Can You Kill A Secret by Ling Tosite Sigure
tabs by Yosukun from Germany
Song: Can you kill a secret?
Artist: Ling Tosite Sigure
Album: Still a sigure virgin?
Ling Tosite Sigure (Rin Toshite Shigure) is a alternative rock band from Saitama, Japan.
It also has some hardcore influences. The three members play instruments on a very
advanced level. Characteristics of their music are their high voices and screams. The
guitarist Toru "TK" Kitajima likes to mess around with a whole bunch of effect pedals and stuff.
He usually uses flanger, fuzz, delay and sometimes distortion pedals. Also some effects
that are similar to pitch shifters of whammy pedals, but they have their own unique
sound, so I don't know how to name them.
NOTE:
This may not be 100% accurate how TK plays the song. It is quite hard to find out every
single note, because of all the effects and moreover, this song contains hell lot of
feedback. I did my best and it definitely sounds right. At first I tried to play this
song in half-step down tuning. I play a lot of Sigure's songs since they are one of my favorite
bands and I never came across a song by them which was played in standard. It doesn't
matter how it is played in the studio version, it still can be played correctly in
standard tuning the way I wrote it down here.
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Standard Tuning EADGBe
INTRO/VERSE
------------------------------------|
-9--9-----/-8----8-8----8-8-8------o|
-x--x-----/-x----x-x----x-x-x-------| x4
-10-10---6/-8----8-8----8-8-86-----|
-8--8----4/-6----6-6----6-6-64----o|
------------------------------------|
VERSE 1
no guitar until 0:17, then
. . . . . . . .
--------------------------|---------------------------|
---11--11---------11--11--|---10--10---------10--10---|
---8---8----------8---8---|---8---8----------8---8----|
---10--10---------10--10--|---10--10---------10--10---|
---8---8----------8---8---|---8---8----------8---8----|
--------------------------|---------------------------|
INTERLUDE (I recommend hybrid picking here)
0:22
------------------------------------------------------------------|
---------9-----------13------------15------------16-----------18--|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
-----10---------13-------------15------------17-----------18------| x2
--8--------11-------------13------------15------------16----------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE 2
0:28
GUITAR 1
-----------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------|
---------10-x-x------------------10-x-x--------| x4
---8-x-x--------10-x-------8-x-x---------10-x--|
-----------------------------------------------|
GUITAR 2 (at first 2 beats without guitar 2)
. . . . . . . .
--------------------------|---------------------------|
---11--11---------11--11--|---10--10---------10--10---|
---8---8----------8---8---|---8---8----------8---8----|
---10--10---------10--10--|---10--10---------10--10---|
---8---8----------8---8---|---8---8----------8---8----|
--------------------------|---------------------------|
PRECHORUS
0:39
tremolo picking until 0:51 (may seem strange, but I think it is played tremolo; the
harmonics are played by the bass)
---6\-------------------------------|
---9\-------------------------------|
---10\------------------------------|
-------------------------------------|
-------------------------------------|
-------------------------------------|
INTERLUDE 2
-------------------------------------|
-------------------8-8--------9--9---|
-------------------x-x----8-8-x--x---|
-------------------8-8----8-8-10-10--|x3, the 4th time:
-3-3---/8-9-9----8-6-6----6-6-8--8---|
-1-1---/6-7-7----6-------------------|
----------------------------------(8)~~------|
-------------------8-8--------9----9~~~------|
-------------------x-x----8-8-x----8~~~------|
-------------------8-8----8-8-10---8~~~------|let the last chord ring, put
-3-3---/8-9-9----8-6-6----6-6-8----8~~~------|a lot of feedback on and hold
-1-1---/6-7-7----6---------------------------|it during the verse until 1:13
no guitar except chord with feedback in rest of the VERSE 2
INTERLUDE 3
1:14
-------------------------------------|
-------------------8-8--------9--9---|
-------------------x-x----8-8-x--x---|
-------------------8-8----8-8-10-10--| ONCE!! then
-3-3---/8-9-9----8-6-6----6-6-8--8---|
-1-1---/6-7-7----6-------------------|
leave out the first "chord" this time
---------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------13------------15------------16-----------18--|
---------------------------------------------------------------------|
-------------------13-------------15------------17-----------18------|
--------------11-------------13------------15------------16----------|
---------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
---------9-----------13------------15------------16-----------18--|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
-----10---------13-------------15------------17-----------18------|
--8--------11-------------13------------15------------16----------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
-(8)~~~--|
--9~~~---|
--8~~~---|
--8~~~---|let ring with feedback from 1:21 -1:27
--8~~~---|
---------|
CHORUS
1:27
------------------------------------|
-9--9-----/-8----8-8----8-8-8-------|
-x--x-----/-x----x-x----x-x-x-------| x4, then
-10-10---6/-8----8-8----8-8-86-----|
-8--8----4/-6----6-6----6-6-64-----|
------------------------------------|
1:38
------------------------------------------|
-9--9-------8-8-8-------------------------|
-x--x-------x-x-x------------6--6-6-6-----| x8
-10-10----8-8-8-8------------6--6-6-6-----|
-8--8-----6-6-6-6----6-6-x---4--4-4-4-----|
---------------------4-4-x----------------|
POST-CHORUS
1:59
-------------------------------------|
-9--9-----4-4-----6-6-----8-8--------|
-x--x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x--------|
-10-10----5-5-----6-6-----8-8--------|x4
-8--8-----3-3-----4-4-----6-6--------|
-------------------------------------|
VERSE 3
2:11 - 2:31
tremolo picking
---8\-------------------------------|
---9\-------------------------------|
---10\------------------------------|
---10\------------------------------|
-------------------------------------|
-------------------------------------|
or you could also mess around with the Fm chord
for example:
--------8------8--------------------|
----------9------9------------------|
--10-10-----10----------------------|
--10-10------------10---------------|
------------------------------------|
------------------------------------|
PRECHORUS
2:32
-------------------------------------|
-------------------8-8--------9--9---|
-------------------x-x----8-8-x--x---|
-------------------8-8----8-8-10-10--|x2, then
-3-3---/8-9-9----8-6-6----6-6-8--8---|
-1-1---/6-7-7----6-------------------|
-------------------------------------|
-9--9-----/-8----8-8----8-8-8--------|
-x--x-----/-x----x-x----x-x-x--------| x2
-10-10---6/-8----8-8----8-8-86------|
-8--8----4/-6----6-6----6-6-64------|
-------------------------------------|
POSTCHORUS
2:43
-------------------------------------|
-9--9-----4-4-----6-6-----8-8--------|
-x--x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x--------|
-10-10----5-5-----6-6-----8-8--------|
-8--8-----3-3-----4-4-----6-6--------|
-------------------------------------|
you have to be fast as hell right here, just make it noisy
--------------------------xxx-8-xx--------------------------|
-9--9-----4-4-----6-6-----xxx-9-xx--------------------------|
-x--x-----x-x-----x-x-----xxx-8-xx--------------------------|
-10-10----5-5-----6-6-----xxx-8-xx--------------------------|
-8--8-----3-3-----4-4-----xxx-8-xx--13\\\\\\\\3^2--|
------------------------------------11\\\\\\\\1^0--|
OUTRO
2:48
-------------------------------------|
-------------------8-8--------9--9---|
-------------------x-x----8-8-x--x---|
-------------------8-8----8-8-10-10--|x5
-3-3---/8-9-9----8-6-6----6-6-8--8---|
-1-1---/6-7-7----6-------------------|
-1---|
-1---|
-1---|
-3~~~|
-3~~~|
-1---|
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