Here's tab for Big Wreck's "That Song". A simple yet immensely powerful song by the best new band of the 90s. What I have tabbed here is really just a few pointers to help you get started. It's not a very complicated song guitar-wise. I've tabbed it in four sections: the intro/verse, the heavy chorus, the clean chorus, and what I call "That Riff". The tuning for "That Song" is easily achieved. Tune all your strings down 1/2 step from standard, THEN tune your low-E down to "dropped-D". It's "Dropped-D 1/2 step down": (low->high) C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D# Here's the intro/verse. This should be played on a clean channel with some reverb and a touch of delay. There's a second guitar that comes in after a few measures that's playing the same line only higher. I haven't tabbed that part yet. But it shouldn't be hard if you want to try to figure it out for yourself... ||------------------------------------------------------------------------- ||------------------------------------------------------------------------- ||-11-11---11-11-11/14-14-14-13---13-13-11-11---11---11-11-11/14-14-14-13-- ||-0--0----0--0--0-----0--0--0----0--0--0--0----0----0--0--0-----0--0--0--- ||------------------------------------------------------------------------- ||------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13-13-11------------------------------------------------------------------- 0--0--0--11-11-12p11-11/14-14-14-12---12-12\11---11-11-12p11-11/14-14-14--- ---------0--0--0-----0-----0--0--0----0--0-------0--0--0-----0-----0--0---- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------|| -----------|| -----------|| 12---12-12-|| 0----0--0--|| -----------|| The following is the heavy chorus. Here's where you should kick on some fat distortion. This is the part in the song where the vocals say "And now it's over/Would you hear me scream at the top of my lungs" etc. In the tab where you see "4b", you should "pre-bend" the string, strike the note, and then release your bend to get that dive-bomb kinda sound. Feel free to listen to the song to get the nuances of this part. They play it a little different every time. ||---------------------------------------0---------0-|| ||---------------------------------------2---------2-|| ||------------------------------------(2)----4b--2---|| ||-0--------/11~~~-0------------/11~~~(2)--------2---|| ||-0--------/11~~~-0------------/11~~~-0---------0---|| ||-0--------/11~~~-0------------/11~~~---------------|| ----------------------------------------------------0---------0-|| ----------------------------------------------------2---------2-|| --------------------------------------------------2-----4b--2---|| x-x-0---2---4---7--/11~~~---0---2---4---7--/11~~~-2---------2---|| x-x-0---2---4---7--/11~~~---0---2---4---7--/11~~~-0---------0---|| x-x-0---2---4---7--/11~~~---0---2---4---7--/11~~~---------------|| Then there's the clean chorus. Here, you switch back to your clean channel and play these bar chords. On the CD, I think one guitar just kinda strums the chords and lets them ring out while another guitar arpeggiates with slight variations. Try a few different things to see what kind of sounds you can get. The first time (no singing) you just play what's tabbed; the SECOND time (the vocals say "so you crank that song" etc.), you just repeat a couple of times. ||------------------------------|| ||-7-5-----7-3-----7-10-----7-5-|| ||-6-4-----6-2-----6-9------6-4-|| ||-4-2-----4-0-----4-7------4-2-|| ||-4-2-----4-0-----4-7------4-2-|| ||-4-2-----4-0-----4-7------4-2-|| And now, "That Riff". Kick the distortion back on and play this line a couple of times. Then it's right back to the intro/verse... ||------------------------------------------------------------------------- ||------------------------------------------------------------------------- ||------------------------------------------------------------------------- ||------------------------------------------------------------------------- ||--11p9---11-9---11p9---11-9---11p9---11-9---11p9---11-9-0-11p9-0-11-9---- ||0------0-------------0------0------0-------------0----------------------- ----------------------------------------|| ----------------------------------------|| ----------------------------------------|| ----------------------------------------|| 11p9-0-11-9-0-11p9-0-11-9---11p9-0-11-9-|| ----------------------------------------|| Enjoy, Paul Dmytrewycz pauld@kih.net