GOO GOO DOLLS - "iris5" Tablature
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Iris
Standard Tuning (EADGBe)
(Listen to the song for the strumming pattern; I'm just listing the fingerings. This isn't perfectly exact, but it sounds damn near it.)
Intro (repeat x2):
[e]-x---x-x---x---x-----
[B]-x---x-x---x---x-----
[G]-7---6h7---4---2-----
[D]-0---0-0---0---0-----
[A]-0---0-0---0---0-----
[E]-7---7-7---3---2-----
Verse:
[e]-------x-------------x------------x---------x--
[B]-------x-------------x------------x---------x--
[G]-------4-------------6------------7---------7--
[D]-------0-------------0------------0---------0--
[A]-------0-------------0------------0---------0--
[E]-------3-------------5------------7---------7--
And I'd give up forever to touch you...
'Cos I know that you feel me some how...
Et cetera.
Just play these as it flows with the lyrics -- I tabbed it with the chord directly above the lyrics it's hit on. I generally play it with a simple, relaxed ddudu strumming pattern on each chord. Down, down up down up. It's easy. You can get it. This song is technically a waltz, I suppose, so the strumming pattern would be counted like this: "1 2 and 3 and 1 2 and 3 and" with the upstrokes coming on the 'ands.' It's really simple. Don't make it more complicated than it should be.
Chorus is the same chord progression as the verse, with the chords hitting on "and I DON'T want the WORLD to SEE me..." et cetera.
After the chorus, you play the intro riff again, and then go into the second verse, and then the chorus again.
After the chorus, you play the intro riff again, a little heavier, and then for the big [DUNNA DUNNA, DUNNA DUNNA] part (if you know the song, you know what I'm talking about), you play this:
[e]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx-x-x-x--x--x-----------------
[B]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx-x-x-x--x--x-----------------
[G]--2-\--7777-x-6666-x-6-7--4--2----------------- (play twice)
[D]--0-\--0000-x-0000-x-0-0--0--0-----------------
[A]--0-\--0000-x-0000-x-0-0--0--0-----------------
[E]--2-\--7777-x-7777-x-7-7--3--2-----------------
^ ^ each of these a few times, matching
the strumming pattern of the intro.
[e]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx-x-x-x--x--x-----------------
[B]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx-x-x-x--x--x-----------------
[G]--2-\--7777-x-9999-x-6-7--4--2-----------------
[D]--0-\--0000-x-0000-x-0-0--0--0-----------------
[A]--0-\--0000-x-0000-x-0-0--0--0-----------------
[E]--2-\--7777-x-7777-x-7-7--3--2-----------------
[e]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx---
[B]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx---
[G]--2-\--7777-x-9999---
[D]--0-\--0000-x-0000---
[A]--0-\--0000-x-0000---
[E]--2-\--7777-x-7777--- And leads into the...
~SOLO~ (this is where it gets fun)
For the solo, it's best to have at least some light distortion and a little reverb to help hold the notes out for the full duration; otherwise, they'll just taper off. We don't want that, now do we? No.
[e]-----------------------------------------------
[B]-----------------------------------------------
[G]--2-/-7-6~~----2-/-7-9-11---2-/-7--11-\-6------
[D]-----------------------------------------------
[A]-----------------------------------------------
[E]-----------------------------------------------
[e]-----------------------------------------------
[B]-----------------------------------------------
[G]--6-\-2-4-/-16~~~~--2-/-7--9-11---14--18-19-18-
[D]-----------------------------------------------
[A]-----------------------------------------------
[E]-----------------------------------------------
[e]-----------------------------------------------
[B]-----------------------------------------------
[G]--14-11-/-18~~~~~~~----------------------------
[D]-----------------------------------------------
[A]-----------------------------------------------
[E]-----------------------------------------------
Resume with a soft, clean strumming of the verse/chorus chord progression, and fade out...
Then, bust into the chorus again, twice. Between the two, play:
[e]-----------------------------------------------
[B]-----------------------------------------------
[G]---7-7777-7-7777-9-9999-9-11-11-11-11----------
[D]---0-0000-0-0000-0-0000-0-0--0--0--0-----------
[A]---0-0000-0-0000-0-0000-0-0--0--0--0-----------
[E]---7-7777-7-7777-9-9999-9-11-11-11-11----------
Play and sing the last line three more times (four in total) at the end, and then fade out playing the verse/chorus chord progression.
All in all, I think it's a fun song to play, and it really impresses people for some reason, though it's incredibly simple. It took me maybe an hour to learn it completely, and that was from a combination of other people's tabs and my own ear for music. I realized that "so-and-so's" tab wasn't correct, but I was too lazy to formally correct it, so I just played it the way I thought it should be played.
You can also have a second guitar, maybe an acoustic, behind the electric playing a simple Bm A G progression in time with the electric part. Or not. It probably sounds better, though I haven't taken the time to get together with anyone and actually play it that way.
The solo almost needs a back-up guitarist playing the chord progression, though, that way you can make the transition back into the song more smoothly, rather than the way I do it, which is play the solo, hold out the 18 on the G string, then just fade into the little progression, and then fade back out before I do the final choruses. It's your decision, I suppose, since you're the one playing it, and not me. Whatever.
Have fun.
Standard Tuning (EADGBe)
(Listen to the song for the strumming pattern; I'm just listing the fingerings. This isn't perfectly exact, but it sounds damn near it.)
Intro (repeat x2):
[e]-x---x-x---x---x-----
[B]-x---x-x---x---x-----
[G]-7---6h7---4---2-----
[D]-0---0-0---0---0-----
[A]-0---0-0---0---0-----
[E]-7---7-7---3---2-----
Verse:
[e]-------x-------------x------------x---------x--
[B]-------x-------------x------------x---------x--
[G]-------4-------------6------------7---------7--
[D]-------0-------------0------------0---------0--
[A]-------0-------------0------------0---------0--
[E]-------3-------------5------------7---------7--
And I'd give up forever to touch you...
'Cos I know that you feel me some how...
Et cetera.
Just play these as it flows with the lyrics -- I tabbed it with the chord directly above the lyrics it's hit on. I generally play it with a simple, relaxed ddudu strumming pattern on each chord. Down, down up down up. It's easy. You can get it. This song is technically a waltz, I suppose, so the strumming pattern would be counted like this: "1 2 and 3 and 1 2 and 3 and" with the upstrokes coming on the 'ands.' It's really simple. Don't make it more complicated than it should be.
Chorus is the same chord progression as the verse, with the chords hitting on "and I DON'T want the WORLD to SEE me..." et cetera.
After the chorus, you play the intro riff again, and then go into the second verse, and then the chorus again.
After the chorus, you play the intro riff again, a little heavier, and then for the big [DUNNA DUNNA, DUNNA DUNNA] part (if you know the song, you know what I'm talking about), you play this:
[e]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx-x-x-x--x--x-----------------
[B]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx-x-x-x--x--x-----------------
[G]--2-\--7777-x-6666-x-6-7--4--2----------------- (play twice)
[D]--0-\--0000-x-0000-x-0-0--0--0-----------------
[A]--0-\--0000-x-0000-x-0-0--0--0-----------------
[E]--2-\--7777-x-7777-x-7-7--3--2-----------------
^ ^ each of these a few times, matching
the strumming pattern of the intro.
[e]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx-x-x-x--x--x-----------------
[B]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx-x-x-x--x--x-----------------
[G]--2-\--7777-x-9999-x-6-7--4--2-----------------
[D]--0-\--0000-x-0000-x-0-0--0--0-----------------
[A]--0-\--0000-x-0000-x-0-0--0--0-----------------
[E]--2-\--7777-x-7777-x-7-7--3--2-----------------
[e]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx---
[B]--x-\--xxxx-x-xxxx---
[G]--2-\--7777-x-9999---
[D]--0-\--0000-x-0000---
[A]--0-\--0000-x-0000---
[E]--2-\--7777-x-7777--- And leads into the...
~SOLO~ (this is where it gets fun)
For the solo, it's best to have at least some light distortion and a little reverb to help hold the notes out for the full duration; otherwise, they'll just taper off. We don't want that, now do we? No.
[e]-----------------------------------------------
[B]-----------------------------------------------
[G]--2-/-7-6~~----2-/-7-9-11---2-/-7--11-\-6------
[D]-----------------------------------------------
[A]-----------------------------------------------
[E]-----------------------------------------------
[e]-----------------------------------------------
[B]-----------------------------------------------
[G]--6-\-2-4-/-16~~~~--2-/-7--9-11---14--18-19-18-
[D]-----------------------------------------------
[A]-----------------------------------------------
[E]-----------------------------------------------
[e]-----------------------------------------------
[B]-----------------------------------------------
[G]--14-11-/-18~~~~~~~----------------------------
[D]-----------------------------------------------
[A]-----------------------------------------------
[E]-----------------------------------------------
Resume with a soft, clean strumming of the verse/chorus chord progression, and fade out...
Then, bust into the chorus again, twice. Between the two, play:
[e]-----------------------------------------------
[B]-----------------------------------------------
[G]---7-7777-7-7777-9-9999-9-11-11-11-11----------
[D]---0-0000-0-0000-0-0000-0-0--0--0--0-----------
[A]---0-0000-0-0000-0-0000-0-0--0--0--0-----------
[E]---7-7777-7-7777-9-9999-9-11-11-11-11----------
Play and sing the last line three more times (four in total) at the end, and then fade out playing the verse/chorus chord progression.
All in all, I think it's a fun song to play, and it really impresses people for some reason, though it's incredibly simple. It took me maybe an hour to learn it completely, and that was from a combination of other people's tabs and my own ear for music. I realized that "so-and-so's" tab wasn't correct, but I was too lazy to formally correct it, so I just played it the way I thought it should be played.
You can also have a second guitar, maybe an acoustic, behind the electric playing a simple Bm A G progression in time with the electric part. Or not. It probably sounds better, though I haven't taken the time to get together with anyone and actually play it that way.
The solo almost needs a back-up guitarist playing the chord progression, though, that way you can make the transition back into the song more smoothly, rather than the way I do it, which is play the solo, hold out the 18 on the G string, then just fade into the little progression, and then fade back out before I do the final choruses. It's your decision, I suppose, since you're the one playing it, and not me. Whatever.
Have fun.
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