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Tool, Manrta.
Tabbed by Kyle McIntyre, moonsblade@hotmail.com.
Tool
Album: Lateralus
Song: Mantra
Tabbed by: Kyle McIntyre
Moonsblade@hotmail.com
Please send feedback. Should I ever tab again, should I die? Or did you
kindof like it?
Okay, well I'm not posting this in the false pretense that I have it a
100% correct or 100% complete, but I think I accurately transcribed a
large amount of this song, definently enough to cover it. I hope you enjoy
it. This uses two guitars but you can figure out when to play the parts
just by listening.
Standard Tuning
Opening Riff:
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--------14--14--9--9--10--10--12--12--10--10--9--9--3--3---------------
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12--12-----------------------------------------------------------------
Onto the heavy! *this can be played with double strokes or not*
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-2--14--9--10--12--10--9--5--------------------------------------------
-2--14--9--10--12--10--9--5--------------------------------------------
-0--12--7--8---10--8---7--3--------------------------------------------
Next Stanza: Some out of tune sounding chord that is cool but I'm not
sure if I figured it out right, this is how I play it.
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--3--------------------3----------------------------------{-------------
--2-------X--X--X--X---2----------------------------------{-14----------
--2-------X--X--X--X---2----------------------------------{-14----------
--0-------X--X--X--X---0----------------------------------{-12----------
[Repeat 4 times, on 4th time use only 3 string scratches]
Enter Lyrics: This part makes you sound really cool (even if you aren't) :P
Palm Mute is pretty heavy so that the bass really hums.
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--0--0--12--12--7--7--8--8--10-10--8--8--7--7--3--3--------------------
After a few stanzas the first solo joins in with the verse section. Then
it moves back to the heavy part (wee!!) with a few extra string scratches in
there, I'm sure you can figure it out.
Okay this next part is the most iffy of my transcription, but I know the
notes I have are rights, it's all the damn mutes that make it a litte rough.
I think this sounds right though, you slide between these chords.
Starts with 8 string mutes and then
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----98--87--76---65-----X--X--X--X--2----X--X--X--X--2---------------
----98--87--76---65-----X--X--X--X--2----X--X--X--X--2------------------
----76--65--54---43-----X--X--X--X--0----X--X--X--X--0---------------
Add some mutes in there, lol.
Now go back to that rather Odd chord I mentioned before, the 3rd section.
Last section
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--9--9--9--10--10--10--13--13--13--14--14--14--13--13--13--10--10--10--
--9--9--9--10--10--10--13--13--13--14--14--14--13--13--13--10--10--10--
--7--7--7--8---8---8---11--11--11--12--12--12--11--11--11--8---8---8--
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--9--9--9----{--10--10--10----------9---9----------------9--------------
--9--9--9----{--10--10--10----------9---9----------------9--------------
--7--7--7----{--8---8---8-----------7---7----------------7--------------
-------------{----------------------0---0-------------------------------
[repeat] [loud!] [Acoustic strum]
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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jamie Lead Player |
#1 by jamie mordue at Aug 9, 1971 at 12:57 PM EST |
| squeezing cats is not nice | |
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Ryan Sutherland Rhythm Player |
#2 by Ryan Sutherland at Oct 10, 1972 at 2:41 AM EST |
| riot4life lol PROPS man. that was MAD JOKES!!!!!!!! | |
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gabby Professional |
#3 by gabby at Jan 11, 1973 at 12:19 PM EST |
| maynard squeezed a cat........WHY THE HELL?..... | |
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Fatty [eats chi Average |
#4 by Fatty [eats children] kid at Feb 17, 1973 at 7:38 AM EST |
| I hope MJK killed that cat. I hate Siamese cats. And kudos to riot4life for his tight pussy joke. | |
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connor Average |
#5 by connor gooley at May 20, 1974 at 9:45 PM EST |
| guess i'll just have to build a wood detector | |
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Jared Wanna Be |
#6 by Jared van Eck at Sep 6, 1974 at 4:01 PM EST |
| The noise you hear in this track is actually made with Adam's guitar. He has some kind of sustainer he must have the same shit I got 'cuz I can do it, too. | |
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jo_silverhawk Average |
#7 by jo_silverhawk at Nov 25, 1974 at 5:23 PM EST |
| maynard shud be sent to jail for cat abuse..lol ! | |
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Steil Wanna Be |
#8 by Steil Lionhart at Oct 15, 1976 at 11:59 AM EST |
| I'm going to go with what Asz said, makes a lot of sense. Doesn't sound anything like a guitar, more like a voice or a kitty. | |
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Jonathan Rhythm Player |
#9 by Jonathan Matuszyk at Jun 24, 1977 at 7:54 AM EST |
| A cat? Where the hell do you guys get that from?! Please, don't ruin the song for me! I love it, it has great music, so don't make me think of a poor cat being squeezed every time I listen to it. I would very much rather think it is a sort of prayer or whatever. | |
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James Wanna Be |
#10 by James Makowiecki at Jul 20, 1982 at 4:58 AM EST |
| I believe Mantra is a Buddhist form of meditation also in which you relax and say certain words over and over again. | |
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Justin Wanna Be |
#11 by Justin Neafsey at Aug 17, 1982 at 11:42 PM EST |
| this song sounds like a bunch of dark blue corpses all stuck together maoning in hell and agony, if u saw that movie with robin williams when he goes to heaven then hell or something ull kno what i mean | |
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dimebag 66' Average |
#12 by dimebag 66' at May 23, 1983 at 5:55 PM EST |
| although this song has no lyrics, there is a meaning behind it wich you can read on http://www.toolpantheon.com/lateralus_meanings.htm (just scroll down until you see this song) | |
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james Rhythm Player |
#13 by james dobson at Aug 9, 1985 at 4:29 PM EST |
| Heres what Mantra really is: Tool fan Yaz (yazkuge@hotmail.com) found a 2001 interview with Maynard in the Japanese magazine "Buzz" where MJK stated for the first time in public ("a treat for the Japanese fans," he says) that the track "Mantra" is the sound of him squeezing one of his Siamese cats. The cat made such a weird noise that he immediately recorded this, played it real slow and made a track out of it. | |
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Eric Average |
#14 by Eric at Mar 20, 1986 at 4:36 PM EST |
| riot4life | |
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Josh Average |
#15 by Josh Sanchez at Mar 21, 1988 at 9:46 AM EST |
| I have just figured out the way around metal detector things in schools... bring in a kendo stick! No damn detector can detect wood! | |
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John Wanna Be |
#16 by John Agopian at Mar 26, 1991 at 5:32 PM EST |
| Yeh, it is the cat. Look through old toolband.com newsletters...theres one around Halloween or so where Maynard had fussed on him for telling what Mantra was...and he convinced Maynard to let him give a multiplechoice answer. | |
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Avinash Average |
#17 by Avinash Dutta at Mar 21, 1992 at 7:40 PM EST |
| Mantra: A sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation, or incantation, such as an invocation of a god, a magic spell, or a syllable or portion of scripture containing mystical potentialities. | |
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Keith Average |
#18 by Keith Amaral at Nov 11, 1992 at 10:06 AM EST |
| No, Asz is correct. It's Maynard's siamese cat after being squeezed, then the sound produced being distorted and slowed down. I did exactly what you said using GoldWave, and even after trying 5 or 6 different speeds, it sounds closer to a cat. I almost hear occassional hisses, grunts, and "sighs" from it. Asz's post comes directly from here, I think it's safer to say it's true: http://toolshed.down.net/faq/faq.html | |
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Joshua Wanna Be |
#19 by Joshua graham at Dec 12, 1993 at 7:46 AM EST |
| Mantra: A sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation, or incantation, such as an invocation of a god, a magic spell, or a syllable or portion of scripture containing mystical potentialities. | |
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Satan SAF! Rhythm Player |
#20 by Satan SAF! Lucifer at Dec 21, 1994 at 5:02 AM EST |
| I squeeze cats all the time when I recite prayers. L-O-L. actually I don't, but the thought of Maynard squeezing a cat is kinda funny. We probably won't ever know what exactly created the noise, but it's a really great intodruction to schism. | |
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Gabe Professional |
#21 by Gabe Hawkins at Apr 11, 1996 at 2:36 AM EST |
| this is a recording of a (elderly) woman humming a small song... do your homework ; reverse it and speed it up 60% or so | |
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Jesse Wanna Be |
#22 by Jesse Seibel at Jun 29, 1996 at 12:39 AM EST |
| he must have slowed it down quite a lot coz i listened to it @ double speed and it didnt sound like a cat. | |
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D.J Wanna Be |
#23 by D.J Mortensen at Dec 6, 1997 at 11:05 AM EST |
| cat squeezing should be a new sport. | |
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żJosh Rhythm Player |
#24 by żJosh Kirkpatrick? at Aug 19, 1999 at 2:16 PM EST |
| a cat huh...well it makes a nice and tranquil intro to the Schims video... | |
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chris Average |
#25 by chris at Jun 12, 2002 at 7:53 PM EST |
| who cares if he squeezed a damn cat? maybe he likes his pussy to be tight? LOL! Get it? squeeze a cat cuz he likes tight pussy?!? Man I crack myself up sometimes.....ok so it wasn't that funny. | |
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