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Artist: Placebo
Track: "Days Before You Came"
Album: "Black Market Music"
Tabbed By: Colonel Psycho ([email protected])
This is a tab of "Days Before You Came" in standard tuning.
I'm sick of this nonsense 'standard Placebo tuning' crap,
where it's in F#,Bb,Eb,G#,C,F -- freaky stuff, man! So
this is in proper STANDARD tuning, ie EADGBE. What's the
point in tuning all the strings up just one semitone,
and bass E up two??? it's too scary to consider. Could
Placebo REALLY be so monotonous that all their songs are
in the key G# major? uh... probrably not :)
i'm keeping this tab short and sweet, so you'll have to
listen to the song and know it pretty well.
RIFF A (intro and verse)
lead guitar:
g|-6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6-6-|
g|-5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5-5-|
g|-3-------3-----3-3-------3-------3-------3-------1-----------1---|
g|-3-------3-----3-3-------3-------3-------5/6-----------5-5-------|
.
[ Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/placebo/days_before_you_came_tab.html ]
rhythm guitar (comes in on third bar -- where the 3's start):
it's just a load of F#5's. I think it's just meant to be played on the
lead guitar just as open bass-E string with the other stuff (except the
bass E string is tuned up to F#). Whatever, it still works with a 2nd
guitar playing F#5, like this:
A |---4---|
E |---2---|
RIFF B (chorus bit, "won't you join me now...?")
Rhythm Guitar:
g|-3---3---33--3---3---3-3-3---1---1---11--1---1---1-1-1---|
D|-3--3--3-3-3-4--4-4-4-4--4--3--3-3-3-3--4--4-4-4-4-4-4---|
.
on that second part (played on the D string), you can play
a load of F#5 on another guitar with it.
Lead Guitar (comes in on second run, extra-heavy distortion):
b |-5-5-5-6-6-6-------4-4-4----|
g |-------------6-6-6----------|
.
RIFF C (Bridge-type bit -- "Didn't want you anyway!")
first a whole bunch of harmonics (best to just keep tapping and
holding fourth fret then letting go for a split second)
A |-(4)---(4)---(4)---(4)------etc-|
.
then play this picked hard...
A |-3---3---3---4---|
.
RIFF D (end)
right at the end whack this chord (after the very last
"Didn't want you anyway!")
g |-6---|
D |-6---| (C#5)
A |-4---|
Well, that's about all the riffs in the song. Hope this is some
help to all those others out there who hate having to tune their
guitar for one freakin' song needlessly! :
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