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/ Machine Head / Burn My Eyes (1994) / Old guitar tab


MACHINE HEAD
OLD
Burn My Eyes

Tabbed by Jeff Davis



Notation:
nh - natural harmonic
ah - artifical harmonic or pinch harmonic (same thing)

Tuning:
1 - E
2 - B
3 - G
4 - C#  <---- *Notice*  I know it's wierd 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.





(Bar Dive + Pick Scrapes)   (Lower and then raise bar)      (Tap bar)
|-------------------------------------/~~~~~~~~--------------------------|
|--------------------------------nh--/-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------/------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------4-/----------------------7--\--/-\/---|
|-------------------------------------------------------------\/-- \/---|
|---------------------------------------------------------6--------------|

                   actual pitch: F

This isn'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)



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------------|


|---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|-------------------------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--||


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-----------------------------------------||




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~~~-||




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------------||


   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----------------||



play intro riff 2 times
  - 2nd time with harmonics at end.

verse riff.

Chours.


Bridge

||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||-2--------------------------------|-(2)------------------------------|
||-2--------------------------------|-(2)------------------------------|


|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|----------------------x-7-7/9-9\7--|-7/10--9-------3--------------------|
|----------------------x------------|------------------------------------|
|-(2)------------------x-5-5/7-7\5--|-5/8---7-------1--------------------|
|-(2)-------------------------------|------------------------------------|


    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----|


 |-----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
 |---------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---------------|------------------------------------||


    4x
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||-0-----------0-2---1----------||
||-0-----------0-2---1----------||




   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~~~-| |------------------------------|



    gtr2 5th time                   6th time
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||------tremolo-pick------------|--------tremolo-pick----------|
||-9---/---/---/---/---/--------|-10--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||-----/---/---/---/---/--------|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||-7---/---/---/---/---/--------|-8---/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||------------------------------|------------------------------|




   gtr2 7th time                    8th time
|------------------------------|------------------------------|
|------tremolo-pick------------|--------tremolo-pick----------|
|-11--/---/---/---/---/---/----|-15--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|-9---/---/---/---/---/---/----|-13--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|------------------------------|------------------------------|




  both guitars  8x
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1----|
|-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1----|




            (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------------||



   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-%-%-%-%-%-%-%--||


  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------------|



|---------------------------------|------------------------------|-------||
|---------------------------------|------------------------------|-------||
|-------------------------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-||

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.


Machine Head albums
2003 Through the Ashes of Empires
2001 Supercharger
1999 Burning Red
1997 The More Things Change
1994 Burn My Eyes
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