Rooster tab by Alice In Chains

"Rooster," by Alice in Chains (written by Jerry Cantrell)
Tablature approximated to best of ability by Rob Goggins
(rob@praline.nrlssc.navy.mil)

There are two hard parts of this song. The first is to get the right
tuning--it's what I call the "drop F#" tuning--lower the G string 1/2
step to an F#. Whew, that was easy. The other hard part is notated later.

In addition, Alice in Chains detunes everything by 1/2 step, so the
actual tuning is (low freq to hi freq) Eb, Ab, Db, F, Bb, Eb. But I'm
going to pretend were using E, A, D, F#, B, E. Here goes....

intro, verse:

    F#5   A5~Asus2
Eb-> E 02-0----5--0--0-
Bb-> B 02-0----5--0--0-
F--> F# 00-0----7--3--3-  repeat for duration of intro, 2 verses
Db-> D 44-4----7--2--2-  (Ain't found a way....leads me to nowhere)
Ab-> A 44-4----0--0--0-
Eb-> E 02-0----|-------

pre-chorus:

B    Asus2  F#5       B   Asus2
|-------0-------02-0----|-------|-------0-------
0-------0-------02-0----|-------0-------0-------
0-------3-------00-0----|-------0-------3-------
4-------2-------44-4----|-------4-------2-------
2-------0-------44-4----|-------2-------0-------
|-------|-------02-0----|-------|-------|-------
Here they come...        Yeah, here comes the Rooster...


chorus:

F#5   Asus2  F#5
02-0----0-------|--0----
02-0----0-------|--0----
00-0----3-------|--0---- repeated several times
44-4----2-------|--4----
44-4----0---4320|--4----
02-0----|-------0--0----
  ^  ^     ^
  |  |     |
  |  CRUNCH!  OBCRUNCH!
  CRUNCH!
    You know he ain't gonna die...


"interlude riff":

F#5   E    F#5   Asus2
|-------|-------|-------|-------
|-------|-------|-------|-------
|-------|-------|-------|------- repeat 2 more times
|-------|-------|-------|-------
2124----4--2--4-1-------|-------
2--2----0-------|20-----|-------
            ^
            |
            ********************************************
            *This is the hardest part of the song...  *
            *the guitar plays nothing here, even though*
            *you ache to crunch out an Asus2!     *
            ********************************************

Come out into another pre-chorus, chorus, verse, pre-chorus, chorus,
and then outro. Don't step on any mines while playing (even though
it'd be COOL!).


enjoy