So Far Away - tabbed by Astat Guitar 1 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted) Guitar 2 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted) Guitar 3 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted w/lo-fi and flanger) Guitar 4 - Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb (Distorted w/lo-fi) *Note* All guitars on this track are PRS CE 24's. Use the bridge pickup unless otherwise noted. This song...wow. It's not my favorite song, by any means (it's not even my favorite on this album), but in terms of guitar playing, this song is on another planet compared to what Brad's "normal stuff" was during the early Hybrid Theory days. First of all, the guitar parts: Guitars 1 and 2 do all the heavy stuff, Guitar 3 plays the verses, and Guitar 4 appears in two spots near the end of the song. The main riff throughout the first half of this song is REALLY unusual, almost like something you'd hear in a Led Zeppelin song (think Ten Years Gone or Kashmir). I didn't originally notice the pull-offs and hammer-ons in that riff, either, so it's even MORE interesting, yay! This riff is also transposed to the key of Ab for the bridge - same thing, just played a string higher. As if that riff isn't weird enough, the chorus is even weirder! It starts with a ringing Eb5 chord, then a little 4-note run down the G and D strings that leads into a half-step pattern from E to Eb, kind of like what's found in Forgotten, but the execution is different. You slide your ring and pinky fingers down by one fret while lifting your index finger to create the Eb5 chord (this is why the bottom note is a pull-off rather than a slide - it looks weird on paper but it's easy enough to play). The second half of the chorus moves to an inverted B5 chord (with an F# note on the bottom), followed some more ringing notes on top of it that add a sus2 and major 7th voicing to the chord (I'd call it a major 9 chord, but there's no third in it). During the last chorus, another chord is introduced, an Esus2, which once again uses some ringing notes on top, including a 4th fret Bb that creates a SUPER cool sharp 11 extension (no joke, this is a chord you'd typically see in jazz charts like the ones I had to play in college!) This one's a hand-stretcher that would be far easier if the song was drop-tuned, but doing so would just make some of the other chords more difficult/borderline impossible. Thankfully, there isn't a whole lot of variation in this song, so once you get the tricky stuff down, the memorization aspect is pretty easy. Oh, and I almost forgot a bit of trivia: Some of the drum samples in the verses of this song wound up being re-used later on for the song "Soundtrack" during the Meteora sessions! 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