Tabs
"Rooster," by Alice in Chains (written by Jerry Cantrell)
Tablature approximated to best of ability by Rob Goggins
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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+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#5F#5 A5~Asus2
Eb-> 
E MajorE 02-0----5--0--0-
Bb-> 
BB 02-0----5--0--0-
F--> 
F#F# 00-0----7--3--3- repeat for duration of intro, 2 verses
Db-> 
D MajorD 44-4----7--2--2- (Ain't found a way....leads me to nowhere)
Ab-> 
A augmentedA 44-4----0--0--0-
Eb-> E MajorE 02-0----|-------
pre-chorus:
BB 
Asus2Asus2 F#5F#5 BB Asus2Asus2
|-------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#5F#5 Asus2Asus2 F#5F#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#5F#5 E MajorE F#5F#5 Asus2Asus2
|-------|-------|-------|-------
|-------|-------|-------|-------
|-------|-------|-------|------- 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
Other versions of Rooster
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Rooster unplugged acoustic live by Alice In Chains
