_____________
/ Tool / Beneath Keenan's weird complex lyrical style, I think this
/ Lateralus / song is about trying to let yourself go and follow your
/ Lateralus / impulses and see where they take you. It's about letting go
/____________/ of whatever is holding you back from being free.
*At the bottom of the page I've added a tablature explanation to make these
complicated things a lot less complicated, check it out if you're new to this!
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* Check out my Guitar Pro-version of the song, just follow the link: *
* http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/t/tool/lateralus_ver3_guitar_pro.htm *
* *
* ...and check out my guitar tab for it as well: *
* http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/t/tool/lateralus_ver6_tab.htm *
* *
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Tuning: Drop D (D A D G)
Bass I - Lead track throughout the entire song
Bass II - Harmonies in the Bridge and support in the whammy pedal-part
Intro:
Q=112
4/4
Bass I
|-3-| |3| |-3-| |3| |-3-| |3| |-3-| |3|
E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q 4x
||--------------------------|--------------------------||
||o-0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----|-0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----o||
||o-------------------------|-------------------------o||
||--------------------------|--------------------------||
(To remember how long to play the intro, follow the guitar.
First it plays this 2-bars-long figure 4 times...)
|-3-| |3| |-3-| |3| |-3-| |3| |-3-| |3|
E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q
||--------------------------|-------------------------|
||o-0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----|-0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----|
||o-------------------------|-------------------------|
||--------------------------|-------------------------|
|-3-| |3| |-3-| |3| |-3-| |3| |-3-| |3|
E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q 6x
|-------------------------|--------------------------||
|-0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----|-0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----o||
|-------------------------|-------------------------o||
|-------------------------|--------------------------||
(...then this 4-bars-long figure 6 times...)
|-3-| |3| |-3-| |3| |-3-| |3| |-3-| |3|
E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q E E E E Q
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----|-0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
(...and finally the first half the previous figure.)
1st Chorus:
Q=88
9/8 8/8
E. e S E. e S S S S S S S E. e S E. e S S S S S
||--------------------------------|---------------------------|
||o-------------------------------|---------------------------|
||o-------------------------------|---------------------------|
||--0---0--x-0---0--x-5-5-5-0-3-0-|-3---3--x-3---3--x-5-5-3-0-|
1.,2. 3.
7/8 7/8
S E e S E E E E S E e S E E S S E
|---------------------------||------------------------|
|--------------------------o||------------------------|
|--------------------------o||------------------------|
|-3-5--5--x-5--3--/10--12---||-3-5--5--5-5--3--3h5-3--|
(I'll use these lines as reference later, so notice that the third round is
different than the two first rounds)
1st Verse:
5/8
E H % 7x
|-------------||-------------||
|-------------||o-----------o||
|-------------||o-----------o||
|-0-----------||-------------||
" Black then white are all i see in my infancy
Red and yellow then came to be
Reaching out to me
Let's me see "
Interlude:
E E E E E E E E E E 4x
||------------5--|-----------7---||
||o-0-----/3-----|-0-----/5-----o||
||o---0----------|---0----------o||
||------0--------|-----0---------||
2nd Verse:
E E E E E E E E E E 4x
||------------5--|-----------7---||
||o-0-----/3-----|-0-----/5-----o||
||o---0----------|---0----------o||
||------0--------|-----0---------||
5/8 3/8
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S 4x E S S S S E S S S S
||----------------------|----------------------||------------|------------|
||o---------------------|---------------------o||------------|------------|
||o---------------------|---------------------o||------------|------------|
||--7-5-3-0---0-3-3-3-3-|-0-0-0-0---0-5-5-5-5--||----5-5-5-5-|----5-5-5-5-|
" As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
Drawn beyond the lines of reason
Push the envelope
Watch it bend "
2nd Chorus:
Similar to 1st Chorus.
" Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition
Missing opportunities
And I must feed my will to feel my moment
Drawing way outside the lines "
3rd Verse:
Similar to 1st Verse.
" Black then white are all i see in my infancy
Red and yellow then came to be
Reaching out to me
Let's me see "
4th Verse:
4x
||------------5-|-----------7--||
||o--------/3---|--------/5---o||
||o-5--0-------|-5--0-------o||
||--------------|--------------||
" There is so much more and beckons me
To look through to these infinite possibilities"
5th Verse:
4x
||------------5-|-----------7--||
||o--------/3---|--------/5---o||
||o-5--0-------|-5--0-------o||
||--------------|--------------||
3/8
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S 4x E S S S S
||----------------------|----------------------||------------|
||o---------------------|---------------------o||------------| (note that a bar
||o---------------------|---------------------o||------------| is cut out here)
||--7-5-3-0---0-3-3-3-3-|-0-0-0-0---0-5-5-5-5--||----5-5-5-5-|
" As below, so above and beyond, I imagine
Drawn outside the lines of reason
Push the envelope
Watch it bend "
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* The syllables of Keenan's lyrics in the verses form parts of the Fibonacci *
* sequence. The number of syllables progress from the 1st to the 6th step of *
* the sequence, descends down to the 1st step, up to the 7th step, and *
* finally back down to the 4th step. By the way did you notice how the time *
* signatures of the chorus relates to the 16th step of the sequence, which *
* is the number of "987"? *
* *
* The Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, *
* 377, 610, 987... *
* *
* [1] black *
* [1] then *
* [2] white are *
* [3] all I see *
* [5] in my infancy *
* [8] red and yellow then came to be *
* [5] reaching out to me *
* [3] lets me see *
* [2] there is *
* [1] so *
* [1] much *
* [2] more and *
* [3] beckons me *
* [5] to look through to these *
* [8] infinite possibilities *
* [13] as below so above and beyond I imagine *
* [8] drawn outside the lines of reason *
* [5] push the envelope *
* [3] watch it bend *
* *
* The Fibonacci sequence shares some mathematical relations with Phi (it's a *
* bit complex...!), which is a mystic number that many structures in nature *
* are designed from. It is somehow used to describe the introvert progression *
* of a spiral. Maynard mentions spirals a couple of times later, doesn't he? *
* Another theory is the order of colours seen on an LSD trip. Alex Grey *
* (the Rather spiritualistic artist who did the album artwork) stated when *
* he closed his eyes on an LSD trip, he saw a black and white spiral, *
* and when he tried it a few more times it became a red and yellow spiral. *
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3rd Chorus:
Similar to the other choruses, just quit the first round.
" Over thinking, over analyzing
Separates the body from the mind
Withering my intuition leaving opportunities behind "
1st Guitar Solo:
Similar to the 1st and 2nd Chorus, just swap the second and third round around.
Post-Chorus:
Play then first round of a Chorus, then this:
E. S E E E E E. S E E E E E. S E E E E E. E. E E E
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------------|
|-------------3--0--|-5---5-------3--0--|-------------3--0--|-5----------3--0--|
|-0---0-3--5--------|-------3--5--------|-0---0-3--5--------|-----3---5--------|
" Feed my will to feel this moment
Urging me to cross the line
Reaching out to embrace the random
Reaching out to embrace whatever may come "
Bridge:
Q=88 bpm
12/16
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E 4x
||------------------------|------------------------||
||o-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----o||
||o-----------------------|-----------------------o||
||------------------------|------------------------||
(this is exactly the same riff as in the intro, so don't be stunned by the look
of "12/16", it's just another way of indicating shuffled 4/4, but beacause of
the poly-rhythmic drum rhythms in 5/8... but I'd rather ignore that :)
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
||------------------------|-----------------------|
||o-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|
||o-----------------------|-----------------------|
||------------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E 4x
|-----------------------|------------------------||
|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----o||
|-----------------------|-----------------------o||
|-----------------------|------------------------||
(the guitar plays in with an extending 4-bars-long riff 4 times)
- From here Bass II plays in. Bass I contunies with this part:
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
||------------------------|-----------------------|
||o-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|
||o-----------------------|-----------------------|
||------------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E 4x
|-----------------------|------------------------||
|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----o||
|-----------------------|-----------------------o||
|-----------------------|------------------------||
(the guitar it plays this 4-bars-long riff 5 times,
where the fifth riff is different)
- This is Bass II's part starting a bar before Bass I's part right above:
Q. S S S S E
|-----------------------|
|------------3-3-3-3----|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5----|-3-3-3-3----3-3-3-3----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0----3-3-3-3----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5----|-3-3-3-3----3-3-3-3----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5----|-8-8-8-8----8-8-8-8----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E S S S S E
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5----|-3-3-3-3----3-3-3-3----|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|-----------------------|
S S S S E S S S S E S S S E. E. E.
|-----------------------|---------------------|
|-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0----|-3-3-3-3--/10---10--|
|-----------------------|---------------------|
|-----------------------|---------------------|
E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. Q. E. E.
|-7--7--7--7--|-5--5--5--5--|-------------|-----------------|
|-5--5--5--5--|-3--3--3--3--|-0--0--0--0--|-3----/10---10--|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------|
- And for now Bass II it out, and Bass I takes over:
6/8
Bass I
E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. Q. E. E.
||--7--7--7--7--|-5--5--5--5--|-------------|----------------||
||o-5--5--5--5--|-3--3--3--3--|-0--0--0--0--|-3----/10--10-o||
||o-------------|-------------|-------------|---------------o||
||--------------|-------------|-------------|----------------||
E. E. E. E. H.
|-7--7--7--7--|-5-----------|
|-5--5--5--5--|-3-----------|
|-------------|-------------|
|-------------|-------------|
" I embrace my desire to...
I embrace my desire
To feel the rhythm
To feel connected enough to step aside and weep like a widow
To feel inspired
To fathom the power
To witness the beauty
To bathe in the fountain
To swing on the spiral, to swing on the spiral
To swing on the spiral of our divinity
And still be a human "
2nd Guitar Solo:
E. E S Q S S E. E S S S S E. E. E. E. E. E. E. Q.
|-------------------|--------------------|-----------------|----------------|
|-5---5--5-5----5p0-|-3---3--3-3h5-5-3---|---------0-------|----------------|
|-------------------|--------------------|-----------------|----------------|
|-------------------|--------------------|-0---0-------0---|-3---3--/10-----|
E. E. E. E. E. E. S E E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E E E
|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------|
|-5---5---5---5---|-3---3---3h5--3---|---------0-------|------------------|
|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------|
|-----------------|------------------|-0---0-------0---|-3---3--/10-10-10-|
E. E. E. E. E. E. S S S E S E. E. S S S E. E. E. E E E
|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------|------------------|
|-5---5---5---5---|-3---3---3h5-5-5--5-|-------------------|------------------|
|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------|------------------|
|-----------------|--------------------|-0---0---0-0-0-0---|-3---3--/10-10-10-|
E. E. E. E S E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. Q.
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
|---------5--------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
|-5---5-------5--0-|-3---3---3---3---|-0---0---0---0---|-3---3--/10-----|
Q. S E S E E. E. S E S E
|-----------------|-------------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|
|-5-----5-5--5-5--|-3---3---5-5--5-5--|
Breakdown:
Q=86
6/8
H. H. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q.
|------------|------------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|------------|------------|-(17)-(17)-|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|------------|------------|-(10)-(10)-|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|------------|------------|--5-----5----|-5----5----|-5----5----|-5----5----|
Bass I uses a whammy pedal set to lift the note 1 octave, while Bass II's whammy
pedal lifts the note 2 octaves.
Strum the note with the pedal down and relese the pedal. For those who don't have
a whammy pedal, you can slide down from the notes in the brackets to obtain a
sound rather close to the whammy sound. The lower brackets are the notes of
Bass I, while the upper brackets are the notes of Bass II.
6th Verse:
Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q.
||--(21)-(19)-|-(21)-(24)-|-(21)-(19)-|-(24)-(21)-|
||o-(14)-(12)-|-(14)-(17)-|-(14)-(12)-|-(17)-(14)-|
||o-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
||--12----10----|-12----15----|-12----10----|-15----12----|
(Bass II actually first joins in second round.)
1.,2.
Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q.
|-------------|-----------|-----------|------------||
|-(17)-(17)-|-----------|-----------|-----------o||
|-(10)-(10)-|-----------|-----------|-----------o||
|--5-----5----|-5----5----|-5----5----|-5----5-----||
3.
Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q. Q.
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------|
|-5----5----|-5----5----|-5----5----|-5----5----|
" With my feet upon the ground
I move myself between the sounds
And open wide to suck it in
I feel it move across my skin
I'm reaching up and reaching out
I'm reaching for the random or what ever will bewilder me
What ever will bewilder me
And following our will and wind
We may just go where no one's been
We'll ride the spiral to the end
And may just go where no one's been "
Outro Verse:
Bass I
E. E. E S S S S E. E S E. E. 4x
||----------------------|--------------------||
||o-7---10---7--x-x-x-x-|-7---x--x-10---7---o||
||o-5----8---5--x-x-x-x-|-5---x--x--8---5---o||
||----------------------|--------------------||
" Spiral out, keep going
Spiral out, keep going
Spiral out, keep going
Spiral out, keep going "
Outro:
E. E S E E E E. E S E E E E. E S E E E E. E S E E E
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|-5-----------3-----|-5-----------3-----|-5-----------3-----|-5-----------3-----|
|-----3--3-5-----0--|-----3--3-5-----0--|-----3--3-5-----0--|-----3--3-5-----0--|
E. E S E E E E. E S E E E E. E S E Q H.
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|-5-----------3-----|-5-----------3-----|-5-----------------|-------------------|
|-----3--3-5-----0--|-----3--3-5-----0--|-----3--3-5--------|-------------------|
H. H. H. +Q. E. E. +Q Q Q
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------|-------------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------|-------------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------|-------------------|
|-0-----------|-3-----------|-5-----------|-(5)-----5---3---|-(3)---10----12----|
H. +H. +H. +H.
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
|-0-----------|-(0)---------|-(0)---------|-(0)---------|
- 15th /July /07
Just mail me at Maitinin@gmail.com with questions, comments and corrections!
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|-------------------------------- Tablature Guide --------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
(created by Maitinin, copy this as much as you'd like
to, but please don't forget to credit me, thank you!)
Tablatures (tabs) are an alternative way of writing the good old music sheets
in a standard text program! There are six horizontal lines and there are six
strings on your guitar... see some connection there? The low E-string is the
lowest line in the tab chart. The number indicated on the particular string is
the fret you are to play. "1" means to play at the fret closest to the neck, "0"
means to play the string open, x means to pick the string, while it is muted.
The bar lines look like this (as they also did in 1764):
Q=115 bpm
4/4
Gtr I
3x
|------------| ||------------------|| :------------:
|------------| ||o----------------o|| :------------:
|------------| ||------------------|| :------------:
|------------| ||------------------|| :------------:
|------------| ||o----------------o|| :------------:
|------------| ||------------------|| :------------:
...the first bar is the standard bar and indicates a single measure or bar. The
second one means to repeat something. "3x" means to PLAY the bar 3 times, not to
repeat it 3 times, which it is confused with often. The third one means free time,
but in popular it is rarely used for anything else than endings in songs, where the
timing of the ending isn't fully decided. Above the first bar it says "Q=115 bpm",
which is an indication for tempo. It means that during a minute there are 115
quarter beats ("bpm" stands for beats-per-minute). Below is the time signature
indicated.
"Gtr 1" indicated, which guitar is playing the particular part. In the beginning of
a tab is a short presentation of which guitars are playing in the song, in which
tuning the guitars are, and what effects are used, for instance:
Gtr IV (E A D G B E) - David Gilmour - clean electric w/flanger
Above every note in the tab charts, there is a letter. That is a rhythm indication.
These are the lengths of the notes the letters represent:
W = Whole note (4/4)
H = Half note (2/4)
Q = Quarter note (1/4)
E = 8th-part note (1/8)
S = 16th-part note (1/16)
T = 32nd-part note (1/32)
X = 64th-part note (1/64)
a = Grace note (acciaccatura)
When there is no note beneath the 'rhythm-letter', it means to rest for the
indicated time. When the letter is un-capitalized, it means that it is only half
of its length (staccato).
When the note is in brackets and there is a "+" in front of the letter above,
The note is "tied" to the previous note. It simply means that the note in brackets
is an extension of the previous note, so E +E = Q
When there is a dot behind the letter, it means that the letter is extended with
half of its own length, so E. = E +S
When there are two dots behind the letter, it means to extend the note with half of
its own length and half of the extension. It could be said simpler that the note is
extended with 3/4 its length, so Q.. = Q +E +S
|-3-| above the letters means that the letters beneath the line are triplets.
|-10-| equally means that the letters are dituplets... in case you can play that :P
Inside the tab chart there are lots of symbols/letters that indicate techniques
for the note they're connected to, I won't go into depth with each technique as
this is yet only a guide of understanding the tab, not the guitar. Here it is:
h = hammer-on
p = pull-off
b = bend
r = release bend
pb = pre-bend
s = slide
/ = slide (unspecified target note)
= natural harmonic
[n] = artificial harmonic
~ = vibrato
tr = trill
T = tap
TP = tremolo picking
PM = palm mute
n/ = tremolo bar
= = connection devise for hammer-ons, pull-offs and slides
...That's about it, I think. I hope you will have good use of this!
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|- 15th /July /07 ----------------------------------------------------------------|
|- Just mail me at Maitinin@gmail.com with questions, comments and corrections! --|
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