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tmvtzet@cs.vu.nl (Zet van 't TM)
I saw the version posted earlier, but it didn't look/sound
right.. So here's my version. No offense to the previous poster :-)
"Tremor Christ" - Pearl Jam
From the album 'Vitalogy'
Tab transcription by Mark van 't Zet (tmvtzet@cs.vu.nl)INTRO/VERSE - Main riff, distorted.
Play this as hammer ons
and pull offs, and let strings 1 and 2 ring.
I believe this ringing stuff is only done
in the intro.
A7 G#7
--(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)-(0)
-8(0)8(0)8(0)8(0)8(0)8(0)8(0)8(0)7(0)7(0)7(0)7(0)7(0)7(0)
-6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---5---5---5---5---5---5--
-7---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---6---6---6---6---6---6--
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Fill during verse
--(0)-(0)-- --5--8--7~~~--
-7(0)7(0)-- --------------
-5---5----- --------------
-6---6----- --------------
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CHORUS - Upper & lower part played by different guitars
F#6 (implied) G#
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-2h4~~~---------------2h4~~~-------
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---------4-4-4-4-4----x------6--6--
---------4-4-4-4-4----x------6--6--
---------2-2-2-2-2----x------4--4--
BRIDGE 1 - Arpeggio
A7 G#7
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-----8-----8---------7-----7-------
---6-----6-----6---5-----5-----5---
-7-----7-----7---6-----6-----6-----
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VERSE
CHORUS
BRIDGE 2
A7 G#7
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-----8b10r8~~--------7b9r7---------
---6---------------5---------------
-7---------------6-----------------
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BRIDGE 3 - Play main riff, add wah-flavour
CHORUS
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Charley Rhythm Player |
#1 by Charley Hockin at Jun 30, 1970 at 4:23 PM EST |
| i'm not sure what this is about....losing faith in something, i think...but it is the GROOVIEST song ever: just listen to it and groove, especially in the beginning when the ament kicks in...good shiite | |
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nick Professional |
#2 by nick Sutliff at Nov 23, 1970 at 6:15 AM EST |
| eddie vedder loves adding a bit of fiction to most of his reality-based songs, just like "Alive". I guess it's also the same with the case of Tremor Christ. it may have been inspired by Old Man & the Sea, and then Ed tried to relate it to something else... *Eddie wrote this song, didn't he?* i'm not sure... let's read the Book of Job from the Bible, just try... | |
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Christian Wanna Be |
#3 by Christian Chavez at Apr 23, 1972 at 9:05 PM EST |
| I'm with Paving on this one. The moment this song affected me most was after misbehaving in a club the night before, pretty drunk eventhough I'm generally seen as a very calm and reserved, even shy person. I felt the guilt rise up when hearing this song. Very very strong lyrics and ofcourse vedder shows again that he is a poet as well as a raving madmann on stage lol. What a great set of things to be. | |
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Derek Average |
#4 by Derek Lamberty at Apr 16, 1976 at 3:07 PM EST |
| The subject of the song was in a loving relationship. He drifted through the storms, meaning he went with the flow of danger and failed to keep himself away from temptation. In a moment he has cheated on the girl, who was his savior. He watches her suffer from the wake of his actions. He feels that generally he's a good guy. The devil tempted him this one time, he made a mistake in a weak moment but feels little real responsibility for it, like it was a natural thing to do rather than an evil act. Still he faces the consequences. At the end of the song he's accepting this tendency to adhere to "evil" and his ability to wrong other people through what appear to him to be insignifcant actions. Rather than hate himself for it he's choosing to accept himself in this way, to forgive himself for being who he is. The christ connection is the forgiveness aspect as "forgiving" is the core christian philosphy. Little secrets becoming big big waves is obviously about how the guilt of a small secret kept can ballooon and turn into so much more. Great song. | |
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Da 1 n onli Mat Average |
#5 by Da 1 n onli Matt! goncalves at Oct 10, 1984 at 2:44 PM EST |
| When I first heard this song I swore the third line went: "Claudius was your savior, Ceasar drowning in his wake." well I know now that it isn't, but it made some kind of sense that way as well. | |
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marc Professional |
#6 by marc at Mar 18, 1986 at 4:42 AM EST |
| i think that what the whole point of pearl jam is to see what people think of how aspects or morals and things can come out of a song and they can all be diffrent, personally but this song i believ that it can all be true. ive never read the book old man and the sea but it sounds to me that its about the sort of things that you think the songs about (maybe not as big as drugs but some kind of affiction that someone has) and about the love of the wonan it seemes to be in the corner of my mind so i thin thats what im gonna go with | |
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a Average |
#7 by a a at Jul 20, 1990 at 6:58 PM EST |
| I think this song is the church's loopholes. Externalism, rituals sometimes obstruct the real religion which begins in our hearts. And, waste of time who needs the real meaning of Christianity. Am I right sir Eddie Vedder??????????????????????????? | |
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I BAKE YOU MUFF Average |
#8 by I BAKE YOU MUFFIN at May 16, 1995 at 1:15 AM EST |
| "i'm not sure what this is about....losing faith in something, i think...but it is the GROOVIEST song ever: just listen to it and groove, especially in the beginning when the ament kicks in...good shiite" - He IS a brilliant bassist and I've always said this, even with his simple shit like in alive it just seems to fit so perfectly. I think all the members all very much click with each other. | |
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niles Wanna Be |
#9 by niles lewis at Aug 29, 1998 at 12:49 PM EST |
| Nice ideas - but Wikipedia has the scoop: The song has been revealed to be about the adolescence of Vedder; specifically, the confusion he went through as to the identity of his real father. When Eddie was a teenager, his mother revealed to him that the man he thought was his father was actually his step-father, and that his biological father was dead ... Rather than being the inspirational song most interpret it as, Vedder had quite a different meaning in mind: [He's] still dealing with love, [he's] still dealing with the death of [his] father. All [he] knows is "I'm still alive"... that's totally out of burden | |
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Rob Average |
#10 by Rob Jones at Oct 1, 1999 at 10:51 PM EST |
| I always thought the song was specifically an attack on Christianity, thought I'm not sure how all the lines fit with that interpretation. The first half is about something else, maybe. Still some of it sounds like that: "Little secrets tremors...turned to quake... The smallest oceans still get...big, big waves..." Christ's life was a small thing blown way out of proportion "I'll decide...take the dive... Take my time...not my life..." A person chooses to believe, says they're giving over their life but in reality are just giving over their time "Wait for signs...believe in lies... To get by...it's divine...whoa... Oh, you know what it's like..." Sarcastic ("it's divine")...fairly straightforward if this interpretation is correct "Turns the bow back towards him...drops the line... Puts his faith and love in Tremor Christ..." The person keeps going with his faith despite disappointment Any thoughts? Anyone else see that in this song? If that's wrong though, what's the significance of the Christ imagery and title of the song?? | |
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Juandiego Rhythm Player |
#11 by Juandiego Schubnell at May 7, 2001 at 10:24 PM EST |
| I've always interpreted it similarly to Cherub Rock as an attack on Christianity. The "tremors" were the tales of a great man named Jesus Christ, but in Vedder's mind they turned to "quakes" regarding just how great he was. He's acknowledging that Jesus may have been a great man...just not the Messiah. | |
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slapslappopslap Badass |
#12 by slapslappopslap at Feb 1, 2003 at 9:45 AM EST |
| In the book "The Old Man and the Sea," there are constant comparisons between Santiago and Christ and that is where the imagery for this song originated. The song is basically a story of the old man from the beginning until the end and the revelation that occurs after losing the majority of the fish. It shows how meaningful something can be to some one and how useless it is to another. It shines light upon the ignorant. | |
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Spymaster Lead Player |
#13 by Spymaster - Halo 2 at Sep 28, 2006 at 5:37 PM EST |
| This song has always painted the picture of a shipwreck for me, so the hear about the 'old man and the sea' was interesting. It makes me think of a shipwreck where only two survive, a young man and a young woman, like the story of the Loch Ard. She takes the romantic view that it was fate, but he is more of a hard case, maybe he is a criminal or a killer and she doesn't know she just thinks they were meant to be together and he plays along... Just the picture I get from it. | |
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kelson Average |
#14 by kelson white at Nov 28, 2006 at 5:54 AM EST |
| Cherub Rock, I'm with you on this one. In the bridge it's like he's screaming at people trapped in a religious stupor to wake the f*ck up and stop 'believing in lies to get by.' | |
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