Chord/Tab song: Take a Load Off

Stone Temple Pilots - 'Take a Load Off'
From Self -titled 2010 Album
tuning: Guitar 1 Standard
Guitar 2 Open G (DGDGBD) capo 1st fret
tabbed by jjhand

Thanks to Monroe Vison G for some of the notes. I fixed a few things
and added in the extra guitar during the verses which has a weird tuning.
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Intro/Main Riff

Elec Guitar 1 (repeated)

e|---------------------------|
B|-4----6p4---4--------------|
G|-4----4-----5--------------|
D|-4----4-----6--------------|
A|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------|

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| Elec Guitar 2

eb|---------------------------|
C |---------------------------|
Ab|---------------------------|
Eb|---------------------------|
Ab|-0h3--0-3h5-0-----0---2p0--|
Eb|----------------0---0------|

Verse 1 Lyrics:
"Summer med fly ruled the airways
Mostly superstitious
Now the kings of media
Invent the swine flu visions"


PreChorus - Guitar 2, this section 3 beats per bar

[1] [2] [3]

eb|-----------------------|-----------------------|
C |-----------------------|-----------------------|
Ab|-----------------------|-----------------------|
Eb|-0-----0---------------|-0-----0---------------|
Ab|---5-5---5-----0-4--4--|---5-5---5-0-----4--4--|
Eb|-----------3-0---5--5--|-------------3-0-5--5--| play 4x

"Take a load off... Yeah"


Chorus - play through 2x

Guitar 1 (a second guitar strums these chords as well)
[Ab5] [Eb] [Gb] [Bbm]

e|--------------|--------------|-6------------|-6------------|
B|-9------------|-8------------|-7------------|-6------------|
G|-8------------|-8------------|-6------------|-6------------|
D|-6------------|-8------------|--------------|--------------|
A|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|
E|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|

1."Yeah, it's alright As we mosey on into the night"
2."Yeah, just set us free Could our shattered past just set us free?"


Chorus Ending Part - Play PreChorus Again 2x, with Lyrics:

"Give you all those diamonds, Give you more and more
Shattered all those lies I bought you from the record store"


Verse 2 - Play Main Riff Again, with Lyrics:

"Fleets of underground an artist
Look for benediction
Drive around waste gas and haul
In every green addition

Summer med fly ruled the airways
Mostly superstitious
Now the kings of media
Invent the swine flu visions"


Play PreChorus Again, Same Lyrics

Play Chorus Again, Same Lyrics

Play Chorus Ending Part, Same Lyrics

Solo

e|------------------|-----4---6----------------------|--------------------|
B|-4------4---------|-7-4---4---7-4~---9b11~-b11r9p7-|-9----9b11----------|
G|-6b8~---6b8~--6b8-|--------------------------------|-----------8~-------|
D|------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------|
A|------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------|
E|------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------|
e|-------------------------------|------------9--8-------------|
B|-------------------------------|----7---9------9-------------|
G|-------------------------------|-/8---8---8---------10p8-----|
D|-6h8p6---6---------------------|-----------------------------|
A|-------9---9-8-6---4-----------|-----------------------------|
E|---------------------7p4-7qb-4-|-----------------------------|
e|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
B|--------9---11------------------|-------------------------|
G|-8-11-8---8----10b11r10-8~------|-8-x-8-x-8-x-8-x-7p8-7p8-|
D|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
A|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
E|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
e|---------------------------------------|------------------|
B|-------------------------------4b7~~~~-|-(b7~~~~)---------|
G|-7-6-4---6--4h6--7p6p4-6---4-6---------|------------------|
D|-------6-----------------6-------------|------------------|
A|---------------------------------------|------------------|
E|---------------------------------------|------------------|

on the last note he bends & gets some harmonic overtones


Play Chorus Ending Part Again to End

Lyrics:
"Give you all those diamonds, Give you more and more
Shattered all those lies I bought you from the record store"

KEY:

| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note