Monkey Chow
Written by Gilby Clarke
For the Album:
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
by SLASH's Snakepit
Tabulature by drummer_bassist@hotmail.com
(Thanks!)
---------------------------- PLEASE NOTE ----------------------------
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation
of the song. You may only use this file for private study, research,
or scholarship.
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"Monkey Chow"
Written by Gilby Clarke
As recorded by SLASH's Snakepit on "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere"
Tabulature by Edwin Radt
Intro: (00:00 - 00:28)
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SLASH
||--------------------------------------------||
||---5-4--5-4-2-4-5~~-----5-4--5-4-2-4-5-2~~--||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||-0--------------------0---------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| A5 A5 ||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||-2~-------------------2~--------------------||
||-2~-------------------2~--------------------||
||-0~-------------------0~--------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
SLASH
||------------------3/5/3~~----------------------------------------||
||---5-4--5-4-2-4-5--------------5-4--5-4-2-4-5-2~~~---------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
||-0---------------------------0-----------------------0~~~----12\-||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| A5 A5 A5 ||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
||-2~--------------------------2~----------------------2~~~--------||
||-2~--------------------------2~----------------------2~~~--------||
||-0~--------------------------0~----------------------0~~~----12\-||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
Riff 1: (00:28 - 00:44) Repeat 2X
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SLASH
||---5-5--5-5-5~~--------------------------------------------------||
||---5-5--5-5-5~~--4-4--4-4-4~~--3-3--3-3-3~~----------------------||
||-----------------3-3--3-3-3~~--2-2--2-2-2~~--4B6-2---2-----------||
||---------------------------------------------------4-------------||
||-0-----------------------------------------------------3-0-------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| A5 D#5 D5 A5 ||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
||-2~--------------8~------------7~------------2~------------------||
||-2~--------------8~------------7~------------2~------------------||
||-0~--------------6~------------5~------------0~------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
Chorus: (00:44 - 00:58) Repeat 4X
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SLASH
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----5B6------8-7-5------5B6------0-0-1--||
||-7-7-5B6-7----8-7-5--7-7-5B6-7----0-0-1--||
||-7-7-----7-----------7-7-----7-----------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----3--------6-5-3------3---------------||
||-5-5---5--5-5--------5-5---5--5-5-2-3-4--|| <== PM
Riff 1: (00:58 - 01:14) Repeat 2X
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SLASH
||---5-5--5-5-5~~--------------------------------------------------||
||---5-5--5-5-5~~--4-4--4-4-4~~--3-3--3-3-3~~----------------------||
||-----------------3-3--3-3-3~~--2-2--2-2-2~~--4B6-2---2-----------||
||---------------------------------------------------4-------------||
||-0-----------------------------------------------------3-0-------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| A5 D#5 D5 A5 ||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
||-2~--------------8~------------7~------------2~------------------||
||-2~--------------8~------------7~------------2~------------------||
||-0~--------------6~------------5~------------0~------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
Riff 2: (01:14 - 01:28) Repeat 2X
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SLASH
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-8----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5----7----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5--||
||-8--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5----7--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5--||
||-6--7--------------7------5--7--------------7----||
||----5------------------------5-------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-8------------------------7----------------------||
||-8--7\--------------------7--7\------------------||
||-8--7\--------------------7--7\------------------||
||-6--7\--------------------5--7\------------------||
||----5\-----------------------5\------------------||
SLASH
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-5----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5---------7-7B8-P5-7-5---5--||
||-5--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5----5--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5--||
||-3--7--------------7------5--7--------------7----||
||----5---------------------3--5-------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-5-----------------------------------------------||
||-5--7\-------------------------------------------||
||-5--7\-------------------------------------------||
||-3--7\--------------------3--7-7-----------------||
||----5\--------------------3--5-5-----------------||
Chorus: (01:28 - 01:44) Repeat 4X
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SLASH
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----5B6------8-7-5------5B6------0-0-1--||
||-7-7-5B6-7----8-7-5--7-7-5B6-7----0-0-1--||
||-7-7-----7-----------7-7-----7-----------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----3--------6-5-3------3---------------||
||-5-5---5--5-5--------5-5---5--5-5-2-3-4--|| <== PM
Solo 1: (01:44 - 02:00) Not Transcribed
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Riff 2: (02:00 - 02:14) Repeat 2X
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SLASH
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-8----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5----7----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5--||
||-8--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5----7--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5--||
||-6--7--------------7------5--7--------------7----||
||----5------------------------5-------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-8------------------------7----------------------||
||-8--7\--------------------7--7\------------------||
||-8--7\--------------------7--7\------------------||
||-6--7\--------------------5--7\------------------||
||----5\-----------------------5\------------------||
SLASH
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-5----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5---------7-7B8-P5-7-5---5--||
||-5--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5----5--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5--||
||-3--7--------------7------5--7--------------7----||
||----5---------------------3--5-------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-5-----------------------------------------------||
||-5--7\-------------------------------------------||
||-5--7\-------------------------------------------||
||-3--7\--------------------3--7-7-----------------||
||----5\--------------------3--5-5-----------------||
Chorus: (02:14 - 02:29) Repeat 4X
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SLASH
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----5B6------8-7-5------5B6------0-0-1--||
||-7-7-5B6-7----8-7-5--7-7-5B6-7----0-0-1--||
||-7-7-----7-----------7-7-----7-----------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----3--------6-5-3------3---------------||
||-5-5---5--5-5--------5-5---5--5-5-2-3-4--|| <== PM
Solo 2: (02:29 - 03:07) Not Transcribed
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Riff 3: (03:07 - 03:22)
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SLASH
||--------------------------------------------||
||---5-4--5-4-2-4-5~~-----5-4--5-4-2-4-5-2~~--||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||-0--------------------0---------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||-2-2S-----------9-9S--8-8S-------------7-7S-||
||-2-2S-----------9-9S--8-8S-------------7-7S-||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
SLASH
||------------------3/5/3~~---------------------------||
||---5-4--5-4-2-4-5--------------5-4--5-4-2-4-5-2~~~--||
||----------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------||
||-0---------------------------0----------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||----------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------||
||-2-2S-----------------9-9S---8-8S-------------7-7S--||
||-2-2S-----------------9-9S---8-8S-------------7-7S--||
||----------------------------------------------------||
Riff 2: (03:22 - 03:37) Repeat 2X
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SLASH
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-8----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5----7----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5--||
||-8--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5----7--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5--||
||-6--7--------------7------5--7--------------7----||
||----5------------------------5-------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-8------------------------7----------------------||
||-8--7\--------------------7--7\------------------||
||-8--7\--------------------7--7\------------------||
||-6--7\--------------------5--7\------------------||
||----5\-----------------------5\------------------||
SLASH
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-5----7-7B8-P5-7-5---5---------7-7B8-P5-7-5---5--||
||-5--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5----5--7-7-7B8-P5-7-5-7-5--||
||-3--7--------------7------5--7--------------7----||
||----5---------------------3--5-------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-------------------------------------------------||
||-5-----------------------------------------------||
||-5--7\-------------------------------------------||
||-5--7\-------------------------------------------||
||-3--7\--------------------3--7-7-----------------||
||----5\--------------------3--5-5-----------------||
Chorus: (03:37 - 03:53) Repeat 4X
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SLASH
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----5B6------8-7-5------5B6------0-0-1--||
||-7-7-5B6-7----8-7-5--7-7-5B6-7----0-0-1--||
||-7-7-----7-----------7-7-----7-----------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----3--------6-5-3------3---------------||
||-5-5---5--5-5--------5-5---5--5-5-2-3-4--|| <== PM
Outro: (03:53 - 04:05) Repeat 6X
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SLASH
||---------------------||
||-----5B6------8-7-5--||
||-7-7-5B6-7----8-7-5--||
||-7-7-----7-----------||
||---------------------||
||---------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||---------------------||
||---------------------||
||---------------------||
||---------------------||
||-----3--------6-5-3--||
||-5-5---5--5-5--------|| <== PM
End: (03:37 - 03:53)
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SLASH
||------------------------||
||-----5B6------8-7-5-2\--||
||-7-7-5B6-7----8-7-5-2\--||
||-7-7-----7--------------||
||------------------------||
||------------------------||
|| ||
||Gilby Clarke ||
|| ||
||------------------------||
||------------------------||
||------------------------||
||------------------------||
||-----3--------6-5-3-----||
||-5-5---5--5-5-------5\--|| <== PM
Notation:
B = Bend
D = Dempen
P = Pull off
H = Hammer on
PM = Palm Muting
/ = Slide to
\ = Slide off
~ = Hold notes and let them ring.
S = Switch between Rythm and Lead pick-ups with the volume of the
Lead pick-up turned off wile holding the notes.
( Listen closely to the record for this )
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