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Fresh Deadly Roses

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

Song

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#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #

#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #

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Greetings and salutations!

This is a transcription of Soundgarden's Fresh Deadly Roses. Its only

available on some import my DJ roommate in college had, but it's a very

cool song if you can find it (Ultramega OK??? I'm not sure). Very simple

guitar, but very cool. The intro and verse are played with a bright, half-

distorted guitar sound, letting the chords and intervals ring.

Slides and hammerons are denoted by the underscores between notes on the

TAB (a la ---9_10---- ).

Intro and verse:

{ 2 times } s ( 4 times )

1---------------------------------------------9------9---------8-----------
2--5--------5----------4--------4---------------9------9---9-----8---8-----
3----5-5-5----5-5-5------5-5-5-----5-5-5--5_6-----6------6---------5-------

4--------------------------------------------------------------------------

5--------------------------------------------------------------------------

6--------------------------------------------------------------------------

{ heavy vibrato }

Kim goes through that pattern a few times, and before the chorus he changes

into this nifty little atonal type thing:

Change into chorus:

h

1--------8--------------8--------------8-----------------------------------
2----8-----8---8----8-----8---8----8-----8---8----8------------------------
3------5-----5--------5-----5--------5-----5--------5--5_7-----------------
4--7--------------6--------------7--------------6----------6---------------
5------------------------------------------------------------5-------------

6--------------------------------------------------------------------------

The chorus is played with the Seattle super grunge mud-o-riffic beef sound.

Chorus:

( 4 times )

1--------------------------------------------------------------------------

2--------------------------------------------------------------------------

3-----------_7-------------------------------------------------------------

4---------------6----------------------------------------------------------
5--2--2-2-2-------5--------------------------------------------------------
6--0--0-0-0----------------------------------------------------------------

This verse-chorus sequence is repeated twice. Then they go into the bridge,

once again in that super-thud distortiom. It's just chords, here's the chart.

Bridge:

A G A G A G F# G D C D C D C B C

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

Hope you can find this song, or someone can turn you on to it. It's a grunge

classic.

Scare the neighbors,

Brian Smith

brian_t@ix.netcom.com

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