Down in the dark

[lasnot]

"Down in the Dark"
by Screaming Trees/Nirvana
(Kurt Cobain, Mark Lanegan, Krist Novoselic, Mark Pickerel)
Tabbed by Alyssa Nicole <3

That little lead is the E chord plucked like so!:

e----------------0-
B-0-----------0----
G---2------2-------
D------------------
A------------------
E------------------

(I think the actual song is played with bar chords, that's how I play it anyway...)

Baby, you're goin' down in the dark

E A E

Show my lonely night is fallin'
E
I don't have very long
A E

I think my blood might boil
A E

Then my veins might burn
A E

And you're gonna make it better for a little while
D A E


Oh yeah
E
You will
D

You will
A E

The same chord pattern is strummed through-out all the verses.

[orangejubilee]

This is my take on the riff:

E -------------------0
B --------------0-2--
G -----1-0-----------
D 2-------------------
A 2-------------------
E 0-------------------

It ain't repeated exactly the same way every time - hold the E chord and let the odd adjacent note ring out to make it more chordy or riffy.

The 'you will" bit goes E - F# - A E, rather than E - D - A E.

If you play the F# with the two top strings open - (lo to hi 244300) like those grunge dudes did in the day (eg Alice In Chains etc etc etc) you get a shape where you can slide three frets up to the A (577600) and keep that grungey dirge going on the top strings.

[lasnot]

yeah! that is an F#! oops!
thanks man!