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Band: Suffocation
Album: Pierced from Within
Song: Pierced from Within
Copyright (c) Roadrunner Records (1995)
Version 2.0 - February 14, 2005
Transcribed By: Antoine Poliquin-B.
Email: legrandtony@hotmail.com
. - palm mute / - slide up to
- slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - Bend e.g.: 10b(12) = bend 1 tone
p - pull off pb - pre-Bend
t - tap dv - dive (tremolo bar)
p.h. pinched harmonic
* - commentary r - release bend
x - Stuccatto ~ - vibrato bend
, - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note
" - tremolo note tr - Trill
Most of the times, two (-) are equal to one 8th note (if else, i'll
indicate it) to lighten the reading of the tabs.
The numbers above the measures are the time signatures.
I know there is already a tab for this song on the internet, but
in my opinion it is very wrong, so I thought I'd add my
version for people to choose which one they prefer.
By the way, guitar 1 = right channel and guitar 2 = left channel.
Those two are tuned differently, making it harder to transcribe the notes.
The solos are, of course, not written the way Cerrito and Hobbs play them
but the way I like to play them. If you know better, please email me at:
legrandtony@hotmail.com
Thanks to Michael King for the input concerning RIFF 2 !
Greatly appreciated !
----------------------------------------------------------------------
PIERCED FROM WITHIN
Tuning C# F# B E G# C#
2/4
||----------------||
||----------------||
||------drum------||
||------fill------||
||----------------||
||----------------||
RIFF 1 (play 2x)
T=105
Guitars 1 & 2 :
12/8
C#||--------------------------------------------------|
G#||--------------------------------------------------|
E ||------------------------0h1p0---------------------|
B ||3-----------5-----------------3-0-----------------|
F#||1---4---5---3-------1-2-----------3-0---6---4---3-|
C#||----2---3-------123-------------------4---3---2---|
. . ... . . . . . . . . .
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|--------6-----------5-------3---4---------------|
|--------4-----------3---3---1---2---3---4---5---|
|33333333----22222222----1-----------1---2---3---|
........ ........ . . .
4/4
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|------------------------------1-||
|--------------------------1-2---||
|----2-1-----3-2-----2-1-2-------||
|123-----234-----123-------------||
... . . ... . . ... . . . . .
BRIDGE 1 (play once)
T=105
Guitar 1 :
2/4
||----------------||
||----------------||
||7---------------||
||--6---7-6-------||
||----5-----7-----||
||------------8-7-||
Guitar 2 :
||----------------||
||6---------------||
||--4---5-4-------||
||----3-----5-----||
||------------6-2-||
||----------------||
RIFF 2 (play once all the boxes)
T=150
Guitars 1 & 2 : ________________________________
4/4 |1. 3.
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------3-4-------------3-4-3-4-|--------3-4-----------2-1---2---|
||222222221-2-2222222222221-2-1-2-|222222221-2-22222-3-2-----3-2---|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
__________________________________ __________________________________
|2. |4.
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
|----------------these-are-triplets|----------------these-are-triplets||
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
|-------------------------6--5-----|-------------------------5--4-----||
|--------3-4-----6--4--5--4--3--6--|--------3-4-----6--4--5--3--2--5--||
|222222221-2-22224--2--3--------4--|222222221-2-22224--2--3--------3--||
. . . . . . . . . .
BRIDGE 2 (play once)
T=105
Guitar 1 only :
4/4
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||4-----5---5-4-----5---5-4---4---||
||2---2---3-----222---3-----5---5-||
. . ... . . .
RIFF 3 (play once all the boxes)
T=105
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||----------------------------1-2-|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------2-----|------------------------5-0-4-0-|
||3-----4---4-3---------2-1-------|4-----5---5-4-----5-4-5---------|
||1---1---2-----111-4-3-----------|2---2---3-----222---------------|
. . ... . . . . . . ... . . .
_________________________________________________________________
|1.
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|3-----4---4-3-----4-3-4---4-----|4-----5---5-4-----5---5-4---4---|
|1---1---2-----111-------4---5-4-|2---2---3-----222---3-----5---5-|
. . ... . . . . . . . . . ... . . .
________________________________________
|2. (5/4)
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------2-------||
|3-----4---4-3-----4-3-4-3---4---2-------||
|1---1---2-----111-------1---2---0-------||
. . ... . .
RIFF 2a (play once all the boxes)
T=150
Guitars 1 & 2: ________________________________
4/4 |1. 3.
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|----------------------4-3-------|
||4-4-4-4-3-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-3-4-3-4-|4-4-4-4-3-4-4-4-4-3-4-2-1-4-3---|
||2-2-2-2-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-1-2-1-2-|2-2-2-2-1-2-2-2-2-1-2-----2-1---|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
__________________________________ __________________________________
|2. |4.
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
|----------------these-are-triplets|----------------these-are-triplets||
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------||
|-------------------------6--5-----|-------------------------5--4-----||
|4-4-4-4-3-4-4-4-6--4--5--4--3--6--|4-4-4-4-3-4-4-4-6--4--5--3--2--5--||
|2-2-2-2-1-2-2-2-4--2--3--------4--|2-2-2-2-1-2-2-2-4--2--3--------3--||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Then play BRIDGE 2 once.
Then :
RIFF 4 (play 1x all the boxes)
T=105
Guitars 1 & 2:
4/4 6/8
||--------------------------------|------------------------|
||--------------------------------|------------------------|
||--------------------------------|------------------------|
||4---------6---4---3-2---2-------|4-----------------------|
||2-----4-5---4---4-----3---3-2---|2-----------6-----------|
||--333-------------------------3-|--333-4-3-4-4-333-4-3-4-|
... . . . . . . . . ... . . . ... . . .
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|2---5---3---------------|
|------------------------|4---------6---4---3-2---|--3---6---4---4-3---2---|
|3-----------3/4-4/5-5/6-|2-------5---4---3-----3-|------------5-----4---3-|
|1-111-0-1-0-1/2-2/3-3/4-|--333-4-----------------|------------------------|
... . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
_____________________________________
|1. (9/8)
|------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------|0tr1---------------------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------(drum-stick)-|
|--------1---------------|---------3h4-------------------------|
|--3-2-----2-1-----1-2-3-|-----3-4-------------3---------------|
|4-----3-------2-1-------|-------------1-4-2-5-1---------------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
_________________________
|2. (3/4)
|-------------------------||
|0tr1---------------------||
|-------------------------||
|---------3h4-------2-----||
|-----3-4---------4-0-3---||
|-------------1-4-2---1---||
. . . . . . .
RIFF 5 (play once)
T=105
Guitar 1 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|
||5---------------4---------------|
||3---------------2---------------|
. .
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|--------*---------------------------------------| *These are 13's, not
|--------13131313131313131313131313131313--------| 1-3-1-3-1-3...
|5---------------------------------------5-------|
|3---------------------------------------3-------|
. .
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|--------*-------------------------------p.h.----|| *Same here
|--------1313131313131313161616161616161615~-----||
|4-----------------------------------------------||
|2-----------------------------------------------||
Guitar 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------| *I play the powerchords with my
||*---------------*---------------| 1st and 2nd finger in order
||------3-5-6-5-6-------2-4-5-4-5-| to play the rest of the riff.
||5---------------4---------------| You can easily play it a different way.
||3-6-7-----------2-5-6-----------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|--------*---------------------------------------| *These are 10's, not
|--------10101010101010101010101010101010--------| 1-0-1-0-1-0...
|5---------------------------------------5-------|
|3---------------------------------------3-------|
. .
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|--------*-------------------------------p.h.----|| *Same here
|--------1010101010101010131313131313131315~-----||
|4-----------------------------------------------||
|2-----------------------------------------------||
.
BRIDGE 3 (play once)
T=105
Both guitars :
4/4 3/4
||--------------------------------|-------------------||
||--------------------------------|-------------------||
||--------3-4-3-4---------2-3-2-3-|----snare-hits-----||
||--4-3-4-----------3-2-3---------|-------------------||
||--------------------------------|-------------------||
||2---------------1---------------|-------------------||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RIFF 6 (play once all the boxes)
T=105
Both guitars : ________________________________
4/4 |1.
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||55445544----55445544------------|55445544----55445544----6655----|
||--------3322--------3322--------|--------3322--------3322----4433|
||------------------------33223344|--------------------------------|
________________________________
|2.
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|55445544------------------------||
|--------3322--------------------||
|------------33223344332255443322||
RIFF 6a (play once)
T=105
Guitar 1 : ________________________________
4/4 |1.
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|----------------------------5-4-|
||------------------------5-4-5-6-|------------------------5-4-3-2-|
||------------------------3-2-3-4-|------------------------3-2-----|
________________________________
|2.
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|------------5-4-5-6-5-4-7-6-5-4-||
|------------3-2-3-4-3-2-5-4-3-2-||
Guitar 2 :
________________________________
|1.
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||55445544----55445544------------|55445544----55445544--------5-4-|
||--------3322--------33225-4-5-6-|--------3322--------33225-4-3-2-|
||------------------------3-2-3-4-|------------------------3-2-----|
________________________________
|2.
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|55445544------------------------||
|--------33225-4-5-6-5-4-7-6-5-4-||
|------------3-2-3-4-3-2-5-4-3-2-||
Break.
Then :
RIFF 7 (play 2x)
T=60
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||7---6---6---------------7---6---|6---9---9---8---8---7---7---6---|
||5---4---4---------------5---4---|4---7---7---6---6---5---5---4---|
||5---4---4---------------5---4---|4---7---7---6---6---5---5---4---|
5/4
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------------||
|3-------2-------2---2---2---2---|3---4---2-------2---2---2-3-4-2-3-4-5-6-||
|1-------0-------0---0---0---0---|1---2---0-------0---0---0-1-2-0-1-2-3-4-||
|1-------0-------0---0---0---0---|1---2---0-------0---0---0-1-2-0-1-2-3-4-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Then play the first two bars of RIFF 7 slower than before.
Then the solos :
SOLO RYTHM :
T=105
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||4-----5---5-4-----5-4-5-7---6---|4-----5---5-4-----5-4-5---------|
||2---2---3-----222-------5---4---|2---2---3-----222-------4-5-4-2-|
. . ... . . . . . ... . . . .
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|3-----4---4-3-----4-3-4---------|3-----4---4-3-----4-3-4---------|
|1---1---2-----111-------44443333|1---1---2-----111-------44443333|
. . ... . . ...
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|4-----5---5-4-----5-4-5---------|4-----5---5-4-----5-4-5---------|
|2---2---3-----222-------55554444|2---2---3-----222-------55554444|
. . ... . . ...
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|3-----4---4-3-----4-3-4---------|
|1---1---2-----111-------44443333|
. . ...
5/4 4/4
|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------0-------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------2-------|--------------------------------|
|3-----4---4-3-----4-3-4-3---4---2-------|4-4-4-4-333-4-4-4-4-4-4-333-444-|
|1---1---2-----111-------1---2---0-------|2-2-2-2-111-2-2-2-2-2-2-111-222-|
. . ... . . . . . . ... . . . . . . ... ...
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|----------------------4-3-------|--------------------------------|
|4-4-4-4-333-4-4-4-3-4-2-1-4-3---|4-4-4-4-333-4-4-4-4-4-4-333-444-|
|2-2-2-2-111-2-2-2-1-2-----2-1---|2-2-2-2-111-2-2-2-2-2-2-111-222-|
. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . ... ...
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------------------6--5-----|--------------------------------|
|4-4-4-4-333-4-4-6--4--5--4--3--6--|4-4-4-4-333-4-4-4-4-4-4-333-444-|
|2-2-2-2-111-2-2-4--2--3--------4--|2-2-2-2-111-2-2-2-2-2-2-111-222-|
. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . ... ...
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|----------------------4-3-------|--------------------------------|
|4-4-4-4-333-4-4-4-3-4-2-1-4-3---|4-4-4-4-333-4-4-4-4-4-4-333-444-|
|2-2-2-2-111-2-2-2-1-2-----2-1---|2-2-2-2-111-2-2-2-2-2-2-111-222-|
. . . . ... . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . ... ...
|----------------------------------||
|----------------------------------||
|----------------------------------||
|-------------------------5--4-----||
|4-4-4-4-333-4-4-6--4--5--3--2--5--||
|2-2-2-2-111-2-2-4--2--3--------3--||
. . . . ... . . . . .
For the solos, I tried to reproduced the rythm the best I could.
But Notepad being what it is, you'd better just download the GP4
version or listen to the song for an approximative idea of what it is.
FIRST SOLO (Hobbs) :
4/4
||--------------0-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-|
||------------------(just-slide-your-fingers-up-the-neck)-|
||--------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------|
(these are 32nd notes)
|24"------22-24-24-22-24-24-22-21-21-22-21-21-19-21-21-19---------|
|---------------------------------------------------------21~-----|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
(these are normal 16th notes)
|---17-21----19-17----17----22-21----------------|
|19-------19-------21-------------19-18-21-22----|
|------------------------20-------------------19-|
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
(these are 32nd notes)
|22-21-19-------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------21-20-19----------------------------------------------------------
|------------------18-17-16-15----------------------------13-15-13----------
|------------------------------17-16-15-14-11-13-11-13-15----------15-13-11-
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
...rest of the last bar...
-------------------
-------------------
-------------------
-------------------
-15-13-15-13-11----
----------------14-...
SECOND SOLO (Cerrito) :
4/4
(these are 32nd notes)
-11-12-|14-12-11-------11-12-11-14-12-11----------11-12-|
-------|---------12-11-------------------12-11-12-------|
-------|------------------------------------------------|
-------|-----------play-these-notes-twice-(=1 bar)------|
-------|------------------------------------------------|
...-------|------------------------------------------------|
|14-12-11---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------14-12-11-12-14-12-11-12-11-12-14-12-14-11-12-14---------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------11-12-14-12---------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------11~-----|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----12-15-16-13~-----------------------------------------------------------|
|--12-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|13-----------------17-16-17-18----------------------------------16-17~-----|
|-------------------------------17-18-20-18-17----------16-18-20------------|
|----------------------------------------------16-18-20---------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
5/4
|----15h19h15--------15-18-17-21-18---------------21--24b(25)-24b(25)-24b(26)~-|
|--17--------------------------------14-18-14--19------------------------------|
|17----------16-17-17----------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
THIRD SOLO (cerrito) :
4/4
|----------------24b(29)r--------|----------------24b(26)-24b(26)-24b(26)-24*~
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------------
|16dv---------------------------|--------------------------------------------
|16dv---------------------------|16~(tremolo)--------------------------------
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------------------
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------------------...
*4 tones inverted dip
-------15-17|19-15---------15----------15----------16---------------p.h.----|
-----17-----|--------15-17----17-15-17----17-15-18----18-16---------18b(20)~|
---16-------|----------------------------------------------17-16-17---------|
-17---------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
19-----------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
...------------|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------15---14---15/--18---17/--24---|
|------------------------17-18-17-18-17-18-------------------------------|
|------------------17-19-------------------------------------------------|
|------17-16-17-19-------------------------------------------------------|
|17-19-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|24~--(w/-echo)------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
FOURTH SOLO (Hobbs) :
The sweeps! I'm not sure at all about these ones, but they sound good.
Start at the same time Cerrito plays the last note of the 3rd solo.
|17-------------------------------------20----------------18--------------|
|--17------17-----20-17-17-20-17------20--20------------20--20------------|
|----19--19--19-----------------19--21------21--------21------21--------21|
|------21------21-----------------21----------21p17h21----------20p17h20--|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--19--------------17------------17h22p17----------17h20p17-----------|
|19--19----------19--19------------------19------19--------18------18-|
|------19------19------19------19----------19--19------------19--19---|
|--------21--21----------19--19--------------19----------------19-----|
|----------21--------------21-----------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|
|14h17---------------------------20----------------------------|
|-----17------17h20p17------18-20--20------20h23p20------21-23-|
|-------19--19--------19--19---------22--22--------22--22------|
|---------19------------19-------------22------------22--------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------19b(25)--19------------||
|24-23-22-21--------------------------------------------------------18*-||
|------------22-21-20-19------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------21-20-19-18----------------------------16------||
|------------------------------------20-19-18-17-------------17---------||
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------||
Play BRIDGE 2
Play RIFF 3
Then...
RIFF 8 (play once all the boxes)
T=105
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||------------------------------5-|--------------------5-4---------|
||5-------6-------5-------6-5-5---|5-------6-------5-6-----5-4-----|
||--333-3---333-3---333-3---------|--333-3---333-3-------------5-4-|
... . ... . ... . . . . . ... . ... .|. . . . . . . . |
| |
|----------------|
second time, guit. 2 |----------------|
plays that instead : |----3-2---------|
|4-5-----4-3-----|
|------------4-3-|
|----------------|
. . . . . . . .
_________________________________________________________________
|1.
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------------------------3-|----------------------3-------4-|
|3-------4-------3-------4-3-3---|3-------4-------3-4-3---4-5-4---|
|--111-1---111-1---111-1---------|--111-1---111-1-----------------|
... . ... . ... . . . . . ... . ... . . . . . . .
_________________________________________________________________
|2.
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|----------------------4---------|----------------4-3-------------||
|3-------4-------3-4-3---3-4-3---|3-------4-----------4-3-------5-||
|--111-1---111-1---------------4-|--111-1---111-1---------4-3-1-3-||
... . ... . . . . . . . . ... . ... . . . . . . .
2/4
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||------------drum-fill-----------||
||--------------------------------||
||keep-the-last-chord-ringing-here||
||--------------------------------||
Then play the two first bars of RIFF 1.
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