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HURT

As recorded by Nine Inch Nails

(From the 1994 Album THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL)

Transcribed by new_noise

Words and Music by Trent Reznor

A

5 x 7 x x x

Bm7

7 x 7 x x x

Gsus2

3 x 7 x x x

D5

x 5 7 x x x

Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Acoustic Gtr I'

Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Clean Gtr'

Gtr III (E A D G B E) - 'Acoustic Gtr II'

Gtr IV (E A D G B E) - 'Piano'

Gtr V (E A D G B E) - 'Distorted Gtr I'

Gtr VI (E A D G B E) - 'Octave Effect'

Intro Verse I

Slowly & Freely Q=78

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

4/4

Gtr I

Wx4 E E H. E E E E E E E E

|------------||--------------|---------------10-|
|------------||--------------|-------5----------|
|------------||-----10-------|-----7-------7----|
|------------||-----(9)------|---7-------9------|
|------------||---9----------|-5-------7--------|
|------------||-7------------|------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--|
|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9--------------|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E E E H. E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|-----------------10-|--------------|--------------------|
|------------------|-------5------------|--------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7--------------|-----10-------|-----7-----------7--|
|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----|------9-------|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9--------------|-5-------7----------|---9----------|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|-7------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|-----------------10-|
|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7--------------|
|------9-----------|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--|
|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9--------------|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E E E E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E Q

|------------------|---------------10-|------------------|-----------------||
|------------------|-------5----------|------------------|-------5---------||
|-----10-----------|-----7-------7----|-----10-----------|-----7-------7---||
|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9------|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-----||
|---9--------------|-5-------7--------|---9--------------|-5-------7-------||
|-7----------------|------------------|-7----------------|-----------------||

Chorus I

A Bm7 Gsus2 D5

Gtrs I, II

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||
||o-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------o||
||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||
||--7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7---||
||o-x--x--x--x--|-x--x--x--x--|-x--x--x--x--|-5--5--5--5--o||
||--5--5--5--5--|-7--7--7--7--|-3--3--3--3--|--------------||

A Bm7 Gsus2 D5

Gtrs I, II

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

Gtr III

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-^3--^3--^3--^3--o||
||--^2--^2--^2--^2--|-^4--^4--^4--^4--|-----------------|-^2--^2--^2--^2---||
||--^2--^2--^2--^2--|-^4--^4--^4--^4--|-^5--^5--^5--^5--|-^0--^0--^0--^0---||
||o-^0--^0--^0--^0--|-^2--^2--^2--^2--|-^5--^5--^5--^5--|-----------------o||
||------------------|-----------------|-^3--^3--^3--^3--|------------------||

A Bm7

Gtr I

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / /

Gtr IV

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

||--12-12-12-12-12----------|-------------------------|
||o----------------15-14-15-|-15-15-15-15-15-14-12-14-|
||--------------------------|-------------------------|
||--------------------------|-------------------------|
||o-------------------------|-------------------------|
||--------------------------|-------------------------|

1. 2.

Gsus2 D5 D5

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / / / / / /

E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E H

|-------------------------|-------------------9-10--||---------------------||
|-14-14-14-14-14-12-12-12-|-12-12-12-10-10-12------o||-12-12-12-10-10------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------||---------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------||---------------------||
|-------------------------|------------------------o||---------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------||---------------------||

Verse II

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

Gtr I

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|-----------------10-|
|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7--------------|
|------9-----------|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--|
|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9--------------|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E E E E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|---------------10-|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|-------5----------|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7-------7----|-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--|
|------9-----------|---7-------9------|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7--------|---9--------------|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|------------------|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|-----------------10-|
|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7--------------|
|------9-----------|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|--------------------|
|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--|
|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9--------------|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E E E E E H. E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|---------------10-|--------------|--------------------|
|------------------|-------5----------|--------------|-------5------------|
|-----10-----------|-----7-------7----|-----10-------|-----7-----------7--|
|------9-----------|---7-------9------|------9-------|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7--------|---9----------|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|------------------|-7------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E H +E E E E E E E E +E E

|------------------|-----------------10-|
|------------------|-------5------------|
|-----10----(10)---|-----7--------------|
|------9-----(9)---|---7-------9-(9)----|
|---9------------9-|-5-------7----------|
|-7----------------|--------------------|

Bb5 Dsus2 E7

E E +Q. E +Q E E E E E E +Q

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

Chorus II

A Bm7 Gsus2 D5

Gtrs I, II

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

Gtr III

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||
||o-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------o||
||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||
||--7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7---||
||o-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------o||
||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||

A Bm7

Gtr I

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / /

Gtr IV

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

||--12-----12--12-----12--12--------------------|---------------------------------------------|
||o------------------------------15--14-----15--|-15-----15--15-----15--15-----14--12-----14--|
||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
||o---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|

|

| Gtrs V, VI

| ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

| E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E

||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
||o---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|

||---7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)-|--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)-|

||o---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|

Gsus2 D5

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / /

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

|---------------------------------------------|----------------------------------9-----10---||
|-14-----14--14-----14--14-----12--12-----12--|-12-----12--12-----10--10-----12------------o||
|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------o||
|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||

|

| ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

| E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E

|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------o||
|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||

|--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)-|--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)-7b7.5r(7)--||

|---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------o||
|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||

A Bm7

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / /

Gtrs V, VI

~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E

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

|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|

Gsus2 D5

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / /

> <

~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E

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

|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)--|

A Bm7

Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q

| | | | | | | |

/ / / / / / / /

Gtrs V, VI

~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E

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

|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|

Gsus2 A E B

Q Q Q Q W W

| | | |

/ / / /

~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~

E +E E +E E +E E +E Q. E +E. +S +Q W

|-----------------------------------------|------------------------|------*|
|-----------------------------------------|------------------------|------*|
|-----------------------------------------|------------------------|------*|
|-----------------------------------------|-7----2-(2)b3==(2)r(2)--|------*|
|-----------------------------------------|------------------------|-2----*|
|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|------------------------|------*|

Duration Legend

---------------

W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura

+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted

Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)

Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line

Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the

duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-

bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low

melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature Legend

----------------

h - hammer-on

p - pull-off

b - bend

pb - pre-bend

r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)

/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")

s - legato slide

S - shift slide

<n> - natural harmonic

[n] - artificial harmonic

n(n) - tapped harmonic

~ - vibrato

tr - trill

T - tap

TP - trem. picking

PM - palm muting

\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip

\n - tremolo bar down

n/ - tremolo bar up

/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip

= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls

<> - volume swell (louder/softer)

x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash

o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc Legend

-----------

| - bar

|| - double bar

||o - repeat start

o|| - repeat end

*| - double bar (ending)

: - bar (freetime)

$ - Segno

& - Coda

Tempo markers - <E/E./Q/Q./H/H.> = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths

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