#-------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpetaion of the song.You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research #--------------------------------------------------------------------# "Rooster," by Alice in Chains 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-----|------- ^ |