Spineshank: Smothered

This is an awesome song from the new release Self-Destructive Patterns
Tabbed By: Luke Myers
Email: [email protected]

It sounds Right in this Tuning
Bb F Bb Eb G C

Intro/Fill 1/Outro – Every second time the riff is played do the alternate ending

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			Ending A     Ending B

Verse Part A – you can do a quick up down pick with this or take the easy way out and probably the correct way  and fiddle with a delay/echo pedal till you get it right – at the tart mute it and slowly release as you play.

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...The black and cold reminds me of all the distance we have crossed

Verse Part B – Just do a hell of a lot of bends here, you’ll figure it out when you listen to it

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...But I’m not the one that seeks your protection

Chorus
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-----7-7---9---3-3---5---0-0---2---7-7---9---10-10---12----55---7---
-----7-7-------3-3-------0-0-------7-7-------10-10---------55-------
-----7-7-------3-3-------0-0-------7-7-------10-10---------55-------
...You push from the inside ... Smothered

Bridge
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...I will never win, I will never win with you

Fill 2
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--00--------00------------------|--9-7-9-10---
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--00--------00------------------|--9-7-9-10--- Straight Back into Chorus Riff
...I reach you, I feel you 

Song Progression
Intro		x4
Verse part a 	x2
Verse part b	             x2
Chorus		x2
Fill 1		x2
Verse part a	             x2
Verse part b	             x2
Chorus		x2
Bridge		x2
Fill 2		x2
Chorus		x2
Bridge		x2
Outro		x2