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Set it Off

Audioslave
Tab
★4.6(10)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

______________

/ Audioslave / I think this song is about getting on with something that is stuck.

/ Set It Off / Cornell probably wrote it with the feeling of being trapped in a

/ Audioslave / situation, and then was just aching to move on. This could be a

/_____________/ society or a relationship being stuck; it's about aching to move on.

Gtr I (E A D G B E) - Overdriven (left speaker)

Gtr II (E A D G B E) - Overdriven (right speaker)

Gtr III (D A D G B E) - w/Wah pedal and Tremolo effect equal to 32nd parts

Pre-Intro:

Q=80 bpm

4/4

Gtr III

E E E S S E E E E 4x

||-----------------------------------||
||o-----------------------------0---o||
||----------4---5p4-------------0----||
||----------5---5-------3------------||
||o-----5---------------------------o||
||--5---------------3-------3--------||

E s s S S E E s s S S e

||------0-0-----0-------0-0-----0----||
||o-----0-0-----3-------0-0-----3---o||
||--------------3---------------3----||
||-----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------o||
||--0---------0-----0---------0------||

7/8

E E E S S E E E E E E E S S E E E

|---------------------------------|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------0---|-----------------------------|
|---------4---5p4-------------0---|---------4---5p4-------------|
|---------5---5-------3-----------|---------5---5-------3-------|
|-----5---------------------------|-----5-----------------------|
|-5---------------3-------3-------|-5---------------3-------3---|

Free Time

|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|

Let all guitars feed and squeal in the free time

Intro:

Gtrs I, II

E E E Q E E +E E E E Q E E +E E E E

|-------||---------------------|--------------------|
|-------||o--------------------|--------------------|
|-------||---------------------|--------------------|
|-------||---------7-(7)-------|--------7-(7)-------|
|-------||o----*/9-------------|-----/9-------------|
|-0-2-0-||--2------------0-2-0-|-2------------0-2-0-|

slide from somewhere

around the 4th fret

1. 2.

Q E E +E E E E Q Q E E E E Q Q Q Q

|--------------------|-------------------||------------------|
|--------------------|------------------o||------------------|
|--------------------|-------------------||------------------|
|--------7-(7)-------|-------------------||------------------|
|-----/9-------------|-----/9---7-------o||-----/9---7-------|
|-2------------0-2-0-|-2----------0-2-0--||-2------------5---|

1st Verse:

Gtr I

F#m A

S S e S S S S e S S S S E S S e S S S S e S S S S E

||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||o-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||o-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||----2p0-2---x-x-2p0-2---2p0-5-2-0---|---2p0-2---x-x-2p0-2---2p0-5-2-0---|

|

|Gtr II

| W W

||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||o-(10)------------------------------|-(10)------------------------------|
||---11-------------------------------|---9-------------------------------|
||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||o-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|

(the notes in brackets are strummed softer)

C#m E

S S e S S S S e S S S S E S S e S S S S Q Q

|----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------o||
|----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|------------------/7---------------o||
|--2p0-2---x-x-2p0-2---2p0-5-2-0---|--2p0-2---x-x-2p0----------5--------||

|

| W W

|----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|-(5)------------------------------|-(5)-------------------------------o||
|--6-------------------------------|--4---------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------o||
|----------------------------------|------------------------------------||

1st Chorus:

Gtrs I, II

Q E E +S S S S E E Q E E +S S S S E E

||-------------------------|------------------------|
||o------------------------|------------------------|
||-------------------------|------------------------|
||---------7-(7)-----------|--------7-(7)-----------|
||o-----/9-------9-7---7-9-|-----/9-------9-7---7-9-|
||--2----------------9-----|-2----------------9-----|

Q E E +S S S S E E Q Q Q Q

|------------------------|-------------------||
|------------------------|------------------o||
|------------------------|-------------------||
|--------7-(7)-----------|-------------------||
|-----/9-------9-7---7-9-|-----/9---7-------o||
|-2----------------9-----|-2------------5----||

2nd Verse:

similar to 1st Verse

2nd Chorus:

Gtrs I, II

Q E E +S S S S E E Q E E +S S S S E E

||-------------------------|------------------------|
||o------------------------|------------------------|
||-------------------------|------------------------|
||---------7-(7)-----------|--------7-(7)-----------|
||o-----/9-------9-7---7-9-|-----/9-------9-7---7-9-|
||--2----------------9-----|-2----------------9-----|

1. 2.

Q E E +S S S S E E Q Q Q Q Q Q E E E E

|------------------------|------------------||------------------|
|------------------------|-----------------o||------------------|
|------------------------|------------------||------------------|
|--------7-(7)-----------|------------------||------------------|
|-----/9-------9-7---7-9-|-----9---7-------o||-----/9---7-------|
|-2----------------9-----|-2-----------5----||-2----------0-2-0-|

Interlude:

Gtrs I, II

Q E E +E E E E Q E E +E E E E

||---------------------|--------------------|
||o--------------------|--------------------|
||---------------------|--------------------|
||---------7-(7)-------|--------7-(7)-------|
||o-----/9-------------|-----/9-------------|
||--2------------0-2-0-|-2------------0-2-0-|

Q E E +E E E E Q Q E E E E

|--------------------|-------------------||
|--------------------|------------------o||
|--------------------|-------------------||
|--------7-(7)-------|-------------------||
|-----/9-------------|-----/9---7-------o||
|-2------------0-2-0-|-2----------0-2-0--||

Bridge:

Gtrs I, II

E +E H. W W W

|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-2-(2)\-------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

Gtr II

F#7(no3)

Q H. 3x Q H.

||--------------------||---------------------|
||o-17---------------o||-17------------------|
||--18----------------||-16b18---------------|
||--16----------------||---------------------|
||o------------------o||---------------------|
||--------------------||---------------------|

Gtrs I, II (switch off the overdrive)

G G A

W H H

|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|
|-4---------------|-4-------6-------|
|-5---------------|-5-------7-------|
|-5---------------|-5-------7-------|
|-3---------------|-3-------5-------|

F#m E5 E

                    PM------------|

W E E E E E E E E H Q. E

|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-0-----------------|
|-2---------------|-----------------|-1-----------------|
|-4---------------|-----------------|-2-----------------|
|-4---------------|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-----------------|
|-2---------------|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-------------12\-|

(switch on the overdrive while palm muting, then produce

a clean E and turn it back on again for the final slide)

3rd Chorus:

similar to 2nd Chorus

Outro:

Gtrs I, II

Q E E +E E E E Q E E +E E E E

||---------------------|--------------------|
||o--------------------|--------------------|
||---------------------|--------------------|
||---------7-(7)-------|--------7-(7)-------|
||o-----/9-------------|-----/9-------------|
||--2------------0-2-0-|-2------------0-2-0-|

1.

Q E E +E E E E Q Q E E E E

|--------------------|-------------------||
|--------------------|------------------o||
|--------------------|-------------------||
|--------7-(7)-------|-------------------||
|-----/9-------------|-----/9---7-------o||
|-2------------0-2-0-|-2----------0-2-0--||

2.

Q Q Q Q +W +W

|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----9---7-------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-2-----------5---|-(5)-------------|-(5)-------------|

He was standing at the rock

Gathering the flock

And getting there with no directions

And underneath the arch

It turned into a march

And there he found the spark to set this fucker off

Set it off, set it off now children

Set it right

Set it off, set it off now children

Set a fire

Suddenly a shot

Ripped into his heart

He lay in need of some attention

And there he played his card

Going into shock

The last thing that he said was set this fucker off

Jesus at the back door

Everything is all right

All we need is some direction

Every time the wind blows

Everything you don't know

Turns into a revelation

And it all ends up inside your head

Time is wasting

- 2nd /May /06

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