Step Up - tabbed by Astat Guitar 1 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Clean w/delay, reverb, and slight phaser) Guitar 2 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted) Guitar 3 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted) Guitar 4 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted w/wah and slight reverb) Guitar 5 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted w/wah and slight reverb) *Note* All guitars on this track are PRS CE 24's. Use the bridge pickup unless otherwise noted. There's a LOT of interesting stuff going on in this track. Again, this one's in Eb tuning. Watch any of the Family Values Tour performances of this song from 2001, and you'll see that Brad clearly plays standard 3-finger powerchord shapes on the bottom 3 strings in the chorus (he also uses the same guitar he used on Forgotten and A Place for My Head on that tour). Oddly enough, when this song was brought back as part of a medley in 2004, Brad played it in Drop Db on his main red PRS, but that was probably just for the sake of simplifying the medley to where he didn't have to change guitars, as Nobody's Listening was also played in Drop Db during that medley. Anyway, Guitar 1 handles the clean parts, Guitars 2 and 3 double each other on the distorted parts, and Guitars 4 and 5 play the interlude between the second chorus, as well as the second part of the bridge. Interesting use of the wah pedal on this track, very "un-Bradlike." It may have actually been an effect added in the mix, because it sounds awfully "perfect" for a foot-controlled wah. Make note of the inverted powerchords in the wah sections, if this song were drop-tuned those would probably be 4-string, root position powerchords, but in Eb you'd have to use some really stretchy chords to play them that way (one of those stretchy chords does appear in the chorus - more on that in a moment). As for the intro, I thought for a long time that Brad played it all on the B string, but after listening really closely to some live audio (there's no video that actually shows him playing the intro - I checked EVERY piece of circulating live footage of this song from 2001-2002!), I think he starts on the high E string and plays it all in third position. For the odd 6-8-8-10 chord in the chorus, from low to high, use your index, middle, ring, and pinky fingers, and then for the shift to the 8-8-10-10 shape, keep your pinky in place, slide your index and ring fingers up two frets, and lift your middle finger. The wah guitar parts (Guitars 4 and 5) are played differently live, Brad just plays 7x9 and 8x10 octaves in those spots on the live version, but they're primarily played as inverted powerchords on the album version, and the octaves that do appear in the second part of the bridge are also higher up the neck. 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