Burden in My Hand Soundgarden
Most of the tabs for this song seem to be pretty good, but I am far too lazy to
retune my guitar too often (or at all...), and I dont have a capo to use with the
ver 2 chords tab.
So this is rough transcription of that tab (with a some help from the great guitar
pro tab) into some barre chords for standard tuning. Not a perfect tab by any
means, but great for strumming away with an acoustic guitar without much bother.
Major credit must go to the author of chords ver 2, I've pulled some stuff
straight from that and changed the chord names.
Chords:
EADGBe
C - x35553
D#- x68886
A#- 688766
[G] [-] [355433]
[G#-] [466544]
[F#-] [244322]
[F] [-] [133211]
Verses :
The verses all follow the same pattern. Listen to the song to figure out the exact
timings, this is just a rough guide.
[C]Follow me in[D#]to the desert
As th[A#]irsty as you ar[C]e
[C]Crack a smile and c[D#]ut your mouth
And d[A#]rown in alcohol[C]
And so on and so forth. Now, the trick is to hit the low string/s (i'm very lazy!)
twice each time you make a chord change. 'duh duh strum strum strum'. Except maybe
on that second C in each section, it just sounds like strumming to me. Listen to
the song, you'll figure it out!
Pre Chorus:
This is a little tricky. There are some odd timings here. Having the song is
helpful, but I strongly recommend the Guitar Pro tab, its really good for figuring
out the timing of the last bit.
This from the chords ver 2 tab seems to work well enough:
[D#]Oh no[C]
[D#]There she g[C]oes
Then the tricky bit:
[D#]Out in the[C] s[D#]uns[C]hi[CC]ne [D#]the sun [C]is[D#] mi[C]ne[CC] th[D#]e sun is mi[C]ne[CC] [D#] [C] [CC] [G] [D#] [C]
Chorus:
This is a good chorus, with that great little descending tune after each line.
Again, this is very rough timing for the chord changes, listen to song! Its pretty
simple here.
[C]I shot my l[A#]ove today wo[G#]uld you cr[D#]y for me[A#] [F#] [F]
[C]I lost my h[A#]ead again wo[G#]uld you li[D#]e for me[A#] [F#] [F]
[C]I left her [A#]in the sand [G#]just a bur[D#]den in my h[A#]and[F#] [F]
[C]I lost my h[A#]ead again wo[G#]uld you cr[D#]y for me[A#] [F#] [F]
At the end of playing the A# slide down to the G#. Then continue to play the G# as
per the song.
Bridge:
Taken pretty much from chords ver 2
Play each chord 3 times
[C]Just a burden in my [D#]hand
[C]Just an anchor on my [G#]heart
J[C]ust a tumor in my h[G#]ead[A#] [F#] [F]
Last chorus - repeat the second part of the last line; thats the part from G#
onwards ('would you cry for me'). Then right at the end, it sounds like another C
D# C, like in the prechorus.
Thats it! Well, not really, but from there you can figure it out, and be as
accurate or as lazy as you please. Hope this helps someone, I really just wanted
to play that great chorus riff without re-tuning and such.
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