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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 16:22:46 -0500
From: ponies2@computek.net (Keith Barron)
Subject: s/soundgarden/boot_camp.tab
Song: Boot Camp
Album: Down On The Upside
Music/Lyrics: Cornell
Tuning: DADGBE
Previous tab by: oystein.hoel@dmbb.no
This is a very easy and great song to play. The last guy who posted this was
correct on the chord progression but wrong about the chords themselves. I
used his progression to figure out how the song is really played. And I play
the notes how I think they are on the album. I have a pretty standard
pattern through the whole thing. It's in the key of D minor. Not E minor
like the previous posting said. The tuning isn't 100 percent necessary but
it makes the beginning of the verse sound really good if you hit that bottom
D note. And if you ACCIDENTALLY hit the bottom string it won't sound too bad
either.
Intro and Verse:
E|---------0---------||--0----0-----------||-0----0----------|
B|------3----3--1----||--3------3--1------||-3------3--1-----|
G|----2------------2-||o--------------2--o||--------------2--|
D|-0-----------------||o----0------------o||----0------------|
A|-0-----------------||-------------------||-----------------|
D|-0-----------------||-------------------||-----------------|
E|---------0----------|--------------------|--------0----------|
B|-1--1------3--1--3--|-4--4---4--3--1--3--|-3---3----3--1-----|
G|-0--0---------------|-3--3---------------|-2---2----------2--|
D|-2------------------|-5------------------|-0-----------------|
A|-3------------------|--------------------|-------------------|
D|--------------------|--------------------|-------------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|----1---0-1-0-1-0-1-0-1--|
B|-4--4---4-3-1-3--|-4--4---4-3-1-3--|-3--3---3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--|
G|-3--3------------|-1--1------------|-3--3--------------------|
D|-5---------------|-1---------------|-------------------------|
A|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------------|
Guitar 2 for Pre-Verse:
E|----------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------|
G|-9b10~~-10r9~-7~-75~-5/8~-87~-108~-8/10~-15/17-17~~~~--|
D|----------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus:
E|-------0----1----4---------0----1----4----|
B|--1----0----1----4----1----0----1----4----|
G|--0----1----2----5----0----1----2----5----|
D|--2----2----3----6----2----2----3----6----|
A|--3----2----3----6----3----2----3----6----|
D|------------------------------------------|
Play Verse Part:
I must obey the rules
I must be tame and cool
No staring at the clouds
I must stay on the ground
In clusters of the mice
The smoke is in our eyes
Like babies on display
Like angels in a cage
I must be pure and true
I must contain my views
Play first 2 bars of Verse again:
There must be something else
There must be something good
Play Chorus two times:
Far away far away from here
Far away far away from here
Far away far away from here
Far away far away from here
Then end it by playing the first 4 bars of the Verse Part again and ending
it on the Cmaj chord. Ending it on C major makes it sound much more moody
than just ending on D minor (The song's key).
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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No Picture
Dean Rhythm Player |
#1 by Dean M at Jan 3, 1991 at 6:43 PM EST |
| It's a song ironically expressing what many of those sel-proclaimed protestant X-tians think: That this world is just a boot camp you have to pass through without showing any resistance as to how things are or trying to change the world for the better, and then for living an utterly senseless and devote working drone life of never questioning anything you get rewarded after death with going to heaven in the foreverafter; while Jesus was actually a socialist rebel dreaming of the kingdom of heaven on earth and in order to achieve it wanted his followers to abandon the strict obeyance of any rules that weren't for the benefit of the human condition and to build a new society on the principle of love and relying on god's love for and trust in humankind rather than considering ourselves worthless of his support in doing something good for our mutual benefit. | |
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tristan Rhythm Player |
#2 by tristan drew at Feb 8, 1994 at 1:36 AM EST |
| Longing for a change | |
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Athena-beana-fo Average |
#3 by Athena-beana-fo-feena -katrina-gina-go-zeena-fe-fi-fo...ATHENA at Apr 1, 1995 at 11:26 AM EST |
| Soundgarden is (was) truly one of the best bands ever to record music. Cornell has a great voice. I feel this song is expressing a feeling of being captive to life and it's norms (or rules). 'there must be something else... something good'. Indeed. | |
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