------------(6)------------------------------|
B|-7-----------------6-------7---------------6----7------------------6-------|
G|-8-----------------6-------8---------------7----8------------------6-------|
D|-8-----------------6-------8---------------8----8------------------6-------|
A|-6-----------------6-------6---------------8----6------------------6-------|
E|-------------------------------------------6-------------------------------|
   You don't need to bother, I don't need to be - I'll keep slipping farther

       B                 C#
e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|-----4-----------------6-------------------------|
G|-----4-----------------6-------------------------|
D|-----4-----------------6-------------------------|
A|-----2-----------------4-------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|
   But once I hold on, I won't let go 'til it bleeds



[--- Lick I ----] x 4


Verse 2:

Wish I was 
too dead to care
If indeed I cared at all
Never had 
a voice to protest
So you fed me shit to digest


Bridge:
  D#m                    A#                        B
e|-6---------------------6-------------------------2-------------------------|
B|-7---------------------6-------------------------4-------------------------|
G|-8---------------------7-------------------------4-------------------------|
D|-8---------------------8-------------------------4-------------------------|
A|-6---------------------8-------------------------2-------------------------|
E|-----------------------6---------------------------------------------------|
   I wish I had a reason; my flaws are open season, for this I gave up trying

   C#
e|-6-------------------------------|
B|-6-------------------------------|
G|-6-------------------------------|
D|-6-------------------------------|
A|-4-------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|
   one good turn deserves my dying


[--- Chorus --- ]


[--- Solo ---]


[--- Lick I---] x 4 (this time with high e string)


Verse 3:

Wish I'd died instead of lived
A zombie hides my face
Shell forgotten
with its memories
Diaries left
with cryptic entries


[--- Chorus ---]


Outro Chorus:
  D#m              C#/D#    D#m              A#  D#m               C#/D#
e|------------------------------------------(6)------------------------------|
B|-7-----------------6-------7---------------6----7------------------6-------|
G|-8-----------------6-------8---------------7----8------------------6-------|
D|-8-----------------6-------8---------------8----8------------------6-------|
A|-6-----------------6-------6---------------8----6------------------6-------|
E|-------------------------------------------6-------------------------------|
   You don't need to bother, I don't need to be - I'll keep slipping farther

       B                           C#
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----4---------------------------6-----------------------------------------|
G|-----4---------------------------6--let------------------------------------|
D|-----4---------------------------6--ring-----------------------------------|
A|-----2---------------------------4-----------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
   but once I hold on (once I hold on)...      I'll never live down my deceit


[--- Lick I ---] x4


End with a slow upstroke followed by a downstroke on the D#m Chord.




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| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| +   harmonic
| x   Mute note
| B   Bend
| pb  Pre-bend
| br  Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend

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