Arm Yourself

Tremonti - "Arm Yourself"
From the album "Cauterize"
tuning - C Standard (C F Bb Eb G C)
tabbed by jjhand

Main Riff:  P or PM = palm mutes

   play 3x
C |--------------------------|-------------------------||
G |--------------------------|-------------------------||
Eb|--------------------------|-------------------------||
Bb|--------------------------|-------------------------||
F |--------------------------|-------------------------||
C |-0---0-0--0--0-0-0--0--0--|-4-4-4-0-0-0-1-1-1-4-4-4-||
          P  P  P P P  P  P    PM all*****************

End of main riff
|--------------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------|--------------|
|--------------------------|-PH-----------|
|--------------------------|-5b7r---------|
|-0---0-0--0--0-0-0--0--0--|--------------|
        P  P  P P P  P  P   


For Verse, play Main Riff 3x as before then add these bars before the repeat:

|-------------|--------------|
|-------------|--------------|
|-------------|--------------|
|-5-----------|--------------|
|-3-----------|-5------------|
|-------------|-3------------|

Lyrics:
"Arm Yourself,   Lick your wounds
While you can... Make your stand and then pray you don't break
Like your own,   they arm themselves
Ignore their wounds... kick down doors and attack when they break"




PreChorus Bars - Main Riff plays with Second Guitar playing higher harmony:            

|--------------------------|----------------------------||
|--------------------------|-9-9-9----------------9-9-9-||
|--------------------------|-------9-9-9-10-10-10-------||
|--------------------------|----------------------------||
|--------------------------|----------------------------||
|-0---0-0--0--0-0-0--0--0--|----------------------------||
        P  P  P P P  P  P    PM all********************


Chorus
|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|
|-2-----------------|--------10-10-10-10-----------------|-----------------------|
|-0--------7--7--7--|-8----------------|-3------3--2--1--|-0------8-8-0-0-7-7-0-0|
                              PM*****                                 PM*     PM*
"They say a man who fears will suffer twice, the fear has surely died"

|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|-2-----------------|-------10-10-10-10|-----------------| back to Main Riff
|-0--------7--7--7--|-8----------------|-3------3--2--1--|

I throw a curse right into the rising sun, today this wil all be done"



Play Verse and Chorus again

Verse 2 Lyrics:
"Hope that fades... is on your side
Risk your life, plan escape every moment you wake
By yourself... alone again
just like before, strength you held it is yours no more"



Bridge Pt 1, slower tempo (one half the previous tempo but 6 beats per bar):

play 2x
|-------------------|------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|
|-------------------|------------------|
|-0-----------------|-(0)---------1--1-|


Pt 2:   Played 4x, then again through Solo section
|-0---0------0---------|--------------0-----0-----|
|-0-----0----0---------|--------------0-----0-----|
|-1-------1--2---------|--------------4-----2-----|
|-2----------3---------|--------------5-----3-----|
|----------------------|--------------------------|
|----------------------|--------------------------|
  lowest string is picked softly here

Lyrics:
"No, you never know how, it aint like here
You're never brought down, when it comes
you'll never know when, but I've learned
things I never knew then... ohhhh"



Solo - again 6 beats per bar, so look at timing

|--------12NH--------------0-------0-----|------0-0-7----------0--0--0--0---0--0-|
|------------------17p15\12--------------|------------10~------8-10-12-12b-12-10-|
|-7h9-/16-------------------16p12\9------|--------7------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------12p9\7/9-------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------|

|-0------0--0---0---0-------------------|----------0------0---------0----0---|
|-12-----12-10--8-3b5---------12-10--10-|--9~--------0----0---------0----0---|
|---------------------------------------|--------------1--2---------4----2---|
|------------------------10/12-----10---|--9~--------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------------|



Play Chorus 2x



Play main riff to end song

Second part plays harmony on ending like this:
C |--------------------------|-------------------------||
G |--------------------------|-------------------------||
Eb|--------------------------|-4-4-4-1-1-1-2-2-2-4-4-4-||
Bb|--------------------------|-------------------------||
F |--------------------------|-------------------------||
C |-0---0-0--0--0-0-0--0--0--|-------------------------||


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KEY
| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| NH  natural harmonic
| x   Mute note
| b   Bend

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