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Obstacle

Poison the Well
Tab

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Song

Poison the Well, Obstacle.

Tabbed by Kenneth, Brazfam@juno.com.

Obstacle - Poison the Well

from DISTANCE ONLY MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER

Tabbed by Brazfam@juno.com, and das_metallipaa@hotmail.com

TUNING E-a-d-g-b-e....Im pretty sure they are in E on distance only makes the heart grow fonder,

and that the play in drop D on Opposite of December.

X= palm mute

~= let ring

||-----------------||
||-----------------||
||-----------------||
||--------1~-------||
||-----0~----------||

||-----------------|| Have the guitar volume knob on a low setting

then slowly turn it up as the notes ring out.

||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||----1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--||
||----0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--||
||----------------------------------------------||

x x x x x x x

||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||
||----1-11-11-11-11--1-11-11-11-11--||
||----0-00-00-00-00--0-00-00-00-00--||
||----------------------------------||

xx xx

||---------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------||
||----------444--------------------------------||
||---222-2--333--------------------------------||
||---000-0-------------------------------------||

xxx

CHORUS (lead)

||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||
||-----------999777666777666---------||
||--444666777------------------------||
||-----------------------------------||

CHORUS (rhythm)

||----------------||
||----------------||
||----------------||
||---5------------||
||---3-6-8-6-5----||
||-----4-6-4-3----||

(picking is played by 2nd guitar)

||--------------------------------------------||
||------5-------------5-----------5-----------||
||---5----4-5-----------4-5---------4-5-------||
||---5-------------6-----------8--------------||
||---3-------------6-----------8--------------||
||-----------------4-----------6--------------||

RIFF D1

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

x x x x x x x x x x x x

RIFF D2

||--------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------||
||----------5-----5----------5-----5----||
||--------------------------------------||
||--4-4-4-4---4-4----4-4-4-4---4-4------||

x x x x x x x x x x x x

RIFF D3

||-----------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------|
||----------5-----5----------5-----5-------------------|
||---------------------------------------3333-3333-----|
||--6-6-6-6---6-6----6-6-6-6---6-6-------1111-1111-----|

x x x x x x x x x x x x

SOLO (I didn\'t have the interest to mark the pull-offs and hammers,

so figure it out yourself...)

||--------------------------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------------------------||
||----------7-9-10-12-10-9-10-12-14-15-17-19-17-15-14-15-14-12-10-9-7-||
||---7-9-10-----------------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------||
||-55555555----------------------------4--||

||-33333333-66666666-88888888-6-66-5-5-3--||

||----------44444444-66666666-4-44-3-3----||

xx x

If you find that it needs any corrections e-mail me at brazfam@juno.com

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