Alter Bridge - "Make it Right"
From the Album "AB III"
Normal Eb tuning
tabbed by jjhand
Intro/Main Riff - Acoustic eb|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|Bb|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|Gb|-------0-----------0-----|-------0-----------0-----|-------7-----------7-----|Db|-------------------------|-----0---0-------0---0---|-----0---0-------0---0---|Ab|-3---0---0---3---0---0---|---5-------5---5-------5-|---7-------7---7-------7-|Eb|---5-------5---5-------5-|-3-----------3-----------|-5-----------5-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------||-------6-----------6---4-||-----0---0-------0---0---||---7-------7---7---------||-5-----------5-----------|
Electric, During intro (0:06)|------------|-------------|-------------|-12b15~~~~~----------||-fade in----|-------------|-------------|---------------------||------------|-------------|-------------|---------------------||------------|-------------|-------------|---------------------||-5NH--------|--rest-------|--rest-------|---------------------||------------|-------------|-------------|---------------------|
Verse 1 - Play Acoustic Main Riff 2x, then it changes slightly:
"How many times have you cut only to feel the pain
How many days have you run only to crawl"
Main Riff pt 2 (first 2 bars change, play 2x similarly)
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||-------2---0-------2---0-|-------0---4-------0---4-|-------7-----------7-----||-------------------------|-----0---0-------0---0---|-----0---0-------0---0---||-3-0-0---0---3-0-0---0---|---5-----------5---------|---7-------7---7-------7-||-------------------------|-3-----------3-----------|-5-----------5-----------|1 "How many nights did you scream, only to scream in vain"2 "How many years till you face the shame of it all"
ending bar for above|-------------------------||-------------------------||-------6-----------6---4-||-----0---0-------0---0---||---7-------7---7---------||-5-----------5-----------|
Chorus - |-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6--6-6--|-/9--9-9--9------------||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-------------------|-/9--9-9--9-7----------||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4--4-4--|-/7--7-7--7---10-7-----||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------------10-7-|"Into the fire you fall If only you can make it right"
|-------------------|----------------|---------------|----------------||-------------------|----------------|---------------|----------------||-------------------|----------------|-7------6------|-9--------------||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4---4-------|---------------|-9--------------||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5---5----0--|-5------4------|-7--------------||-------------------|----------------|---------------|----------------|"Stand up and fight for resolve, if only you can make it right"
Electric before Verse 2:|-----------|-------------|-------------||-5________-|-(5)feedback-|-------------||-----------|-------------|-5___b____b6-||-----------|-------------|-------------||-----------|-------------|-------------||-----------|-------------|-------------|
Verse 2 - Play Main Riff 2x
"How many lies did you steal just to convince the fool
How many masks did you wear disguise and remove"
Verse 2 - 2nd Part (1:24) - Electric fades in & plays: ending 1|--------------------|---------------------|---------------------|-------0--------||--------------------|---------------------|---------------------|-------0--------||--------------------|---------------------|-----------7---7-7---|-6---6-6--------||--------------------|---------------------|-----------7---7-7---|-7---7-7---7--7-||-10----10----10-9-7-|-5----5---5-5----5/9-|-7---7-7---7---7-7---|-7---7-7---7--7-||-8-----8-----8--7-5-|-3----3---3-3----3/7-|-5---5-5---5---5-5---|-5---5-5---5--5-|1. "How many years till you break all that keeps breaking you"2. "How many tears will you waste while finding the truth"
repeat line above but change ending to:
ending 2|--------------------||-----------12----9--||-6---6-6---12----9--||-7---7-7---12----9--||-7---7-7------------||-5---5-5------------|
Play chorus Again|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6--6-6--|-/9--9-9--9------------||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-------------------|-/9--9-9--9-7----------||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4--4-4--|-/7--7-7--7---10-7-----||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------------10-7-|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------0------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------/5--3-0-------||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6--6-6--|-/9--9-9--9---------2p1p0-||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-------------------|-/9--9-9--9---------------||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4--4-4--|-/7--7-7--7---------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|--------------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6--6-6--|---------------------7-||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-------------------|-/9--9-9--9----5-7/9---||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4--4-4--|-/7--7-7--7--7---------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6--6-6--|-------------------||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-------------------|-7--7-7---7--7-7---||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4--4-4--|-5--5-5---4--4-4---||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|
Bridge - 2 guitars, both use wah pedal but only one accents the notes|----------------------|----------------------|----------------------||----------------------|----------------------|----------------------||-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------|----------------------|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--------||-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------|-5----5---5-5----5----|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--------||-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--------|-2----2---2-2----2----|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------||-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--------|----------------------|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------||-----------------|-5---5---5---5---|-----------------|-----------------------||-7---7---7---7---|-5---5---5---5---|-5---5---5---5---|-----------------------||-4---4---4---4---|-3---3---3---3---|-2---2---2---2---|---------------5-7-8-7-||-----------------|-3---3---3---3---|-----------------|-0----0----0-7---------|
|--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||-----------7------5-||-0---0---0---8--7---|
Play the bridge again then add this:
|-----------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------||-----------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------||-----------------------|-----------5p4p2-----------|-----------------------||-----------------------|----------------5p4p2------|-----------------------||---------------5-7-8-7-|---------------------2p1p0-|---------------5-7-8-7-||-0----0----0-7---------|-0----0--------------------|-0----0----0-7---------|
|--------------------|-----------------------|---------------------------||--------------------|-----------------------|---------------------------||--------------------|-----------------------|-----------5p4p2-----------||--------------------|-----------------------|----------------5p4p2------||-----------7------5-|---------------5-7-8-7-|---------------------2p1p0-||-0---0---0---8--7---|-0----0----0-7---------|-0----0--------------------|
Final Chorus (for runs at end of line, guitar 1 play high, guitar 2 low)
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------10-7-------||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6--6-6--|-/9--9-9--9------9-7---||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-------------------|-/9--9-9--9-7--------9-||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4--4-4--|-/7--7-7--7---10-7-----||-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------------10-7-|
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|--------------------8---||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6-----|-/9--9-9--9-----7-9---9-||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-----------------|-/9--9-9--9--/9---------||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4-----|-/7--7-7--7-------------||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------12-----15---||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------15b17--18b20||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6-----|------------------------||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-----------------|-/9--9-9--9-------------||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4-----|-/7--7-7--7-------------||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|-7--7-7--7-6-----|-------------------||-7--7-7--7-6-------|-5--4--4-4---4--4--|-----------------|-7--7-7---7--7-7---||-7--7-7--7-7--9--7-|-5--5--5-5---5--5--|-5--5-5--5-4-----|-5--5-5---4--4-4---||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|
Outro Solo (3:21) Eb Db Ab|----------|---------------------|-----------------|---------------------------||----------|---------------------|-----------------|-------------10b11-8-------||----------|---------------------|-----------------|---------7h9---------9-7-9-||----------|-7--7-7--7-7--7PH~-5-|---5-------5b----|---5-7/9-------------------||-7___fdbk-|---------------------|-7---7~----------|-7-------------------------||----------|---------------------|-----------------|---------------------------|
Eb (continues)|------------------|------------------------------|------10-----12-----19-17-15||---------------12-|--------------10-----12-----13|-13b15--15b17--15PH---------||-7h9~~~~-/x\---12-|-12p11-9-12b14--14b16--15b17--|----------------------------||------------------|------------------------------|----------------------------||------------------|------------------------------|----------------------------||------------------|------------------------------|----------------------------|
|------15------------15-17-17-15--15------|--------------0---||-18b20--15PH-15-15PH-----------17--17-15-|--------------0---||-----------------------------------------|-12~----------1---||-----------------------------------------|------9-------2---||-----------------------------------------|------------------||-----------------------------------------|----------0-------|
|---------------10-12-16/19\16-|----------------------||-----------9-12---------------|-17-------------15~~~\||-------7-9--------------------|---14-12~-------------||---6-9------------------------|----------14p12-------||-7----------------------------|----------------------||------------------------------|----------------------|
|------15-17b19-b19r17-15--15-15----|-(15)-----------15--------14-||-15-17------------------17---15b17-|-b17r15-17p15-17--17~~--17---||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------|
(3:46)|-14tr15--14tr15--15tr17--17tr19----|-19p15--17p14--15p12-------------------------||-------17------17------17------17--|------17-----15-----12-15p12--12-------------||-----------------------------------|----------------------------14--14p12-14p12--||-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------14||-----------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
Ending (Bridge riff again)|------------------------12----15-|-----------------------||--------------12h15p12-----12----|-15b17~~---------------||-12~~----12-14--------14---------|-----------------------||-------14------------------------|-----------------------||---------------------------------|---------------5-7-8-7-||---------------------------------|-0----0----0-7---------|
|----------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------||----------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------||----------------------|-----------------------|---------5p4p2-----------||----------------------|-----------------------|--------------5p4p2------||-------------7------5-|---------------5-7-8-7-|-------------------2p1p0-||-0----0----0---8--7---|-0----0----0-7---------|-0----0------------------|
Repeat riff above with Solo: slight PH & wah here (hard to hear)|-------------|-------------------|-12-12--------------------------|-------||-15~~~~------|-(15~~)------------|-------15-15-12-12--------------|-------||-------------|-------------------|------------------14-14-12p11---|-------||-------------|-------------------|-----------------------------14-|-14~~--||-------------|-------------------|--------------------------------|-------||-------------|-------------------|--------------------------------|-------|
End on Eb5 chord
KEY
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| PH pinch harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| r Bend release
| () held note
| fdbk feedback from held note
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