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Man in the Box Guitar Tablature
tabbed by:tom moore
alice in chains, man in the box

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-5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5-------------------------------------
-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0----AND SO ON------------------------

This will be the begginning verse, which is a pretty simple 2 chord 
riff, it doesn't take much work.  Listen to the CD for proper 
strumming patterns.  It's played a bunch of times then launches into 
this...

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---5---5---5---5---5---5-----------------------------------------------
---5---5---5---5---5---5-----------------------------------------------
---3---3---3---3---3---3------AND SO ON BACK TO THE VERSE RIFF --------

Then the re-visited verse riff goes right into the chorus...

---0-----3----2----0----0-0-0------------------------------------------
---0-----3----3----2----2h3-0------------------------------------------
---x-----0----2----2---------------------------------------------------
---2-----0----0----2---------------------------------------------------
---2-----2---------0---------------------------------------------------
---0-----3-------------------------------------------------------------

You can go a little crazy with these chords or play the power chords
shown below.

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-----------7-----------------------------------------------------------
-----------7-----------------------------------------------------------
---2---5---7---7---5---------------------------------------------------
---2---5---5---7---5---------------------------------------------------
---0---3-------5---3-----AND SO ON-------------------------------------

That's about it...there's of course the solo, which is beyond my 
patience, but the rhthym section is the verse and pre-chorus.

There's also a nifty way to play the song on acoustic as follows
The verse (CD FOR STRUMMING)...   The pre chorus

--0--------------------------------3---1--2--3-------------------------
--3--------------------------------3---1--2--3-------------------------
--4--------------------------------4---2--3--4-------------------------
--2--------------------------------5---3--4--5-------------------------
--5--------------------------------5---3--4--5-------------------------
--0--------------------------------3---1--2--3-------------------------

The chorus is identical to the chord version above, but there's a 
nifty lead riff that sounds good acoustic that can bridge into the 
chorus as follows...

---0-0-0-------------0-------------------------------------------------
---3/5-3-------------0-------------------------------------------------
--------2h4-0--------0------------------------------------------------- 
---------------0/2---2-------------------------------------------------
---------------------2-------------------------------------------------
-------------------0---------------------------------------------------
And that goes right into the normal chorus.

well this is the first song i tabbed by ear so here ya go hope ya like it.......
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