Tabs
Tab: "Suffocate" Counting Crows
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur ([email protected])
As recorded live at the Hollywood Grand, 16 November, 1995
Intro and main riff (played by organ)
|-------------------|----------------|
|-------------------|----------------|
|--------1--1h2--4--|--------1h2-----|
|-------------------|-----2-------2--|
|-------------------|----------------|
|--0--0-------------|--0-------------|
Verse:
E MajorE (with main riff played by organ, guitar 1 enters with chords)
Come on ..
You want ...
Tell me ...
Don't say ...
Don't say ...
A augmentedA
I am not ...
I'm much ...
(Back to main riff)
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|-------------------|
|-------------------| Guitar 2 doubles main riff, except replacing
|-------6b(7)r6-----| the second measure with this
|----------------7--|
|--0----------------|
So many ...
They drag all ..
Where they've ...
Well tell me ..
anywhere, but
A augmentedA
You want me ...
But I'm so ...
Chorus:
E MajorE 
BB A augmentedA * (guitar 2 plays fill 1)
How can ..
E MajorE BB A augmentedA
How can ...
E MajorE BB A augmentedA E MajorE *(guitar 2 plays fill 2)
I can't ...
Fill 1 Fill 2
|--------------|-|----4--2p0-------|
|--5--4--2-----|-|------------4/5--|
|-----------2--|-|/4---------------|
|--------------|-|-----------------|
|--------------|-|-----------------|
|--------------|-|-----------------|
Verse 2: (organ and guitar 2 play simile to first verse)
Chorus
Bridge:
Organ sustains an E MajorE chord for 16 measures,
Guitar 1 enters after 8 measures, and then plays an E MajorE as well
Guitar 2 plays variations on these four measures for the whole
bridge, usually holding the last note over the next measure
|-----------|-------------|------------------|--------------|
|--4h5p4h5--|--5b(7)r5p4--|--4h5p4--5b(7)r5--|--4b(5)r4-----|
|-----------|-------------|------------------|-----------4--|
|-----------|-------------|------------------|--------------|
|-----------|-------------|------------------|--------------|
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Verse 3: (The first half of the verse is skipped)
A augmentedA
I can't ...
(guitars, organ tacet)
Don't you ...
I can hold ...
* (w/ fill 1, simile)
Chorus
(E MajorE BB A augmentedA progression continues)
How can ...
I can't ..
How can ..
I can't feel a... ..
I can't feel ..
progression changes to E MajorE BB F#m, played twice, and then ends on E MajorE
