Placebo – Breathe Underwater (Guitar Tab)

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Song: Breathe Underwater Artist: Placebo Album: Battle For The Sun (2009) Notes: I am confident about everything apart from the outro. There are several guitars layered, and the bass and drums get very heavy so it's hard to hear what's going on. I have tabbed the main parts, but in the outro there is at least one more guitar playing a very high repeating part which I haven't included. The song has a very driving rhythm which I have tried to tab. I have included a marker for every 8th beat to help. Enjoy playing it! --Intro-- EI---------------------------------I BI---------------------------------I GI---------------------------------I DI---------------------------------I PLAY x 4 AI-14\--9--9-9--14-14\--9---9-9-9--I DI---------------------------------I 8 8 --Verse 1-- EI-----------------I BI-----------------I GI-----------------I DI-----------------I PLAY x 8 AI-----------------I DI-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-I 'Here comes another fall from grace...' 8 EI-----------------------------------------------------------------I BI-----------------------------------------------------------------I GI-----------------------------------------------------------------I DI-----------------------------------------------------------------I AI-----------------------------------------------------------------I DI-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-I 'I try to start a song...' 8 8 8 8 EI-------------------------------------------------I BI-------------------------------------------------I GI-------------------------------------------------I DI-------------------------------------------------I AI-------------------------------------------------I DI-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-I 'There's a fever coming on...' 8 8 8 --Pre-Chorus--
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               'It's hard to reconcile...'
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   '...I've become'
                 8               8

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               'With a wounded child...'
                 8               8               8               8 

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   'Hiding deep inside...'
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8 8 --Chorus-- This is played on two guitars in the recording, however if you're playing on your own you can play both parts together – just combine the tabs below into one.
    (Lead Guitar)
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                   'Breathe underwater.....'
                 8               8               8               8 

    (Lead Guitar)
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   'Want to see another dawn...'
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REPEAT CHORUS --Bit between Chorus and Verse 2-- EI---------------------------------I BI---------------------------------I GI---------------------------------I DI---------------------------------I AI-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-I DI---------------------------------I 8 8 --Verse 2--
(Clean Guitar)
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   'Take my ego for a ride'
                 8               8               8               8 

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   'My weaknesses lay bare...'
                 8               8               8               8 

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   'But it's the last time...'
                 8               8               8
--Pre-Chorus 2-- The rhythm guitar is more or less the same until the very end this pre-chorus, but if you listen carefully you'll hear the clean guitar part from the verse continues in section as well. I have tabbed this too.
    (Clean Guitar)
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               'It's hard to reconcile...'
                 8               8               8               8
(Clean Guitar) EI---------------------------------I BI---------------------------------I GI------2-------2-------2-------2--I DI-0-0-----0-0-----0-0-----0-0-----I
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   '...I've become'
                 8               8

    (Clean Guitar)
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               'With a wounded child...'
                 8               8               8               8 

    (Clean Guitar)
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   'Hiding deep inside...'
                 8               8               8

(Rhythm Guitar)
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8 8 NOW PLAY CHORUS x2 --Bridge--
    (Lead Guitar)
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AI-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-I
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    (Lead Guitar)
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(These are 11s, not super-fast 1s)
                 8               8               8               8
REPEAT BRIDGE --Final Chorus-- Note that the rhythm part has changed – the D chord is now played an octave higher. The bunched up notes are 12s, not 1s and 2s.
    (Lead Guitar)
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GI-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-I
DI-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-I

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DI-121212121212121212121212121212124-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-I
AI-121212121212121212121212121212124-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-I
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                   'Breathe underwater.....'
                 8               8               8               8 

    (Lead Guitar)
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BI-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-I
GI-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-I
DI-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-I

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DI-121212121212121212121212121212124-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-I
   'Coming up for air...'
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REPEAT FINAL CHORUS --Outro-- '#' means tremolo pick these at 16 note per bar
    (Lead Guitar)
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DI-----------------------------------------------------------------I I I I (Rhythm Guitar) I EI-----------------------------------------------------------------I BI-----------------------------------------------------------------I GI-----------------------------------------------------------------I DI-----------------------------------------------------------------I AI--#---------------#---------------#---------------#--------------I DI-4---------------0---------------7---------------6---------------I 'Coming up for air...' 8 8 8 8 REPEAT OUTRO Then end on these notes: (Lead Guitar) EI-------------I BI-------------I GI-14\---------I DI-x-----------I AI-12\---------I DI-------------I I I I (R Guitar )I EI-------------I BI-------------I GI-------------I DI-------------I AI-------------I DI-4\----------I