 The Red Chord - "That Certain Special Ugly" Guitar Tab
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Title: That Certain Special Ugly
Artist: The Red Chord
Album: Fused Together in Revolving Doors
Copyright © Robotic Empire 2002
Version 1.0 - 17/12/2004
Tabbed by: Jorge Goncalves (jorgevent@msn.com)
. - palm mute
/ - slide up and down to
b - Bend
() - Harmonics
* - Pinch harmonics
T - Right hand tap
h - Hammer
" - Tremolo Picking
Tuning:(D G C F A D)
Left guitar: X3
D|------------------------------||
A|------------------------------||
F|------------------------------||
C|-----4h7---5h8---6h9-5h8-4h7--||
G|--3h6---4h7---5h8-------------||
D|------------------------------||
D|--0123-----0234-----0345-----0345-0234--||
A|-------0234-----0345-----0456-----------||
F|----------------------------------------||
C|----------------------------------------||
G|----------------------------------------||
D|----------------------------------------||
Right guitar: slide on 2nd and 4th times
D|-------------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------------||
F|--------------------6h8-5h7-4h6-3h5--||
C|------3/5h7-4h6-3h5------------------||
G|--3h5--------------------------------||
D|-------------------------------------||
Both guitars:
D|-----------------------------------------------||
A|-----------------------------------------------||
F|-----------------------------------------------||
C|-------------------------------------88887777--||
G|--22223333-55556666-22223333-55556666----------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-------------------||
........ ........
D|---------------------------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------------------------||
F|---------------------------------------------6666--||
C|-------------------------------------88887777------||
G|--22223333-55556666-22223333-55556666--------------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-----------------------||
........ ........
Left guitar:
D|-----------------------------------------------||
A|-----------------------------------------------||
F|-----------------------------------------------||
C|-------------------------------------88887777--||
G|--22223333-55556666-22223333-55556666----------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-------------------||
........ ........
D|--------------------------------------------------------||
A|--------------------------------------------------------||
F|---------------------------------------------66666666/--||
C|-------------------------------------88887777-----------||
G|--22223333-55556666-22223333-55556666-------------------||
D|--00001111----------00001111----------------------------||
........ ........
Right guitar:
D|-----------------------------------------------||
A|-----------------------------------------------||
F|-------------------------------------66665555--||
C|-----------33334444----------33334444----------||
G|--22223333----------22223333-------------------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-------------------||
........ ........
D|--------------------------------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------------------55555555/--||
F|-------------------------------------66665555-----------||
C|-----------33334444----------33334444-------------------||
G|--22223333----------22223333----------------------------||
D|--00001111----------00001111----------------------------||
........ ........
Left guitar:
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------||
A|----------4-------------------------4----------------------------||
F|----------3-------------------------3----------------------------||
C|-------------------------b3--------------------------------------||
G|--2-3-4-2---2-3-4-2-11------2-3-4-2---2-3-4-2--2-2-2-3--2-2-2-5--||
D|--0-1-2-0---0-1-2-0---22----0-1-2-0---0-1-2-0--0-0-0-1--0-0-0-3--||
Right guitar:
D|---------------------------------------||
A|--5-b5-b5-b5-b5-*5---------------------||
F|---------------------------------------||
C|---------------------2-2-2-3--2-2-2-5--||
G|---------------------2-2-2-3--2-2-2-5--||
D|---------------------0-0-0-1--0-0-0-3--||
Left guitar: Right guitar:
D|----------------------------|| D|---------------||
A|----------4-----------------|| A|--4------------||
F|----------3-----------------|| F|--3------------||
C|-------------------------b3-|| C|---------------||
G|--2-3-4-2---2-3-4-2-11------|| G|------11---5---||
D|--0-1-2-0---0-1-2-0---22----|| D|--------22-----||
. . . . . . . . .... ....
Both guitars: left: right:
D|---------------------------------------------------|---------|--------||
A|----------4---------b*2------------------4---------|---------|--------||
F|----------3------------b*2---b*2---------3---------|---------|--------||
C|---------------------------------------------------|---------|--------||X3
G|--2-3-4-2---2-3-4-2--------2-----2-3-4-2---2-3-4-2-|-11---b3-|-11---5-||
D|--0-1-2-0---0-1-2-0--------0-----0-1-2-0---0-1-2-0-|---22----|---22---||
. .... ....
D|----------------------------------||
A|----------4---------b*2-----------||
F|----------3------------b*2---b*2--||
C|----------------------------------||
G|--2-3-4-2---2-3-4-2--------2------||
D|--0-1-2-0---0-1-2-0--------0------||
.
D|--------------------------------||
A|--------------------------------||
F|----5h0-----7p0-----5p0---------||
C|5p0-----5p0-----5p0-----5p0-----||
G|----------------------------5p0-||
D|--------------------------------||
Left guitar only:
D|--------------------------------||
A|--------------------------------||
F|----5h0-----7p0-----5p0---------||
C|5p0-----5p0-----5p0-----5p0-----||
G|----------------------------5p0-||
D|--------------------------------||
This whole section isn't played with exact slides
It's just a general guide
Left guitar:
D|-------------------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------------------||
F|-------------------------------------------||
C|----------------------8/6/-7/5/-6/4/-5/3/--||
G|--3/5/-4/6/-5/7/-6/8/----------------------||
D|-------------------------------------------||
D|-------------------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------------------||
F|-------------------------------------------||
C|----------------------8/6/-7/5/-6/4/-5/3/--||
G|--5/3/-6/4/-7/5/-8/6/----------------------||
D|-------------------------------------------||
Right guitar: X2
D|-------------------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------------------||
F|-------------------------------------------||
C|-------------------------------------------||
G|--6/2/-7/3/-8/4/-9/5/-8/4/-7/3/-6/2/-5/1/--||
D|-------------------------------------------||
|-----little gap----|
Both guitars: X2
D|-------------------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------------------||
F|-------------------------------------------||
C|-------------------------------------------||
G|-------------------------------------------||
D|--4/2/-5/3/-6/4/-7/5/-8/6/-7/5/-6/4/-5/3/--||
D|--------------------||
A|--------------------||
F|---------------4-3--||
C|--2------6-5---2-1--||
G|--2------6-5---2-1--||
D|--0------4-3--------||
. .
Left guitar:
D|-----------------------------------------------||
A|-----------------------------------------------||
F|-----------------------------------------------||
C|-------------------------------------88887777--||
G|--22223333-55556666-22223333-55556666----------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-------------------||
........ ........
D|---------------------------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------------------------||
F|---------------------------------------------6666--||
C|-------------------------------------88887777------||
G|--22223333-55556666-22223333-55556666--------------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-----------------------||
........ ........
Right guitar:
D|-----------------------------------------------||
A|-----------------------------------------------||
F|-------------------------------------66665555--||
C|-----------33334444----------33334444----------||
G|--22223333----------22223333-------------------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-------------------||
........ ........
D|---------------------------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------------------5555--||
F|-------------------------------------66665555------||
C|-----------33334444----------33334444--------------||
G|--22223333----------22223333-----------------------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-----------------------||
........ ........
Left guitar: Right guitar:
D|---------------------------------||-------5--------------5----------||
A|--4/10-10-10/4-4-4/10-10-10/4-4--||--10/4-5-4/10-10-10/4-5-4/10-10--||
F|--3/9--9--9-/3-3-3/9--9--9-/3-3--||--9-/3---3/9--9--9-/3---3/9--9---||
C|---------------------------------||---------------------------------||
G|---------------------------------||---------------------------------||
D|---------------------------------||---------------------------------||
Left guitar:
D|-----------------------------------------------||
A|-----------------------------------------------||
F|-----------------------------------------------||
C|-------------------------------------88887777--||
G|--22223333-55556666-22223333-55556666----------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-------------------||
........ ........
D|------------------------------------------------------------------||
A|------------------------------------------------------------------||
F|---------------------------------------------6666666666666666-----||
C|-------------------------------------88887777------------------2--||
G|--22223333-55556666-22223333-55556666--------------------------2--||
D|--00001111----------00001111-----------------------------------0--||
........ ........ .
Right guitar:
D|-----------------------------------------------||
A|-----------------------------------------------||
F|-------------------------------------66665555--||
C|-----------33334444----------33334444----------||
G|--22223333----------22223333-------------------||
D|--00001111----------00001111-------------------||
........ ........
D|------------------------------------------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------------------5555555555555555-----||
F|-------------------------------------66665555---------------------||
C|-----------33334444----------33334444--------------------------2--||
G|--22223333----------22223333-----------------------------------2--||
D|--00001111----------00001111-----------------------------------0--||
........ ........ .
Left guitar: X4 1st and 3rd times 2nd and 4th times
D|----------------|| D|-----------------|| D|-----------------||
A|----------------|| A|-----------------|| A|-----------------||
F|--9---------10--|| F|--9--------------|| F|--9--------b*10--||
C|--7--b8-b8-9----|| C|--7--b8-b8--b*9--|| C|--7--b8-b8-------||
G|----------------|| G|-----------------|| G|-----------------||
D|----------------|| D|-----------------|| D|-----------------||
Right guitar: X4
D|----------------------------------------------||
A|----------------------------------------------||
F|--------b*6p0----------b*7p0------------*10/--||
C|--5p0-0-------0--6p0-0-------0--b8-b8-9-------||
G|----------------------------------------------||
D|----------------------------------------------||
. . .
Right guitar: 1st and 3rd times
D|----------------------------------------||
A|----------------------------------------||
F|--------b*6p0----------b*7p0------------||
C|--5p0-0-------0--6p0-0-------0--6-------||
G|--------------------------------6--b*5--||
D|--------------------------------0-------||
. . . .
2nd and 4th times
D|----------------------------------------||
A|----------------------------------------||
F|--------b*6p0----------b*7p0------------||
C|--5p0-0-------0--6p0-0-------0--6--b*6--||
G|--------------------------------6-------||
D|--------------------------------0-------||
. . . .
Both guitars: X3
D|---------------------------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------------------------||
F|--5------------5------------5----------------------||
C|-----333--3b3-----333--3b3-----333--3b3--5-6----7--||
G|--4--333-------4--333-------4--333-----------00-5--||
D|-----000--1b1-----000--1b1-----000--1b1--3-4-00-5--||
... ... ... ..
D|---------------------------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------------------------||
F|--5------------5------------5----------------------||
C|-----333--3-3-----333--3-3-----333--3-3--5-6----7--||
G|--4--333--3-3--4--333--3-3--4--333--3-3--3-4-00-5--||
D|-----000--1-1-----000--1-1-----000--1-1--3-4-00-5--||
... ... ... ..
Left guitar: Right guitar:
D|------------|| D|----------------||
A|------------|| A|----------------||
F|------------|| F|-----b6---------||
C|--2------2--|| C|--2----4-2---2--||
G|--2------2--|| G|--2-------2--2--||
D|--0------0--|| D|--0----------0--||
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