Alter Bridge - 'Cry of Achilles'
From the album 'Fortress'
Tuning - Eb
Tabbed by jjhand
AB picked a strong opening song to their Fortress disc. Spanish
fingerpicking, solos from Mark and Myles, and probably one of the
best tracks for drums and bass fills as well. Please rate or comment.
Acoustic Intro (Thanks to mitchftw)
part 1 - played 2x
Eb|-------------| Bb|-------0---1-| Gb|---2---2---2-| x4Db|-----2---2---| Ab|-0-----------| Eb|-------------|
Eb|-------------| Bb|---0---0---3-| Gb|---1-1-1-1-1-| x2 Db|-------------| Ab|-0-----------| Eb|-------------|
Eb|-------------------------| Bb|---3-0-3-0-6-0-3-0-3-0-6-| Gb|---4---4---4---4---4---4-| Db|-------------------------| Ab|-0-----------------------| Eb|-------------------------|
part 2
Eb|-------------| |-------------| Bb|-------0---1-| |-------1---3-| Gb|---2---2---2-| x4 |---0---0---0-| x4Db|-----2---2---| |-----2---2---|Ab|-0-----------| |-------------| Eb|-------------| |-3-----------|
Eb|-------------------------------------------------| Bb|-------1---3-------1---3-------1---3---1---0---0-| Gb|---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-| Db|-----0---0-------0---0-------0---0-------0---0---| Ab|-------------------------------------------------| Eb|-2-----------2-----------2-----------2-----------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------||------------------------------|-6-5-4----5-4------------| |------------------------------|------5-4-----5-4--------||---0------0------0-------0----|------------------/9-7-6-| |-------------------8-------11-|-------------------------||-0-----/4-----/7-----/10------|-------------------------|
|---------------------------||---------------------------||---------------------------||-6h7p6---6-----------5-----||-------8---8-7-5-7-8---8-7-| |---------------------------|
Heavy Intro Riff
line 1 (0:32)eb|-------------------------|-------------------------|Bb|-------------------------|-------------------------|Gb|-------------------------|-------------------6-6-6-|Db|-------7---8---5---7-7-7-|-------7---8---5---------|Ab|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-------|Eb|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|---------------------------||-------------------------|---------------------------||-------------------------|---------------------------||-------7---8---5---7-7-7-|-7h8p7p5-7-5---------5-----||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-------------8-5-7-8---8-7-||-------------------------|---------------------------|
repeat line 1, then
|-------------------------|---------------------------||-------------------------|---------------------------||-------------------------|---------------------------||-------7---8---5---7-7-7-|-7h8p7p5-7-5---------------||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-------------8-7-5---------||-------------------------|-------------------8-7-0-3-|
Verse Riff 1 -
line 1|-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------6-6-6-||-------7---8---5---7-7-7-|-------7---8---5---------||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-4-4-4-||-------------------------|-------------------------|
e|-------------------------|---------------------------------|B|-------------------------|---------------------------------|G|-------------------------|---------------------------------|D|-------7---8---5---7-7-7-|-7-7-7-/13-13-13-7-7-7-/13-13-13-|A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|---------------------------------|E|-------------------------|-5-5-5-/11-11-11-5-5-5-/11-11-11-|
repeat line 1, then
e|-------------------------|---------------------------|B|-------------------------|---------------------------|G|-------------------------|---------------------------|D|-------7---8---5---7-7-7-|-7h8p7p5-7-5---------------|A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-------------8-7-5---------|E|-------------------------|-------------------8-7-0-3-|
Turnaround Riff 2 (1:00) - ending is below|----------------------|----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|----------------------|---------------------||-x-x--9-10--x-x--9-10-|-x-x--9-10--x-x--9-10-|-x-x-9-10--x-x-9-10--||-x-x-12-12--x-x-12-12-|-x-x-10-10--x-x-10-10-|-x-x-8-8---x-x-8-8---||----------------------|----------------------|---------------------|
guitar 1|--------------------------||--------------------------||-5h7p5--5-----------------||------7---7-5-7-5---------||------------------7-8-7-6-||--------------------------|
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| guitar 2|--------------------------||--15_____b17--------------||--------------------------||--------------------------||--------------------------||--------------------------|
Verse Begins - Play Verse Riff 1 again
Play Turnaround Riff Again
Play Verse Riff 1 again
Lyrics:
" Crying out.
Now you can't escape you are buried in doubt
And it pulls you down
Now you're in too deep you may never get out
Such an awful place"
" Tear it down
It's almost too late is the end coming now
As you scream out loud?
You sever the peace til your truth has been found"
Verse Riff 2 - play 4x (last time only plays the first bar)
Clean Guitar 1|------0--------0---|-----0--------0---|----1--------1---|-----1--------1---||---1----1---1----1-|--1----1---1----1-|-1----1---1----1-|--1----1---1----1-||-------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||-------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||-0-----------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||-------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------|
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| Clean Guitar 2|-0----------------|-------------------|-1---------------|---------3----1---||-1----------------|-------------------|-1---------------|------------------||-2----------------|-------------------|-2---------------|------------------||-2----------------|-------------------|-3---------------|------------------||-0----------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------||------------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------|" Is there nothing left to follow?""Is there nothing left to steal?""Crying out for something more than I've been shown""Knowing none of this is real"
Short Prechorus Riff - Guitar 1, * chords are 2nd guitar
* * |-0------------------------|------------------------------||-3----3---3---3---3---3---|-6----6---6---6---6---6---6---||-1----1---1---1---1---1---|-4----4---4---4---4---4---4---||-2--2---2---2---2---2-----|-6--6---6---6---6---6---6-----||--------------------------|-5----------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------------|
* |-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-9----9---9---9---9---9---9--|-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--------||-7----7---7---7---7---7---7--|-10-10-10-10-10-10-10--------||-9--9---9---9---9---9---9----|-12-12-12-12-12-12-12--------||-8---------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
Chorus - pick chords in eighth note patterns (8x per bar), played 2x
|--------|--------|--------|---------|--------|---------|--------|---------||--------|--------|--------|---------|-12-----|-12------|-7------|-7-------||--------|--------|-5------|-5-------|-12-----|-12------|-7------|-7-------||-7------|-7------|-5------|-5-------|-12-----|-12------|-7------|-7-------||-7------|-7------|-3------|-3-------|-10-----|-10------|-5------|-5-------||-5------|-5------|--------|---------|--------|---------|--------|---------|
"Don't close your eyes Something beautiful is still alive"
"Don't close your eyes Never turn away and let it die"
Verse 2 - Play Verse Riff 2 as before, except additional Guitar 2 part:
(2:59) with light mutes throughout|----------------------------------|--------------------------||----------------------------------|--------------------------||----------------------------------|--------------------------||---------------7--7--------10-9-7-|-------7--7--------9--10--||-12\-----0-0-0-------0-0-0--------|-0-0-0-------0-0-0--------||----------------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------||--------------------------|--------------------------||--------------------------|------------------10-10-9-||-------7--7--------10-9-7-|-------7--7---------------||-0-0-0-------0-0-0--------|-0-0-0-------0-0-0--------||--------------------------|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------||--------------------------|--------------------------||--------------------------|--------------------------||-------7--7--------10-9-7-|-------7--7--------9--10--||-0-0-0-------0-0-0--------|-0-0-0-------0-0-0--------||--------------------------|--------------------------|
Play Short Prechorus Riff
Play Chorus
Bridge Riff - Both Guitars, played 2x with some pick scrapes mixed in|------------------|----------|-------------------|---------------||------------------|----------|-------------------|---------------||-9-9-9-9----------|----------|---9-9-9-----------|---------------||-9-9-9-9----------|----------|---9-9-9-----------|---------------||-7-7-7-7----------|-rest-----|---7-7-7-----------|--rest---------||-0-0-0-0----------|----------|---0-0-0-----------|---------------|
|------------------|----------|-------------------|---------------||------------------|----------|-------------------|-(5)-----------||-9-9-9-9----------|---9------|---9-9-9-----------|-(7gb8__b9)----||-9-9-9-9----------|---9------|---9-9-9-----------|---------------||-7-7-7-7----------|---7------|---7-7-7-----------|---------------||-0-0-0-0----------|---0------|---0-0-0-----------|---------------|
() - notes are on 2nd time through
Bridge Part 2- Slight mutes - played 2x|-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------||---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-8-7-5-|---7-7-7-7-7-8-7-5-8-7-5-||-0-----------------------|-0-----------------------|
first ending:|-------------------------|-10-------------------------12-||-------------------------|---10--------10-9-10-12-9-12---||-------------------------|-----12-12-11------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------------||---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-8-7-5-|-------------------------------||-0-----------------------|-------------------------------|
second ending:|-------------------------|----------------15--16--18-----||-------------------------|-----14----13------------------||-------------------------|---13----12---14--15--17-------||-------------------------|-12----11----------------------||---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-8-7-5-|-------------------------------||-0-----------------------|-------------------------------|
Bridge Part 3|------------------------------|-------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------||-0-0-0-12-0-12-0-0-0-13-12-10-|-0-0-0-12-0-13-0-10-0-13-12-10-|
|------------------------------|-----------------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------------||-------11---11-------12-11-9--|-------11---12---9---12-11-9-||-0-0-0----0----0-0-0----------|-0-0-0----0----0---0---------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------||-------14---14-------15-14-12-|-------14---15---12---15-14-12-||-0-0-0----0----0-0-0----------|-0-0-0----0----0----0----------|
|------------------------------|-----------------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------------||------------------------------|---------------------0---3---||-0-0-0-12-0-12-0-0-0-13-12-10-|-0-0-0-12\---1---3-----------|
Myles's Solo-|--------------|--------------|------------|------------------||-10~~~~----12-|-13--12--10-8-|-10---------|-8----8---8---8---||--------------|--------------|--------7b9_|___b9__b9__b9__b9-||--------------|--------------|------------|------------------||--------------|--------------|------------|------------------||--------------|--------------|------------|------------------|
|--------------|---------------|------15--15--15--|-15--15--15----------15-||-8------10-12-|-13--12--------|-15b17__b___b___b_|___b___b___br15--/17----||-7b9----------|--------14--12-|------------------|------------------------||--------------|---------------|------------------|------------------------||--------------|---------------|------------------|------------------------||--------------|---------------|------------------|------------------------|
|-17--17-15-17--17-15-|-17/20--20--20--20--20--|-20---------------------||---------------------|--------20b-b22-b22-b22-|-20br22----20h22p20\18~\||---------------------|------------------------|------------------------||---------------------|------------------------|------------------------||---------------------|------------------------|------------------------||---------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------|-----------------||-------13-15-15b17-b17-15~-|-13~-12--------|-----12b---------||---/14---------------------|-------14~--12-|-14--------------||---------------------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------------------|---------------|------------12\x-||---------------------------|---------------|-----------------|
|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------|-17~~~-|-9~~~----8-9--|/12~~~--11-12-|/15~~~--14-15-|-17gb19---------|-------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------|-------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------|-------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------|-------|--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------|-------
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During Myles' solo, rhythm plays Verse Riff 2 for 14 bars with a variation on bar 7 & 8
|------0--------0--------0--------0---|-----------------------------------||---1----1---1----1---1----1---1----1-|-----5-------5-------5--------5----||-------------------------------------|---5----5--5----5--5----5--5----5--||-------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-0-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-------------------------------------|-4---------------------------------|
Last 4 bars of solo are the Prechorus Riff
The Chorus resumes at the end of the solo playing twice with Mark playing
a solo on the repeat:
Solo 2 - |-17----------------|-17-----------------------------|------------------------||----20b22------/17-|---17-20--17-20--17-17----------|------------------------||-------------------|--------19-----20-----19br21-17-|-19b21-b21-17h19p17\16~~||-------------------|--------------------------------|------------------------||-------------------|--------------------------------|------------------------||-------------------|--------------------------------|------------------------|
|---------------------|---20--17--15-------------|----------------------------||--------20-20__\13---|-----------------------13-|-10h13p10--------10-----5-5-||--16--16-------------|-19--17--16--14--12--14---|---------9-12-9-9--9-7b9----||----17---------------|--------------------------|----------------------------||---------------------|--------------------------|----------------------------||---------------------|--------------------------|----------------------------|
|---------------------|-------------------|--------------------------17---17-||-5---5---------------|-------------------|-13---13h16-13h16/19-16h19---19---||-7b9-b9-5h7p5\4~-----|-4-7-4-------------|----14----------------------------||---------------------|-------5-----------|----------------------------------||---------------------|-------------------|----------------------------------||---------------------|-----------3br5----|----------------------------------|
|-20-19-17----------------20b22--|-20b22-20p17-19~~--17-||---------20-18-17---------------|----------------------||-----------------20-19-17-------|----------------------||--------------------------------|----------------------||--------------------------------|----------------------||--------------------------------|----------------------|
|-19p17p15-20p17p15-19PHp17p15-20p17p15-|17--------17--------17--------17--------||---------------------------------------|--20-17-20--20-17-20--20-17-20--20-17-20||---------------------------------------|----------------------------------------||---------------------------------------|----------------------------------------||---------------------------------------|----------------------------------------||---------------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|-20p17--17-20p17--17-20h22p20--20------|-22b24-b24-b24-22~~~-|-22br24--------20b22-||------20--------20-----------22--22p20-|---------------------|-------22-20-22------||---------------------------------------|---------------------|---------------------||---------------------------------------|---------------------|---------------------||---------------------------------------|---------------------|---------------------||---------------------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
Ending part 1|-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|--------------------||-----9-10-----9-10-|-----9-10-----9-10-|-----9-10------9-10-|-----9-10-12-10-9---||----12-12----12-12-|----10-10----10-10-|-----8-8-------8-8--|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
part 1 repeats on Guitar 1, but Guitar 2 plays:
|---------|----------|----------|----------||---------|----------|----------|-15TP-----||-14TP----|-16TP-----|-17TP-----|----------||---------|----------|----------|----------||---------|----------|----------|----------||---------|----------|----------|----------|
Guitar 2|-17TP----|-19TP-----|-20TP-----|-20b22TP-----|------------||---------|----------|----------|-------------|------------||---------|----------|----------|-------------|-2----------||---------|----------|----------|-------------|-2----------||---------|----------|----------|-------------|-0----------||---------|----------|----------|-------------|------------|
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|---------|----------|----------|-------------|------------||---------|----------|----------|-------------|------------||-2---2---|----------|----------|---4-5-7-5-4-|-2----------||-2---2---|-5---5----|-3---3----|-------------|-2----------||-0---0---|-5---5----|-3---3----|---2-3-5-3-2-|-0----------||---------|-3---3----|-1---1----|-------------|------------|
KEY
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| PH pinch harmonic
| TP tremelo picking
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| r return string bend to normal pitch
| gb gradual (slow) bend
| br Bend release
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