October Guitar Tab

		
		Ver 1 Ver 2 Ver 3 Ver 4 
	

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The other attempts at tabbing this song were not bad, but I felt I could
improve on them and since none of them had the chords for the chorus,
here you go. ENJOY!

s=slide
h=hammer
p=pull

INTRO AND VERSES:

1st guitar

|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|----5-----3-----5-----3----------|
|--3-----3-----3-----3-------3----|
|3-----3-----3-----3-----3-5---5--|

|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|
|----5-----3-----5-----3-----5s7--|
|--3-----3-----3-----3-----3------|
|2-----2-----2-----2-----2--------|

|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|----3-----5-----7-----5-----3--|
|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0----|
|0-----0-----0-----0-----0------|

|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|----------0-----3-----2--------|
|----3-----------------------3--|
|1-3---1-3---1-3---3-1---3-1----|
|-------------------------------|

Near the end of each verse, 2nd guitar
plays this over verse music

|-------------------------------|
|6---3-5-------------------3----|
|----------5-7---3-5---3--------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

|-------------------------------|
|6---3-5-----8-----6---5--------|
|----------5-----5--------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

|-------------------------------|
|5h6p5-3------------------(11)--| *notes in () are played
|---------------------(10)------|   palm muted
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

(10)----------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

BRIDGE:

1st guitar plays these notes and keeps the f note ringing

|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|3-----2-----0-----0-----0------|

|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|1-----------0-----1---0--------|
|------5-------------------5----|

|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|3-----2-----0-----0-----0------|

|--------------------------------|
|------------------1---1-1-1-1-1-|
|3-----3---3-3-----3---3-3-3-3-3-|
|3-----3---3-3-----3---3-3-3-3-3-|
|1-----1---1-1-----1---1-1-1-1-1-|
|--------------------------------|

2nd guitar plays these notes overtop

|--------------------------------|
|6---3-5-------------------------|
|----------5-7-----5-----3---2h3-|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|
|------------3-----------1s3-3s5-|
|3s5---2-----------2-------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|
|6---3-5-------------------------|
|----------5-7-----5-----3---2h3-|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

|-------------------------------|
|------3-----------3------------|
|3s5---------3-------------3----|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|

Chorus:

both guitars play together
(hint:play C/E with thumb holding low string)

d=downwards strum
u=upwards strum

 F       C/E     Dm
 d  ud dud  ud dud  ud  u u ududu
|x-------0-------1---------------|
|6-------1-------3---------------|
|5-------0-------2---------------|
|3-------2-------0---------------|
|3-------3-------0---------------|
|3-------2-------0---------------|

 Bb              C/E
 d   ud u u ud dud  ud  u u ududu
|1---------------0---------------|
|1---------------1---------------|
|3---------------0---------------|
|3---------------2---------------|
|1---------------3---------------|
|----------------2---------------|

 F       C/E     Dm
 d  ud dud  ud dud  ud  u u ududu
|x-------0-------1---------------|
|6-------1-------3---------------|
|5-------0-------2---------------|
|3-------2-------0---------------|
|3-------3-------0---------------|
|3-------2-------0---------------|

 Bb          C/E F       C/E
 d   ud u ud d dud  ud dud  ud du
|1-----------0---x-------0-------|
|1-----------1---6-------1-------|
|3-----------0---5-------0-------|
|3-----------2---3-------2-------|
|1-----------3---3-------3-------|
|------------2---3-------2-------|

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture dan Average	#1 by dan worgan at Feb 19, 1970 at 9:26 AM EST
	my girlfriend elisha made me listen to this song and i personaly think its beautiful!

No Picture Mikel Average	#2 by Mikel A. at Jul 7, 1972 at 7:31 AM EST
	my girlfriend elisha made me listen to this song and i personaly think its beautiful!

No Picture Kyle Average	#3 by Kyle Landers at Jul 26, 1973 at 7:18 AM EST
	you can sing about god without being a "christian" band, you can be talking abotu any god-type not nesscarily christian, buddah, allah, ect. i would have to agree it's about accepting that you are bound to a higher power, but it doesn't have to be religous, just spirtual

No Picture Dylan Average	#4 by Dylan Rolfe at Jan 25, 1984 at 3:23 PM EST
	Definitely about the relationship with God when you reach that point that you've sinned and got to your lowest low and turn to God for forgiveness and help

No Picture Sir Bagel Average	#5 by Sir Bagel at Oct 8, 1984 at 8:03 AM EST
	this song could definitely be about christianity, but the way i see it is that amy's in a relationship with someone who basically controls her. she's tried to break up with him so many times, but in the end she knows he'll always be there, that he'll always find her. she has no choice but to give up, telling him 'you're my only strength' and she realizes that she depends on him. she's nothing without him. though when she sings about his abounding grace, the song is probably about her relationship with god. shrugs i'm not too good with interpretations anyway. i do love this song, though.

No Picture Garrey Average	#6 by Garrey Adams at Aug 28, 1986 at 8:06 AM EST
	I don't understand why people automatically assume songs are in reference to Christ. I think the song is what you make it of it yourself. It seems that both meanings are applicable.

No Picture Ben Wanna Be	#7 by Ben Porter at May 14, 1987 at 10:56 PM EST
	I agree with no1special and this time imperfect. The first time i listened to the song, I heard some definately Christian type stuff

No Picture Quinn Wanna Be	#8 by Quinn Carvalho at Sep 18, 1999 at 7:09 PM EST
	This song was not done with evanescence, it was the earlier days when it was just Ben Moody and Amy Lee. They did a ton of christian things then. Thats what they started out with and keep in mind, Amy was in a choir and choirs do a variety of christian songs.

No Picture Connor Average	#9 by Connor Larkin at Feb 7, 2000 at 5:14 AM EST
	Personal opinion here, but why does eveything require a label? be it a 'christian' song or a 'christian' band or not, it seems that most artists right from personal experience and life and there views and opinions of both. Is it possible for a person that has a 'religious' back ground to right music that was influnced by that background, and yet still have it just be a 'song' and not some religious message? I see alot of things in Evanescence's music that could be interperted as religious, or about love, or about loss, or has anyone ever thought a mixture of all three could be combined into one thought? Think about the relation of religion and love? finding 'god' compared to finding that one true love of your life, or the losing of both? To me (and i am not at all religious) the similarities are pretty striking, and could go either way. but hey, i'm not the brightest bulb anyway, but it is a beautiful song, and she has a beautiful voice.

No Picture rhcp = the best Average	#10 by rhcp = the best band ever at Mar 13, 2001 at 6:19 PM EST
	I gotta agree with it being about Christ. We definitely "fall down before" Him when we realize we've sinned. And "fall into Your abounding grace", that's all about God's grace and mercy for us even though we're sinners. And I love the last line before the last chorus..."I'll never stray again". A great song to have playing when you wanna talk to God...well, for me it is cuz it gets my heart feeling lots of different emotions. It's sad to see how they've "strayed" from Christ though.

No Picture George Rhythm Player	#11 by George at Dec 28, 2001 at 2:38 AM EST
	The meaning of this song is pretty obvious. It's about finding love where you least expected it, being a little objective to it at first, but then realizing that you are meant to be with this person.

No Picture owain Wanna Be	#12 by owain pole at Nov 12, 2002 at 1:57 AM EST
	i agree that its about realizing how much you need Christ and you cant live without Him. I am almost sure that this was written while they were still a Christian band.

No Picture Moctezum@ Average	#13 by Moctezum@ The Great at Aug 30, 2003 at 6:21 PM EST
	ok .. i really dont think this song has any thing to do with christ ....but to each thier own... i think thats its about love ... and realizing how much you really do love someone after denying it for so long ...and being sorry that you denied it for so long .."in all my bitterness i ignored all thats real and true all i need is you"....l8er ps. ... beatiful song .. its incredibly good ...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No Picture Secondhand Smok Wanna Be	#14 by Secondhand Smoka at Jun 23, 2004 at 4:54 PM EST
	OK, first of all Evanescence has never been a Christian band in the sense that they have never made music specifically for the propagation of Christianity. People who know nothing about recording labels and genres don’t seem to understand that CCM (Contemporary Christian Music) is a specific niche market genre in the music world. As far as I know they have never been a part of that. They definitely are not now. I don’t know the hearts of every member of the band but I know that Amy Lee thanked the ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ or words to that affect, in the liner notes of Fallen. I also know that after Christian books stores took Evanescence off of their shelves Lee said in an interview ‘We never said that we are not Christians. Just that we are not a Christian band.’ As far as Amy saying that she has no specific religion, I doubt that since I don’t know of many Jews or Buddhists or Deists that thank Jesus Christ for their success. When Aerosmith thanks a high power they call it a higher power, not Jesus. She could have just meant that she isn’t a particular kind of Christian. That she doesn’t adhere specifically to this or that denomination: Catholicism, Southern Baptist, Episcopal, Methodist, etc. Many Christians claim this. Like Sixpence None the Richer, ignorant Christians AND non-Christians erroneously believed that Evanescence renounced Christianity because they didn’t want to be pigeonholed as a Jesus rock band. I wonder about the intelligence and depth of people that make these giant leaps. Why does every song a Christian writes have to be about Christianity? What next? Can Mel Gibson only do movies about Jesus from now on? As far as this song, I would be surprised if it were not written in worship. The very sound of it is praise oriented and the lyrics fit perfectly, especially the parts about ‘falling’ and ‘grace’. When was the last time you thanked your significant other for their grace? Come on. It could be used in church without missing a beat. But even if it isn’t about God, I don’t care. Music doesn’t have to be made to please my sentiments. This song makes me think of the Cross but if they wrote about something else, it’s fine with me. More to the point, like gabelogan99, I would like to know why this song is called October. Any ideas?

No Picture les claypool fa Professional	#15 by les claypool fan! at Apr 25, 2006 at 1:19 PM EST
	I disagree, I think this song is about a relationship with Christ, when you fall back into the world's mentality and the like. Certain parts of the song (I fall before you; I fall into your abounding grace; I'll never stray again) wouldn't be commonly said in a simple boyfriend girlfriend relationship, but make perfect sence when talking about a relationship with Christ. This song, of course, wasn't put on Fallen, and was done before the band cut all ties with Christianity... seems as though Amy needs to hear this song again. (one of two songs openly Christian, the other being "lies")

No Picture Caitlin Wanna Be	#16 by Caitlin at Aug 4, 2007 at 1:14 PM EST
	hmm...well, amy could have written this song based off a certain day or time in her life, and that day or whatever could have been in october. or maybe she wrote it in october? or--man, this is hard--perhaps it has to do with the seeson october is in, which is, of course, fall. perhaps the song has something to do with the whole concept of a leaf falling to the ground...getting tossed in the wind until finally hitting the ground?...just my ten cents...