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Drown Soda by Hole
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Tabbed by: Scott
NOTE: A slide is necessary to play this one correctly or it just won't sound right. I
have a glass bottleneck slide and that works well, I assume using a metal one wouldn't
make much difference. I am basing this off of the 1991 recording of this song that
appeared on the "Teenage Whore" single; the MTV Unplugged performance is played a little
differently and has a different outro (it's also acoustic, whereas this version is
played on electric), but they are very similar.
The slide goes on your index finger for this one, and the whole song is composed of
barre chords; note there is a lot of emphasis on the high E and the B strings throughout the
song. There is some crazy guitar texturing at the end that I'm not sure how to replicate
(almost sounds like a drain choking on water), but the chords underneath it are noted
here. I think this is the only song Hole ever did using a slide, kind of gives it a
droney and dark feeling.
Tuning: Standard
Intro/Verse:
Guitar 1 (with slide on index finger):
D5 E5 F#5 D5 E5 F#5
e|--5-5-5-5-5-/-7-7-/--9--\-5-5-5-5-5-/-7-7-/--9--------|
B|--5-5-5-5-5-/-7-7-/--9--\-5-5-5-5-5-/-7-7-/--9--------|
G|--7-7-7-7-7-/-9-9-/-11--\-7-7-7-7-7-/-9-9-/-11--------|
D|--7-7-7-7-7-/-9-9-/-11--\-7-7-7-7-7-/-9-9-/-11--------|
A|--5-5-5-5-5-/-7-7-/--9--\-5-5-5-5-5-/-7-7-/--9--------|
E|--0-0-0-0-0-/-0-0-/--0--\-0-0-0-0-0-/-0-0-/--0--------|
For a bigger sound, a second guitar can play the power chords underneath this:
D5 E5 F#5 D5 E5 F#5
e|-------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------|
G|--7-----------7-----11----7-----------9-----11---------|
D|--7-----------7-----11----7-----------9-----11---------|
A|--5-----------9------9----5-----------7------9---------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------|
Oh yeah, he wants to take you
Take you away from your life
Ooh yeah, he wants to take you
Take you away from your lives
Ooh yeah, he wants to take you
Get you away from my life
Ooh yeah, he wants to take you
Take you away from my life
Just you wait 'til everyone is hooked (x 4)
Ooh yeah, he wants to take you
Take you by the hand
Ooh, I wanna kill you
Baby, I know you'd understand
Ooh, you're gonna watch me
Watch me while I go down
For the following verses, sporadic muted jolts of the chords are played to carry the
melody, but the guitars are otherwise silent. On "drown", resume the regular intro/verse riff:
D5 E5 D5 E5 D5 E5
e|----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--7x-x-x-x-x-x---9x---7x-x-x-x-x-x---9---7x-x-x-x-x-x---9x------|
D|--7x-x-x-x-x-x---9x---7x-x-x-x-x-x---9---7x-x-x-x-x-x---9x------|
A|--5x-x-x-x-x-x---7x---5x-x-x-x-x-x---7---5x-x-x-x-x-x---7x------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|
Yeah, you're gonna watch me
I take you by the hand
Ooh, yeah, I wanna kill you
Baby, I know you understand
Ooh yeah, you're gonna watch me
Watch me while I go down
Ooh, you're gonna watch me
Watch me while I drown
Oh yeah, he wants to take you
Take you away from your life
Oh, I wanna kill you
Tell you about my lie
This is where the texturing on Erlandson's guitar gets wild and sounds like a
combination of fizzing soda and a drain choking on water (a fitting combination for the song).
Like I said, not sure how he does this as I'm not an expert of distortion and effects,
but these same D5 and E5 chords are buried under there. End the song on E5 and bend the hell
out of the strings:
D5 E5 D5 E5
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--7-7-7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9-9-9-------------|
D|--7-7-7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9-9-9--7-7-7-7-7-7--9-9-9-9-9-9-------------|
A|--5-5-5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5-5-5--7-7-7-7-7-7-------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
It's my lie and I believe in it
It's my lie and I wanted it
It's my bed and I'll bleed in it
It's my bed and I'll lie
...on the corner and I drink drown soda
I wanna bomb the whole state of Minnesota
The whole state of Minnesota
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