Author/Artist: Dave Matthews Band
Title: The Stone
Album: Before These Crowded Streets
Transcribed by: Adam Strachn
Email: CookieMonster912@hotmail.com

This one has a very tricky rhythm. As always, I added the times
of when each part comes in. I have tabbed this off Listener Supported Video.
The way he plays the intro and verse he mutes the low E and the B and high E strings. This again is a very strange way to play. But then again, it’s Dave Matthews.

Intro -
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-----2---------------------|
---------3---5--5--2-3--2--|
-5-------------------------|
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Verse – (0:49)
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
----2---------------------3-------------------2------------0-----------|
--------3---5-5---2-3--2-----5-5---2-3--2---------3-----3-----0-----2--|
-5------------------------1----------------5---------1-----------3-----|
--------------------------3--------------------------------------------|
                          *           * = strum this chord several times

Then the Intro: 1:39

Then play the Verse: 1:51

Chorus – (“Wondering if you’d come along . . .”, 2:17)
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----------------------------------------------------------------|
-5--5--5--5--5----5--5--5--5--5--5----5--5--5--5----5--5--5--5--|I play it
-3--3--3--3--3----2--2--2--2--2--2------------------------------|this way
--------------------------------------5--5--5--5----3--3--3--3--|
----------------------------------------------------------------|


Post Chorus – (“Or I will go . . .”, 2:36)
-----------------------|--------------------|
-----------------------|--------------------|The second bar is when Dave
-----------------------|--------------------|is playing with the band and he
-----------------------|--x--x--x--x--x--x--|plays the post chorus intensely
-----7-------5------8--|--x--7--x--5--x--8--|
-5-------8-------6-----|--5--5--8--8--6--6--|

Then the Verse: 2:42

Then the Chorus: 3:08

Then the Verse: 3:34

Then play the Chorus: 3:58

Then play the Intro: 4:24

Then the Verse: 4:36


Outro – (5:02)
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----------------------------------------------------------------|
-5--5--5--5--5----5--5--5--5--5--5----5--5--5--5----5--5--5--5--|
-3--3--3--3--3----2--2--2--2--2--2------------------------------|
--------------------------------------5--5--5--5----3--3--3--3--|
----------------------------------------------------------------|

The way Dave plays this next part he mutes every string but the one he is hitting. It is very weird.

This is palm muted . . .
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------5----5---5-5-----5---5----5--|
----10---10---10-10------10---10---10-10-----------------------------------|
-/8----8----8----------7----7----7---------5----5----5------3----3---3-----|
---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Play this 8 times -
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-x--x--x--x--x--x--|(6:57)
-x--7--x--5--x--8--|
-5--5--8--8--6--6--|

He double times the above riff at the very end. It's madness!

That’s All She Wrote !!