Search

☀️ 🌙 📟

My Songbook

Dr Geek by Melvins

Tab

Rate for accuracy

🎸

0/5 ( votes)

"dr.geek
 
dropped d tuning
 
.     palm muting (sometimes slight sometimes hard, listen to the
record)
X     muted string (with the freting hand)
~     vibrato
b[..] bend (1/2 = half; 1 would be full)
p     pull off
/     slide up
\     slide down
 
song structure:
  01 02 01 02 03 04 03 04 05 05 06 06 06 06 07 08 08 09 10 11 12 13 14
  11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 01 02 01 02 03 04 03 04 05 05 21
 
  01                     ~~~               ~~~              
B|--------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------|
D|-------------9b[1/2]-9-7--7-77-777-9p7-8-7--|
A|--7-77-777---9b[1/2]-9-7--7-77-777-9p7-8-7--|
D|--7-77-777----------------------------------|

02                       ~~~                
B|------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------| play both
D|-------------11b[1/2]-11-9----------------------| parts 2x
A|--9-99-999---11b[1/2]-11-9--9-99-999-11-9-10--9-|
D|--9-99-999--------------------------------------| 
          ..                  . .. ... .. . ..  .   
 
  03
B|---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|-----7-0-5--0-4-0-5-4--3-0-2-0-1-0-----------|
D|-2-0-------------------------------7-0-5533--|
     . . . .  . . . . .  . . . . . . . . ....
   
  04
B|-------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------| both 2x but play
D|-------------------------------------------------| everything a little
A|----77-55-44-55-44-33-22-00-11-00----------------| harsher the 2nd time,
D|-55-------------------------------55-66-55-66-55-| means VERY loose pm!
   .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
 
  05                                2X 06      4X
B|------------------------------------|----------|
G|------------------------------------|-222-3-22-|
D|-/2X-2X-2--2XX--2--/3X-3X-3--3XX--3-|-222-3-22-|
A|-/2X-2X-2--2XX--2--/3X-3X-3--3XX--3-|----------|
D|------------------------------------|----------|
 
  07                                   08      2x
B|---------------/12-12-12--12-12\----|----------|
G|-/5-5-5--5-5-4-/12-12-12--12-12\----|-22-3-222-|
D|-/5-5-5--5-5-4----------------------|-22-3-222-|
A|------------------------------------|----------|
D|------------------------------------|----------|
 
  09                                     10
B|---------------/12-12-12--12-12\------|----------------|
G|-/5-5-5--5-5-4-/12-12-12--12-12\------|----------------|
D|-/5-5-5--5-5-4-------------------0----|----------------| 
A|-----------------------------------22-|----------------|
D|-----------------------------------22-|-2-2-2-2-2-2etc-|
                                          . . . . . . . .      
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  11                             12     
B|------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|-2-2-2-1--1-------------------|---------------------------------|
D|-2-2-2-1--1-------------------|---------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|-3-3-3-2-2-2-3-3-3-2-2-2---------|
D|------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-------------------------5-5-4-4-|
              . . . . . . . . .   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
  13                             14
B|------------------------------|----------------------------------|
G|-2-2-2-1--1-------------------|----------------------------------|
D|-2-2-2-1--1-------------------|----------------------------------|
A|------------------------------|-3-3-2-2-0--3-3-2-2-0-0-----------|
D|------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|------------------------5-5-6-6-5-|
              . . . . . . . . .   . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . .
 
 jump back to the section before and play those 4 parts again.
 
  15                            16
B|-----------------------------|---------------------------| both 2x     
G|-----------------------------|---------------------------|
D|-0-00-0--0-0-1-2-22-2--2-2-1-|-0-00-0--0-0-1---------3-2-|
A|-0-00-0--0-0-1-2-22-2--2-2-1-|-0-00-0--0-0-1-7-6-7-6-3-2-|
D|-----------------------------|---------------7-6-7-6-----|
 
 
17                                                                     
B|---------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------7-77-7-77-7777-7-7-9b[1/2]-|
D|------------5-5-6-6-7-7----------------------------|
A|-7--7-7-5-5----------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
                            ..   ..  . . .
   ~~~~~                  
B|-------777-9b[1/2]-9b[1/2]-10101010---|
G|-7-7-7-777-----------------10101010-9-|
D|--------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------|
         ..                   .   .
 
  18                      ~~   ~~ 19
B|-------------------------------|-9--8--9--8--9-8--9--8--9--8--9-8-|
G|-9-9-9-7-5-7-9-7---99----------|-9--8--9--8--9-8--9--8--9--8--9-8-|
D|-----------------8-99-5-2------|----------------------------------|
A|---------------------------6-5-|----------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------|----------------------------------|
                     ..
  20                
B|--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------0-|
D|-/7--/7--/7--/7--/7-/7--/7--/7--/7--/7--/7-/7--0------------0-|
A|-/7--/7--/7--/7--/7-/7--/7--/7--/7--/7--/7-/7--0------------0-|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------|
 
  -------------------
  part 01 - 05 again!
  -------------------
 
  21
B|----------------------------------------| ...drum-"solo"
G|----------------------------------------|
D|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
A|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--|
D|----------------------------------------|