DEATH - "The Philosopher" Tablature
Official DEATH Tablature & Sheet Music »
From: primoz.renko@uni-lj.si
T H E P H I L O S O P H E R
tabbed by PRIMOZ RENKO
Faculty of social sciences in Ljubljana sLOVEnija Europe
I thought to my self it`s about time to satisfy DEATH fans all
around the world ( there are so many requests :) ).
So here is my tabbed philosopher from fantastic album Individual
thought patterns ( whatch out for Symbolic ).
Tune down your guitar strings back to D,..... or 1 whole step
I think this would help you to get the right sound, but I have my
special tuning especially for Death songs, it`s about to tune down
betwen 1/2 step and 1 step, consecutive I get the sound for playing
riffs from Human album to Symbolic. Ofcourse if you want to get exactly
Human sound it`s chapter for it iself. I hope you will enjoy as i do
playing The philosopher.
So if you want more DEATH tabs (especially from Human album) just
E-mail me to: primoz.renko@uni-lj.si
Legend
palm mute= . . . ...
hammer on= h
pull off = p
vibrato = ~
intro:
||------h--h---p--h--h------h--h---p-----h----||
||--0--5--8--12--8--5---0--5--8--12--8--5-----||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||------h---h---p---h--h------h---h---p------h--||
||--0--7--10--15--10--7---0--7--10--15--10--7---||
||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||------h--h---p--h--h------h--h---p-----h----||
||--0--5--8--12--8--5---0--5--8--12--8--5-----||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||------h--h---p-----h-----h--h---p-----h-----||
||--0--4--7--10--7--4--0--4--7--10--7--4--0---||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
riff:1
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--4--2--------------------------------------||
||--2--2--4--3--3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3-3-3---------||
||-----0--2--1--1-1-1-1---1-1-1-1-1-1---------||
. . . . . . . . .
riff:2
||-------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------(scream)--||
||---------------h-------------------------------------/-------||
||-2------7---6-7-9--2----7(7)\4-2-4--6----7-666-666--6----~---||
||-0--------0--------0----------------4------444-444------3----||
... ..
||---------------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------(scream)--------------------------------------||
||-------~----------/-------------8-9-8-------------8-9-8--------||
||-6----7-666-666--6----~---2---9-6-7-6----/--2---9-6-7-6--9-11--||
||-4------444-444------3----0-------------8---0------------7-9---||
... ..
||-----------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------(scream)----------------------------||
||------------------/------------------------/---------||
||-6----7-666-666--6----~---6----7-666-666--6-----~----||
||-4------444-444------3----4------444-444-------3-----||
... .. ... ..
riff: 3
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||--------7-----------7------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------10-----------10----------||
||--5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---5-5-8-8-8----8-8-8-8-8----8-8------||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------7-----------7----||
||--------5-----------5-----5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5------||
||--3-3-3---3-3-3-3-3---3-3------------------------||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
solo
||----------------------------------------------||
||---------------/\-----------------------------||
||--14---16-16-16-----14---16-16-16-17-17/19-19-||
||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------||
||-------------------17---------------------------------------------||
||----------15-17-18----18-17-15----------------15------------------||
||-14-16-17----------------------17-16-14-16-17----17-16-14---------||
||----------------------------------------------------------15-14-12||
||------------------------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||15-14-etc.-----------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
riff:4
||-----------------------------||
||-----------------------------||
||-----------------------------||
||--4----------------2---------||
||--2----3----6----2---3-2-----||
||-------1----4----0-----------||
riff:5
||------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------||
||--7-----8-----7-----8----2----3----2----3-------||
||--5-----6-----5-----6----0----1----0----1-------||
Song structure
intro
riff:1 play 7 times
riff:2
riff:3 play 4 times start solo on 2 repeat
riff:4 play 6 times
riff1: play 7 times
riff:2
riff:5
LIFE IS CERTAIN DEATH IS NOT
This musical interpretation has been removed due to a legal threat from Moses & Singer LLP,
representing the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) and
The Music Publisher's Association of the United States (MPA).
Unfortunately, these threats are fueled by greed and being masked by a "copyright infringement." They claim tab sites are
"hurting the songwriters," but it's a known fact that the publishing companies garner most of the
revenue. Instead, they would prefer you to purchase the
official DEATH tablature
which is an option we've always given our users. And due to the highly error-prone nature of tabs on the internet, many choose to go this route.
These companies also do not realize that tablature sites help to promote their artists.
For more information on this onslaught, you can read the
NY Times Article.
We hope one of the larger tablature sites will have the money to fight this. Until then, we urge you all to keep tabbing songs and sharing them in any way you can.
Return to DEATH Tablature »
Official DEATH Tablature & Sheet Music »