I Stay Away chords

Alice in Chains

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Simplify chords 

  			Tab transcription by Mark van 't Zet ([email protected])



After finding the time and the capo I finally got to work on this
song. It looks like there's 3 guitars in this song:

Guitar 1 - a clean electric with a capo on the 5th fret
Guitar 2 - a distorted electric with dropped-D tuning (DADGBE)
Guitar 3 - just your average distorted guitar

It's possible to play the solo with the dropped D (just raise fretnumbers 
on low E-string by 2) and the verse-chords with a finger-barre, but I can't 
advise that.. Here goes..

Notation

XhY     - hammer on
XpY     - pull off
XbY     - bend at fret X to pitch of fret Y
XrY     - release bent note at pitch of fret X to pitch of fret Y
X~~     - vibrato 
(X)     - ghost note
X/Y XY - slides from X up/down to Y
(...)   - hold previous note



INTRO/VERSE - Guitar 1, positions relative to 


    D              D7sus4  Gsus4  G      D
  ------0----------3-----------------------------------------------
  --0h2---0-----0--3-----------3------3----------------------------
  --2-----2-----2--2---------2------2----------2--------2----------
  --2--------2-----2-------5------4------0h(2)----0h(2)------------
  --0--------0---------------------------------------------5p4--0--
  -----------------------------------------------------------------



PRE-CHORUS - Guitar 2, chord notes implied by vocals & bass


  Why you act crazy
  Not an act maybe
  etc.

        D                             F 
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ------5h6p5p3---------------------------------------------
  ---------------5h6p5p3------------------------------------
  ------------------------5h6p5p3(...)b5(...)r3~~-----------
  Count 1        &        2           3      4

        E                             D#
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ------5h6p5p3---------------------------------------------
  ---------------5h6p5p3------------------------------------
  ------------------------5h6p5p3(...)b5(...)r3~~-----------
        1        &        2           3      4



CHORUS/OUTRO - Guitar 2


  I stay away

  ----------------------------------------------------------
  --3-------------------------------------------------------
  --2-------------------------------------------------------
  --0--------8--------8---10---12---------------------------
  --0--------8--------8---10---12---------------------------
  --0--------8--------8---10---12---------------------------



SOLO - Guitar 3, enters with short ascending run on the end of
       chorus

  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  -----------------------------5---5----7b9~~----r7--5---5--
  -----------2--3--5---5/7~~-----7---------------------7----
  --1--3--5-------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------


  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  --5-------------------------------------------------------
  -----7--6--5--5--5b6----5---------------------------------
  ---------------------------8--5---3h5p3h5p3h5p3h5---x-x---
  ----------------------------------------------------------
    _____________P.H.____________

  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ---/5--3p0h3---------------------5b6---r5-----------------
  --------------5p3p0---------------------------------------
  ---------------------5p3h5---3~---------------------------


  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------5--7--------------
  ---5--5--5--5--3----------------3--5/7--------------------
  ------------------5----5--3--5----------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
     ______P.H.______

  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  --------10----------10-----12b14--12b14r12--10----10------
  ---/12-----12-12-12----12----------------------12----12--
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  ----------------------------------------------------------



Date: Sat, 4 Nov 95 10:04:24 MST
From: [email protected] (Al G. Bendorf)
Subject: i stay away by Aics


    this is i stay away THE RIGHT WAY by alice in chains.  You start off 
with a D chord, C,then into this riff,1:
1:             3
2:
3:    0     0
4:  0     0    0                     X?
5:3     2      2                   
6:             3  3  3 3 2 0
    The post chorus is 4 power chords D, F, E, and D#
Chorus is
1:0  0  0
2:3  3  3
3:2  2  2    
4:              8   8  10  12
5:              8   8  10  12
6:              6   6  8   10
Sorry, i'm still working on the solo


    this home-made tab is by ADAM BENDORF alias THE DUDE on compuserve 
alias SEYMOUR BUTTS alias KICK-HAPPY.



Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 23:16:15 -0700
From: "Denis L. Davis" 
Subject: TAB:  "I STAY AWAY" BY ALICE IN CHAINS


How to play I Stay Away the right way.  First tune your guitar down (Db, 
Ab, Db, Gb, Bb, Eb)

()=hammer-on or pull-off
b=bend
e-------2--0-------0----------