One Step Closer - tabbed by Astat Guitar 1 - Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted w/lo-fi) Guitar 2 - Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted) Guitar 3 - Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted) Guitar 4 - Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted) Guitar 5 - Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted) Guitar 6 - D A D G B E (Distorted) Guitar 7 - D A D G B E (Distorted) *Note* All guitars on this track are PRS CE 24's. Use the bridge pickup unless otherwise noted. Pretty straightforward guitar duties here, Guitar 1 plays the intro, pre-chorus, and breakdown riffs. Guitars 2 and 3 are actually the "secondary" guitars, but they come in first during the intro with the feedback fade-in, so I've numbered them before the "main" rhythm guitars, which are Guitars 4 and 5. As is typical of Hybrid Theory, the 4 rhythm tracks all play together on the heaviest parts, but Guitars 2 and 3 drop out during the verses. Also, thanks to Mike's TikTok tutorial on this song in 2023 (which had some errors in other spots, trust me, the way I have everything here is correct), it's now been revealed that the harmonics at the end of the second pre-chorus were actually an overdub in standard tuning! Turns out they're 4th fret harmonics on the E and B strings in this tuning, so there's a "Guitar 6 and 7" for that little section. You could just as easily tune to Db Ab Db Gb B E, as the top 2 strings aren't required anywhere else in the song. As far as playing goes, there are seemingly a million and one ways the intro to this song has been transcribed over the years, and most of them have been wrong. First of all, the 3rd note (muted low Db string) is frequently tabbed as a harmonic at the 7th fret, but it sounds so muted compared to the 5th fret harmonic right before it, it just sounds wrong if you try to play both consecutive notes as harmonics (or at least harmonics that are equal in clarity). The lone note on the Ab string is also frequently tabbed as a harmonic, but plenty of live videos show that Brad frets that note. Finally, the second to last note in the intro riff, the open Db string, also sounds almost as muted as the 3rd note that IS marked as being muted, but listening to live recordings makes it pretty clear that it's supposed to be played as an open string. Anyway, not a whole lot else to note, in the heavy intro/verse riff, the octaves sometimes have middle notes on the 4th string somewhat audible (just like how some of the octaves in Papercut do), but again, listening to the song live makes it very clear that they're supposed to just be octaves, so I tabbed them that way. In general, there are a lot of sloppy spots on this recording, if you listen to the isolated guitar tracks, you'll hear quite a few small mistakes here and there. For the pre-chorus, the muted strums sound somewhat like 5th fret harmonics due to their close proximity to the 5th fret. Lastly, the muted strums at the end of the 2nd line of the bridge are supposed to be triplets, but Brad is a little sloppy on the rhythm of them on the studio version, so don't worry about it if you're playing along with the studio recording and your timing sounds a little off in that spot. 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