Take A Load Off (ver 2) by Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots - 'Take a Load Off'
From Self -titled 2010 Album
tuning: Guitar 1 Standard
Guitar 2 Open G (DGDGBD) capo 1st fret
tabbed by jjhand
Thanks to Monroe Vison G for some of the notes. I fixed a few things
and added in the extra guitar during the verses which has a weird tuning.
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Intro/Main Riff
Elec Guitar 1 (repeated)
e|---------------------------|
B|-4----6p4---4--------------|
G|-4----4-----5--------------|
D|-4----4-----6--------------|
A|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------|
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| Elec Guitar 2
eb|---------------------------|
C |---------------------------|
Ab|---------------------------|
Eb|---------------------------|
Ab|-0h3--0-3h5-0-----0---2p0--|
Eb|----------------0---0------|
Verse 1 Lyrics:
"Summer med fly ruled the airways
Mostly superstitious
Now the kings of media
Invent the swine flu visions"
PreChorus - Guitar 2, this section = 3 beats per bar
1 2 3
eb|-----------------------|-----------------------|
C |-----------------------|-----------------------|
Ab|-----------------------|-----------------------|
Eb|-0-----0---------------|-0-----0---------------|
Ab|---5-5---5-----0-4--4--|---5-5---5-0-----4--4--|
Eb|-----------3-0---5--5--|-------------3-0-5--5--| play 4x
"Take a load off... Yeah"
Chorus - play through 2x
Guitar 1 (a second guitar strums these chords as well)
Ab5 Eb Gb Bbm
e|--------------|--------------|-6------------|-6------------|
B|-9------------|-8------------|-7------------|-6------------|
G|-8------------|-8------------|-6------------|-6------------|
D|-6------------|-8------------|--------------|--------------|
A|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
E|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
1."Yeah, it's alright As we mosey on into the night"
2."Yeah, just set us free Could our shattered past just set us free?"
Chorus Ending Part - Play PreChorus Again 2x, with Lyrics:
"Give you all those diamonds, Give you more and more
Shattered all those lies I bought you from the record store"
Verse 2 - Play Main Riff Again, with Lyrics:
"Fleets of underground an artist
Look for benediction
Drive around waste gas and haul
In every green addition
Summer med fly ruled the airways
Mostly superstitious
Now the kings of media
Invent the swine flu visions"
Play PreChorus Again, Same Lyrics
Play Chorus Again, Same Lyrics
Play Chorus Ending Part, Same Lyrics
Solo
e|------------------|-----4---6----------------------|--------------------|
B|-4------4---------|-7-4---4---7-4~---9b11~-b11r9p7-|-9----9b11----------|
G|-6b8~---6b8~--6b8-|--------------------------------|-----------8~-------|
D|------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------|
A|------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------|
E|------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------|
e|-------------------------------|------------9--8-------------|
B|-------------------------------|----7---9------9-------------|
G|-------------------------------|-/8---8---8---------10p8-----|
D|-6h8p6---6---------------------|-----------------------------|
A|-------9---9-8-6---4-----------|-----------------------------|
E|---------------------7p4-7qb-4-|-----------------------------|
e|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
B|--------9---11------------------|-------------------------|
G|-8-11-8---8----10b11r10-8~------|-8-x-8-x-8-x-8-x-7p8-7p8-|
D|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
e|---------------------------------------|------------------|
B|-------------------------------4b7~~~~-|-(b7~~~~)---------|
G|-7-6-4---6--4h6--7p6p4-6---4-6---------|------------------|
D|-------6-----------------6-------------|------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|------------------|
** on the last note he bends & gets some harmonic overtones
Play Chorus Ending Part Again to End
Lyrics:
"Give you all those diamonds, Give you more and more
Shattered all those lies I bought you from the record store"
KEY:
| / slide up
| slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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