#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#
HURT
As recorded by Nine Inch Nails
(From the 1994 Album THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL)
Transcribed by new_noise
Words and Music by Trent Reznor
A
5 x 7 x x x
Bm7
7 x 7 x x x
Gsus2
3 x 7 x x x
D5
x 5 7 x x x
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Acoustic Gtr I'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Clean Gtr'
Gtr III (E A D G B E) - 'Acoustic Gtr II'
Gtr IV (E A D G B E) - 'Piano'
Gtr V (E A D G B E) - 'Distorted Gtr I'
Gtr VI (E A D G B E) - 'Octave Effect'
Intro Verse I
Slowly & Freely Q=78
Bb5 Dsus2 E7
4/4
Gtr I
Wx4 E E H. E E E E E E E E
|------------||--------------|---------------10-||------------||--------------|-------5----------||------------||-----10-------|-----7-------7----||------------||-----(9)------|---7-------9------||------------||---9----------|-5-------7--------||------------||-7------------|------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E|------------------|--------------------||------------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--||------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----||---9--------------|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E E E H. E E E E E E +E E|------------------|-----------------10-|--------------|--------------------||------------------|-------5------------|--------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7--------------|-----10-------|-----7-----------7--||------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----|------9-------|---7-------9-(9)----||---9--------------|-5-------7----------|---9----------|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|-7------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E|------------------|-----------------10-||------------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7--------------||------9-----------|---7-------9-(9)----||---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E|------------------|--------------------||------------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--||------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----||---9--------------|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E E E E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E Q|------------------|---------------10-|------------------|-----------------|||------------------|-------5----------|------------------|-------5---------|||-----10-----------|-----7-------7----|-----10-----------|-----7-------7---|||------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9------|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-----|||---9--------------|-5-------7--------|---9--------------|-5-------7-------|||-7----------------|------------------|-7----------------|-----------------||
Chorus I A Bm7 Gsus2 D5 Gtrs I, II Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||||o-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------o||||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||||--7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7---||||o-x--x--x--x--|-x--x--x--x--|-x--x--x--x--|-5--5--5--5--o||||--5--5--5--5--|-7--7--7--7--|-3--3--3--3--|--------------||
A Bm7 Gsus2 D5
Gtrs I, II
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr III Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-^3--^3--^3--^3--o||||--^2--^2--^2--^2--|-^4--^4--^4--^4--|-----------------|-^2--^2--^2--^2---||||--^2--^2--^2--^2--|-^4--^4--^4--^4--|-^5--^5--^5--^5--|-^0--^0--^0--^0---||||o-^0--^0--^0--^0--|-^2--^2--^2--^2--|-^5--^5--^5--^5--|-----------------o||||------------------|-----------------|-^3--^3--^3--^3--|------------------||
A Bm7
Gtr I
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / /
Gtr IV E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||--12-12-12-12-12----------|-------------------------|||o----------------15-14-15-|-15-15-15-15-15-14-12-14-|||--------------------------|-------------------------|||--------------------------|-------------------------|||o-------------------------|-------------------------|||--------------------------|-------------------------|
1. 2.
Gsus2 D5 D5
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / / / / / /
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E H|-------------------------|-------------------9-10--||---------------------|||-14-14-14-14-14-12-12-12-|-12-12-12-10-10-12------o||-12-12-12-10-10------|||-------------------------|-------------------------||---------------------|||-------------------------|-------------------------||---------------------|||-------------------------|------------------------o||---------------------|||-------------------------|-------------------------||---------------------||
Verse II Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Gtr I E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E|------------------|-----------------10-||------------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7--------------||------9-----------|---7-------9-(9)----||---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E|------------------|--------------------||------------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--||------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----||---9--------------|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E E E E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E|------------------|---------------10-|------------------|--------------------||------------------|-------5----------|------------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7-------7----|-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--||------9-----------|---7-------9------|------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----||---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7--------|---9--------------|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|------------------|-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E|------------------|-----------------10-||------------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7--------------||------9-----------|---7-------9-(9)----||---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E +E E|------------------|--------------------||------------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7-----------7--||------9----9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)----||---9--------------|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E Q. E +Q E E E E E E E E E E H. E E E E E E +E E|------------------|---------------10-|--------------|--------------------||------------------|-------5----------|--------------|-------5------------||-----10-----------|-----7-------7----|-----10-------|-----7-----------7--||------9-----------|---7-------9------|------9-------|---7-------9-(9)----||---9-------9-(9)--|-5-------7--------|---9----------|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|------------------|-7------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E H +E E E E E E E E +E E|------------------|-----------------10-||------------------|-------5------------||-----10----(10)---|-----7--------------||------9-----(9)---|---7-------9-(9)----||---9------------9-|-5-------7----------||-7----------------|--------------------|
Bb5 Dsus2 E7 E E +Q. E +Q E E E E E E +Q|------------------|-------------------|||------------------|-------5-----------|||------------------|-----7-------------|||-----------9-(9)--|---7-------9-(9)---|||---9-(9)----------|-5-------7---------|||-7----------------|-------------------||
Chorus II
A Bm7 Gsus2 D5
Gtrs I, II
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr III ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||||o-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------o||||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||||--7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7--|-7--7--7--7---||||o-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------o||||--------------|-------------|-------------|--------------||
A Bm7
Gtr I
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / /
Gtr IV E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||--12-----12--12-----12--12--------------------|---------------------------------------------|||o------------------------------15--14-----15--|-15-----15--15-----15--15-----14--12-----14--|||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||o---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
|
| Gtrs V, VI| ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~| E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||o---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)-|--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)-|||o---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|
Gsus2 D5
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / /
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|---------------------------------------------|----------------------------------9-----10---|||-14-----14--14-----14--14-----12--12-----12--|-12-----12--12-----10--10-----12------------o|||---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------o|||---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||
|
| ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~| E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------o|||---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)-|--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)--7b7.5r(7)-7b7.5r(7)--|||---------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------o|||---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||
A Bm7
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / /
Gtrs V, VI ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|
Gsus2 D5
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / /
> < ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E|-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|------------------------------------------||-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)--|
A Bm7
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
| | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / /
Gtrs V, VI ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E E +E|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|
Gsus2 A E B
Q Q Q Q W W
| | | |
/ / / /
~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ E +E E +E E +E E +E Q. E +E. +S +Q W|-----------------------------------------|------------------------|------*||-----------------------------------------|------------------------|------*||-----------------------------------------|------------------------|------*||-----------------------------------------|-7----2-(2)b3==(2)r(2)--|------*||-----------------------------------------|------------------------|-2----*||-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-5b5.5r(5)-|------------------------|------*|
Duration Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff
Tablature Legend
----------------
h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
-----------
| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
