Band: Ashes Divide
Song: Stripped Away
Part: Lead
Guitarist: Billy Howerdel
Tabbed by: Colin Thomas Nichols
This is Billy's standard tuning but the bottom string is dropped two steps.
Live he uses a Black LP Classic.
This is only the lead part as it is arranged on the album - I'm not going to tab out
the extended live outro in it's completion, just the main idea.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED:
A slide
Neck Pickup
c#|----------------------------------|
G#|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3h4p3-3-3-1/3-| x4
E |----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
F#|----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
c#|----------------|
G#|----------------|
E |----------------|
B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
F#|--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
c#|--------------------------------------------------|
G#|--------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------|
B |--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12h13p12-12-12-10/12-|
F#|--------------------------------------------------|
B |--------------------------------------------------|
c#|----------------------------------|
G#|----------------------------------|
E |----------------------------------|
B |--12-12-12-12-12-15-15-15-15-15\\-|
F#|----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
Bridge Pickup
c#|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |------------------------------------------------------------------|x2
F#|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |--0h5---0h3---0--0--/10-10-10-10\7-5h7--0--0--/10-10-10-10h12-12--|
Neck Pickup
c#|----------------------------------|
G#|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3h4p3-3-3-1/3-| x4
E |----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
F#|----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
c#|----------------|
G#|----------------|
E |----------------|
B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
F#|--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
c#|----------------------------------|
G#|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3h4p3-3-3-1/3-| x2
E |----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
F#|----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/a/ashes-divide/238188.html ]
c#|----------------|
G#|----------------|
E |----------------|
B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
F#|--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
c#|--------------------------------------------------|
G#|--------------------------------------------------|
E |--------------------------------------------------|
B |--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12h13p12-12-12-10/12-|
F#|--------------------------------------------------|
B |--------------------------------------------------|
c#|----------------------------------|
G#|----------------------------------|
E |----------------------------------|
B |--12-12-12-12-12-15-15-15-15-15\\-|
F#|----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
Turn Neck Pickup volume off, put slide on...
Volume up after a few bars.
c#|--------------------------------------|
G#|-/15-15\-/15-15\-/15-15\-/17\15-13/15-| x2
E |--------------------------------------|
B |--------------------------------------|
F#|--------------------------------------|
B |--------------------------------------|
c#|----------------------|
G#|----------------------|
E |----------------------|
B |-7-7-7\5-5-5-/8-8-8\7-|x2
F#|----------------------|
B |----------------------|
c#|----------------------------------|
G#|----------------------------------|
E |----------------------------------|
B |-7-7-7\5-5-5/8/12\--7-7-7\5-5-5\\-|
F#|----------------------------------|
B |----------------------------------|
Toss slide, Bridge Pickup
c#|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G#|------------------------------------------------------------------|
E |------------------------------------------------------------------|
B |--0h5---0h3---0--0--/10-10-10-10\7-5h7--0--0--/10-10-10-10h12-12--|x4
F#|--0h5---0h3---0--0--/10-10-10-10\7-5h7--0--0--/10-10-10-10h12-12--|
B |--0h5---0h3---0--0--/10-10-10-10\7-5h7--0--0--/10-10-10-10h12-12--|
Neck Pickup, volume off while singing...
Raise volume after a few bars...
c#|-------------|
G#|-------------|
E |-------------|
B |--7--0-5--0--|
F#|--5--0-3--0--|
B |--5--0-3--0--|
On the album, he plays the above riff several times until it fades out. Live, he plays a
of the above, then plays variations of the following riff:
Bridge Pickup
C#|-5--5-5p3-3h5\-----------------|
G#|-------------------------------|
E |-------------------------------|
B |----------------0----7b-5h7\-0-|
F#|-------------------------------|
B |-------------------------------|
He also uses a slide and plays up the entire neck before doing variations of the slide
earlier while the band jams on the outro riffs.
For this he uses the neck pickup.
