SOUNDGARDEN - "fresh deadly roses" Tablature

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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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