Alice in Chains - Rooster guitar tab
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 13:54:26 CST
From: rob@praline.nevada.edu (Rob Goggins)
Subject: Rooster by Alice in Chains
"Rooster," by Alice in Chains (written by Jerry Cantrell)
Tablature approximated to best of ability by Rob Goggins
(rob@praline.nrlssc.navy.mil)
There are two hard parts of this song. The first is to get the right
tuning--it's what I call the "drop F#" tuning--lower the G string 1/2
step to an F#. Whew, that was easy. The other hard part is notated later.
In addition, Alice in Chains detunes everything by 1/2 step, so the
actual tuning is (low freq to hi freq) Eb, Ab, Db, F, Bb, Eb. But I'm
going to pretend were using E, A, D, F#, B, E. Here goes....
intro, verse:
F#5 A5~Asus2
Eb-> E 02-0----5--0--0-
Bb-> B 02-0----5--0--0-
F--> F# 00-0----7--3--3- repeat for duration of intro, 2 verses
Db-> D 44-4----7--2--2- (Ain't found a way....leads me to nowhere)
Ab-> A 44-4----0--0--0-
Eb-> E 02-0----|-------
pre-chorus:
B Asus2 F#5 B Asus2
|-------0-------02-0----|-------|-------0-------
0-------0-------02-0----|-------0-------0-------
0-------3-------00-0----|-------0-------3-------
4-------2-------44-4----|-------4-------2-------
2-------0-------44-4----|-------2-------0-------
|-------|-------02-0----|-------|-------|-------
Here they come... Yeah, here comes the Rooster...
chorus:
F#5 Asus2 F#5
02-0----0-------|--0----
02-0----0-------|--0----
00-0----3-------|--0---- repeated several times
44-4----2-------|--4----
44-4----0---4320|--4----
02-0----|-------0--0----
^ ^ ^
| | |
| CRUNCH! OBCRUNCH!
CRUNCH!
You know he ain't gonna die...
"interlude riff":
F#5 E F#5 Asus2
|-------|-------|-------|-------
|-------|-------|-------|-------
|-------|-------|-------|------- repeat 2 more times
|-------|-------|-------|-------
2124----4--2--4-1-------|-------
2--2----0-------|20-----|-------
^
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*This is the hardest part of the song... *
*the guitar plays nothing here, even though*
*you ache to crunch out an Asus2! *
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Come out into another pre-chorus, chorus, verse, pre-chorus, chorus,
and then outro. Don't step on any mines while playing (even though
it'd be COOL!).
enjoy
