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From Student@walnut.prs.k12.nj.us Thu May 8 14:05:20 1997
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 09:39:27 +0000
From: Princeton High School
To: guitar@olga.net
Cc: kman555@aol.com
Subject: "Iron Mic'" by sugar ray guitar tab
song: iron mic'
band: sugar ray
tabber: jacob wall
standard sugar ray tuning (Eb, Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb)
riff 1 (intro riff: this is also played at weird parts like a couple
of seconds before the loud part of the chorus and after the chorus. *
= i dont know if he hammers on here, it doesnt really sound like it
but it would sound better if you did.)
eb||------------------------------------------------||
Bb||------------------------------------------------||
Gb||------1-1~~~~~-----1-1~~~-----1-1~~~~~-----1-2--||
Db||--0*2----------0*2--------0*2----------0*2------||
Ab||------------------------------------------------||
Eb||------------------------------------------------||
riff 2 (pre-chorus: palm mute the entire riff. this is my best guess)
eb||-----------------------------------||
Bb||-----------------------------------||
Gb||-----------------------------------||
Db||-----------------------------------||
Ab||--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--||
Eb||-----------------------------------||
riff 3 (chorus riff) first chorus outro
eb||-----------------------------||-----------------||
Bb||-----------------------------||-----------------||
Gb||-----------------------------||-----------------||
Db||--7/9-9-9-9\7-7-7-7/9-9-9-9--||--5--4--5--4--2--||
Ab||--5/7-7-7-7\5-5-5-5/7-7-7-7--||--5--4--5--4--2--||
Eb||-----------------------------||--3--2--3--2--0--||
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/sugar_ray/iron_mic_tab.html ]
riff 4 (major distortion and do some miscellaneous
intro to riff 4 palm muting on some parts)
eb||--------------||----------------------------||
Bb||--------------||----------------------------||
Gb||--------------||----------------------------||
Db||--5--4--5--4--||--5-7---7---7--7-7-7-7-7-5--||
Ab||--5--4--5--4--||--5-7---7---7--7-7-7-7-7-5--||
Eb||--3--2--3--2--||--3-5---5---5--5-5-5-5-5-3--||
riff 5 (this is a bridge on some parts of the song that you only do
two times in the song. the first time you do this, do riff 5 once then
go into that ending fill, but the second time around do riff twice
then go into the ending fill)
eb||-----------------------------------------
Bb||-----------------------------------------
Gb||-----------------------------------------
Db||--7-9----7-9--------7-9------x-8----x-8--
Ab||--5-7----5-7--------5-7----x-x-8--x-x-8--
Eb||---------------------------x-x-6--x-x-6--
riff 5 continued outro
eb||-------------------------------------------||-----||
Bb||-------------------------------------------||-----||
Gb||-------------------------------------------||-----||
Db||--x-7-9----7-9--------7-9------x-8----x-7--||--2--||
Ab||--x-5-7----5-7--------5-7----x-x-8--x-x-7--||--2--||
Eb||-----------------------------x-x-6--x-x-5--||--0--||
riff 6 (last chorus) last chorus fill: 1 and 2
eb||-----------------------------------------------||-----||-----||
Bb||-----------------------------------------------||-----||-----||
Gb||-----------------------------------------------||-----||-----||
Db||--7/9-9-9-9\7-7-7-7/9-9-9-9---7/9-9-9-9\7-7-7--||--9--||-----||
Ab||--5/7-7-7-7\5-5-5-5/7-7-7-7---5/7-7-7-7\5-5-5--||--7--||--2--||
Eb||-----------------------------------------------||-----||--0--||
riff 7 (ending riff: before starting
this riff, pick scrape down strings) ending bit
eb||---------------------------------||-----||
Bb||---------------------------------||-----||
Gb||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-7--------||-----||
Db||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-7-9-9-7--||--2--||
Ab||--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-9-9-7--||--2--||
Eb||--------------------------7-7-5--||--0--||
