• Song:

    Fell On Black Days

  • Artist:

    Soundgarden

  • Album:

    The very best of

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Fell On Black Days
Based on the Cherry Lane book. Normal tuning. Key of G. 6/4 time. 
Key: 
Tabbed by: Cuff
Artist: Soundgarden
Album: Superunknown
Song: Fell On Black Days
p=pull off 
h=hammer on 
b/4 bend 1/4 
b/h bend half 
b/f bend full 
^^^^=vibrato 
/ OR =slide up/down 
In the last bar of this rhythm, guitar II plays in the 9th fret on the G string bent a full step and lets go slowly. 

    Verse rhythm--------------|  FILL 1------------------|
                  Play 3 times   4/4 time        B||--0--||back 
G||---9---------0-0-0-0-0-----||---9---------0-0--||--0--|| to
D||o--9--x-9--7-0-2-2-2-2----o||---9--x-9--7-0-2--||--2--|| 6/4
A||o--7--x-9--7---3-3-3-3----o||---7--x-9--7---3--||--3--||time!
E||--------7--------------0---||--------7---------||-----||
           b/h                           b/h

For the verse play Verse rhythm 9 times (above). 
The little fill (play in 4/4 and return to 6/4): 

   FILL 2
E||--------------------||----------0-0--||
B||--0--0-0--0--0-0----||----------0-0--||
G||--------------------||-------7--0-0--||
D||--9--9-9--9--9-97--||--7-7----------||
A||--------------------||-------5--7-7--||
E||--7--7-7--7--7-75--||--5-5-----8-8--||
For the chorus, play the verse rhythm 3 times and then FILL 1. Then the verse rhythm comes again 9 times and then FILL 2. This time Kim plays a little fill in FILL 2 which goes: 
     ^^^^^(vibrato notes)         ^^^^^^^            ^^^^
B||--------------------||----10---10-----10-------||-----||He plays this
G||--7---------9----7--||----------------------9--||-(9)-||at the end too.
D||--------9-----------||-------------------------||-----||
A||--------------------||-------------------------||-----||
               b/f           b/f         b/f 
Now play the Verse rhythm 3 times for the chorus and then: 
   "black days.      How would..                    Play 2 x
G||---9---4---2-0-0--7--7--7--||--9-x-4---2-0--0-0-0-0-----||
D||o--9-x-4---2-0-2--7--7--7--||--9-x-4---2-0--2-2-2-2---o-||
A||o--7-x-2-------3--5--5--5--||--7-x-2--------3-3-3-3---o-||
E||----------------------------||-----------------------0---||
         b/h
   
G||--9-x-4---2-0-0----0-0--||
D||--9-x-4---2-0-2----2-2--||
A||--7-x-2-------3----3-3--||
E||------------------------||
         b/h
Interlude (4/4 time): 
G||----------9-/13--/14--||-(14)----16-17-16--14--16--17---19--||
D||o--9--9-9----------0--||--(0)--0--0---------0---0---0-0--0--||
A||o---------7-/11--/12--||-(12)-------------------------------||
E||---7--7-7-------------||------------------------------------||
                                      h  p
   _____________________________  ____________________________________    
   |1.2.                       |  |3.                                 
G||-(19)--17--16--14------14---||-(19)---16-17-16--14--16--17----16--||
D||--(0)---0---0---0----0--0---o||--(0)-0--0--0--0---0---0---0--0--0--||
A||----------------------------o||------------------------------------||
E||-----------------------------||------------------------------------||
                                            h  p

G||-(16)-----16-17-16-14--16--17-----19--||-(19)--17--16-14-----12-119--||
D||--(0)--0---0--0--0--0---0---0--0---0--||--(0)---0---0--0------0--0----||
A||--------------------------------------||------------------------------||
E||--------------------------------------||------------------------------||

Play Verse rhythm 8 times for last verse. In the "Hands are for shaking" part play these chords (4/4 time first 2 bars, 2/4 last one): 
                                    Play 3 times        
E||------------------||-----------0-0--||-(0)---||
B||------------------||-----------0-0--||-(0)---||
G||o--9--9-9----9----||--------7--0-0--||-(0)--o||
D||o--9--9-9--9-9-9--||--7-7--7-------||------o||
A||---7--7-7--9-7-9--||--7-7--5--7-7--||-(7)---||
E||-----------7---7--||--5-5-----8-8--||-(8)---||
Play the Chorus with the verse rhythm but NOW you play with this fill: 
B||-------------------||--------------------||------------------||
G||--4--/9-9--/12-12--||--4--/9-9--/12-12--||--13--7-7--/9-9--||
D||-------------------||--------------------||------------------||
A||--2--/7-7--/10-10--||--2--/7-7--/10-10--||--11--5-5--/7-7--||
E||-------------------||--------------------||------------------||

B||------------------7-7-7--||
G||--13--9--/14-14--7-7-7--||
D||------------------7-7-7--||
A||--11--7--/12-12--5-5-5--||
E||-------------------------||
Play this with the "How would I know.." riff: 
                               Play 3 times
B||---9-------------||---------------------||
G||o--9--9--/12-12--||--13--7-7--/14-14--o||
D||o--9-------------||--------------------o||
A||---7--7--/10-10--||--11--5-5--/12-12---||
E||not played 

B||--9-------------||--------------------||
G||--9--9--/14-14--||--13--7-7--/14-14--||
D||--9-------------||--------------------||
A||--7--7--/12-12--||--11--5-5--/12-12--||
E||not played
And for the grand "finale" play FILL 2 and let the last note ring out. The outro solo goes like this: 
     ^^^^       ^^^           ^^^
E||-------------------||----------------------||
B||-------------------||-----------------10---||hold last note until
G||--7------7-7-7-----||--9---9--x-7-9-7------||death.
D||------9---------9--||----------------------||
                          b/f       h p   b/f
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