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Sweet Willy Rollbar

Melvins
TabTuningDrop D

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Song

The Melvins - Sweet Willy Rollbar

Tabbed by Thomas P.,

Hi, here is another tab I have made, the other tabs I found were completely wrong, so I

you the one i use.

if you have any corrections or anything else just email me at march_of_pig[@]hotmail.com .

I'm looking for some "noise rock" guitar stuff, so if you are well informed about it or

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Drop-D tuning

Q=110

Intro:

NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH

        |---3---|    |---3---|    |---3---|    |---3---|

E E E E E E E E E E E E

E||--------------------------------------------------------||
B||--------------------------------------------------------||
G||*------------------------------------------------------*||
D||*------------------------------------------------------*||
A||--------------------------------------------------------||
D||-----2----2--0----2----2--0----2----2--0----2----2--0---||

NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH NH

    |---3---|    |---3---|    |----3----|    |----3----|

E E E E E E E E E E E E

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

Verse:

PM PM PM PM

    |--3-|  |--3--|  |---3--|   |--3--|

Q E E E E E E E E E E

|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|*---------------------------------------|
|*---------------------------------------|
|---0----0--3--------3s--4--3s--4--------|
|---0----0--3--0--0--3s--4--3s--4--0--0--|

PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM

  |--3--|  |---3--|   |--3--|  |--3--|     |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  3

E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q.

----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------|------------------------------------*||
----------------------------------------|------------------------------------*||
--3--------3s--4--3s--4--------3--------|--3--------3--------3--------6-------||
--3--0--0--3s--4--3s--4--0--0--3--0--0--|--3--0--0--3--0--0--3--0--0--6-------||

Chorus:

PM PM PM PM PM

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

-------------------------------------------|
-------------------------------------------|
*------------------------------------------|
*------------------------------------------|
---0--0--3--0--5--0--6--0--5-6-5-3---6---5-|
---0--0--3--0--5--0--6--0--5-6-5-3---6---5-|

PM PM

S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S Q 4x

-----------------------------------------||
-----------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------*||
----------------------------------------*||
----3-5-3-5-5-5-6-5-3----5----3----0-----||
----3-5-3-5-5-5-6-5-3----5----3----0-----||

Break: (for the lead parts, i don't think it's exactly how buzz plays it)

  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|

E E E E E E E E E E E E E S S S E. E S S S E.

--------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--|--7--5-7-5-7br---8--6-8-6-8br---|
--6--6--4--6--4--6--4--6--4--6--4--6--|--7--------------8--------------|
--4--4--4--4--4--4--4--4--4--4--4--4--|--5--------------6--------------|
--------------------------------------|--------------------------------|

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

------------------------------|------------------------------|
------------------------------|------------------------------|
--7--5-7-5-7-5--8--6-8-6-8-6--|--7--5-7b-------8--6-8b-------|
--7-------------8-------------|--7--------6-0--8--------6-0--|
--5-------------6-------------|--5-------------6-------------|
------------------------------|------------------------------|
       |----3---|    |----3----|    |----3----|

Q E E E E E E E E E

----------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|
--8----8b--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pbr--|
--8----8b--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pb--8pbr--|
--6-------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------|

---------------------^ release sometimes

Play the chorus one more time

Outro: (I have some problem to transcribe the timing so... just listen to your record ^^)

PM PM PM PM slide

-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------|
-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------|
*---------------------------------------------*||-----------------------|
*------------------------------------x--x--x--*||--x----x----x----------|
---5br----------5br----------5br-----x--x--x---||--x----x----x----------|
---0----L-0--0--0----L-0--0--0----L------------||-----------------13----|

PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM

E E S S E S E S S S S S 3x

|--------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------||
|*------------------------------------*||
|*------------------------------------*||
|---0--0--------0-----0-----0----0-----||
|---0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0----0-----||

S. T S. T S. T S. T S. T S. T S. T E

----------------------------------------|-----||
----------------------------------------|-----||
----------------------------------------|-----||
----------------------------------------|-----||
--5b---5b---5b---5b---5b---5b---5b---5--|-----||
--0----0----0----0----0----0----0----0--|-----||

That's it.

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