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Lost Cause

Oleander
Tab

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

Song

"Lost Cause" -- Oleander

Tabbed by Kyle Holcombe

Tuning: Drop D down a half step (Db Ab Db Eb Gb Eb)

Intro

Guitar 1:

This is the main riff This is the refrain thing Throw this in at one point

|----------------------||---------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------||---------------------------|---------3-4-6-4-3----|
|--5^(6)r-3-5-3---3-5--||--3~-2~-0~--3-2-3-5-3-0-3--|--5^(6)r-----------5--|
|---------------5------||---------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------||---------------------------|----------------------|
|----------------------||---------------------------|----------------------|

Guitar 2:

|---------------|
|---------------|
|--5--10--3-----|
|--5--10--3--3--|
|--3---8--1--3--|
|------------3--|

Verse

Mostly bass -- but guitars can throw in some slightly distorted palm muted

chords here and there -- same chords as the intro. Just fool around with it.

Chorus

Guitar 1:

|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|--5--10--3-----5^(6)r^(6)r^(6)~~--|
|--5--10--3--3---------------------|
|--3---8--1--3---------------------|
|------------3---------------------|

Guitar 2:

|--------------|
|--------------|
|--5-----3-----|
|--5--1--3--3--|
|--3--1--1--3--|
|-----1-----3--|

Bridge/Outro

Guitar 1:

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

||--3--4--0--||

||--3--4--0--||

||--3--4--0--||

Guitar 2:

||-----------||-----------||
||-----------||-----------||
||-----------||-----------||
||--3--4--0--||--3--4--0--||
||--3--4--0--||--3--4--0--||
||--3--4--0--||--3--4--0--||

pm.........

Solo

Guitar 1:

||---------------------------||--------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------------||--------------------------------------------------|
||--10^(11)r-8-10-8----8-10--||--10^(11)r-8h10p8----8----------------------------|
||------------------10-------||------------------10---10-8-10-8------------------|
||---------------------------||---------------------------------10-8-10-8--------|
||---------------------------||-------------------------------------------10-8\--|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--10^(11)r-8-10-8----8-10--10^(11)r-8-10-8----8-10--10^(11)r-8-10-8----8-10--|
|------------------10-----------------------10-----------------------10-------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------9------10------11------12-------|
|-----------8-10-11-10-8----------------------------------------------------12^(14)-13^(15)-14^(16)-15^(17)--|
|--10^(11)r--------------10--10^(11)r-8-10-8----8-10--10^(11)r-8h10p8----8-----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------10-----------------------10-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Okay, so that little descending part of the solo isn't right..but it's a bit hard to

figure out just what he's doing...so you can play that instead, 'less you feel like

figuring it out yourself.

Otherwise, I think it's pretty dead on. E-mail any comments/suggestions/whatnot to

kyle_gumby@hotmail.com

Comments

Spotted a wrong chord, or know a capo position that sounds closer to the record?

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