Nine Inch Nails - Closer Tabs

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     This is the latest single from NIN off the downward spiral-a cool
song,an easy song...
 
 
                                CLOSER
                               --------
        Note that this may not be totally correct, as I'm trying to adapt a
synth line to guitar-note the tuning...this song is played best with an 
envelope filter, but for those who don't have one, a wah sounds ok...
 
Tuning (low to high):C,G,D,G,B,E
 
Main "riff"
E|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
G|------5-----3----------|
C|--0------------5--3--0-|
 
 
        I know that there's lots more to it, but I haven't figured it out
yet,and I've got a lot of other things to tab out...E-Mail me if there's
anything 
you want posted, and I'll see about tabbing it...
 
 
 
P.S. Guitar For The Practicing Musician printed music for "March of the
Pigs"-I MIGHT type that up, eventually, but don't hole your breath... | |  
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Nine Inch Nails -- "Closer"
 
 
This thing's loaded with layers of guitar.  The song starts out sparse,
adding parts as it goes; the first big line is the main keyboard riff,
some more lines, transcribed as best I could.
 
 
[at 1:04]
 
"I want to f**k you like an animal," etc.
 
This line repeats.  Use an octaver to get real low pitches, or use the
tuning suggested earlier.
 
E-----------------------E
B-----------------------B
G-----------------------G
D------------------1----D
A----3--3----1--3-------A
E-----------------------E
 
 
[at 3:45]
 
Here, like cianyde said about the main riff, you'll want to use an envelope
filter (preferred) or a wah.  Something's going on here with two C notes
being played an octave apart, but I know there's more to it than this:
 
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------B
G-----5-----5-----5--------5-----5-----5-----5-----5----------------------G
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------D
A--------3-----3-----3--3-----------3-----3-----3-----3-------------------A
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
 
 
[at 4:47]
 
Pretty easy, a 'typical' rock pattern:
 
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------B
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------G
D----------------------------------------------1--------------------------D
A---3-----1-----3-----1--1---3-----1-----3--------------------------------A
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
 
These lines are simple -- but again, you have to get the rhythm down.
Think Prince; at its heart, this is very much a black tune.  Real black
funk is where, I think, Reznor gets many of his rhythms.
 
 
[at 5:09]
 
Here's another funk/blues riff that you can hear in the background.
Bend the D# to _almost_ an E, then hit the low C.
 
E-----------------------E
B-----------------------B
G----8(9)---------------G
D-----------------------D
A----------10-----------A
E-----------------------E
 
 
[at 5:51]
 
This is the riff at the end of the song, but note that it's also played
quietly in the background for a while before (I first hear it at 5:30,
but knowing Reznor, its probably layered in there somewhere before that,
even).  If you have a whammy bar, you can try playing it by plucking the
string with your thumb while pulling down on the whammy and letting go
right away; doing this with each note makes for a cool effect (different
 
Oh -- you'll want to play this line with as clean a tone as you can muster.
 
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
B---20---18-----18---17-----16---15-----11--11--10--13--------------------B
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------G
D--------------------------------------------------------10---------------D
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------A
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
 
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
B---20---18-----18---17-----16---15-----11--11--10--13--------------------B
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------G
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------D
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------A
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
 
 
 
--  Michael Stutz