Save Me tab by The Tea Party

From alt.guitar.tab Tue Apr 12 16:46:03 1994







This is a really cool song, with a wicked bass line.  If you haven't
already bought _Splendor Solis_ then buy it!  Wow, what a CD.

"Save Me" by The Tea Party
(most of the guitar is played with a bow - cool eh?)

Key: Emin
Time sig: fast 4/4

You can play this song in standard tuning, but I think it is played in
open D (low to high: DADF#AD) on the CD - I'll tab both ways as much
as I can.  It sounds nicer in open D (especially on the bridge part)
'cause you get the open strings adding harmonics.

 | Intro (standard tuning)
 |=================|=================|
e|-0---------------|-----------------|
B|-3---------------|-----------------|
G|-2---------------|-----------------|
D|-0---------------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|

  | Intro (open D tuning)
  |=================|=================|
d |-2---------------|-----------------|
A |-0---------------|-----------------|
F#|-0---------------|-----------------|
D |-0---------------|-----------------|
A |-0---------------|-----------------|
D |-0---------------|-----------------|

(This might be totally wrong, but I think the bass is using dropped-D tuning
 I don't own a bass - this sounds right (albeit too high) on my guitar)

 | Cool Bass Riff
 |===|=================|=================|=================|=================|
G|---|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
D|---|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
A|---|-----5-------5-5-|-----5---5--/10--|-----5-------5-5-|-----5-----------|
D|12\|-0-----0---0-----|-0-0---0---------|-0-----0---0-----|-0-0---0-5--/9---|


 | Verse (standard tuning)
 |=================================|
e|-2---3-------5-------7---------8-| hold the last chord for 2 bars,
B|-3---3-------5-------8---------8-| slide down to the previous, hold 2 bars
G|-2-----------4-------7---------7-| etc.
D|-0-----------0-------0---------0-|
A|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|

  | Verse (open D tuning)
  |=================================|
d |-4---5-------7-------9--------10-|
A |-5---5-------7-------10-------10-|
F#|-3-----------5-------8---------8-|
D |-0-----------0-------0---------0-|
A |-0-----------0-------0---------0-|
D |-0-----------------------------0-|

 | Bridge (standard tuning)
 |=================================|=================================|
e|-3/5-5-5-5\3---3-3/7-7-7-7\5---5-|-5/9-9-9-9-\7-7\5-2---3-3/7---5--|
B|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

 |=================================|==================================|
e|-3/5-5-5-5\3---3-3/7-7-7-7\5---5-|-5/9-9-9-9-\7-7\5-2---3---2h3p2---|
B|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|

  | Bridge (open D tuning)
  |=================================|==================================|
d |-5/7-7-7-7\5---5-5/9-9-9-9\7---7-|-7/10101010\9-9\7-4---5-5/9---7---|
A |-0-------------------------------|----------------------------------|
F#|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
D |---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
A |---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
D |---------------------------------|----------------------------------|

  |=================================|==================================|
d |-5/7-7-7-7\5---5-5/9-9-9-9\7---7-|-7/10101010\9-9\7-4---5---4h5p4---|
A |-0-------------------------------|----------------------------------|
F#|---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
D |---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
A |---------------------------------|----------------------------------|
D |---------------------------------|----------------------------------|

 | Chorus (standard tuning)
 |===================================|===================================|
e|-2-----3--------3--2---------------|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3---|
B|-3-----3--------3--3---------------|-3-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3---|
G|-2-----2--------2--2---------------|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0---|
D|-0-----0--------0--0---------------|-0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0---|
A|-----------------------------------|-3-----2-----0-----2-----0-----2---|
E|-----------------------------------|-------------------3-----2-----0---|

(not sure about the chorus in open D)

 | Solo (standard tuning) play twice
 |=======================================================|
e|-12-14-10-8-10-7-8-5-7-3-5-3-5-2-3-5-3-7-5-8-7-10-8-12-|
B|-------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------|

 | Solo (open D tuning) play twice
 |===========================================================|
e|-14-16-12-10-12-9-10-7-9-5-7-5-7-4-5-7-5-9-7-10-9-12-10-14-|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------|

Play intro, enter drums, adlib guitar for 8 bars, then enter bass
Adlib guitar for 8 more bars then start:

(Verse)
I must grieve you tonight...

(Bridge)

(Verse)
I regret to tell ...

(Chorus)
She said save ...

(Verse)
Why must you love this ...

(Chorus)
She said "...
Save me

(Bridge twice) (Bridge is slightly different last time)
(Solo)

(Guitar is same pitch as vocals)
Save ...

(Bridge 2) (don't look for it, I haven't tabbed it :)

When there is no ...

(Chorus)
She said "Save ...