Guitar tabs of the new songs

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Being absolutely useless at transcribing songs by ear, my ability to play Sisters songs is largely stolen from GTA. Alas that fades out around "Come Together". I can (roughly) play Slept, Summer, Suzanne and Crash & Burn thanks to the help of bits and pieces on here and rare moments of not-so-uselessness on the part of my own ears, but the others are a mystery to me. Could anyone point me in the direction of tabs for any of the new songs (heaven knows I could improve the ones I can already play...) or be kind enough as to post their own interpretations here? It'd be cool to have a full reference for them, particularly since they aren't on CD - might make them a bit more "real" in the internetty scheme of things.

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Thanks... for the asking about tabs and for providing a fresh looking link.
It even has guitar tabs for 1959... I already have a guitar version I can
hear only in my head. :lol:

I may have to bust out and blow the dust out of my guitar this summer! :wink:
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Well, I tabbed some Sisters' songs (Slept, Susanne, Afterhours, Alice, More, Lights) for Ultimate Guitar
(http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/sis ... y_tabs.htm).
Now I'm working on Arms. ;D
Check out my tabs and feel free to rate them and/ or leave a comment. :D
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It always amazes me that amount of mistakes there are in online tab music. Makes me wonder if people actually listen to the records!
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'K lemme see, i usually play Summer Like this:
Riff 1 ( repeat it 3 times i guess)
e|---------------------------------------
B|---------------------------------------
G|----------------------5---------------
D|-7--7---7H8*---7------(7)-7H8*---
A|-7---------------7-------------------
E|-5-----5---------5-------------------

*= U can Use Slide and not Hammer on ( I Preefer Slide)

Riff 2


e|------------------------------
B|------------------------------
G|-7----3----------------------
D|-7----3----5----7-------------
A|-5----1----5----7------------
E|------------3----5-------------

K, Now the part Hard to explain (i'm wrinting this with the guitar in hands...)


e|---------------------------------
B|---------------------------------
G|---------------------------------
D|-7---*7-7*---7----8---8-8-7-8
A|-5---*5-5*------5---------------
E|-----------------------------------

*Palm Mutes*

e|---------------------------------------
B|---------------------------------------
G|---------------------------------------
D|-7---*7-7*---~10--10--8--8-8-8-7-8
A|-5---*5-5*--------------------------
E|--------------------------------------

So this it's summer i guess...

Will i Dream?(This it's Wrong, but still Sing-abble)

e|------------------
B|------------------
G|-4---7---2------
D|-4---7---2------
A|-2---5---0------
E|-----------------
(Do A Lot of Improvising in the intro, C'mmon , u can do it!, i won't 'll give some exemples 'cuz i'm a bad teacher and i can't explain =) )

(Now It's Like Palm Mute, Palm Mute, Open, Palm Mute...damn, just listen the music)
e|---------------------------------------
B|-------------------------------------
G|-------------------------------------
D|-77777-1010101010-1212121212
A|-77777-1010101010-1212121212
E|-55555- 8 8 8 8 8-1010101010
(i dind't count the number of times u need to play each note, so ...enter in the rhythim)


Singable but wrong remeber!

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New Falaa:
chrissrandall via youtube wrote: I'm pretty sure this is right - I presume you're ok with the original main riff - Cheers Chriss


First & Last & Always New Intro Tab

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---------------15--------
----------14-------14----
-----12------------------
-------------------------
-------------------------

Play 3 times

Then


--15-15-15-15-12-H-13-P-12---
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-----------------------------
-----------------------------
-----------------------------
-----------------------------


H Hammer on
P Pull off


I also Know New-Amphetamine Logic , New-Train, New-Temple, and i start to try Still... it's like is the intro:


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-------------------------
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7--77---7--7~9(Bend it!)
--9----9--9---------------
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Arms is in drop d tuning.

Summer and Still are both in A and played using the open strings, not the fifth position chords.

See my version of Will I Dream to play it correcty :)

http://www.box.net/shared/fclt7dnz1j

http://www.box.net/shared/e30lb6tzsf

http://www.box.net/shared/xt4hnh43uh

http://www.box.net/shared/e16qb34rgu
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Summer i play with open strings sometimes , but still i just can't image how yet :lol: Anyway, C and B and Will i Dream still a mistery for me

PS: Awesome Train and Crash and Burn, Please make a tab for us HL's
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CellThree wrote:It always amazes me that amount of mistakes there are in online tab music. Makes me wonder if people actually listen to the records!
You chose a very kind way of putting it.
The Alice Tab is pretty mucho on target though. The tabs often still are good hints for starting with, but I never saw *one*, and that includes the ones in guitar magazines I bought, that really matched the actual songs entirely.
@Methedrome: The dropped d tuning is for all the new songs, isn't it? I didn't see Chris or Ben retune their guitars as often on stage, and there very surely is no Dropped-D-Tuner mechanic on the body of either guitar.

Edit: This is how the riff during the verse of Susanne looks like:

e-------------------------------------------
B----1-0-----1-0---1-----0-----1-0--
G--------2---------------0----------------
D-2--------2----------2-------2--------
A-------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------

e---------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------
G---5-4--2------5-4--5----4-0------5-4----
D-2----------2------------2--------2-------------
A---------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------

Umm-Godsquad? I didn't get an edit-button here.. I had to quote myself (Which I hate, normally I don't quote nuttbags) and edit the qutation tags out..
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@Methedrome:

Hmmm... I don't think that Arms is on drop-D. :roll:
Actually, it may be easier if you play it on drop-D, but I still believe it's on standard tuning.
Please gimme a tab of (new) Train!!! ;D
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...and did someone have any idea of You Could Be The One? :roll:
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eotunun wrote: The Alice Tab is pretty mucho on target though. The tabs often still are good hints for starting with, but I never saw *one*, and that includes the ones in guitar magazines I bought, that really matched the actual songs entirely.
I have yet to see one that gets the part on the high e-string "correct"...
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flakk13 wrote:
eotunun wrote: The Alice Tab is pretty mucho on target though. The tabs often still are good hints for starting with, but I never saw *one*, and that includes the ones in guitar magazines I bought, that really matched the actual songs entirely.
I have yet to see one that gets the part on the high e-string "correct"...
I still haven't seen one with the intro totally correct either!

The e string though, depends on which version you're listening to, original goes up, 1993 goes down mirroring the B string line.

That new FALAA from Chris Randell is totally off!
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The New falaa, starts right...but the other parts urgh
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Mr. Catalyst was kind enough to confirm with me that yes, Arms is indeed in drop 'd'.
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[quote="Methedrome"]Mr. Catalyst was kind enough to confirm with me that yes, Arms is indeed in drop 'd'.[/quote]

Who is Mr. Catalyst? :lol: ;D :lol: ;D :lol: ;D :lol: ;D


...ok then, I rest my case... :D
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Please help me! :|

When I tabbed "Slept" for ultimate-guitar.com
( http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/s/s ... in_tab.htm )
I was pretty sure that the main chords on riff and verse were Am, C and Em.
The other day I suspected (!) that it's a Bm instead of Em.
Could someone who knows confirm about the right thing?
:roll:


...please... :)
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I just listened to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_HuSznJ ... re=related

the bass plays an E with the B-C-B-hook.
I hear Em on the guitar but I can't be 100% sure. Bm just doesnt sound quite right but my hearing ain't what it used to be :)
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hey, cool ... ;D ... time to dig my guitar out from underneath the carpet ... :lol:
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..I need the bass tabs.. :innocent: :D
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Moakahontas wrote:..I need the bass tabs.. :innocent: :D
"ask andrew" ;D
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LouLou wrote:
Moakahontas wrote:..I need the bass tabs.. :innocent: :D
"ask andrew" ;D

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Really sweet ... :D :D :D
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Being645 wrote:Really sweet ... :D :D :D

Well, we got the bass now..so..I just have to ask Andrew for the tabs so far.. :)


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Your baby is sweet Moakahontas :)

But you are lucky...
I can't find partitures so easy for my baby in the net :( :?
As you can see my baby is lovely too, this is a photo of a similar ;D
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i love it too though :D
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