Alice in Chains - ***NUTSHELL***
(Words by Layne Staley, music by Cantrell, Inez and Kinney)
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Bear with me on this one, this is my first transcription...
I am a big Alice in Chains fan, I have the music down to just about all of
Jar... and Sap, since I am an accoustic strummer, don`t request any solos
or Dirt, Facelift, or that new Layne Staley song, for I am lost. Someone
out there requested this song, it is one of my favorites, I used to get
goosebumps listening to it, now I get goosebumps playing it. Have fun and
good luck.
As I have found to be the case for every Alice in Chains song, the guitar
is tuned down 1/2 step, for those of you who don`t have tuners or don`t
know the E flat note, I usually play along with Angry Chair, the 11th song
on the Dirt CD, the first guitar note in the song is what you tune to (it
repeats itself over and over in the song).
Tuning: 1Eflat 2Bflat 3Gflat 4Dflat 5Aflat 6Eflat
The chords are as follows:
Em7 G/B D Cadd9
G5 Cmaj7
Eflat 3 3 2 0
3 0
Bflat 3 3 3 3
3 0
Gflat 0 0 2 0
0 0
Dflat 2 0 0 2
x 2
Aflat 2 2 x 3
x 3
Eflat x x x x
x x
Here is the Chord progression for the introduction to the song, the
paranthesis around the chords represent four beats of the tune, or, in
musical terms, a bar, I figure, since this song is predominatly
strumming, you can figure out the tune without me having to type in all
those crazy lines and numbers, hell, I don`t even know what this will look
like online for I am typing it up in Wordperfect, like I said before, bear
with me. One hint is that the Em7 and the Cadd9&7 chords are the dominant
chords in this song, everything else is just transitional, start by
strumming just the Em7 and the Cadd`s and you will find that you have most
of the song down already! Rock on...
||(Em7 - G/B - D) (Cadd9*)(Cadd9 - G5 - Em7)(Em7 - G/B - D)(Cadd9)(Cadd9 -
G5 - Em7)(Em7 - G/B - D)(Cadd9)(Cadd9 - G5 - Em7)(Em7 - G/B - D)(Cadd9 -
Cmaj7 - Cadd9)(Cmaj7 - G5 - Em7)(Em7 - G/B - D)(Cadd9)(Cadd9 - G5 -
Em7)(Em7 - G/B - D)||
*the du da du da part (listen to the music, you`ll know what I mean) is
produced by, on the fifth strum of the bar, play Cadd9 with the Dflat
string open and hammer on the second fret on que
The main section of the song is as follows with the lyrics under the
bars, with the top lyrics being the first verse and the bottom being the
second:
(Cadd9 - Cmaj7 - Cadd9)
We---------------------------
My---------------------------
(Cmaj7 - G - Em7)
chase misprinted lies--
gift of self is raped---
(Em7 - G/B - D)
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(Cadd9)
We----------
My----------
(Cadd9 - G5 - Em7)
face the path of time--
privacy is raked--------
(Em7 - G/B - D)
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(Cadd9)
And yet I fight - and yet
And yet I fight - and yet
(Cadd9 - G5 - Em7)
I fight this battle all alone---
I find repeating in my head---
(Em7 - G/B - D)
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(Cadd9)
No one to cry to
If I can`t be my own
(Cadd9 - G5 - Em7)
no place to call home
I`d feel better dead
(Em7 - G/B - D)
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(Cadd9)
Ooh---
Ooh---
(Cadd9 - G5 - Em7)
Ooh---
Ooh---
(Em7 - G/B - D)
(Cadd9)
(Cadd9 - G5 - Em7)
(Em7 - G/B - D)
-Dan Bradley
MtnBikr@aol.com
