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[karasu]

Does anyone have any? What the various tab sites provides doesn't sound right to me(theyre all tabbed by the same 3 people or so). I'm only talking about the intro riff(not parabol) though, all other parts of the song are tabbed fine, but the opening has been pretty fugly. :/

 

[Crispy]

I know!! Can't find an accurate one myself either...I'll just keep messing around myself until I'll finally get it right some time.

 

[Diablos]

I hope you can play guitar, that's likely to be difficult

I wish I knew how to play. You have no idea how many times I just wanna bust out the end of "The Bends" or "Starla." Sigh...

 

[Hooker]

I get them from www.mysongbook.com (I use them with GuitarPro)




Don't know if those are accurate though, I reckon I need a couple of months more training before I even attempt to play those (playing for a couple of weeks now )

 

[fallout]

Hm, I once looked a year or two back but didn't find anything good. Sorry.

On that note (heh) though, I'm going to go watch the video. Fucking masterpiece.

 

[karasu]

I hope you can play guitar, that's likely to be difficult

I wish I knew how to play. You have no idea how many times I just wanna bust out the end of "The Bends" or "Starla." Sigh...

I've only been playing for a year, but I'm magic!


Hey Hooker, Mysongbook has a good one, but the opening is still screwed. The rest of the song is tabbed brilliantly though.

 

[Crispy]

Most of Tool's riffs aren't all that hard. I've been playing for a year and a half now and I can play most of Lateralus pretty well. Especially the first few riffs of Lateralus itself, the song, are a blast to play.

 

[tt_deeb]

Most of Tool's riffs aren't all that hard. I've been playing for a year and a half now and I can play most of Lateralus pretty well. Especially the first few riffs of Lateralus itself, the song, are a blast to play.

Yeah. Most Tool songs are great beginner songs to play. I know my friend could play basically all of Lateralus within half a year. I've never seen him play Parabola though, I'd imagine that's one of the more difficult songs.

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

I'll try and figure it out, are they tuned to standard?

 

[Crispy]

They play in drop D, although I've seen tabs of parabola in drop B (?) or something. I don't think those are accurate though.

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

This is what I'm hearing...although i think i may be getting the bass line in here too...

A--5h7----8p7----10p7----5-------7p5-------
E--0----0-0----0-0-----0-0-------0---7----

The last few notes may be moved down the neck and to a higher string though, as it sounds like the low E is ringing the whole time.

NOTE: These are probably wrong, but melodically they sound like a good approximation.

I th ink it is in B, as I beleive I hear a note lower than a D later in the song (though the music is pretty dense so it's kindof tough to tell for sure)

EDIT- Small correction....I think that 8p7 is actually a pre-bend to 8 and release to 7.

 

[Crispy]

everyone's asleep here, so I can't test it with my amplifier on which makes it hard to judge...I really don't know. It's quite different from most of the tabs out there though.

 

[WHOAguitarninja]

Yea i have no amp atm either. The melody definitely fits. I THINK i'm getting the bass line in there too though. That might be guitar though.

I looked at a my song book tab, and it's somewhat similar just done in a different (imo, more ergonomically logical) way and with more notes. Like i said though, it's so dense cuz of that constant E that it's tough to decipher whats guitar and whats bass.

 

[Crispy]

Allright I've been playing with it a bit and I get something like this now, leaving the E/D out of it:

G
D 0h2 3p2 5p3p2p0 0
A
D

I'll look into it more tomorrow, thanks for your tabbing help Morbidaza!

 

[Coop]

IIRC the tuning is B E D G B E.

 

[karasu]

Thanks guys, this helps immensely.

 

[Eminem]

try http://toolshed.down.net/tabs/gtabs/parabola.89.html