Regular Tuning: (EADGBE) low to high Intro: Clean
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G|-4-44-x-----------7-77-x------------4-44-x---------------------------------||
D|-4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7-77-x-7-7777-xx--4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10---------||
A|-2-22-x-5-5555-xx-5-55-x-7-7777-xx--2-22-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10---------||
E|-2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5-55-x-5-5555-xx--2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5/77x5/77xx8----------||
distortion here ^
Heavy Distortion kicks in here:
E|--------------------------||
B|--------------------------||
G|--------------------------||
D|--------------------------||
A|-022x022xx3---------------||
E|-022x022xx3---------------|| <--- times 3
Then no distortion
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|----------------------------||
D|-5/77x5/77xx11--------------||
A|-5/77x5/77xx11--------------||
E|-3/55x3/55xx9---------------|| <-- play once
Continue to this
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|----------------------------||
D|-7/99x7/99xx10--------------||
A|-7/99x7/99xx10--------------||
E|-5/77x5/77xx8---------------|| <--- 4 times
Distortion again
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|----------------------------||
D|----------------------------||
A|-022x022xx3-----------------||
E|-022x022xx3-----------------|| <--- times 4
distortion
E--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G|-4-44-x-----------7-77-x------------4-44-x-------------------------------||
D|-4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7-77-x-7-7777-xx--4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx---------||
A|-2-22-x-5-5555-xx-5-55-x-7-7777-xx--2-22-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10-10----||
E|-2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5-55-x-5-5555-xx--2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5/77x5/77xx8--8-----|| - times 2
no distortion
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|----------------------------||
D|-7/99x7/99xx11--------------||
A|-7/99x7/99xx11--------------||
E|-5/77x3/55xx9---------------||
then
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|----------------------------||
D|-7/99x7/99xx10--------------||
A|-7/99x7/99xx10--------------||
E|-5/77x3/55xx8---------------|| <--- 4 times
Chorus : Distortion
E|--------------------------||
B|--------------------------||
G|--------------------------||
D|--------------------------||
A|-022x022xx3---------------||
E|-022x022xx3---------------|| <-- play 4 times
distortion
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------||
G|-4-44-x-----------7-77-x------------4-44-x--------------------------||
D|-4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7-77-x-7-7777-xx--4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10--||
A|-2-22-x-5-5555-xx-5-55-x-7-7777-xx--2-22-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10--||
E|-2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5-55-x-5-5555-xx--2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5/77x5/77xx8---|| ^-- times 4
then
E|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------||
G|----------------------------||
D|-7/99x7/99xx11--------------||
A|-7/99x7/99xx11--------------||
E|-5/77x5/77xx9---------------|| <--- once
then
E|-----------------||
B|-----------------||
G|-----------------||
D|-----------------||
A|-022-------------||
E|-022-------------|| <-- play 3 times
then
E|--------------------------||
B|--------------------------||
G|--------------------------||
D|--------------------------||
A|-022x022xx3---------------||
E|-022x022xx3--------------|| <-- play 6 times
then play
E|-----------------||
B|-----------------||
G|-----------------||
D|-----------------||
A|-022-------------||
E|-022-------------|| <-- play 3 times
then
G|------------------||
D|-3333\------------||
A|-3333\------------||
E|-3333\ -----------|| <-- play once
no distortion
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G|-4-44-x-----------7-77-x------------4-44-x------------------------------||
D|-4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7-77-x-7-7777-xx--4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10------||
A|-2-22-x-5-5555-xx-5-55-x-7-7777-xx--2-22-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10------||
E|-2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5-55-x-5-5555-xx--2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5/77x5/77xx8-------||
^-- once
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G|-4-44-x-----------7-77-x------------4-44-x------------------------------||
D|-4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7-77-x-7-7777-xx--4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10------||
A|-2-22-x-5-5555-xx-5-55-x-7-7777-xx--2-22-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10------||
E|-2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5-55-x-5-5555-xx--2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5/77x5/77xx8-------||
kick on distortion here ^
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G|-4-44-x-----------7-77-x------------4-44-x------------------------------||
D|-4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7-77-x-7-7777-xx--4-44-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10------||
A|-2-22-x-5-5555-xx-5-55-x-7-7777-xx--2-22-x-5-5555-xx-7/99x7/99xx10------||
E|-2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5-55-x-5-5555-xx--2-22-x-3-3333-xx-5/77x5/77xx8-------||
^-- 2 more times
then
G|--------------------------||
D|-7/99x7/99xx10------------||
A|-7/99x7/99xx10------------||
E|-5/77x3/55xx8-------------|| <--- 2 times
end with
G|------------------||
D|-3333\------------||
A|-3333\------------||
E|-3333\ -----------||
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