Key of D, 146 BPM.
If you are the ONLY electric guitarist on your team, I strongly suggest combining the lead and rhythm tabs. Which combinations you use will and should be completely up to you.
If you are the lead guitarist, then don't forget to enforce tighter volume control than usual. You're still the lead, but you should allow the rhythm to match you in volume at certain parts (i.e. Pre-Chorus). Unless, of course, you don't intend on following the tabs as written, which means you read this entire paragraph for no reason. Sucks.
God bless,
-John Lee
Sunday, June 30, 2013
I Surrender (Bass)
Key of F, 154 BPM.
Disclaimer: I. Am. Not. A. Bassist. I do not own one, nor do I ever intend to do so. The most I've ever done with a bass is play like one note in my entire life. Still, there's no need to worry because I followed the demo verbatim. Or at least as close as I could. It sounded the same when I played it through GuitarPro at least.
This is one of the two songs for which I made a bass tab. Turns out it's quite time consuming for me because I tend to check my tabs a million times over for egregious mistakes, which means there probably won't be any more coming any time soon. Sorry haha
God bless,
-John Lee
Disclaimer: I. Am. Not. A. Bassist. I do not own one, nor do I ever intend to do so. The most I've ever done with a bass is play like one note in my entire life. Still, there's no need to worry because I followed the demo verbatim. Or at least as close as I could. It sounded the same when I played it through GuitarPro at least.
This is one of the two songs for which I made a bass tab. Turns out it's quite time consuming for me because I tend to check my tabs a million times over for egregious mistakes, which means there probably won't be any more coming any time soon. Sorry haha
God bless,
-John Lee
I Surrender (Rhythm Guitar)
As you can probably tell, this tab is NOT tailored to the album (CD) version of the song. It's instead modeled after the DVD version, which you can find on YouTube. Its duration is 10:27.
You have several options in terms of combining the lead and rhythm if you are the only electric guitarist on your team. You can easily get away with just playing lead, but some worship leaders will prefer you to also play the rhythm parts for intro and such. Coordinate with your worship leader, as he/she is the driving vision behind your team.
If you are rhythm, it's incredibly important that you maintain that support/rhythm role while still standing out for places in the song such as the intro. If you have in-ears or monitors, it should be fairly easy, but I suggest having your sound crew give you feedback if you don't in case you're too quiet or loud at certain parts.
God bless,
-John Lee
You have several options in terms of combining the lead and rhythm if you are the only electric guitarist on your team. You can easily get away with just playing lead, but some worship leaders will prefer you to also play the rhythm parts for intro and such. Coordinate with your worship leader, as he/she is the driving vision behind your team.
If you are rhythm, it's incredibly important that you maintain that support/rhythm role while still standing out for places in the song such as the intro. If you have in-ears or monitors, it should be fairly easy, but I suggest having your sound crew give you feedback if you don't in case you're too quiet or loud at certain parts.
God bless,
-John Lee
I Surrender (Lead Guitar)
As you can probably tell, this tab is NOT tailored to the album (CD) version of the song. It's instead modeled after the DVD version, which you can find on YouTube. Its duration is 10:27.
I prefer the guitar solo demo from Nigel over the one featured in the DVD, so I put that one in the tab instead. If you and/or your worship leader want the one in the album, you will have to tab it out yourself. The fingerings are very similar anyways, so you should have no trouble.
You have several options in terms of combining the lead and rhythm if you are the only electric guitarist on your team. You can easily get away with just playing lead, but some worship leaders will prefer you to also play the rhythm parts for intro and such. Coordinate with your worship leader, as he/she is the driving vision behind your team.
If you are lead, remember to make this song super ambient and to not drown out the rhythm in the intro and such. Otherwise, just follow the tabs, and you should be good.
God bless,
-John Lee
I prefer the guitar solo demo from Nigel over the one featured in the DVD, so I put that one in the tab instead. If you and/or your worship leader want the one in the album, you will have to tab it out yourself. The fingerings are very similar anyways, so you should have no trouble.
You have several options in terms of combining the lead and rhythm if you are the only electric guitarist on your team. You can easily get away with just playing lead, but some worship leaders will prefer you to also play the rhythm parts for intro and such. Coordinate with your worship leader, as he/she is the driving vision behind your team.
If you are lead, remember to make this song super ambient and to not drown out the rhythm in the intro and such. Otherwise, just follow the tabs, and you should be good.
God bless,
-John Lee
Beneath the Waters (Bass)
Key of G, 74 BPM.
Disclaimer: I. Am. Not. A. Bassist. I do not own one, nor do I ever intend to do so. The most I've ever done with a bass is play like one note in my entire life. Still, there's no need to worry because I followed the demo verbatim. Or at least as close as I could. It sounded the same when I played it through GuitarPro at least.
This is one of the two songs for which I made a bass tab. Turns out it's quite time consuming for me because I tend to check my tabs a million times over for egregious mistakes, which means there probably won't be any more coming any time soon. Sorry haha
God bless,
-John Lee
Disclaimer: I. Am. Not. A. Bassist. I do not own one, nor do I ever intend to do so. The most I've ever done with a bass is play like one note in my entire life. Still, there's no need to worry because I followed the demo verbatim. Or at least as close as I could. It sounded the same when I played it through GuitarPro at least.
This is one of the two songs for which I made a bass tab. Turns out it's quite time consuming for me because I tend to check my tabs a million times over for egregious mistakes, which means there probably won't be any more coming any time soon. Sorry haha
God bless,
-John Lee
Beneath the Waters (Rhythm Guitar)
Key of G, 74 BPM.
A word of caution: I got a little lazy when writing one part of this tab. You'll see how when you play the tab against the album. If you want to play as the tab directs you, go ahead, but remember to keep the dynamics of the song. Palm muting and playing single notes will help when you play the first verse (I repeated it four times. Laziness.)
If you're the only electric guitarist, I suggest just playing the rhythm role.
Oh you're the rhythm? Good! Do the same thing.
God bless,
-John Lee
A word of caution: I got a little lazy when writing one part of this tab. You'll see how when you play the tab against the album. If you want to play as the tab directs you, go ahead, but remember to keep the dynamics of the song. Palm muting and playing single notes will help when you play the first verse (I repeated it four times. Laziness.)
If you're the only electric guitarist, I suggest just playing the rhythm role.
Oh you're the rhythm? Good! Do the same thing.
God bless,
-John Lee
Beneath the Waters (Lead Guitar)
Key of G, 74 BPM.
As I said for the rhythm tab, I got lazy when writing one part of this tab. If you don't see what I mean, play it against the album. When you encounter that one part, just palm mute where ever necessary.
If you're the only electric guitarist in the team, I suggest using the rhythm tab instead.
If you're the lead, know that the 16th notes in the chorus are definitely not mandatory, but it does give variety to the song, which is good because the last thing you want is for even a small part of the congregation to become bored and disengaged. You will likely notice that I did not follow Nigel's demo for the bridge. If you like his version better, feel free to play his version, although you will probably have to tab it out yourself.
God bless,
-John Lee
As I said for the rhythm tab, I got lazy when writing one part of this tab. If you don't see what I mean, play it against the album. When you encounter that one part, just palm mute where ever necessary.
If you're the only electric guitarist in the team, I suggest using the rhythm tab instead.
If you're the lead, know that the 16th notes in the chorus are definitely not mandatory, but it does give variety to the song, which is good because the last thing you want is for even a small part of the congregation to become bored and disengaged. You will likely notice that I did not follow Nigel's demo for the bridge. If you like his version better, feel free to play his version, although you will probably have to tab it out yourself.
God bless,
-John Lee
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