Counting Crows

Counting Crows - Suffocate guitar tab

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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 20:01:10 -0800
From: "Michael A. Mazur" 
Subject: TAB: Counting Crows, "Suffocate"

Tab: "Suffocate" Counting Crows
Transcribed by Michael A. Mazur (mmazur@wpi.edu)

As recorded live at the Hollywood Grand, 16 November, 1995


Intro and main riff (played by organ)
|-------------------|----------------|
|-------------------|----------------|
|--------1--1h2--4--|--------1h2-----|
|-------------------|-----2-------2--|
|-------------------|----------------|
|--0--0-------------|--0-------------|

Verse:
E (with main riff played by organ, guitar 1 enters with chords)
Come on ..
You want ...
Tell me ...
Don't say ...
Don't say ...

A
I am not ...
I'm much ...

(Back to main riff)

|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------| Guitar 2 doubles main riff, except replacing
|-------6b(7)r6-----| the second measure with this
|----------------7--|
|--0----------------|

So many ...
They drag all ..
Where they've ...
Well tell me ..
anywhere, but

A
You want me ...
But I'm so ...

Chorus:
E   B       A       * (guitar 2 plays fill 1)
How can ..
E   B       A
How can ...
E   B            A                      E  *(guitar 2 plays fill 2)
    I can't ...

 Fill 1           Fill 2
|--------------|-|----4--2p0-------|
|--5--4--2-----|-|------------4/5--|
|-----------2--|-|/4---------------|
|--------------|-|-----------------|
|--------------|-|-----------------|
|--------------|-|-----------------|


Verse 2: (organ and guitar 2 play simile to first verse)

Chorus

Bridge:
Organ sustains an E chord for 16 measures,
Guitar 1 enters after 8 measures, and then plays an E as well

Guitar 2 plays variations on these four measures for the whole
bridge, usually holding the last note over the next measure
|-----------|-------------|------------------|--------------|
|--4h5p4h5--|--5b(7)r5p4--|--4h5p4--5b(7)r5--|--4b(5)r4-----|
|-----------|-------------|------------------|-----------4--|
|-----------|-------------|------------------|--------------|
|-----------|-------------|------------------|--------------|
|-----------|-------------|------------------|--------------|

Verse 3: (The first half of the verse is skipped)

A
I can't ...
(guitars, organ tacet)
Don't you ...
I can hold ...

                     * (w/ fill 1, simile)
Chorus

(E B A progression continues)
How can ...
I can't ..
How can ..
I can't feel a... ..
I can't feel ..
progression changes to E B F#m, played twice, and then ends on E
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