Iron Mic' Chords
by Sugar Ray
Iron Mic' by Sugar Ray is a guitar song. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
standard sugar ray tuning (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb eb)
riff 1 (intro riff: this is also played at weird parts like a couple
of seconds before the loud part of the chorus and after the chorus.
= i dont know if he hammers on here, it doesnt really sound like it
but it would sound better if you did.)
eb||------------------------------------------------||
Bb||------------------------------------------------||
Gb||------1-1~~~~~-----1-1~~~-----1-1~~~~~-----1-2--||
Db||--0*2----------0*2--------0*2----------0*2------||
Ab||------------------------------------------------||
Eb||------------------------------------------------||
riff 2 (pre-chorus: palm mute the entire riff. this is my best guess)
eb||-----------------------------------||
Bb||-----------------------------------||
Gb||-----------------------------------||
Db||-----------------------------------||
Ab||--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--||
Eb||-----------------------------------||
riff 3 (chorus riff) first chorus outro
eb||-----------------------------||-----------------||
Bb||-----------------------------||-----------------||
Gb||-----------------------------||-----------------||
Db||--7/9-9-9-97-7-7-7/9-9-9-9--||--5--4--5--4--2--||
Ab||--5/7-7-7-75-5-5-5/7-7-7-7--||--5--4--5--4--2--||
Eb||-----------------------------||--3--2--3--2--0--||
riff 4 (major distortion and do some miscellaneous
intro to riff 4 palm muting on some parts)
eb||--------------||----------------------------||
Bb||--------------||----------------------------||
Gb||--------------||----------------------------||
Db||--5--4--5--4--||--5-7---7---7--7-7-7-7-7-5--||
Ab||--5--4--5--4--||--5-7---7---7--7-7-7-7-7-5--||
Eb||--3--2--3--2--||--3-5---5---5--5-5-5-5-5-3--||
riff 5 (this is a bridge on some parts of the song that you only do
two times in the song. the first time you do this, do riff 5 once then
go into that ending fill, but the second time around do riff twice
then go into the ending fill)
eb||-----------------------------------------|
Bb||-----------------------------------------|
Gb||-----------------------------------------|
Db||--7-9----7-9--------7-9------x-8----x-8--|
Ab||--5-7----5-7--------5-7----x-x-8--x-x-8--|
Eb||---------------------------x-x-6--x-x-6--|
riff 5 continued outro
eb||-------------------------------------------||-----||
Bb||-------------------------------------------||-----||
Gb||-------------------------------------------||-----||
Db||--x-7-9----7-9--------7-9------x-8----x-7--||--2--||
Ab||--x-5-7----5-7--------5-7----x-x-8--x-x-7--||--2--||
Eb||-----------------------------x-x-6--x-x-5--||--0--||
riff 6 (last chorus) last chorus fill: 1 and 2
eb||-----------------------------------------------||-----||-----||
Bb||-----------------------------------------------||-----||-----||
Gb||-----------------------------------------------||-----||-----||
Db||--7/9-9-9-97-7-7-7/9-9-9-9---7/9-9-9-97-7-7--||--9--||-------||
Ab||--5/7-7-7-75-5-5-5/7-7-7-7---5/7-7-7-75-5-5--||--7--||--2----||
Eb||-----------------------------------------------||-----||--0--||
riff 7 (ending riff: before starting
this riff, pick scrape down strings) ending bit
eb||---------------------------------||-----||
Bb||---------------------------------||-----||
Gb||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-7--------||-----||
Db||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-7-7-7-7-9-9-7--||--2--||
Ab||--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-9-9-7--||--2--||
Eb||--------------------------7-7-5--||--0--||