Artist: Evanescence
Song: The Only One
Album The Open Door (2006)
Tuning: gtr 1: Standard (EADGBe), clean
gtr 2: Dropped C (CGCFAD), heavy distort
Okay, love this song. I play it with a Digitech RP159 effects pedal, and i play on
69, so for those have that pedal, there you go. For people who have a different pedal,
your starting point, experiment. For people who dont have pedals, before i got mine, i
with the gain on 10, Bass, Middle and Treble all on 5, Drive on and volume set to your liking.
/ slide
* palm mute
~ let ring
Intro (Piano) 0:04, Gtr 1
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Verse (0:30)
Gtr 1 plays intro twice. the second time through, Gtr 2 plays this:
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|-----------------------|-----------------------||-----------------------|-----------------------||-----------------------|-----------------------||-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--|-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--||-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--|-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--||-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--|-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Pre Chorus, Gtr 1 (1:22)
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Chorus, Gtr 2 (1:35) x2|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-5-5--5------------|-5-5--5------------|-1-1--1------------|-1-1--1------------||-5-5--5--/5-3-6-5--|-5-5--5--/5-3-1-0--|-1-1--1--/5-3-6-5--|-1-1--1--/5-3-1-0--||-5-5--5------------|-5-5--5------------|-1-1--1------------|-1-1--1------------| * * * * * * * *
|----|\|----| \|----| Second time|-5~-| only|-5~-| /|-5~-|/
Verse, Gtr. 1 (2:08) x2 (Gtr 1 Plays intro along with this)
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|-----------------------|-----------------------||-----------------------|-----------------------||-----------------------|-----------------------||-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--|-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--||-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--|-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--||-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--|-5-5-5-5-5--5-5--5-5/--| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Prechorus, Gtr 1 (2:59)
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--4-----1--4--3--------3--|--4-----1-----6-----9----|-----1--------------4-----|-----2-----2-----2-------|-----------------3--------|-------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|
Chorus, Gtr 2 (3:12) x2
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|----|\|----| \|----| Second time|----| only|----| /|-5~-|/
Bridge (3:38), No guitar until 3:52
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Chorus (4:04), Gtr 2 x2
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Outro (4:30) Gtr 2 x4
|------------------------|\|------------------------|\ \|------------------------|\ Last 2 times,|-5-5---5---5-5-5--------|\ remove palm mutes, 4th time,|-5-5-5-5-6-5-5-5--------|\ Strum harder|-5-5---5---5-5-5--------|\ * * * * * *
another amazing song by an awesome band. Any questions, comments, corrections, email me
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