PSYCHO HOLIDAY By Pantera Transcribed by Denzil (aka Khalil Yousaf), aged 15, e-mail yousaf@dircon.co.uk This is one of my favourite Pantera songs and so I thought I'd tab it out just for fun, as you do (not!). To capture Pantera's sound, you'll need very heavy distortion, a little chorus (not too much) and use the neck pickup. The solo is pretty difficult and there's no doubt that I've probably made a couple of mistakes but most of it's fairly accurate. One of the hardest things abut this piece is keeping that chugging triplet rhythm going while you have the 4/4 time going in your head. Ah well, good luck I guess....a metronome will be perfect for this exercise. Hey I may be only 15 but have a look anyway....the solo's note-perfect, almost :) Have fun! Shred yer ballz off...:) This is probably Dimebag's most difficult and technical solo and if you can accomplish this, the rest should be easy...Far Beyond Driven licks a cinch.... Denzil \ / 0 0 | == Drum Intro A
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p.m. throughout B
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pm...........| pm..........| A.H Pre Chorus
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ON PRECHORUS.... 1st 2nd and 3rd bars are the same but the 4th bar....
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Verse: Empty.......
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0000-00-00-0-------|0000 00 00 0------
Then Pre-chorus (remember 4th bar) Chorus: w/wah (I think) Now I'm far from home Spending time alone....
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Verse Pre-Chorus Chorus NB Fill on last bar of chorus before solo:
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Solo (oh s**t) __ ___ /\/\/\/ / \/
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10h11-----------------10h11--------------------|10h11-----------------------------------
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13h14-----------------13h14--------------------|-13h14-----------------------------------
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Very fast and tricky bit coming up....real finger stretches needed As this is a symmetrical-ish run it's easier than it looks and feels...you may be able to get away with tapping the 22nd frets, I find it easier to stretch, but I have pretty big hands, almost 30cm span!
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( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/pantera/psycho_holiday_tab.html )
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The last bar and the next one may be a little inaccurate.... /\/\/\/\
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t t t t t t t t
19p14h15-18p14h15-17p14h15-18p14h15-|19p14h15-18p14h15-17p14h15-18p14h15
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t t t t 19p14h15--18p14h15-17p14h15-18p14h15|-20bf^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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15-17-18p17h18p17h18p17p15----15-----15-------18p17p15-17-15-----15-------------- ----------------------------------18---18p17----------18----18-17p15h17p15p14-----
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w/bar down about 2 tones
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-In this bar is some really heavy vibrato using the bar--------------------------
-------I suggest hitting a high pinch harmonic (I think a G pitch should be right) ---------- and move the bar as hard and as fast-as poss-------------------------
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w/bar vibrato dive
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w/bar /\/\/\/\/\ P.H \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ dive
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pitch F# Phew it's over!!! One more verse One pre-chorus One chorus again but with artificial harmonics thrown in on second time: _3_ | | | Pull up to E Before repeat of chorus, then A.H. Bb A Ab G F B repeat Bb A Ab then drum solo takes us into the Outro!!!! Bb A
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8---------8---------8-------8-------8----|-7-------7-------7-----7-------7
6-6-6-6---6-6-6-6---6-6-6---6-6-6-6-6----|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5
Ab G
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6-------6-------6---6---------6|5---------5---------------5----
4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3
Every other repeat bar 4 changes to this
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3--3--3-1---3--3--3-2-----------
Then on last repeat, last bar is played then: slide w/bar P.H.
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Pitch Bb octave higher than Bb at 19th Fret on top E
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That's it dooods Please send any comments, praise, criticism, abuse, whatever to yousaf@dircon.co.uk *It's been slow down below*
Source: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/pantera/psycho_holiday_tab.html