• Song:

    Regular John

  • Artist:

    Queens of the stone age

  • Album:

    Queens of the Stone Age

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                                  REGULAR JOHN
                     As recorded by Queens Of The Stone Age
                  (From the 1998 Album QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE)

Words and Music by Josh Homme


          E5 (022xxx@1)                 G5 (355xxx@1)                 D5 (xx023x@1)             E5(type 2)
      0 7 9 x x x         x 10 12 x x x        10 12 x x x x         x 7 9 x x x

Gtr I (C F A# D# G C) - 'rhythm'
Gtr II (C F A# D# G C) - 'lead'

 Intro
  Q=75
  E5 (022xxx@1)                                E5 (022xxx@1)4/4
  Gtr I
  S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S      S S S S  S S S S  S S S S  S S S S
  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |      | | | |  | | | |  | | | |  | | | |
  / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /      / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

  Gtr II
                                       <        <        <        <
                                       ~~       ~~       ~~       ~~
  W                                    E (022100@1) E (022100@1)  E (022100@1) E (022100@1)  E (022100@1) E (022100@1)  E (022100@1) E (022100@1)  3x
|---------------------------------||-----------------------------14--------||
|---------------------------------||o-15----------------14----------------o||
|---------------------------------||-----------12--------------------------||
|---------------------------------||---------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------||o-------------------------------------o||
|---------------------------------||---------------------------------------||


  E5 (022xxx@1)  S S S S  S S S S  S S S S  S S S S
   | | | |  | | | |  | | | |  | | | |
   / / / /  / / / /  / / / /  / / / /

   <        <        <        <
   ~~       ~~       ~~       ~~
   E (022100@1) E (022100@1)  E (022100@1) E (022100@1)  E (022100@1) E (022100@1)  E (022100@1) E|----------------------------14-------| (022100@1)|-15----------------14----------------|
|----------12-------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|


  E5 (022xxx@1)                                 E5 (022xxx@1) +S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S     S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
   | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |     | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
   / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /     / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /

   W                                   W
|----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|----------------------------------||o---------------------------------o||
|----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||
|----------------------------------||o---------------------------------o||
|----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||


                                   $
  E5 (022xxx@1) Gtr I
  S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S  S
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9----|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-19-|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0-|


     S  S  S  S  S  S S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S S  S  3x
||-------------------------------------------------||
||o-----------------------------------------------o||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||o-19-19-19-22-22-22---19-19-19-19-21-21-21---19-o||
||---0--0--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0--0--0--0----0--||


   S  S  S  S  S  S S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S S
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-19-19-19-22-22-22---19-19-19-19-21-21-21-21---|
|--0--0--0--0--0--0----0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-0-|


    E5 (022xxx@1)   S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
||-----------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------o||
||-----------------------------------||
||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--||
||o-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-o||
||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||


   Verse 1, 2
    E5 (022xxx@1)                              E5 (022xxx@1)   S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S   S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
||----------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||o---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
||o-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|


                             Chorus 1
                       To Coda
    A5B5C5    D5 (xx023x@1)             G5 (355xxx@1)                       D5 (xx023x@1) E5(type 2)
  S E (022100@1)name="chord_022100@1">E  E (022100@1)E (022100@1)E (022100@1)E (022100@1)S  E (022100@1)4x   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S S ES (022100@1)E|--------------------------||----------------------------------------| (022100@1)|-------------------------o||----------------------------------------|
|--------------------------||----------------------------------------|
|---7-9-10-10-12-12-12-12--||--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12------9-9-9-|
|---7-9-10-10-12-12-12-12-o||--10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-12---7-7-7-|
|-0-5-7--8--8-10-10-10-10--||-----------------------------10-0-------|


  G5 (355xxx@1)                          D5 (xx023x@1)  E5(type 2)
  Gtr I
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S     S  S  E (022100@1)S  E (022100@1)  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |     |  |  |  |  |
   /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /     /  o  /  /  /

  Gtr II
                                       ~~~
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  T  T  S  S  E.    S  S
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|----------------12-14-12-14p12----12-14----12-14-|
|-------10-12-14----------------14----------------|
|-10-12-------------------------------------------|


  G5 (355xxx@1)                                                 D5 (xx023x@1) E5(typG52E5(type 2)
   S       S  S       S  S       S  S       S  S       S  S  E (022100@1)S  S S
   |       |  |       |  |       |  |       |  |       |  |  |  |  | |
   /       /  /       /  /       /  /       /  /       /  o  /  /  / /

   E (022100@1)        E (022100@1)        E (022100@1)        E (022100@1)        E (022100@1)        S  E.    S S
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-14pb15.5r==14pb15.5r==14pb15.5r==14pb15.5r==14pb15.5r==12-------12s9--|
|-----------------------------------------------------------14----10s7--|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|


                          Chorus 2
     D.S. al Coda          &
  E5 (022xxx@1)                     G5 (355xxx@1)                       D5 (xx023x@1) E5(type 2)
  Gtr I
  W          +W             S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S S ES (022100@1)E|----------|------------||----------------------------------------| (022100@1)|----------|------------||----------------------------------------|
|----------|------------||----------------------------------------|
|-9--------|-(9)--------||-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12------9-9-9--|
|-7--------|-(7)--------||-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-12---7-7-7--|
|-0--------|-(0)--------||----------------------------10-0--------|


  G5 (355xxx@1)                                       D5 (xx023x@1) E5(type 2)
  Gtr I
   S     S  S     S  S     S  S     S  S     S  S  E (022100@1)S   E (022100@1)  |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |  |  |  |   |
   /     /  /     /  /     /  /     /  /     /  o  /  /   /

  Gtr II
                                                   ~~~
   E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      S  E.    +E
|-12-------12-------12-------12-------12----------------------|
|-15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r=================|
|----------------------------------------------12-------------|
|-------------------------------------------------14----(14)-|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------|


  G5 (355xxx@1)                                       D5 (xx023x@1) E5(typG52E5(type 2)
   S     S  S     S  S     S  S     S  S     S  S  E (022100@1)S  S S
   |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |  |  |  |  | |
   /     /  /     /  /     /  /     /  /     /  o  /  /  / /

                                                   ~~~
   E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      S  E.    S S
|-12-------12-------12-------12-------12---------------------|
|-15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r================|
|----------------------------------------------12------------|
|-------------------------------------------------14----12s9-|
|-------------------------------------------------------10s7-|
|------------------------------------------------------------|


  E5 (022xxx@1) W          +W              +W            +W
  |           |               |             |
  /           /               /             /

                     <
  W          +H      H       +W            +W
|----------|--------------|-------------|---------|
|----------|--------12----|-(12)--------|-(12)----|
|----------|--------------|-------------|---------|
|-9--------|-(9)----------|-------------|---------|
|-7--------|-(7)----------|-------------|---------|
|-0--------|-(0)----------|-------------|---------|


   Bridge
    Gtr I
     PM----------|    PM---------------------
     S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S S
||------------------------------------------|
||o-----------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------|
||o--7-7----7--7-7----7--7-7----7--7-7----7-|
||------------------------------------------|
|
|   Gtr II
|    e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e||------------------------------------------| (022000@1)||o-12---12---12---12---12---12---12---12---|
||------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------|
||o-----------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------|


 ------------------------|    PM--------|
   S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S  S
|-------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------o||
|-------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------||
|--9-9----9--9-9----9--9-9----9--9-9--9-10-o||
|-------------------------------------------||
|
|  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e|-------------------------------------------|| (022000@1)|-12---12---12---12---12---12---12---12----o||
|-------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------o||
|-------------------------------------------||


     PM----------|    PM---------------------
     S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S S  S S
||------------------------------------------|
||o-----------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------|
||o--7-7----7--7-7----7--7-7----7--7-7----7-|
||------------------------------------------|
|
|    e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e (022000@1)  e||------------------------------------------| (022000@1)||o-12---12---12---12---12---12---12---12---|
||------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------|
||o-----------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------|


 -------------------------|   PM--------|
   S  S S S  S  S S S  S  S S S  S  S S  S  4x
|-------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------o||
|-------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------||
|--9--9---9--9--9---9--9--9---9--9--9-9-10-o||
|-------------------------------------------||
|
|  <         <         <         <
|  ~~~       ~~~       ~~~       ~~~
|  E.     S  E.     S  E.     S  E.      S  4x
|-------------------------------14----------||
|-15------------------14-------------------o||
|-----------12------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------o||
|-------------------------------------------||


                                           Verse 3
    E5 (022xxx@1)                                    E5 (022xxx@1)   Gtr I
    S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S         S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
||-----------------------------------||-||------------------------------------||
||o---------------------------------o||-||o----------------------------------o||
||-----------------------------------||-||------------------------------------||
||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--||-||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9---||
||o-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-o||-||o-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--o||
||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||-||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---||


                            Chorus 3
    A5B5C5    D5 (xx023x@1)           G5 (355xxx@1)                       D5 (xx023x@1) E5(type 2)
  S E (022100@1)name="chord_022100@1">E  E (022100@1)E (022100@1)E (022100@1)E (022100@1)S  E (022100@1)   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S S ES (022100@1)E|-------------------------||---------------------------------------| (022100@1)|-------------------------||---------------------------------------|
|-------------------------||---------------------------------------|
|---7-9-10-10-12-12-12-12-||-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12------9-9-9-|
|---7-9-10-10-12-12-12-12-||-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-12---7-7-7-|
|-0-5-7--8--8-10-10-10-10-||----------------------------10-0-------|


  G5 (355xxx@1)                          D5 (xx023x@1)  E5(type 2)
  Gtr I
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S     S  S  E (022100@1)   S  E (022100@1)  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |     |  |  |     |  |
   /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /  /     /  o  /     /  /

  Gtr II
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  T  T  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------12----12-14-|
|----------------12-14-12-14p12----12-14----14-------|
|-------10-12-14----------------14-------------------|
|-10-12----------------------------------------------|


  G5 (355xxx@1)                                                     D5 (xx023x@1)    E5(type 2)
    S        S   S       S   S       S   S       S   S       S   S  ES (022100@1)E (022100@1)   |        |   |       |   |       |   |       |   |       |   |  | | |
    /        /   /       /   /       /   /       /   /       /   o  / / /

                                                                    ~~
   +S        S   S       S   S       S   S       S   S       S   S  Q      +S
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------15----------15----------15----------15----------15------------------|
|-(14)b16==(14)r14b16==(14)r14b16==(14)r14b16==(14)r14b16==(14)r14-12-----(12)-|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


    G5 (355xxx@1)                                       D5 (xx023x@1) E5(type 2)
     S     S  S     S  S     S  S     S  S     S  S  E (022100@1)S   E (022100@1)    |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |  |  |  |   |
     /     /  /     /  /     /  /     /  /     /  o  /  /   /

                                                     ~~~
     E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      S  E.    +E
||--12-------12-------12-------12-------12-----------------------||
||o-15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==12-------------o||
||---------------------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------14----(14)--||
||o-------------------------------------------------------------o||
||---------------------------------------------------------------||


  G5 (355xxx@1)                                       D5 (xx023x@1) E5(typG52E5(tE5e 2)
   S     S  S     S  S     S  S     S  S     S  S  E (022100@1)S  S S   W
   |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |  |     |  |  |  |  | |   |
   /     /  /     /  /     /  /     /  /     /  o  /  /  / /   /

                                                   ~~~
   E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      E (022100@1)      S  E.    S S   W
|-12-------12-------12-------12-------12---------------------|------*|
|-15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==15pb17r==12------------|------*|
|------------------------------------------------------------|------*|
|-------------------------------------------------14----12s9-|-9----*|
|-------------------------------------------------------10s7-|-7----*|
|------------------------------------------------------------|-0----*|


Duration Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for.  Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests.  Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for.  Low
melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature Legend
----------------
 h   - hammer-on
 p   - pull-off
 b (x24432@1) - bend
 pb  - pre-bend
 r   - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
 /  - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
 s   - legato slide
 S   - shift slide
  - natural harmonic
[n]  - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
 ~   - vibrato
 tr  - trill
 T   - tap
 TP  - trem. picking
 PM  - palm muting
n/  - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
 n  - tremolo bar down
 n/  - tremolo bar up
/n  - tremolo bar inverted dip
 =   - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
   - volume swell (louder/softer)
 x   - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
 o   - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc Legend
-----------
 |  - bar
||  - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*|  - double bar (ending)
 :  - bar (freetime)
 $  - Segno
 &  - Coda
Tempo markers -  = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths

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