Old
Old by Machine Head
Transcription by Jeff Davis
Notation:
nh - natural harmonic
ah - artifical harmonic or pinch harmonic (same thing)
~ - virbrato
p - pull off
/ - slide up these are used for normal
\ - slide down and ghost note slides
I have written the beat numbers under the notes on the down beats.
In general I tried to keep one dash '-' equal to a thirty-second note.
Thus,
|-2---2---2---2--- are eight notes and
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2- are sixteenth notes.
Tuning:
1 - E
2 - B
3 - G
4 - C# <---- *Notice* I know it's weird but trust me, this is it.
5 - A
6 - D
In addition, tune all strings a 1/4 of a step lower to match the album.
OOO L D D
O O L D D
O O L D D
OOO LLLL D D
(Bar Dive + Pick Scrapes) (Lower and then raise bar) (Tap bar)
|-------------------------------------/~~~~~~~~--------------------------|
|--------------------------------nh--/-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------/------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------4-/----------------------7--\--/-\/---|
|-------------------------------------------------------------\/-- \/---|
|---------------------------------------------------------6--------------|
actual pitch: F
This isen't written exactly but it should give you a good idea
of how to play the beginning.
right before intro riff
|------------------------------------|
|-----bar-dive-----------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|-7-----\--/------nh-----------------|
|--------\/--------------------------|
|-6---------------2.9-%-%-%-%-%-%-%--| ( % means repeat the 2.9)
1 2 3 4
intro riff
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-------------------------5/7-7\5-|-5/8---7-------------------5/7-7\5--|
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-6---0-------1-------0---3/5-5\3-|-3/6---5-------6-------0---3/5-5\3--|
||-6---0---0-0-1---0-0-0-----------|-----------0-0-6---0-0-0------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
|---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|-------------------------5/7-7\5-|-5/8---7----------------------------||
|---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|-6---0-------1-------0---3/5-5\3-|-3/6---5-------6--------------------||
|-6---0---0-0-1---0-0-0-----------|-----------0-0-6---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
3rd time play this as the last measure
(aproximate harmonics)
|---------------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------nh--nh---nh---nh---nh---nh---nh---nh--||
|-5/8---7-------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------1.7-2.0--2.4--2.9--3.1--3.6--4.0--4.5-||
|-3/6---5-------6-----------------------------------------||
|-----------0-0-6-----------------------------------------||
1 2 3 4
verse riff
||---------------------------------|-------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|-------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|-------------------------------||
||--p--------6---9-----------------|--p--------6---9---------------||
||-6^3---6---3---6-----------------|-6^3---6---3---6---------------||
||-----0-6-0---0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-----0-6-0---0---0-3~~~-0-3~~~-||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Chorus
play 3 times 4th time
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||-------------------------4--------||
||-0---1---4-1---0---1---4-1---0----||-0---1---4-1---0-------3---5-4-3--||
||-0---1---4-1---0---1---4-1---0----||-0---1---4-1---0---3-6------------||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
play 3 times again 4th time
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||-0---1---4-1---0---1---4-1---0----||-0---1---4-1---0-3----------------||
||-0---1---4-1---0---1---4-1---0----||-0---1---4-1---0-3----------------||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
play intro riff 2 times
- 2nd time with harmonics at end.
verse riff.
Chours.
Bridge
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||-2--------------------------------|-(2)------------------------------|
||-2--------------------------------|-(2)------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|----------------------x-7-7/9-9\7--|-7/10--9-------3--------------------|
|----------------------x------------|------------------------------------|
|-(2)------------------x-5-5/7-7\5--|-5/8---7-------1--------------------|
|-(2)-------------------------------|------------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
2x
||-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||---------nh-----------nh------nh---|---------nh-----------nh----------|
||-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||---------4------------4-------4----|---------4------------4--------4--|
||-2---2-------2-2---2------2-2------|-2---2-------2-2---2-----2-2-2-1--|
||-2---2-------2-2---2------2-2------|-2---2-------2-2---2-----2-2-2----|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|---------nh-----------nh-----------|------------------------------------||
|--------------------------7/9-9\7--|-7/10--9-------3--------------------||
|---------4------------4------------|------------------------------------||
|-2---2-------2-2---2------5/7-7\5--|-5/8---7-------1--------------------||
|-2---2-------2-2---2---------------|------------------------------------||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
4x
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||-0-----------0-2---1----------||
||-0-----------0-2---1----------||
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
gtr1 plays this 8x
gtr2 plays this 2x gtr2: 3rd and 4th time
||------------------------------| |------------------------------|
||------------------------------| |------------------------------|
||------------------------------| |-------------------------ah---|
||------------------------------| |------------------------------|
||------------------------------| |-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1~~~-|
||-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1~~~-| |------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
gtr2 5th time 6th time
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||------tremolo-pick------------|--------tremolo-pick----------|
||-9---/---/---/---/---/--------|-10--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||-----/---/---/---/---/--------|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||-7---/---/---/---/---/--------|-8---/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
gtr2 7th time 8th time
|------------------------------|------------------------------|
|------tremolo-pick------------|--------tremolo-pick----------|
|-11--/---/---/---/---/---/----|-15--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|-9---/---/---/---/---/---/----|-13--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|------------------------------|------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
both guitars 8x
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1----|
|-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1----|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
(pause)
play 3 times 4th time
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||-------------------------6--------||
||-2---3---6-3---2---3---6-3---2----||-2---3---6-3---2-------5---7-6-5--||
||-2---3---6-3---2---3---6-3---2----||-2---3---6-3---2---5-8------------||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
play 3 times again 4th time
||----------------------------------||------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||-----------------nh-----------------||
||-2---3---6-3---2---3---6-3---2----||-0---1---4-1---0--------------------||
||-2---3---6-3---2---3---6-3---2----||-0---1---4-1---0-2.3-%-%-%-%-%-%-%--||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
intro riff again
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-------------------------5/7-7\5-|-5/8---7-------------------5/7-7\5--|
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-6---0-------1-------0---3/5-5\3-|-3/6---5-------6-------0---3/5-5\3--|
||-6---0---0-0-1---0-0-0-----------|-----------0-0-6---0-0-0------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
|---------------------------------|------------------------------|-------||
|---------------------------------|------------------------------|-------||
|-------------------------5/7-7\5-|-5/8---7----------------------|-------||
|---------------------------------|-----------%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%-|-------||
|-6---0-------1-------0---3/5-5\3-|-3/6---5---^-nh-slide-thing---|-6---0-||
|-6---0---0-0-1---0-0-0-----------|------------------------------|-6---0-||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1
The nh (natural harmonic) slide thing starts at about 1.5 on the
fretboard.
These notes are played as sixtuplets. These means in one beat there are
six notes played.
*If you like Machine Head maybe you'll like my band.*
**Check us out at: http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~jdavis3/sk.html
If you can not find the chords or tabs you want, look at our partner E-chords. If you are a premium member, you have total access to our video lessons.
If you find a wrong Bad To Me from Machine Head, click the correct button above.
Contributor: