Melt-Banana
"Like a white bat in a box, dead matters go on"
>From 'Cell-Scape' [A-Zap, 2003]
This is all my own work.
Open G tuning (DGDGBD)
Overdrive on throughout except where noted
You will also need:
A delay pedal with a hold function
A pitch shifter
Note - this song is arkward in that there are very short delayed loops
which come in on certain chords. You CAN just ignore them, but if you have
a Boss Delay (or similar) you can replicate the exact sound by setting your
pedal to 'hold' - when the tab is marked 'loop', tap on the pedal as you
strike the chord and the sound will loop until you tap the pedal again
(the speed of the loop depends on how long you hold the pedal for...if
you've messed around with delay pedals you'll probably know all this)
In most cases in this song, you tap the pedal to stop the loop before
striking the next chord, there's one exception which i've noted in the tab.
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
bn = play chord with bottleneck
[0:25]
loop
[----]
d---bn12----------
B---bn12--10--7--- (gradually this becomes warped
G---bn12--10--7--- and distorted, dunno how you do that)
D---------10--7---
G----------------- x8
D-----------------
d--------------------------------------------------
B---bn12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12/
G---bn12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12/
D---bn12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12/
G--------------------------------------------------
D--------------------------------------------------
[--]loop
d--------------------------------
B--------------------------------
G---0----0----0----12-----0--0---
D---0----0----0----12-----0--0---
G---0----0----0-----------0--0---
D--------------------------------
d---------------
B---------------
G---7-----5---0-
D---7-----5---0- x4
G---7-----5---0-
D---------------
[1:21]
[---]loop
d---------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------
G---7--------7----5---0----7--------7---
D---7--------7----5---0----7--------7---
G---7--------7----5---0----7--------7---
D---------------------------------------
d------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------10-----bn12-12--12--12-12--
G---0---3---10-10---0---3---10-----bn12-12--12--12-12--
D---0---3---10-10---0---3---10-----bn12-12--12--12-12--
G---0---3---10-10---0---3------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------------
d---------------
B---------------
G---7-----5---0-
D---7-----5---0- x4
G---7-----5---0-
D---------------
d-----------------------------------------------
B-----------------------------------------------
G---7--------7----5---0----7--------7----5---0--
D---7--------7----5---0----7--------7----5---0--
G---7--------7----5---0----7--------7----5---0--
D-----------------------------------------------
[1:48]
d------------------------------------------------
B----------------------10------------------------
G---0--3--10-10--0--3--10--0--3--10-10--0--3--8--
D---0--3--10-10--0--3--10--0--3--10-10--0--3--8--
G---0--3--10-10--0--3------0--3--10-10--0--3--8--
D------------------------------------------------
d-----------------------
B---bn12-12--12--12-12--
G---bn12-12--12--12-12--
D---bn12-12--12--12-12--
G-----------------------
D-----------------------
[1:57]
(slide up and down around this note with bottleneck)
d------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------
G---bn16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-16-- etc
D------------------------------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------------
[2:35]
d--------
B---bn16\ (slide right down and loop part of the slide -
G---bn16\ listen to the record to see what i mean)
D---bn16\
G---bn16\
D--------
[---]loop
d------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------
G---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5--
D---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5--
G---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5--
D------------------------------------------------------
[2:46]
(loop just the first chord but don't switch it off - let it continue
looping throughout the rest of the riff. Switch it off just before
the last chord, then loop that.)
[---]loop ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> [---]loop
d------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------------
G---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5--
D---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5--
G---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5---0---7-----5--
D------------------------------------------------------
[2:54]
Overdrive off for this part
And maybe a bit of reverb too
pitch shift 1 octave
[----------------]
d---3-----------------
B---3----1----0----5--
G---3----2----0----0--
D--------0----0----5-- x4
G---------------------
D---------------------
Overdrive back on
d----------------------------------------------------
B----------------------10-10-------------------------
G---0--3--10-10--0--3--10-10--0--3--10-10--0--3--bn8/
D---0--3--10-10--0--3--10-10--0--3--10-10--0--3--bn8/
G---0--3--10-10--0--3---------0--3--10-10--0--3--bn8/
D----------------------------------------------------
d-----------------------------------------------------
B---bn12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12\0--
G---bn12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12\0--
D---bn12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12\0--
G-----------------------------------------------------
D-----------------------------------------------------
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