Dear Sons And Daughters Of Hungry Ghosts


Things to consider: When Boeckner plays just the chords, I don’t really know how he voices them, it’s too hard to hear. The intro is actually the keyboard part but I like it so I tabbed it anyway. The song is basically in 12/8; each little dash/space is an 8th note, and each beat is made up of 3 dashes. It’s written to be exactly on beat, so you don’t have to struggle as much to figure out the timing. Intro: 8--8--8--8—7--7--7--7---------------------------| ------------------------10-10-10-10-10-10-8--8--| ------------------------------------------------| ------------7--7--7--7--------------------------| 8--8--8--8--------------8--8--8--8--7--7--7--7--| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------8--8--8--8--------------| ------------5--5--5--5--6--6--6--6--8--8--8--8--| 9--9--9--9-------------(5)(5)(5)(5)-5--5--5--5--| -----------------------------------(5)(5)(5)(5)-| 8--8--8--8--3--3--3--3--------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| Verse: F Am F E ------3-----------7-----------3-----------------| --------1-----------5-----------1---------0--3--| -----2-----------5-----------2---------1--------| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| \ \ F C Am E > x2 / ------3--------------7--------7-----------------| / --------1---------8--------------5--------0--3--| -----2---------9-----------------------1--------| ---------------------------7--------------------| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| Then just the chords...the first time through, the accents are on the 2nd and 4th beats but he’s still letting stuff ring some (though it sounds a little choppy)...the second time, he slams the chord on the 2nd and 4th beats and mutes the space in between: ---F-----F-----Am----Am----F-----F-----E-----E--| \ > x2 ---F-----F-----C-----C-----Am----Am----E-----E--| / Pre-chorus: F Am F E ------3-----------7-----------3-----------------| ---------1-----------5-----------1--------0--3--| ---2-----------5-----------2-----------1--------| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| F C Am E ------3--------------7--------5-----------------| ---------1--------8--------------3--------0--3--| ---2-----------9-----------3-----------1--------| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------| Chorus (the chords are based roughly on the bass line): C G Dm Am F LR---| LR------| LR w/ next ------------------------------------------------| --------3---------------------------------------| ------5---5-4-2---------------------------------| \ ----------------2-------------------------------| > x8 -----------------------/7--5--3-5--/7--5--0--3--| / ------------------------------------------------| Then back to the chords, play them like the first time: ---F-----F-----Am----Am----F-----F-----E-----E--| \ > x5 ---F-----F-----C-----C-----Am----Am----E-----E--| / Outro: LR---| LR------| ------------------------------------------------| --------3---------------------------------------| ------5---5-4-2---------------------------------| \ ----------------2-------------------------------| > x2 -----------------------/7--5--3-5--/7--5--0--3--| / ------------------------------------------------| 2nd repeat slows down at the end