Song: In The Shadows
Band: The Rasmus
Album: Dead Letters
Tuning: Standard (EADGBe)
Tabbed by Andrew
These guys are an awesome band, check them out! They have one guitarist, but there
are several guitar parts in this song and they're all tabbed here. I've put two guitars in, with the
2nd guitar alternating between doing what could be synth, and some distorted guitar
bits. 1st guitar is usually on top, 2nd just below. Listen to the song, and
figure it out!
Please rate this tab, and be fair. :) Rock on!
Edit: Made some changes to the verse chords - now just single notes. Thanks to
Steven Alldis (Jetzt) for that. Also, made major changes to the main riff. Instead of using powerchords,
it's just heavily distorted single notes. It took a look at several videos of live performances to
convince me, but it is how it's played. Powerchords sound better on an acoustic though.
* = palm mute
\= slide down
~ = tremelo picking
(#) = Harmonic on that fret eg. (7) would be 7th fret harmonic.
x = left-hand mute
Intro - Clean 1st Guitar, 2nd Guitar with some effect or maybe synth.
Starts with.. (2nd Guitar)
||---------------------------|
||-7---7---7---7---7--etc..--|
||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
||---------------------------|
Then 1st Guitar joins with..
||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------||
||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------||
||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------||
||-------------------|-------------------|-----------7-------|-------------||
||-5---5---5-7-5-4---|-------------------|-2---4---5---5-4---|-------------||
||-----------------5-|-2---2---2-2-0-2-5-|-----------------5-|-2-2-4-4-5---||
====================================================================================
Main Riff - Heavy Distortion (1st guitar)
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-----------7-------|---------------|
||-5---5---5-x-5-4---|---------------------|-2---4---5---5-4---|-----------4---|
||-----------------5-|---2---2--2-x-0-2-5--|-----------------5-|-2-4-5-x-5---5-|
|--------------------|---------------------|---------------------|---------------||
|--------------------|---------------------|---------------------|---------------||
|--------------------|---------------------|---------------------|---------------||
|--------------------|---------------------|-------------7-------|---------------||
|--5---5---5-x-5-4---|---------------------|---2---4---5---5-4---|---------------||
|------------------5-|---2---2---2-x-0-2-5-|-------------------5-|-2-2---2-x-2-2-||
===================================================================================
-Verse- "No sleep, no sleep until I'm done with finding the answer.."
1st Guitar Plays this:
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-------------------|-----------------|| (X7)
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-5--(x16)----------|-4---(x16)-------||
||-------------------|-----------------||
* *
And Finishes on..
||-------------------|---------------------||
||-------------------|---------------------||
||-------------------|---------------------||
||-------------------|-4--3--2-------------||
||-5-(x16)-----------|-4--3--2-------------||
||-------------------|-2--1--0-------------||
*
2nd Guitar plays..
||----------------|------------|------5---4-----|-------|------------|
||------9---7-----|------------|----------------|-------|------7-7-7-|
||--------------6-|------------|--------------6-|-------|------------|
||----------------|3-bars-rest-|----------------|-2-bars|------------|
||----------------|------------|----------------|-------|------------|
||----------------|------------|----------------|-------|------------|
|-------------|----------|------------||
|-------------|----------|------------||
|-------------|----------|------------||
|-------------|-4---6----|------------||
|-3-bars-rest-|----------|4-bars-rest-||
|-------------|----------|------------||
=================================================================================
Chorus - Distortion, both guitars "I've been watching, I've been waiting.."
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-7---------------|-----------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
||-7---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-4---------------|
||-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-2---------------|
|| |
|| |
|| |
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||---------5---7---|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|---------4---6---|----------6---7--|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------6---7--|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-7---------------|-----------------|-4---------------|----------------||
||-7---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-4---------3\---||
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-4---------3\---||
||-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-2---------1\---||
|| ||
|| ||
|| ||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||---------5---7---|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|---------4---6---|----------6---7--|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
===================================================================================
Main Riff - Heavily Distorted 1st Guitar "In the shadows.."
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-----------7-------|---------------|
||-5---5---5-x-5-4---|---------------------|-2---4---5---5-4---|-----------4---|
||-----------------5-|---2---2---2-x-0-2-5-|-----------------5-|-2-4-5-x-5---5-|
|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|------------------||
|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|------------------||
|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|------------------||
|--------------------|--------------------|------------7-------|------------------||
|--5---5---5-x-5-4---|--------------------|--2---4---5---5-4---|---------------(5)||
|------------------5-|--2---2---2-2-0-2-5-|------------------5-|-2--2--4--4--5----||
====================================================================================
-2nd Verse- "They say, that I must learn to kill before I can feel safe.."
First Guitar Plays..
||-----------------|-----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------||
||--(bass only)----|-----------------||
||-----------------|-4--(x16)--------||
||-----------------|-----------------||
*
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-------------------|-----------------|| (X6)
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-5-(x16)-----------|-4-(x16)---------||
||-------------------|-----------------||
* *
And Finishes on..
||-------------------|---------------------||
||-------------------|---------------------||
||-------------------|---------------------||
||-------------------|-4--3--2-------------||
||-5--(x16)----------|-4--3--2-------------||
||-------------------|-2--1--0-------------||
*
2nd Guitar plays..
||---------|---------0-----------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
||---------|-------------0---2---|---------------|-5---7-------|-------------|
||---------|---------------------|---------------|-------------|-4---6-------|
||4bar-rest|---------------------|--3-bars-rest--|-------------|-------------|
||---------|---------------------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
||---------|---------------------|---------------|-------------|-------------|
|-------------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------||
|-------------|-------------|-5---7-----|-----------|-----------|-------------||
|-6---7-------|-------------|-----------|-4---6-----|-6---7-----|-------------||
|-------------|-6---7-------|-----------|-----------|-----------|--1-bar-rest-||
|-------------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------||
|-------------|-------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------||
=====================================================================================
Chorus - Distortion, both guitars "I've been watching, I've been waiting.."
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-7---------------|-----------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
||-7---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-4---------------|
||-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-2---------------|
|| |
|| |
|| |
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||---------5---7---|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|---------4---6---|----------6---7--|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------6---7--|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-7---------------|-----------------|-4---------------|----------------||
||-7---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-4--------3\----||
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-4--------3\----||
||-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-2--------1\----||
|| ||
|| ||
|| ||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||---------5---7---|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|---------4---6---|----------6---7--|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
====================================================================================
Bridge - 1st guitar. There is a synth bit, but I didn't tab it - hard to hear properly.
"Lately, I've been walking, walking in circles.."
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-------------------|-----------------|| (X2)
||-------------------|-----------------||
||-5--(x16)----------|-4--(x16)--------||
||-------------------|-----------------||
* *
Finishes with..
||---------------------||
||---------------------||
||---------------------||
||-4--3--2-------------||
||-4--3--2-------------||
||-2--1--0-------------||
===================================================================================
Chorus - Distortion, both guitars "I've been watching, I've been waiting..."
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-7---------------|-----------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
||-7---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-4---------------|
||-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-2---------------|
|| |
|| |
|| |
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||---------5---7---|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|---------4---6---|----------6---7--|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------6---7--|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
||-7---------------|-----------------|-4---------------|-------------6-6-||
||-7---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-4-4-6-6-7-7-6-6-||
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-4-4-6-6-7-7-4-4-||
||-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-2-2-4-4-5-5-----||
|| ||
|| ||
|| ||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
||---------5---7---|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
||-----------------|---------4---6---|----------6---7--|-----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
====================================================================================
Chorus bit with solo - Distortion, both guitars. Some tremelo picking during the solo.
"I've been watching.."
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-7---------------|-----------------|-4---------------|-----------------|
||-7---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-4---------------|
||-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-2---------------|
|| |
|| |
|| |
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|--9------10------|-10-----12~------|-12~-----14------|
||--9-------11-----|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-7---------------|-----------------|-4---------------|----------------||
||-7---------------|-4---------------|-4---------------|-4-------3\----||
||-5---------------|-4---------------|-2---------------|-4-------3\----||
||-----------------|-2---------------|-----------------|-2-------1\----||
|| ||
|| ||
|| ||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||--14~----15~-----|--17~-----19~----|-19~-----21~-----|--21~---22------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------||
======================================================================================
Main Riff again - Heavy Distorted first guitar "In the shadows.."
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------|
||-------------------|---------------------|-----------7-------|---------------|
||-5---5---5-x-5-4---|---------------------|-2---4---5---5-4---|-----------4---|
||-----------------5-|---2---2---2-x-0-2-5-|-----------------5-|-2-4-5-x-5---5-|
-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|----------------|------||
-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|----------------|------||
-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|----------------|------||
-------------------|-----------------|-----------7-------|----------------|------||
--5--5---5-x-5-4---|-----------------|-2---4---5---5-4---|----------------|-5----||
-----------------5-|-2--2--2-x-0-2-5-|-----------------5-|-2-2--2-2-0-2-5-|------||
Any comments, corrections or otherwise, mail me at xenolith42@hotmail.com Enjoy!
