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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:46:14 -0500
From: ponies2@computek.net (Keith Barron)
Subject: s/soundgarden/incessant_mace.tab

Song: Incessant Mace
Band: Soundgarden
Album: Ultramega OK
Music: Thayil
Words: Cornell

I've been wanting to post this song for a while as it is my all time
favorite Soundgarden song, but I've kept on making corrections to this file.
But here's what I've ended up with:

Riff 1:
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------0-------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------4h5tr~~~~-|
|-0------12------10------7------5------4------3-----------------|

Trill the last notes.

Riff 2
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------11--------9-------6------4--------------------------|
|-0------12----12--10---10--7---7--5---5--4------3------2br-----|

Riff 3
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------|
|--------11-11-11-11-11-11---9--9--9--9--9--9--5-5-5-5-5-5-|
|-0------12-12-12-12-12-12--10-10-10-10-10-10--7-7-7-7-7-7-|      

|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-4-4-4-4-4-4--3-3-3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2-2-2--1-1-1-1-1-1-|
|-5-5-5-5-5-5--4-4-4-4-4-4--3-3-3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2-2-2-|

Riff 4                                                Fill 1
|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0-| |----------|
|-/5-5-5-5-5-5-3-5-3-5-3-5---3-5---3-5---3-5---3-5-| |-/9--(9)\-|
|--------------------------4-----4-----4-----4-----| |----------|
|--------------------------------------------------| |----------|
|--------------------------------------------------| |----------|
|--------------------------------------------------| |----------|
      
Solos:
The solos are improvised and relatively easy considering most SG solos. It
takes place mostly on the 12 frets and 9 frets around the E minor pentatonic
scale with maybe a G# or something added here or there.
I don't know most of it but here's a part at the end of one solo:

|--------------------------| 
|--------------------------|
|-7/9-9-9\7/9-9-9\7-etc...-|
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|
|--------------------------|

Riff 1 is the intro and verse part and is played at the begining of the
first two verses.

Riff 2 is played during the verses after Riff 1 is played and sometimes
after Riff 3 is played.

Riff 3 is played at the beginning of the third verse.

Riff 4 is played after every solo and played 2 times after the second solo.

Fill 1 is played after Riff 4 the first two times.

The solos are played after each verse for 8 bars each and Chris sings over
the last one.

The bass plays Riff 1 for the verses and 'solos' during the solos.

End on this:
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|-0------------||

Then quickly pick up a harmonica and play a bar or two and the song is over. :)

Lyrics:

     So he's afraid he'll suffer his father's fate
     Two sets of silverware, cups and plates
     Two burning hands and bleeding hearts
     Don't feel it's not too late to start

     Only the photographs on your wall
     Are chained and down your hall
     Reminding you of all the days
     When you collected hell to pay
     Well hell to pay
     I said it's not too late
     Not it's not too late
     Incessant mace
     Oh God I can see it, you know it's incessant mace

     Magazine stacks and broken backs
     Are what you get for piling stacks
     Beneath your treasure chest
     You wonder why you're under stress
     No it's not too late
     Incessant mace
     Oh God I can see it, you know it's incessant mace
     Mace!!!
     Mace!!!
     Mace!!!