Song: Soil
Band: System of a Down
Tabbed by Karnatz (Karnatz@home.com)
Corrected version of tab submitted by Chunky Rice
Submitted by: Mark Rawlins (www.geocities.com/ilseoband)
Website: (www.angelfire.com/boybands/tomandthenuts)
Tuning Low to high: C, G, C, F
Guitar plays a chord for 8 beats, then play
F|
C|
G| 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8\\\(slide down neck)
C|
Then the part before the verse is written
the same as the verse but is played w/ different
rhythm...
F|
C|
G|
C| 3 1 0 3 1 0 3 1 0 3 1 0 repeat 4x
Then the verse is written the same
Then the lead into the chorus
F|
C|
G| 3 5 5
C| 0 0
Chorus is the same as the part before the verse
W/ some stops sometimes
Then
F|
C| 6 6 6 6 9 9 9 9 8 8 8 8 6 6 6 6
G|
C| 0 (hold out) 0 0 0
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/s/system_of_a_down/soil_crd.html ]
Back to verse
Then the lead into the chorus
Then when Serj starts saying “Don’t you... Realize... Evil”
“The Breakdown”
F
C
G
C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 repeat 3x
The fourth time just play “0”s on the low “C”
Then During the guitar solo
F|
C|
G| 5 1
C| 3 repeat 4x
Then it builds a little
F|
C| 3 3 3 3
G| 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 1 1 1 1
C| 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Back to the Breakdown 1x
Then
F|
C|
G|
C| 0 12 12 12 12 12 3x... then slide 7/ / / 12
h= hammer on
Then (repeat either 8x)
F|
C| or 0 (the first one has better tone)
G| 0 3
C| 12 7h10
Then the loud, scary swearing for 1 measure
Then the verse with even more messed up rhythms
