• Song:

    Haunted

  • Artist:

    Type O Negative

  • Album:

    October Rust

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Type-O tuning from low to high (B,E,A,D,F#,B)

{ Most riffs in this song are pretty "dull",
  because the song is carried by voice and voice-
  samples }

Intro-riff
{ top 3 strings is keyboard
  before the bass and dist.gtr. fall in do a slow
  pick scrape }
|------11-----(b9)----------------14---1(b9)--18---14---(b9)------|
|----(b9)----(b9)----(b9)--11---11-12-----------------------------|
|-11--------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------11----------------|
|--4/6-------------6/8-----8(b9)------------(b9)-----(8b9r8)---|
|--2/4-------------4/6-----6/7------------(9)------6b7r6----|


Verse-riff
{ Very slow and heavy riff (dots are counts...) }
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|--------(b9)-------11-11-----x\---------(b9)-------------------|
|--4-----7-----2---(b9)-(b9)-(b9)-x\---4-----7-----2--------------|
|--2-.-.---.-.-0-.---------------2-.-.---.-.-0-.-0-6b7r6-0--|

{ Some keyboard (church-organ) chords that are -I think-
  used in the verse }
|-(9)---(7)---(6)---(12)---(12)---(14)---(14)---------------|
|-(7)---(7)---(7)---(14)---(12)---(11)---(12)---------------|
|-(9)---(9)---(9)---(11)---(11)---(11)---(11)---------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|

{ The scale Josh uses for that "hypnotic",
  "just after the beat" tones in the verse.
|---------------(b9)12---(b9)-----------------------------------|
|-------(b9)11-12----------12---- and repeat this ------------|
|--(b9)11---------------------(b9)------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus-riff
|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|
|--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--6--|
|--6--6--6_-4--4--4--4--4--4--4--4--4--|
|--4--4--4--4--4--4--2--2--2--2--2--2--|
|--------------------------------------|
"Ooh I'm haunted"


|                        3 times|                         4.|
|-------------------------------|---------------------------|
|--------------------  pick  ---|---------------------------|
|-------------------- scrape ---|---------------------------|
|--6-------------x\-\-\-\-------|--9\8-8-7-6-5/6-6/7--|
|--6-------------x\-\-\-\-------|--7-6-5-4-3/4-4/5--|
|--4----------------------------|--7-6-5-4-3/4-4/5--|
"I hate the morning"


Riff during "Pete's poetry"
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|--8---8--etc.-10---10--etc.-11----11--etc.-10---10--etc.---|
|----8---8--------(b9)---(b9)-------10----10-------(b9)---(b9)------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|


{For the last couple of minutes of the song with the chanting
vocals on top, play the chorus riff 2 frets higher}
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