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Song

"Scream" -- Collective Soul

Tabbed by Kyle "Gumby"

Riff 1

Both guitars:

|---------------------|
|---------------------|
|----------4-2--------|
|--4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2--|
|--4-4-4-4-2-0-2-2-2--|
|--2-2-2-2-----0-0-0--|

============================================================================================

Riff 2

Guitar 1:

|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|---------------4^(5)r-2--|
|--4-xx-xx-xx-4-----------|
|--4-xx-xx-xx-4-----------|
|--2-xx-xx-xx-2-----------|

Guitar 2:

|----------------------|
|----------------------|
|---------------4-4-2--|
|--4-4-4-4-4-4--4-4-2--|
|--4-4-4-4-4-4--2-2-0--|
|--2-2-2-2-2-2---------|

============================================================================================

Verse

"

Guitar 1:

||--------||
||--xx-7--||
||--xx-6--||
||--xx-4--||
||--xx----||
||--------||

Guitar 2:

||-----2--||
||--xx-2--||
||--xx-3--||
||--xx----||
||--xx----||
||--------||

============================================================================================

Chorus

"I don't wanna be...some puppet on a string..."

Guitar 1:

||---------------||---------|
||---------------||---------|
||--9--8--6--15--||--9--11--|
||--x--x--x---x--||--x---x--|
||--7--6--4--13--||--7---9--|
||---------------||---------|

Guitar 2:

||-----------||--------|
||-----------||--------|
||-----4-----||--------|
||--2--4--4--||--2--4--|
||--2--2--4--||--2--4--|
||--0-----2--||--0--2--|

============================================================================================

Solo

Guitar 1:

|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------13^(14)-10----------2-0-------0----------------------|
|--/9~-9h10-11~------------11~-11\------2-1h2---2p0-------------2----|
|---------------------------------------------------2-2/4-4-2-4---4--|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------xx--9-------9-------9-------11------11------11-----\--|
|----------------------10------------xx-12^(14)-12^(14)-12^(14)--14^(16)-14^(16)-14^(16)\--|
|---------7-9-10-11-11----9h10h11~\--xx----------------------------------------------------|
|-----7-9----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--/9--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Guitar 2:

Play Chorus

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