Alter Bridge - "Never Say Die" (Also referred to by the title "Outright")
Bonus Track from "Fortress"
Tuning: Guitar 1 Drop-D lowered by 1 fret
Guitar 2 Double Drop D lowered 1 fret (DbAbDbGbBbDb)
Tabbed by jjhand
This bonus song from the Fortress sessions combines some of AB's bright
power ballad songwriting and unique lead guitar lines. Please rate or
comment.
Intro Guitar 1 play bar 2xeb|---------------||------------------------------------------------|Bb|---------------||------------------------------------------------|Gb|-4-4-4-6-6-6-7-||----------------------------------4-4-4-6-6-6-7-|Db|---------------||------------------------------------------------|Ab|-2-2-2-4-4-4-5-||-0--------------------------------2-2-2-4-4-4-5-|Db|---------------||-0----------------------------------------------|
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| Guitar 2 (clean tone, let notes ring)db|---------------||-0--0--2-4p0---0--2-4p0---0--2--5------0--2--5--|Bb|---------------||------------------------------------------------|Gb|---------------||----------------------0-----------0-------------|Db|---------------||------------------------------------------------|Ab|---------------||------------------------------------------------|Db|---------------||------------------------------------------------|
Intro pt 2 - played as shown (Guitar 1 changes on 2nd time)
Guitar 1 Ending #1 Ending #2|----------------------------------------------------|----------7~~~---9~~~-10~~~||----------------------------------------------------|----10b12~-12b14~-----13b15||--------------------------------------4-4-4-6-6-6-7-|---------------------------||----------------------------------------------------|---------------------------||-0------------------------------------2-2-2-4-4-4-5-|---------------------------||-0--------------------------------------------------|---------------------------|
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| Guitar 2|-0-------12-----------12-----------12------------12-|-----------------------||----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------||---11--9---11---11--9---12---12--9----12---12--9----|--repeat---------------||----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------||----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------||----------------------------------------------------|-----------------------|
Main Riff - play 2x|-------------------------------|----------------------------------||-------------------------------|----------------------------------||-------------------------------|----------------------------------||-------------------------------|----------------------------------||-------------------------------|----------------------------------||-7-4-0---7-4-0-7-4-0-4-7-7-4-0-|-9-5-0---9-5-0-9-9-9-11-11-11-12--|
Verse Riff - Guitar 2, guitar 1 holds open Db chord like intro
play 2xdb|-0--0--2-4p0---0--2-4p0---0--2--5------0--2--5-----|Bb|---------------------------------------------------|Gb|----------------------0------------0---------------|Db|---------------------------------------------------|Ab|---------------------------------------------------|Db|---------------------------------------------------|
at the end of this part, Guitar 1 plays:
|------|-----------------------------||------|-----------------------------||------|-----------------------------||------|-----------------------------||--0-0-|-0---------------------------||--0-0-|-0---------------------------| PM PM let-ring
Guitar 2 - play 2x|-0-------12-----------12------------12-----------12-||----------------------------------------------------||---11--9---11---11--9---12---12--9----12---12--9----||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------|
Prechorus|--------------------------|----------------------------||-------------------7b8r7--|----------------------------||-------/7-7---------------|----------------------------||-5--5--------4--4---------|-2---2---2-2----------------||-5--5--------4--4---------|-2---2---2-2---0-2-4-4b5r-0-||-5--5--------4--4---------|-2---2---2-2----------------|
|--------------------------|---------------------------||-------------------7b8r7--|---------------------------||-------/7-7---------------|---------------------------||-5--5--------4--4---------|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2------12\||-5--5--------4--4---------|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2------12\||-5--5--------4--4---------|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2------12\|
Chorus - Play Main Riff Again
Verse 2 - Same as Verse 1, less Guitar 1 this time
Play Prechorus and Chorus Similarly to 1st time
Bridge - Straight 16ths here
First bar play 3x 4th bardb|-0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0-0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0| -0-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-0-0--------------|Bb|---15-15---14-14---8-8---10-10---7-7--| ---8-7---8----8-7---8--------------|Gb|--------------------------------------| -----------------------------------|Db|--------------------------------------| -----------------------pick scrape-|Ab|--------------------------------------| ------------------------x\\\\\-----|Db|--------------------------------------| ------------------------x\\\\\-----|
play First bar 2x
Bridge Pt 2
|------------------------------|--------------------------||------------------------------|--------------------------||-11---12---14---11---12---14--|-7----6-6----6-6-----9~---||------------------------------|-7----7-7----7-7----------||-9----10---12----9---10---12--|-0----0-0----0-0-----7~---||------------------------------|--------------------------|
play First bar 2x again
|------------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------------|---------------------------||-11---12---14---11---12---14--|-7----6-6--6-6---6-6-6---6-||------------------------------|-7----7-7--7-7---7-7-7---7-||-9----10---12----9---10---12--|-0----0-0--0-0---0-0-0---0-||------------------------------|---------------------------|
|-----------------------------|----------------||-----------------------------|----------------||-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6--6---7---9--|----------------||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-------------|----------------||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--4---5---7--|-0--------------||-----------------------------|-0--------------|
Guitar 2 plays Verse Riff 2x
Guitar 1, with slide on Verse Riff repeateb|------------------|---------------7-------9--10---|Bb|-/8______\7~------|---------10b12---12b14---13b15-|Gb|---------------7/-|/14~---------------------------|Db|------------------|-------------------------------|Ab|------------------|-------------------------------|Db|------------------|-------------------------------|
Play Chorus Again
Outro Solodb|--------------------------------9--0-|Bb|------------8/12-10---10--5--8-------|Gb|-7/12-9---9--------------------------|Db|-------------------------------------|Ab|-------------------------------------|Db|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------14-16-17p16p14-16-17-19p17p16--------||-15-14h15p14--14-15-----------------------------17-15---||--------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------16-||--------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------|
|-/19----19-17-16h17p16---------|--------------16--16-17-19-16-17-19-21-24~~-||-------------------------------|----------------15--------------------------||-----------------------14\11~~-|-----11--14/16------------------------------||-------------------------------|-------12-----------------------------------||-------------------------------|-9/10---------------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
Ending Guitar 2 play 3x 4th bardb|-0-0--0--0-0--0--0-0-0-0-0--0--0-0-0-0| -0---0----0---0------------0---|-0---|Bb|---15-15---14-14---8-8---10-10---7-7--| -7/8-7/8--7/8-7-10p8p7-8p7-5/7-|-5/7-|Gb|--------------------------------------| -------------------------------|-----|Db|--------------------------------------| -------------------------------|-----|Ab|--------------------------------------| -------------------------------|-----|Db|--------------------------------------| -------------------------------|-----|
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| Guitar 1eb|--------------------------------------| -------------------------------|-----|Bb|--------------------------------------| -------------------------------|-----|Gb|--------------------------------------| -------------------------------|-----|Db|-0------------------------------------| -0-----------------------------|-0---|Ab|-0------------------------------------| -0-----------------------------|-0---|Db|-0------------------------------------| -0-----------------------------|-0---|
KEY
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| r Bend release
| br bend as indicated, then release
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