I Came As A Rat Tab

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              I Came as a Rat - Modest Mouse
Tabbed by:CMM
Email: no.
 
Tuning:Standard
 
1st Guitar (Intro)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------5-----------------------------------5------------------------|
D|-----7------5---5------5--------3--------7------5---5------5--------3------|
A|---7---7--3----------5---5----3---3----7---7--3----------5---5----3---3----|
E|-5-----------------3--------1--------5-----------------3--------1----------|
   |_| |_|  |_| |_|  |_| |_|  |_| |_|  |_| |_|  |_| |_|  |_| |_|  |_| |_|
 
2nd Guitar (Intro)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-7~---------------------------------7~-------------------------------------|
D|-x----------------------------------x--------------------------------------|
A|-5~---------------------------------5~-------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
   o    (tied)      o                 o    (tied)      o
 
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-7~------9~--------12~--9~-----7~------------------------------------------|
D|-x-------x----------x---x------x-------------------------------------------|
A|-5~------7~--------10~--7~-----5~------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
   o|      o          |   |      o 
 
The second guitar tab should be alligned with the first guitar (above) for the
timing. It may be a little off, but I'm sure you get the idea. Also, the first
guitar part ends by playing the F5 chord twice instead of picking it, on it's
last time through.
 
Verse (played 4 times)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------5-5-x-x-x-x--------------------------------------------------|
D|-7-7-x-x-x-x--5-5-x-x-x-x--5-5-x-x-x-x--3-3-x-x-x-x------------------------|
A|-7-7-x-x-x-x--3-3-x-x-x-x--5-5-x-x-x-x--3-3-x-x-x-x------------------------|
E|-5-5-x-x-x-x---------------3-3-x-x-x-x--1-1-x-x-x-x------------------------|
   | | |_| |_|  | | |_| |_|  | | |_| |_|  | | |_| |_|
 
Again the verse ends in the F5 chord being hit twice for the last time through.
 
(Chorus)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-5-6-5-6-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------7--5\4--4-5-4-5---------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------7--5\2-2----5----2-2-5-2-5-2-0-2-(repeat)---------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |_| |_| |  |_|  |_| |_| |  |_| o|   o|   |_| |_| |_| |_|
 
 
2nd Guitar (comes in second time through at the 5\2 slide)
e|---------------------3-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-5-6-5-6-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------7--5\4--4-5-------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |_| |_| |  |_|  | |_|
 
Back to verse. Then chorus is repeated once again.Then into outro jam at the end.
 
1st Guitar (General idea of what is played. Too many variations to tab)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-9--9-9-7-9--9--9--9-10-9-10-9---------------------------------------------|
D|-x--x-x-x-x--x--x--x--x-x--x-x---------------------------------------------|
A|-7--7-7-5-7--7--7--7--8-7--8-7---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
   |  |_| |_|  |  |  |  |_|  |_|
 
2nd Guitar (Played every so often)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---2-3---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-4-----2-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------4-0-2--2-5-2------------------------------------------------------|
A|----------------------2----------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
   | | | | | |_|  | |_| |
 
| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
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