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Todds Ship Gods Above All Things

Type O Negative
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

Artist: Type O Negative

Album: Life Is Killing Me

Song: Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)

Tabbed by D-Rock (drockny@yahoo.com)

h - hammer on

p - pull off

b - bend string up

r - release bend

/ - slide up

\ - slide down

~ - vibrato

x - play 'note' with heavy damping

Type-O tuning from low to high (B,E,A,D,F#,B)

I can't believe no one has transcribed this truly amazing tune from my favorite band!

It's not very complicated but it sounds great!

INTRO: eerie sounds from the shipyard by Josh

(Kenny comes in with dist.)

||--------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------------------|
||---------------------0--2--2222-------------------------------------|
||--/12----0—-2--2222--------------0--2--5—5p4--/12-------------------|
||------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------||

||------------------------------------------|| (Repeat)

||------------------------------------------||
||--------------0--2--2222--------0---------||
||--0—-2--2222--------------0--2-----/12----||

VERSE: light dist. with chorus & reverb (keyboard arranged for guitar)

"Grease, sweat, coffee, faded shipyard..." (3 times)

||---------------------------------------------------|---------------||
||--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--------------------------|---------------||
||---9--9—-9--9--9--9--9--9—-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-|--9---9-9-7-9--||
||----------------------------9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9-|--7---7-7-7-7--||
||---------------------------------------------------|---------------||
||---------------------------------------------------|---------------||
||---------------------------------------------------|---------------||

CHORUS: back to dist. (Pete is throwing in extra licks on bass)

"Humming..." (2 times) "I won't cry..."

||------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||------------------------------|------------------------------------||
||------------------------------|-----------6------8-----------------||
||--8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8---6-6-6-----|----8------4------6-----------------||
||--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6---4-4-4---6-|----6-------------------------------||
||----------------------------4-|------------------------------------||

SOLO: could be Josh on keys or Kenny playing it on guitar with chorus and delay;

it sounds really sweet.

(w/feedback)

||--~14-----|-14-14-14-14p12-12-12-12p11-11-11-11---------------------|
||----------|-------------------------------------12-12-10-10-10-10---|
||----------|---------------------------------------------------------|
||----------|---------------------------------------------------------|
||----------|---------------------------------------------------------|
||----------|---------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------|-14-14-14-14p12-12-12-12p11-11-11-11------------|
||-14-14-14-14-12-12-|-------------------------------------12-12-10~10|
||-------------------|------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------|------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------|------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------|------------------------------------------------|

(still hold note) (fade out Kenny slowly turns off vol.)

||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||-(~10)----------14-14-12-12----------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------~~~~9-------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------------||

Well that's the song. Any questions/comments feel free to email me.

Enjoy!

"Around the Pyre, a circle of thirteen

Thoughout these woods, ecstatic screams!"

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