Tabs: Song: Happiness
Artist: Collective Soul
Album: Blender
Label: Atlantic Records

Tab by: Jason Dubsky
	jdubsky@videotron.ca


This is an awesome song.  In fact, they're all awesome, but this is 
more so than the others.  The openning riff is sampled from the main
riff using some awesome tremelo.  The song's in drop D, down half a 
step.

Chords:

I'm not gonna write 'em out here, cause they're all power chords and 
they're used in riffs a lot, so just read 'em in the tab.

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Intro/main riff:

Sample has tremelo, main guitar doesn't.

Eb--||-------------------------------|----------------------------------||
Bb--||-------------------------------|----------------------------------||
Gb--||*------------------------------|---------------------------------*||
Db--||*-----------------5p0-----7~~~-|---------------------------------*||
Ab--||--5p0-0-6p0-0-7p0-----7p0------|-5p0-0-6p0-0-7p0------------------||
Db--||-------------------------------|-----------------x-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--||

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Verse:

Eb----------------|---------------|
Bb----------------|---------------|
Gb----------------|---------------|
Db--5-5-5-5-5-----|-4-4-4-4-4-----|
Ab--5-5-5-5-5-----|-5-5-5-5-5-----|
Db--5-5-5-5-5-----|-4-4-4-4-4-----|

then repeat riff.

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Prechorus:

Eb--||--------|---------|---------|------------------||
Bb--||--2-----|-h-------|-3-------|------------------||
Gb--||*-2-----|-o-------|-2-------|-----------------*||
Db--||*-2-----|-l-------|-0-------|-5-0---5-0---5-0-*||
Ab--||--0-----|-d-------|-0-------|-5-0---5-0---5-0--||
Db--||--------|---------|-0-------|-5-0---5-0---5-0--||

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Chorus:

Here, the main guitar cuts out and either changes effects, or another 
guitar comes in.  This guitar using some strange keyboard effects, along
with some quick, light flange.  The strumming seems to be random, 
although I don't know, cause I haven't seen it done yet.  In any case, just
strum along, random picking, etc...  For the power chords in the last 
measure, the distorted guitar kicks in.


Eb--||-----|----|----|------------------||
Bb--||-----|----|-15-|------------------||
Gb--||*-14-|-14-|-14-|-----------------*||
Db--||*-14-|-14-|-0--|-5-0---5-0---5-0-*||
Ab--||--0--|-0--|----|-5-0---5-0---5-0--||
Db--||-----|----|----|-5-0---5-0---5-0--||

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Bridge:

Guitar 2 plays chords, Guitar 1 plays tab

    C5           D5               C5           D5
Eb-------|-----|----|-10--------|------|-----|-------------|------||------------
Bb-------|-----|----|------10\--|------|-----|-------------|------||-n----------
Gb-------|-----|----|-----------|------|-----|-------------|------||---o--------
Db--10---|-----|-12-|-----------|-10---|--\--|-------------|------||-----i------
Ab--10---|---x-|-12-|-----------|-10---|-----|---------5---|-4~~~-||-------s----
Db--10---|---x-|-12-|-----------|-10---|-----|-(0)-5-7-----|------||---------e--

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Solo:

For this part, Guitar 1 turns on a Big Briar Mooger Fooger MF-101 
Lowpass Filter, with a shitload of Resonance, creating the crazy 
harmonics heard over top.  Guitar 2 plays chords.

       A5                     A5                     D5
Eb---|----------------------|----------------------|--------------------|
Bb---|----------------------|----------------------|--------------------|
Gb---|-6--------------------|-6--------------------|-7------------------|
Db--\|-7~~~\------5-x---5---|-7~~~\------5-x---5---|-7~~~-x-x-7-0-7-x-7-|
Ab---|-0----0-x-4-----4---4/|-0----0-x-4-----4---0-|--------------------|
Db---|----------------------|----------------------|--------------------|

    D5                        A5
Eb--------------------------|---------------------------|
Bb--------------------------|---------------------------|
Gb--7-----6^-(6)---12^-(12)-|---------------------------|
Db--7-0-x--------0----------|-x--------14---12-----11---|
Ab--------------------------|-0--0-x-x----0----x-0----0-|
Db--------------------------|---------------------------|

    A5                             D5
Eb-------------------------------|--------------------------|
Bb-------------------------------|--------------------------|
Gb-------------------------------|-----------14-------------|
Db--11~~~-x-x---14-x-12-x-x-11---|-12~~~--------x-0---12~~~-|
Ab--0-----x-x-x---------x-x----x-|-12----x-x------x-x-------|
Db-------------------------------|--------------------------|

    D5
Eb---------------------------------------
Bb---------------------------------------
Gb------14-----11^-(11)^-(11)^-(11)~~~\--
Db---------0-x---------------------------
Ab--x-x----------------------------------
Db---------------------------------------

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And that's all the parts!

jdubsky@videotron.ca