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/ Dave Matthews Band / Before These Crowded Streets (1998) / The Dreaming Tree guitar tab

The Dreaming Tree
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Credit.....Rory Lowe...Glade14@aol.com

There is also in this intro a alternating A and B on the G string, but I 
believe its Tim Reynolds, and not Dave playing it all..it seems pretty 
impossible for him to be doing it by himself, so I tried to combine it 
best I could, so I left out the A in the riff so you can play it by 
yourself....Enjoy!


Intro

E------------------------------------------------------------------------
B---7----5----7----5----7---5---7----5----7----7----5---------------
G---4-------------------4---4---4--------------4----4---------------
D------------------------------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------------

Verse

" Standing Here "...............' Long before these crowded"

E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B----------------------------------5-----5-----5----5-----5------------
G--7-----7-----7------7------------4-----4-----4----4-----4-----------
D--5-----5-----5------5------------2-----2-----2----2-----2------------
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Here stood my dreaming tree"...." Below it he would sit "

E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------------------------------------7------7-----7--------
G------4----4----4-----4-----4----4--------------6------6-----6--------
D------2----2----2-----2-----2----2--------------4------4-----4--------
A--------------------------------------------------------------------------
E---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep repeating this through the verses

This next part is a Tim Reynolds solo. For this, you really have 
to listen to it to get the rythem just right, but here are the notes.

solo

E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B------------------6------6--6--6--------------------------------------6--------
G--7--7--5--7------7---7--7--7--7--7--7--7--5--7- 7--7--5--7-----7--7--7-
D--0--0--0--0----------0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-----------0--0--0--
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------6---------------------6-----------------
G--5--7--7--7---7--5--7---5--7-----7--7--7--5--7------7--7--7--------------
D--0--0--0--0---0--0--0-------------------------------0--0--0-------------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Verse 2

" Oh..have no pity? " ....." This thing I do " ..." I do not deny "

E---0-----0-----------------------------------------------0----0----0------
B---3-----3-------4---4-----------5---5-------------------3----3----3-------
G---2-----2-------2---2-----------3---3-------------------2----2----2------
D---0-----0-----------------------------------------------0----0----0-------
A-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keep repeating this until end of verse, then its back to the intro.




Here's another version from Jack Gray:


This is a really cool song. Some of it is easy while some of it isn't easy
to get used to. I think that its origins come from the jam at the end of 
Seek Up when Dave wails a lot.


Chords used:(low E to high e)
Dm-10 12 12 11 x x
C-8 10 10 9 x x
A-5 7 7 6 5 5
G-3 5 5 4 3 3
F-1 3 3 2 1 1 
D-x 5 7 7 7 5
Dm(2)-10 x x 10 x x
C(2)-8 x x 9 x x

~ = vibrato
h = hammer on

Intro/Verse:
e---------------
B---------------
G---9----9h11---
D-9---9--------9
A---------------
E---------------

changes to (strum these chords once and hold)
[Dm]Standing here
[Dm]the old man...
[C]"long before these...
[C]here stood my...
repeat this until "The dreaming tree has died." After that it goes into 
two guitar parts.

e-------------------------0
B------------------------6-
G-7~-(eight times)-5--7----
D--------------------------
A--------------------------
E--------------------------

two: strums this over and over
e-13-13---13-13
B-13-13---13-13

Do both 4 times, then strum A and hold
Then, during the "have you no pity" part:
A, G, F, D, and repeat. Then
[D]speak[A]please

Do all of this until the lots-o-muting fast part at the end, which is:
Dm(2)x2 to C(2)x2




Yet another version from Ethan Bauley:  this first part (i think it's


this first part (i think it's played similarly to "seek up" (position-wise)):

e----------------------------------------
b------5--7-------7-------5--7-------7---
g----------------------------------------
d--7----------7-------7----------7------- 

i play it with my ring finger on the seventh fret of the "d" string and 
my index finger and pinky splitting duty on the fifth and seventh frets 
of the "b" string, respectively.

the verse part has been driving me nuts. i think it goes like this(each
chord is strummed at the beginning of each bar):


Dm D Am Am

e--1---------0------------
b--3----3----1-----1------
g--2----2----2-----2------
d-------0----2-----2------
a-------------------------

make sure to leave the top note of the chord every second time you play it.

or, maybe something like:

e---------------------------------------
b---------------------------------------
g--10----7----9----3--------------------
d--12---------7----5--------------------
a--12----8------------------------------

i don't know the next part, but the chorus goes something like

D5 (eX,b3,g2,d0)
A5 or maybe Asus4
G (E3,a2,d0,g0)
F




Here's another version from Jason Weathers:  

Intro: 
E-------------------------------------------------------------------
B--------------5/7----------7------------5/7------------7-----------
G-------------------------------------------------------------------
D------7--------------7------------7-------------7------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------- 
E

Verse:  Dm A# C Am

E----x-----x------x------x------------------------------------------
B----6-----x------x------x------------------------------------------
G----7-----7------9------5------------------------------------------
D----x-----8------10-----7-------------------------------------------
A----5-----x------x------x------------------------------------------
E----x-----6------8------6------------------------------------------ 

after "the Dreaming tree has died," Dave strums the Dm fast and stays on 
it for a while, and ends with a single strum on an A before the chorus.  

Chorus: this was difficult but I think I got it. The first three chords 
are A-G-F, and then it goes to a "Dave" D chord that he plays in Best of 
Whats around. It looks like this:  


E---------5----- 
B---------3----- When you play it, it'll look like a C moved up 
G--------------- 2 frets with an added chord.  
D---------4----- 
A---------5----- 
E---------x----- 

When Dave gets to "Take me back..." play the verse chords. 
At "Save me please..." he's just playing the Dm chord through the end. 



Tree-Pig Transition
-------------------
transcribed by Ethan Bauley


here it is, with a couple chords missing towards the end.

e--------------------------------------------------------------
b--------------------------------------------------------------
g-------------------------------------------------------------
d--5---------------3--2--0---------5---------------3--2--0-----
a---------------------------3--1----------------------------3--
E-----3-3--3-3--3---------------------3-3--3-3--3-------------- 

then it goes something like:  G-B-C-D(or G; there's definately two 
guitars playing there), then some other stuff best left to someone less 
impatient than myself. 


Dave Matthews Band albums
2003 Some Devil
2002 Busted Stuff
2001 Everyday
1998 Before These Crowded Streets
1997 Recently [EP]
1996 Crash
1994 Under The Table and Dreaming
1993 Remember Two Things
Before These Crowded Streets tabs
01Pantala Naga Pampa tabbass tab
02Rapunzel tabbass tab
03The Last Stop tabbass tab
04Don't Drink The Water tabbass tab
05Stay tabbass tab
06Halloween tabbass tab
07The Stone tabbass tab
08Crush tabbass tab
09The Dreaming Tree tabbass tab
10Pig tabbass tab
11Spoon tabbass tab
12Outro tabbass tab

 

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