Band: Vile
Album: Depopulate
Song: Depopulate
. - palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - Bend e.g.: 10b(12) = bend 1 tone
p - pull off pb - pre-Bend
t - tap dv - dive (tremolo bar)
p.h. pinched harmonic
* - commentary r - release bend
x - Stuccatto ~ - vibrato bend
, - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note
" - tremolo note <> - Trill
NOTE : After seeing a Vile live video, I added some major corrections.
Most of the times, two (-) are equal to one 16th note
(if else, i'll indicate it) to lighten the reading of the tabs.
The numbers above the measures = time signature.
Feel free to send me corrections !
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DEPOPULATE
Tempo = 120 except when indicated
Tuning A# D# G# C# F A#
RIFF 1 (play 1x)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4 (5/4)
A#||--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
F ||--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
C#||--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
G#||--------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
D#||2-5-----2-5-----2-3-0-2---------|2-5-----2-5-----2-5-----2-3-0-2---------|
A#||----1-3-----1-3---------3-5-1-0-|----1-3-----1-3-----1-3---------3-5-1-0-|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(4/4)
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|4\3/5-----------6\5/7-----------|
|2-5-----2-5-----2-3-0-2---------|2\1/3---4-2-3---4\3/5---6-3-4---|
|----1-3-----1-3---------3-1-2-0-|--------------2---------------3-|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RIFF 1a (variation on RIFF 1) (play once)
Simply inverse the RIFF 1's second and third bar.
Then play RIFF 1 again.
RIFF 2 (play 2x)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||8-------------------------------|8-------------------------------||
||9-------------------------------|9---------------------------4444||
||9-------------------------------|9---*---------------55554444----||
||7---2222333300002222------------|7---2222333300002222------------||
||0-------------------333355551100|0-------------------------------||
*Guitar 2 plays these notes an octave down.
FIRST BRIDGE (play once)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
2/4
||----------------||
||----------------||
||----------------||
||----55554444----||
||2222--------5555||
||----------------||
Now play again RIFF 2.
SECOND BRIDGE (play once)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||----55554444--------------------||
||2222--------5555----555544445555||
||----------------2222------------||
Then play RIFF 1 once
RIFF 1a once
RIFF 1 once
RIFF 2 twice, followed by the first bridge
RIFF 2 twice, followed by the second bridge
RIFF 3 (play once)
GUitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||----------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------|
||4h5p4-----4h5p4-----4h5p4-----4h5p4-----|
||------7-5-------7-5-------7-5-------7-5-|
. . . . . . . .
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------9h10p9-------9h10p9-------||
|7h8p7------7h8p7-------------12-10--------12-10-||
|------10-8-------10-8---------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
. . . . . . . .
RIFF 4 (play 4x)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||----------------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------------||
||2222----------------------------2222----------------------------||
||----3333----------------------------3333------------------------||
||--------4444444422223333----------------444422223333------------||
||------------------------55555555--------------------555533331111||
Then play this :
Guitars 1 & 2 :
3/4
||0-----------------------||
||0-----------------------||
||9-----------------------||
||9-----------------------||
||7-----------------------||
||0-----------------------||
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/v/vile/depopulate_tab.html ]
RIFF 5 (play 3x)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4 5/4
||--------------------------------|------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------------------------||
||4/5\4\3/4-------------5\4-------|----------7/8\7/12-----8-\7-----0-3-3-2-2-||
||2/3\2\1/2-----2\1-----7\6-----5/|6\5\4/5---5/6\5/10-----10\9-----0-3-3-2-2-||
||----------0-0-3\2-0-0-----0-0-7/|8\7\6/7-0----------0-0------0-0-0-3-3-2-2-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RIFF 5a (variation on RIFF 5) (play once)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||----------------------------------------|----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------|----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------|----------------------------------||
||4/5\4\3/4-------------5\4-----0-3-3-2-2-|2-7/8\7/12-----8-\7-----0-3-3-2-2-||
||2/3\2\1/2-----2\1-----7\6-----0-3-3-2-2-|2-5/6\5/10-----10\9-----0-3-3-2-2-||
||----------0-0-3\2-0-0-----0-0-0-3-3-2-2-|2----------0-0------0-0-0-3-3-2-2-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RIFF 6 (pretty hard to tab out, not very accurate) (play 4x)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------||
||----------------6-------8-------|----8-------------------||
||5---7---5---4---8---0---10--7---|5---10--7---1-1-0---0---||
||5---7---5---4-------0-------7---|5-------7---1-1-0---0---||
. . . . . . . . . . . .
SOLO
(rythm = RIFF 5 played twice)
||--------------------------------------------------------16-17-19-20-19-18-|
||------------------------------------------------15-17-18------------------|
||----------------------------------13-14-16-14-16--------------------------|
||-----------------12-15-14-12-14-15----------------------------------------|
||12-15-14-12-14-15---------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------16--------17-----16------------------------------------------|
|18-17-15-17-18-17--18-17-15--17-15--18-17-15-17-15-13-15-13-(p.h.)-----12--13-|
|------------------------------------------------------------14b(16)~----------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|17----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----13--12--13-----13-12------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------14-------14-13-14--13-----------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------15-14-15-14-12-14-12---------12----12-14|
|----------------------------------------------------------15-14-15----15------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------12----------10h13p10-12h13t19p13-
|---------------------------------15-12-13-15----13-12-13----------------------
|---13-14----------13-14-16-13-14----------------------------------------------
|15-------15-14-15-------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(continued from last bar, which was a 5/4)
-12h13t20p13t19p13p12-|22b(24)~-------------------------||
----------------------|---------------------------------||
----------------------|---------------------------------||
----------------------|---------------------------------||
----------------------|---------------------------------||
----------------------|---------------------------------||
RIFF 7 (pretty hard to tab out, not very accurate) (play 4x)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------(p.h.)|--------------------------(p.h.)||
||----------------2---------------|----5---4-----------3---2-------||
||2---3---2---1---2---1---0---2~--|7---6---5---6---5---4---3---4---||
||2---3---2---1-------1---0-------|7-----------6---5---------------||
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
RIFF 8 (play 4x)
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||-------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------| There is some stuff going on
||----12---12-----12-----12---12-------| in the background during this
||--9----9----9------9------9----9---9-| part. I didn't even bothered
||7-------------7------7-----------7---| tabbing it out, because it's useless.
||-------------------------------------|
. . . . . . . . . . .
|-----------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------||
|-----13----13------13------13------------||
|--10----10----10------10------10---7---7-||
|8----------------8-------8-------0---0---||
. . . . . . . . . . . .