Pain of Salvation – On A Tuesday (Guitar Tab)
Drop A (A-E-A-D-F#-B)
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From the 2017 album "In The Passing Light Of Day"
Words and music by Daniel Gildenlow and Ragnar Zolberg
Transcribed by Travis Lausch
[Notes]
Ahhhh... the beast of an opening track. There's quite a bit going on, both with regards
to guitar playing and rhythms. The primary time signature in the intro and solo sections is
a bit tricky. I tend to think of it as five groups of seven sixteenth notes, and it could
be notated as either a bar of 7/4 followed by a bar of 7/16, though the note groupings suggest
something more like 35/16 or some kind of weird hybrid meter like 5x7/16 (a totally valid
meter, but utterly ridiculous to look at). The rest of the song is either in some kind of
similar time signature (groupings of 7, like 21/16, or just straight 7/8 or 14/16 depending on
how you want to count it) or just 4/4. I've indicated time signatures above the tab staff.
As for the playing, there's a lot of rapid-fire strumming and picking, mixed with a lot of
slower playing in sections. The slide guitar parts are not played with a lot of precision, so
what I wrote is merely an interpretation. The "solo" may have parts played an octave lower, but
I used live videos to verify this, and Ragnar and Daniel play the same thing for each part.
Most of the positions were verified by live video, though some parts are still my interpretation,
since I had a hard time really seeing what they played. Normally I'd put a link to a video here,
but I don't have one yet. I'll update it when I have one made.
[Tuning]
Tune all guitars to drop-A tuning:
(low to high) A E A D G B e
[Intro]
35/16 time (7/4 + 7/16)
P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M.--- x6
e||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G||o-------------------------------------------------------------------------o||
D||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
A||o-------------------------------------------------------------------------o||
E||----------------------------------------------------------2h3p2p0----------||
A||--3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2---------5-3-2-0--||Pause for one bar
P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M.--- x2
e||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G||o-------------------------------------------------------------------------o||
D||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||
A||o-------------------------------------------------------------------------o||
E||----------------------------------------------------------2h3p2p0----------||
A||--3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2---------5-3-2-0--||
P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M.---
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--/13-----13\--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--/16-----16\--------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------2h3p2p0----------|
A|----------------3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2---------5-3-2-0--|
P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M.---
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------2h3p2p0----------|
A|--3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2---------5-3-2-0--|[Pre-verse]
14/16 time (7/8, grouped into 2 groups of 7)
Ragnar
e||--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
B||--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
G||o-11-11-11-11-11----12-12-12-12-12----|--11-11-11-11-11----12-12-12-12-12----|
D||--9--9--9--9--9-----9--9--9--9--9-----|--9--9--9--9--9-----9--9--9--9--9-----|
A||o-7--7--7--7--7-----7--7--7--7--7-----|--7--7--7--7--7-----7--7--7--7--7-----|
E||--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
A||--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
x6
e|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
G|--------------------9--9--9--9--9-----|--9--9--9--9--9-----11-11-11-11-11---o||
D|--12-12-12-12-12----x--x--x--x--x-----|--x--x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--x-----||
A|--10-10-10-10-10----10-10-10-10-10----|--10-10-10-10-10----10-10-10-10-10---o||
E|--8--8--8--8--8-----8--8--8--8--8-----|--8--8--8--8--8-----8--8--8--8--8-----||
A|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
Then Daniel joins in after two repeats with:
e||----------------------------|----------------------------|
B||----------------------------|----------------------------|
G||o-9-9-9-9-9----7-7-7-7-7----|---------------7-7-7-7-7----|
D||--x-x-x-x-x----x-x-x-x-x----|--9-9-9-9-9----x-x-x-x-x----|
A||o-7-7-7-7-7----7-7-7-7-7----|--7-7-7-7-7----7-7-7-7-7----|
E||----------------------------|----------------------------|
A||----------------------------|----------------------------|
x4
e|----------------------------|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------|----------------------------||
G|--9-9-9-9-9----7-7-7-7-7----|--9-9-9-9-9----9-9-9-9-11--o||
D|--x-x-x-x-x----x-x-x-x-x----|--x-x-x-x-x----x-x-x-x-x----||
A|--7-7-7-7-7----7-7-7-7-7----|--7-7-7-7-7----7-7-7-7-9---o||
E|----------------------------|----------------------------||
A|----------------------------|----------------------------||
[Verse]
[Ragnar](clean)
e||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
B||--------------------3-----3----|--------------------3-----3----|
G||o---4-----4--------------------|----4-----4--------------------|
D||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
A||o-2-----2---------2-----2------|--2-----2---------2-----2------|
E||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
A||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
x4
e|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
B|----3-----3---------1-----1----|----3-----3---------1-----1----||
G|-------------------------------|------------------------------o||
D|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
A|--1-----1---------1-----1------|--1-----1---------1-----1-----o||
E|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
[Daniel](enters 3rd repeat)
w/slide
e||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
B||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
G||o-----16---------19------19----|------16---------19------19----|
D||--/16--------/19-----/19-------|--/16--------/19-----/19-------|
A||o------------------------------|-------------------------------|
E||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
A||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
x2
e|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
B|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
G|------15---------17------17----|------15---------17------17---o||
D|--/15--------/17-----/17-------|--/15--------/17-----/17-------||
A|-------------------------------|------------------------------o||
E|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
[Chorus]
Both guitars
e||--------------------------|--------------------------|
B||--------------------------|--------------------------|
G||o-------------------------|--------------------------|
D||--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---|
A||o-9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---|
E||--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|
A||--------------------------|--------------------------|
e|--------------------------|--------------------------|
B|--------------------------|--------------------------|
G|--------------------------|--------------------------|
D|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|
A|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|
E|--3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3-3---|--3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3-3---|
A|--------------------------|--------------------------|
e|--------------------------|--------------------------|
B|--------------------------|--------------------------|
G|--------------------------|--------------------------|
D|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|
E|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|
A|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|
x2
e|--------------------------|--------------------------||
B|--------------------------|--------------------------||
G|--------------------------|-------------------------o||
D|--------------------------|--------------------------||
A|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9--o||
E|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---||
A|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---||
[Pre-verse]
Ragnar
e||--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
B||--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
G||o-11-11-11-11-11----12-12-12-12-12----|--11-11-11-11-11----12-12-12-12-12----|
D||--9--9--9--9--9-----9--9--9--9--9-----|--9--9--9--9--9-----9--9--9--9--9-----|
A||o-7--7--7--7--7-----7--7--7--7--7-----|--7--7--7--7--7-----7--7--7--7--7-----|
E||--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
A||--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
x4
e|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
G|--------------------9--9--9--9--9-----|--9--9--9--9--9-----11-11-11-11-11---o||
D|--12-12-12-12-12----x--x--x--x--x-----|--x--x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--x-----||
A|--10-10-10-10-10----10-10-10-10-10----|--10-10-10-10-10----10-10-10-10-10---o||
E|--8--8--8--8--8-----8--8--8--8--8-----|--8--8--8--8--8-----8--8--8--8--8-----||
A|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------||
[Daniel]
e||----------------------------|----------------------------|
B||----------------------------|----------------------------|
G||o-9-9-9-9-9----7-7-7-7-7----|---------------7-7-7-7-7----|
D||--x-x-x-x-x----x-x-x-x-x----|--9-9-9-9-9----x-x-x-x-x----|
A||o-7-7-7-7-7----7-7-7-7-7----|--7-7-7-7-7----7-7-7-7-7----|
E||----------------------------|----------------------------|
A||----------------------------|----------------------------|
x4
e|----------------------------|----------------------------||
B|----------------------------|----------------------------||
G|--9-9-9-9-9----7-7-7-7-7----|--9-9-9-9-9----9-9-9-9-11--o||
D|--x-x-x-x-x----x-x-x-x-x----|--x-x-x-x-x----x-x-x-x-x----||
A|--7-7-7-7-7----7-7-7-7-7----|--7-7-7-7-7----7-7-7-7-9---o||
E|----------------------------|----------------------------||
A|----------------------------|----------------------------||[Verse]
Ragnar
omit first measure on first repeat
e||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
B||--------------------3-----3----|--------------------3-----3----|
G||o---4-----4--------------------|----4-----4--------------------|
D||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
A||o-2-----2---------2-----2------|--2-----2---------2-----2------|
E||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
A||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
x4
e|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
B|----3-----3---------1-----1----|----3-----3---------1-----1----||
G|-------------------------------|------------------------------o||
D|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
A|--1-----1---------1-----1------|--1-----1---------1-----1-----o||
E|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
Daniel (enters right away this verse)
w/slide
play softly first two times, then louder last two times
e||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
B||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
G||o-----16---------19------19----|------16---------19------19----|
D||--/16--------/19-----/19-------|--/16--------/19-----/19-------|
A||o------------------------------|-------------------------------|
E||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
A||-------------------------------|-------------------------------|
x4
e|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
B|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
G|------15---------17------17----|------15---------17------17---o||
D|--/15--------/17-----/17-------|--/15--------/17-----/17-------||
A|-------------------------------|------------------------------o||
E|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
A|-------------------------------|-------------------------------||
[Chorus]
Both guitars
e||--------------------------|--------------------------|
B||--------------------------|--------------------------|
G||o-------------------------|--------------------------|
D||--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---|
A||o-9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---|
E||--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|
A||--------------------------|--------------------------|
e|--------------------------|--------------------------|
B|--------------------------|--------------------------|
G|--------------------------|--------------------------|
D|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|
A|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|
E|--3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3-3---|--3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3-3---|
A|--------------------------|--------------------------|
e|--------------------------|--------------------------|
B|--------------------------|--------------------------|
G|--------------------------|--------------------------|
D|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|
E|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|
A|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|--7-7-7-7-7---7-7-7-7-7---|
x2
e|--------------------------|--------------------------||
B|--------------------------|--------------------------||
G|--------------------------|-------------------------o||
D|--------------------------|--------------------------||
A|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9--o||
E|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---||
A|--5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---|--9-9-9-9-9---9-9-9-9-9---||[Pause for keyboard/vocal bridge]
4/4 time.
[Oboe melody leading to instrumental]
oboe arr. for gtr. e|--7~~~-5~~~----------------------------7~~~-5~~~--------------5~~~-----9~~~--| B|------------7~~~-5~~~-5-7---5~~~~~~~~-----------7~~~-5~~~--------------------| G|--------------------------4-------------------------------6-7------6-7-------| D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Guitar "solo"]
35/16 time (7/4 + 7/16)
x4
e||---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-||
G||o-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------o||
D||---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
A||o-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------o||
E||---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
A||---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M.---
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------2h3p2p0----------|
A|--3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2---------5-3-2-0--|
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2h3p2p0----------|
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5-3-2-0--|
P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M------ P.M.---
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------2h3p2p0----------|
A|--3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2-2---------5-3-2-0--|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13--|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-13r12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-12r11-11-11-11-11-11-12r11-11-11-11-11-11-12r11-11-11-11-11-11-12r11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11--|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13--|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|21/16 time (7/8 + 7/16)
e|------------------------------------------------------------------| B|--14-14-14-14-14-14-14-15r14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14--| G|------------------------------------------------------------------| D|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| e|------------------------------------------------------------------| B|--13-13-13-13-13-13-13-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13--| G|------------------------------------------------------------------| D|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| e|------------------------------------------------------------------| B|--14-14-14-14-14-14-14-15r14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14--| G|------------------------------------------------------------------| D|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| e|------------------------------------------------------------------| B|--13-13-13-13-13-13-13-14r13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13-13--| G|------------------------------------------------------------------| D|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------| E|------------------------------------------------------------------| A|------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Pause for keyboard/vocal bridge]
4/4 time
[Outro]
Ragnar
(in live videos he plays this differently each time, sometimes using just the D string,
sometimes playing entirely in the second position)
e||------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B||------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G||o-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D||---------------7--9----------------10--9-----------------7--9-----------------7---9b10r9--|
A||o------/7--10---------------7--10-----------------7--10--------------9--10----------------|
E||------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A||------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
(when Daniel enters on the heavy part, it's actually during this line on the 3rd repeat)
x5
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G|------------------------------------7--------------9--7----------------------------------o||
D|---------------7--9--------------------9-----------------7--9-----------10--9p7bbbbbb8----||
A|-------/7--10---------------7--10--------------------------------------------------------o||
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
A|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||
Daniel x2
e||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G||o--------------------------------------------------------------------------o||
D||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
A||o-7--------3--------0--------10----8----7--------3--------5--------2-------o||
E||--7--------3--------0--------10----8----7--------3--------5--------2--------||
A||--7--------3--------0--------10----8----7--------3--------5--------2--------||
e|----------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------|
A|--7--------3--------0--------10----8----|
E|--7--------3--------0--------10----8----|
A|--7--------3--------0--------10----8----|[Legend]
**************************
| P.M. = Palm mute
| / = slide
| ~ = vibrato
| | ||
| |o o||
| | || = repeat sign (repeat everything between these lines. repeat more if specified above last line)
| |o o||
| | ||
| 13r12 = pre-bend 12th fret to pitch of 13th and then release
| 7bbb8 = slow bend
*************************