• Song:

    The Druid

  • Artist:

    Sleep

  • Album:

    Naive

Sleep - The Druid …on… Sleep’s Holy Mountain (Earache Records)
*(newly improved tab by me)*
This is a great song by a great band, largely instrumental, so for your pleasure I have transcribed the bass break, because I cant work out the guitar solo for definite. I think its largely random anyway, but the best thing to do is LOTS of random speed-shredding with many arpeggios which are definitely on record. You may also want to see my Dragonaut tab if you haven’t already.
~Down tune drop C~

Main riff repeat many times
C|-------------------------------------------------------------|
F|-------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----7--5--7~---------7-7-5-5-7~---------7--5--7~----12~-11~-|
G|-----7--5--7~---------7-7-5-5-7~---------7--5--7~----12~-11~-|
C|0-0--------------0-0----------------0-0----------------------|

C|-------------------------------------------------------------|
F|-------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----7--5--7~---------7-7-5-5-7~---------7--5--7~----3~--5~--|
G|-----7--5--7~---------7-7-5-5-7~---------7--5--7~----3~--5~--|
C|0-0--------------0-0----------------0-0----------------------|

Break down (a) play three times then

C|------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
F|------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|-7-7-7\6-6\5-5\4-4\3-3----------|
D|------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|------3--5b7r5----------------------|--------------------------------|
C|3--5--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Part (b) once

C|------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
F|------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|-5-5/6-6/7-7/8-8/9-9/10---------|
D|------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|------3--5b7r5----------------------|--------------------------------|
C|3--5--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Back to the main riff…
Bass break transcribed (you may also air bass to this)

D|------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|
F|------------------------------------|
C|------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------12-11-10-|
C|12-10-12-10-10-10-12-10-12----------|

D|---------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------|
F|---------------------------------------------------|
C|---------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------11h12h13-11h12h13-11h12h13--12-10|
C|12-10-13-12-13-14----------------------------------|

D|------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------|
F|------------------------------------|
C|------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------12-10-|
C|12-10-12-10-10-10-12-10-12b14-------|
D|-------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------|
F|------------------------------10-12/8------|
C|------------------------10-12--------------|
G|------------------10-12--------------------|
C|12-10-12-10-10-10--------------------------| then commence the shredding…

*Guitar solo* (one thing matt pike does is put the bass break in trebled note form, 
its easy you can work it out)

After many bars, at the end of the solo, we reach an edited bass break in guitar form use the rhythm of it

C|----------------------|---------------------|
F|----------------------|---------------------|
A|----------------------|---------------------|
D|----------------------|---------------------|
G|-7-5-7-5-5-5--12-10-8-|-7-5-8-7-8-9-12-14-15|
C|-7-5-7-5-5-5--12-10-8-|-7-5-8-7-8-9-12-14-15|

C|----------------------|---------------------|
F|----------------------|---------------------|
A|----------------------|---------------------|
D|----------------------|---------------------|
G|-7-5-7-5-5-5--12-10-8-|-7-5-8-7-8-9-12-14-16|
C|-7-5-7-5-5-5--12-10-8-|-7-5-8-7-8-9-12-14-16|

Before returning to the original riff dropped to the heavier:

C|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
F|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----10--8--10~------------10-10-8-8-10-10~------0-0--10--8--10~-------|
C|0-0--10--8--10~-------0-0--10-10-8-8-10-10~------0-0--10--8--10~-------|

Then for the climatic bit:
C|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
F|---5-5-5/6-6/7-7/8-8/9-9/10/17~~h19\5p0-|--------------------------------|
A|--5-5-5/6-6/7-7/8-8/9-9/10/17~~~h19\5p0-|--------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------|
C|----------------------------------------|--------------------------------|

This is simple on the whole, except for the improvised parts which you can have fun with. By lewis
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