Deftones - "Beware (The Water)"
Tabbed by: Cory McKnight
Email: sic133mhz@hotmail.com
Tuning: Drop D
Ok, I'm doing this tab just so that people can play along with
this awesome song. I know for a fact that most of this is not
what Chino plays, but it's better than nothing. Stephen plays a
second seven string guitar tuned down to somewhere in the
neighborhood of drop Bb or something, but we won't worry about
that.
Intro: Just some static/feedback from Stephen's guitar, then the
keyboard part below comes in.
Verse: Keyboard part for guitar
("You should know...")
e|---------------------------------------------------|
B|--4---4---4---4------------------------------------|
G|----5---5---5---5--(repeat until pre-chorus)-------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
Pre-Chorus: Keyboard part for guitar
("Do you like the way...")
e|---------------------------------------------------|
B|--2---2---2---2------------------------------------|
G|----5---5---5---5--(repeat until chorus)-----------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
Chorus:
("Beware the water...")
There's a lot of octaves that you can play around with, but I like these:
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|--12-12-12-12---8-8-8-8---15-15-15-15---10-10--8-8--|
D|--x--x--x--x----x-x-x-x---x--x--x--x----x--x---x-x--|
A|--10-10-10-10---6-6-6-6---13-13-13-13---8--8---6-6--|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
2nd VERSE: Same as above
2nd PRE-CHORUS: Same as above
2nd CHORUS:
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|--12-12-12-12---8-8-8-8---15-15-15-15---10-10--8-8--|
D|--x--x--x--x----x-x-x-x---x--x--x--x----x--x---x-x--|
A|--10-10-10-10---6-6-6-6---13-13-13-13---8--8---6-6--|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|--15-15-15-15---8-8-8-8---12-12-12-12---10-10--8-8--|
D|--x--x--x--x----x-x-x-x---x--x--x--x----x--x---x-x--|
A|--13-13-13-13---6-6-6-6---10-10-10-10---8--8---6-6--|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
Post-Chorus:
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------|
D|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--|
Bridge:
("Teeth are dry...")
e|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------|
D|-11-10--11-10--11-10--11-10--(repeat until chorus)--|
3rd CHORUS: Play all the way through, then play:
Chorus Variation:
("Ahh...ahh...oh")
Play this twice, then play the second part of the chorus
e|------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------|
G|--12-12-12-12--10-10--8-8-----------|
D|--x--x--x--x---x--x---x-x-----------|
A|--10-10-10-10--8--8---6-6-----------|
D|------------------------------------|
Post-Chorus:
(Slightly different)
e|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------|
D|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--(repeat four times)--|
PAUSE
Outro:
(Abe hits his hi-hat to signal when to start playing)
e|-----------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------|
D|-10-10-11-10--10-13-11-10-10--10-10-11-10--6---|
A|-10-10-11-10--10-13-11-10-10--10-10-11-10--6---|
D|-10-10-11-10--10-13-11-10-10--10-10-11-10--6---|
That's about all there is to it. The rhythm on the outro will take
a little while to get used to, but just listen to the song and you'll
pick it up. Hope you guys find this helpful, and don't forget to buy Deftones' new CD
Night Wrist" on October 31st, 2006!!!
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
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