Artist= tool
Album= lateralus
Song= schism
Tabbed by Bryan Rague, email me at apache_87@hotmail.com
This is the whole song put together for ya so enjoy
Tuning from low to high= D A D G B E
h = hammer /=slide up
PM =palm mute \=slide down
From top to bottom:
Intro:
|------------| |------------------------|
|------------| |------------------------|
|-3--2--5--7-|x2 |------3-2-------3-2-5---|x4
|-0--3--5--8-| |---3h5-0-0---3h5-0-0-0--|
|------------| |------------------------|
|------------| |------------------------|
PM-------------------PM
(listen to song to know when to play notes)
|----------------3----------5-------------------|
|---3--------------3----------3-----------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|x1
|-----0-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------- -------|
|---------------------
|------------------------|
|------5-4-------5-4-7---|
|---5h7-------5h7--------|x4
|-------0-0-------0-0-0--|
|------------------------|
PM-------------------PM
Interlude #1
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|--------10-9---------10-9-12--|x4
|---10h12--0-0—--10h12--0-0--0-|
|------------------------------|
|----------------
|------------------------|
|------5-4-------5-4-7---|
|---5h7-------5h7--------|x8
|-------0-0---------0-0--|
|------------------------|
PM-------------------PM
Interlude #2
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|--------10-9---------10-9-12--|x4
|---10h12--0-0—--10h12--0-0--0-|
|------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|-0-x-x-3-x-x-5-3-x-x-3-5-5------|
|-0-x-x-3-x-x-5-3-x-x-3-5-5----5-|
|-0-x-x-3-x-x-5-3-x-x-3-5-5—3h5--|x4
|----------------
|------------------------|
|------5-4-------5-4-7---|
|---5h7-------5h7--------|x8
|-------0-0-------0-0-0--|
|------------------------|
PM-------------------PM
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/tool/schism_tab_ver_11.html ]
Interlude #3**do same as first interlude 4x then do this
|--------------------| end part whole lots of times until
|--------------------|interlude 4
|--------------------|
|-----------10-9-12--|
|---—--10h12--0-0--0-|
|--------------------|
Interlude #4
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--14---17---14---19---12---14---10---12-10-12-----|
|----0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0--0--0----| (PM all notes on D sting)
At end of interlude #4 play this while slowly going from
|------------------------------|PM to open strings
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|---14---17---14---17---14-14--|
|-----0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0--0-|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------9-----12-----9-----12-----9---9---|
|-10---5----7---7---x------x-----x------x-----x---x---|x3
|---8---3--5----7---7-0-0-10-0-0-7-0-0-10-0-0-7-0-7-0-|
|---------------7-------------------------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|-10--5----7--5------|x1
|---8--3--5---5------|
|-------------5------|
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|-7/8\7-7/8\7--10-8-10--5-3-5--5-5-----0-|x1
|-7/8\7-7/8\7---8-8-8---3-3-3--3-3-------|
|-7/8\7-7/8\7---8-8-8---3-3-3------0-0---|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|--------------------7---|
|---0----------------7---|x3
|--0-----0----3------5---|
|-----0-5--0-3--0-0------|
|------------|
|------------|
|------------|
|---0--------|x1
|--0-----0---|
|-----0-5-0--|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-3-0-2-0-0-3-0-2-0-5-0-0-----------|x4
|-3-0-2-0-0-3-0-2-0-5-0-0-----------|
|-3-0-2-0-0-3-0-2-0-5-0-0-----------|
PM-----------------------PM
|----------------------------------------------|x4
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|x-x-x-x-3-x-x-2-x-x-x-x-3-x-x-2-x-x-5-x-x-x-x-|
|x-x-x-x-3-x-x-2-x-x-x-x-3-x-x-2-x-x-5-x-x-x-x-|
|x-x-x-x-3-x-x-2-x-x-x-x-3-x-x-2-x-x-5-x-x-x-x-|
**hold last chord on the last time through this part
|----------------|
|----------------|repeat this till end of song.
|----------------|
|----------------|*lots of distortion here
|-------5---6-3--|
|--0-3h5-0-0-0---|
PM------------PM
**(lightly PMed)