Band: Ashes Divide
Song: Stripped Away
Part: Lead
Guitarist: Billy Howerdel
Tabbed by: Colin Thomas Nichols
This is Billy's standard tuning but the bottom string is dropped two steps.
Live he uses a Black LP Classic.
This is only the lead part as it is arranged on the album - I'm not going to tab out
the extended live outro in it's completion, just the main idea.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED:
A slide
Neck Pickup
c#|----------------------------------|G#|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3h4p3-3-3-1/3-| x4E |----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|F#|----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|
c#|----------------|G#|----------------|E |----------------|B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|F#|--8--8-x-5--5-x-|B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
c#|--------------------------------------------------|G#|--------------------------------------------------|E |--------------------------------------------------|B |--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12h13p12-12-12-10/12-|F#|--------------------------------------------------|B |--------------------------------------------------|
c#|----------------------------------|G#|----------------------------------|E |----------------------------------|B |--12-12-12-12-12-15-15-15-15-15\\-|F#|----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|
Bridge Pickup
c#|------------------------------------------------------------------|G#|------------------------------------------------------------------|E |------------------------------------------------------------------|B |------------------------------------------------------------------|x2F#|------------------------------------------------------------------|B |--0h5---0h3---0--0--/10-10-10-10\7-5h7--0--0--/10-10-10-10h12-12--|
Neck Pickup
c#|----------------------------------|G#|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3h4p3-3-3-1/3-| x4E |----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|F#|----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|
c#|----------------|G#|----------------|E |----------------|B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|F#|--8--8-x-5--5-x-|B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
c#|----------------------------------|G#|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3h4p3-3-3-1/3-| x2E |----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|F#|----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|
c#|----------------|G#|----------------|E |----------------|B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|F#|--8--8-x-5--5-x-|B |--8--8-x-5--5-x-|
c#|--------------------------------------------------|G#|--------------------------------------------------|E |--------------------------------------------------|B |--12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12h13p12-12-12-10/12-|F#|--------------------------------------------------|B |--------------------------------------------------|
c#|----------------------------------|G#|----------------------------------|E |----------------------------------|B |--12-12-12-12-12-15-15-15-15-15\\-|F#|----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|
Turn Neck Pickup volume off, put slide on...
Volume up after a few bars.
c#|--------------------------------------|G#|-/15-15\-/15-15\-/15-15\-/17\15-13/15-| x2E |--------------------------------------|B |--------------------------------------|F#|--------------------------------------|B |--------------------------------------|
c#|----------------------|G#|----------------------|E |----------------------|B |-7-7-7\5-5-5-/8-8-8\7-|x2F#|----------------------|B |----------------------|
c#|----------------------------------|G#|----------------------------------|E |----------------------------------|B |-7-7-7\5-5-5/8/12\--7-7-7\5-5-5\\-|F#|----------------------------------|B |----------------------------------|
Toss slide, Bridge Pickup
c#|------------------------------------------------------------------|G#|------------------------------------------------------------------|E |------------------------------------------------------------------|B |--0h5---0h3---0--0--/10-10-10-10\7-5h7--0--0--/10-10-10-10h12-12--|x4F#|--0h5---0h3---0--0--/10-10-10-10\7-5h7--0--0--/10-10-10-10h12-12--|B |--0h5---0h3---0--0--/10-10-10-10\7-5h7--0--0--/10-10-10-10h12-12--|
Neck Pickup, volume off while singing...
Raise volume after a few bars...
c#|-------------|G#|-------------|E |-------------|B |--7--0-5--0--|F#|--5--0-3--0--|B |--5--0-3--0--|
On the album, he plays the above riff several times until it fades out. Live, he plays a
of the above, then plays variations of the following riff:
Bridge Pickup
C#|-5--5-5p3-3h5\-----------------|G#|-------------------------------|E |-------------------------------|B |----------------0----7b-5h7\-0-|F#|-------------------------------|B |-------------------------------|
He also uses a slide and plays up the entire neck before doing variations of the slide
earlier while the band jams on the outro riffs.
For this he uses the neck pickup.
