Watching as I Fall - tabbed by Astat Guitar 1 - D A D G B E (Clean w/wah, delay, and reverb) Guitar 2 - D A D G B E (Distorted w/octave up/down effect, pitch shifter, and slight reverb) Guitar 3 - D A D G B E (Distorted w/octave up/down effect, pitch shifter, and slight reverb) *Note* All guitars on this track are Fender Stratocasters. Use the bridge pickup unless otherwise noted. There's one main featured guitar part on this track, and it makes heavy use of pitch shifting! The "octave up/down" effect is a unique one - basically the pitch shifting effect alternates between doubling the original sound an octave down and an octave up, but it never blends all three octaves at the same time. This is EXACTLY like the "harmonize octave up/octave down" effect on a Digitech Whammy V or DT, although it's pretty much a given that this was done with an EHX HOG on the recording. The shifting pattern follows a straightforward sixteenth-note pattern, if you alternate pick all of the downstrokes will be pitched up, and all of the upstrokes will be pitched down. I've still used an "FX" notation below the staff with "^" and "V" markers anyway to give a visual aid though. In addition to the main part that Guitars 2 and 3 play, there's also a clean guitar (Guitar 1) that plays a few "stabs" with a triplet delay during the second verse and pre-chorus. The wah effect is just a quick low-to-high sweep of the wah that's done in time with each chord, resulting in a cool "chirping" effect on the delay repeats. At the very end of the song as the guitar fades out, there's some random up and down pitch shifting that takes place on the last sustained note that doesn't really follow any particular rhythm. I haven't tried to notate this, I just made a note within the staff that it's something that happens. 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Guitars 2 and 3 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------10-10-10-10-13-13-13-13-| |--8--8--8--8--10-10-10-10-11-11-11-11-13-13-13-13-11-11-11-11-13-13-13-13-------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| FX ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V |--------------------------------------------------------------11-11-11-11-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-| |--------------------------11-11-11-11-13-13-13-13-14-14-14-14-------------------------------------| |--10-10-10-10-13-13-13-13-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| FX ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V ^ V Ending - Guitars 2 and 3 |--13~--(Let ring and fade, w/random pitch shifting)-----------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| FX ^