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Group: Tool
Album: Aenima
Song: Stinkfist
(intro-electric drums)
-Feedback
|-------------
|-------------
|----(14)---/-
|----(14)---/-
|----(14)---/-
|----(14)---/-
(increase volume knob untill feedback kicks in)
(wait for EXACTLY four bars (4/4 time), then slide down
and begin the intro)
|----------------------- Chorus
|-----------------------
|-----------------------
|--2-2--5-5-----------5-
|--2-2--5-5---2-2-2-2-5-
|--2-2--------2-2-2-2---
|------------------------ Riff
|------------------------
|------------------------
|------------------------
|---------5----------5---
|--2--2-22----2--2-22----
.........P.M.............
|----------------------- Chorus (same as intro)
|-----------------------
|-----------------------
|--2-2--5-5-----------5-
|--2-2--5-5---2-2-2-2-5-
|--2-2--------2-2-2-2---
|--------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------
|--2-2-XX-10-10------------------------
|--2-2-XX-10-10--(0)-12-(0)-xx--2-3-2--
|--2-2----10-10--(0)-12-(0)-xx--2-3-2--
|----------------------------
|--------------3^-hold note--
|--------5-5-X-2-------------
|--2-2-X-5-5-X-0-------------
|--2-2-X-3-3-X-0-------------
|--2-2-X-------0-------------
(repeat chorus)
|----------------------------------
|(10)---(6)(6)---(8)---(3)---------
|-(9)---(5)(5)---(7)---(2)---------
|--7-----3--3-----5-----0----------
|--7-----3--3-----5-----0----------
|--7-----3--3-----5-----0----------
(increase volume knob for feedback)
(pickscrape up the fingerboard keeping the open chord)
-Solo
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|----9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9---------
|--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-2-----
|-----------------------------------------------------2-----
|-----------------------------------------------------2-----
|-----------------------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---
|-----------------------------5-6-6p5-6p5-6p5-6p5-6p5h6p5---
|----9--9--9--9--9--9--9--9---------------------------------
|--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------
|----8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8--8---------
|--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-22222-
|-----------------------------------------------------22222-
|-----------------------------------------------------22222--
palm mute
|----------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------
|--9-9-9-9-11-9-9-9-9----9-9-9-9-11-9-9-9-9----
|--9-9-9-9-11-9-9-9-9-0--9-9-9-9-11-9-9-9-9-0--
|--7-7-7-7-9--7-7-7-7-0--7-7-7-7-9--7-7-7-7-0--
|---------------------0---------------------0--
|----------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------------------
|--00-00-0--00-00-0-00-00-0-0------------------
|--22-22-0--22-22-0-22-22-0-0------------------
|--00-00-0--00-00-0-00-00-0-0------------------
|-------------------------|---------------------
|-------------------------|---------------------
|-------------------------|---------------------
|--12-12/14-14-7-2-2-2-2--|--12-12/14-14-9-7----
|--10-10/12-12-5-2-2-2-2--|--10-10/12-12-7-5----
|--10-10/12-12-5-2-2-2-2--|--10-10/12-12-7-5----
|------------------------------
|--5----5----5----8-8-10-10-7--
|--4----4----4----7-7-9--9--6--
|--2-XX-2-XX-2-XX-5-5-7--7--4--
|--2-XX-2-XX-2-XX-5-5-7--7--4--
|--2-XX-2-XX-2-XX-5-5-7--7--4--
|--------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------
|--------------------------------------
|--2-2-XX-10-10------------------------
|--2-2-XX-10-10--(0)-12-(0)-xx--2-3-2--
|--2-2----10-10--(0)-12-(0)-xx--2-3-2--
|---------------------
|------------------3--
|------------------2--
|--2-2-XX-10-10-------
|--2-2-XX-10-10--0----
|--2-2----10-10--0----
If you follow this tab, you will not be able to play it perfectly.
This is my own perception of how Adam Jones wrote the tab, I have
next to no idea if it is however, correct. Enjoy.
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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No Picture
Sir Stuff Professional |
#1 by Sir Stuff at Aug 4, 1983 at 8:27 PM EST |
| Consider this: the song is about the relationship between artist and audience, and is open to interpretation from both view points, ie artist to audience/audience to artist. Wacky? Let me continue... (part 1). This relates to the struggle to maintain creativity. For the writer to entertain and for us to be entertained, for "boredom's not a burden anyone should bear." (part 2) Continues this idea in that this was Tool's third album and depicts the strain of expectation for the band "and i wouldn't have you any other way." (part 3) The need for "more" in that each new creation has to evoke and inspire greater than previous works. (part 4) Fisting is the metaphor of the song. The notion of delving deeper into the creative self. Conversely, from the audience standpoint, the deeper exploration into our own psyche. Each journey needing to touch further inside. (part 5) Hey surely your getting it by now? Then again interpretation is personal, and i'm just a sacred cow. | |
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niles Wanna Be |
#2 by niles lewis at Aug 17, 1988 at 10:27 AM EST |
| If I might take it a little further... the song is about how things must escalate more and more to keep from the boredom monotony brings. The fisting metaphor is familiar to what Tool does with their magical powers. An underlying theme would ask the question if you trust your loved one to go the limits with them. Do you trust someone sticking their fingers... | |
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Simon (Si) Lead Player |
#3 by Simon (Si) Brown at Jun 23, 1990 at 5:13 PM EST |
| love song pure and simple? it could be interpreted as a love song, but there's no such thing as a tool song that is pure and simple | |
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Joan Average |
#4 by Joan Rius at Apr 1, 2005 at 6:38 PM EST |
| Love song!!! He does sound sad when he sings 'Something kinda sad about..." I think the line "What became of subtlety?" kindda talks about how people are less subtle with their feelings. There's no courtship or wooing, people just seem to jump into bed with each other as soon as they clap eyes on each other. | |
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Allen Average |
#5 by Allen Stone at Jun 5, 2005 at 4:48 PM EST |
| Well if taken literally this song is about fisting but if you look deeper it can also be about how people quickly become bored and numb so they always must keep trying new things to remain interested Another meaning is that it can be about letting someone close to you only to have them betray you (This might hurt a little but its somehting you'll get used to) | |
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kelson Average |
#6 by kelson white at May 30, 2006 at 6:56 AM EST |
| I think this is about anal fisting... most of the lyrics back this up! i wont state the obvious ones ("finger/knuckle"), but there are others that many people dont notice, Relax, turn around and take my hand, Blend and balance Pain and comfort Deep within you 'til you will not want me any other way This may hurt a little butt I'll keep digging 'til I feel something pretty self explanitory ;) xxxx*xxxxx NeverGreen | |
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