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[APRIL 2024] Songsterr Tab for Weezer - "Outta Here" has been completed and uploaded, as per user request!

"Outta Here" is a bonus track included on international versions of Weezer's 2010 compilation album, Death to False Metal, according to Weezerpedia. The fact that it was originally written for Make Believe (2005) is apparent from its piano-focused minor-key chord progression, gloomy lovesong lyrics, simplistic drumbeat, and general poppy feel. The most difficult part of writing this track's tab was, inevitably, trying to figure out what the right-hand piano part was playing, as the song's relative obscurity means there weren't many alternate versions of the song to reference.

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Slob's existing tab is inaccurate on/missing a lot. Could you fix it, please? I think it's the last song on Maladroit with an unfinished tab.

The tab has been updated on Songsterr—thanks for the request!

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[MARCH 2024] Songsterr Tab for Weezer - "Slob" has been updated, as per user request!

(This song had existing tab revisions on Songsterr, with the most recent being from December 2023 by Songsterr user "KanZ". I kept most of the bassline and main riff from this tab and made major changes to the remaining instruments like the drums, rhythm guitar, and vocals.)

"Slob" is the 6th track from Weezer's 2002 album, Maladroit. Though "Keep Fishin'" and "Dope Nose" were the only two singles from this album, "Slob" definitely feels like a single in spirit, not only since it's one of the longer songs from the LP, but also since its composition feels more complete and unique—particularly for its catchy main riff and powerful choruses. (I share the same feelings for "Burndt Jamb", a similarly iconic non-single from the album.) Like other songs from Maladroit, I appreciate how the bassline in this track varies throughout the song instead of simply playing root notes the entire time, and its fun drumbeat and ascending chorus chord progression make it quite an interesting listen.

The fact that the song doesn't use too many instruments nor change its guitar tone throughout the song—as well as the fact that the composition remains mostly constant between verses and choruses—made it one of the less difficult Weezer songs to tab out; I did not need to extensively use isolated instrumentals or no-center-channel versions of the song to write the tab, which was nice.

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[MARCH 2024] Songsterr Tab for Weezer - "December" has been updated, as per user request!

(This song has received a number of revisions over the years, with the most recent one from December (haha) 2023 by user "KanZ". I have added drums to this tab, as well as changing the time signature to 6/8 and lowering the tempo. I made minor revisions to the other instruments, like changing the bass note fret placement and using four-note power chords on the rhythm guitar.)

"December" is the closing 13th track from Weezer's 2002 album, Maladroit. For a long time, I usually ranked this track below all the others from Maladroit because it lacked the uniqueness I normally associated with Weezer's other album closers, like the grandeur of "Only In Dreams" and "The Futurescope Trilogy", or the melancholy of "Butterfly" and "Precious Metal Girl", or even something like "Endless Bummer" which falls somewhere in between. By this comparison, "December" felt like just another track from Maladroit—it didn't seem like album-closer material. However, while writing this tab, I have gained a new appreciation for this track, particularly for how complex the drumbeat is, with all its ghost notes and snare/tom fills, as well as its traveling bassline and "Waiting-On-You"-esque chord progression. The song's bridge melody has now gotten itself stuck in my head, and I doubt it will leave any time soon. While I still don't think this song compares to Weezer's other album closers, I now realize it stands on its own as a great song, and one that undoubtedly feels right at home on Maladroit.

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[MARCH 2024] Songsterr Tab for Weezer - "Slave" has been updated, as per user request!

(This song had a partial existing tab on the Songsterr site from 2011 by user "earforia"; I have added drums, rhythm guitar, and vocals to the tab, as well as making minor edits to the lead guitar and bass.)

"Slave" is the ninth track from Weezer's 2002 album, Maladroit. The song's commanding power chords and bassline, as well as its driving drumbeat (and on-beat-hihat-pedal) seat this track well within the other songs from the album. I particularly enjoy this song's intro and bridge chord progression, as well as the way the bass bounces between notes during the verses instead of simply playing the roots.

This was another case where listening to the track's no-center-channel edit on youtube was paramount in writing the tab, as some of the chords have quite a lot of distortion which made it difficult to tell what notes were being strummed—especially since distortion itself can make you hear harmonic notes that aren't actually being played. Other than that, this song bears similarity to a number of other songs from Maladroit in that it is fairly simple in composition—just vocals, two guitars, a bass, and drums—which helped speed up the tabbing process.

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[FEBRUARY 2024] Songsterr Tab for Weezer - "Space Rock" has been updated, as per user request!

(This song had a partial existing tab on the Songsterr site, but its title was misspelled as "Spacerock" and only featured guitar tracks, so I made a new tab from the ground up and listed it as a separate tab under the title "Space Rock".)

"Space Rock' is the eighth track from Weezer's 2002 album, Maladroit. On an album that already features some pretty short songs, "Space Rock" clocks in as the shortest with a sub-two-minute playtime. However, it stands out for its falsetto vocals, and I rather enjoyed its comparably simplistic composition, and especially its descending chord progression during the "pinning you to the boards" part of the second and third verses.

The mixing on this track made it rather difficult to hear what the bass guitar was playing; I would have sworn the bass line sounds quite varied, with many deviations from the root note of each chord, but my attempts to translate said notes into Songsterr kept falling short of what the actual track sounded like. As such, in the end, I have tabbed out some of the track's bass line as simply playing the root note of the chord.

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[DECEMBER 2023] Songsterr Tab for Weezer - "Death And Destruction" has been updated, as per user request!

(This song had a partial existing tab from 2010 by Songsterr user "Leonard", though I chose to make a new tab from scratch.)

"Death And Destruction" is the fifth track from Weezer's 2002 album, Maladroit; it was originally written to simply be an instrumental song, before Rivers added vocals later on. On an album which I feel is known for its chugging progressions and high energy riffs, "Death And Destruction" proves to be a unique listening experience with its slow, improvisational feel, combined with its tonal variation that changes between its clean-tone disconsolate verses and weighty, distorted choruses / instrumental interludes. Even to this end, however, the distorted tone of the chorus chord progressions, vocal reverb, and short overall runtime still makes it feel at home on the Maladroit album.

The track's unique sound also proved to make it quite the challenge to tab out, as the bass line, lead guitar, and drums all seem to have a degree of improvisational variety between each section of the song that meant they could not be simply copy-pasted over. In addition, the song is in 6/8ths time, which—when combined with its already slow tempo—made it difficult to determine how to adequately recreate the grace notes present on many of the instruments. However, I'm still happy with the finished tab, and in particular I have always loved the ending of this track, with its descending chord progression and spelling-out of "I L-O-V-E Y-O-U", so I enjoyed getting a chance to tab it out!

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Could you fix up Death and Destruction? The current version is kinda inaccurate, and missing the solo and the entire ending part.

The tab has been updated on Songsterr—thanks for the request!

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[DECEMBER 2023] Songsterr Tab for Weezer's "Living Without You" has been completed and uploaded, as per user request!

"Living Without You" is a bonus track featured on the Japan and UK versions of Weezer's fourth studio album, Maladroit (2002), according to Weezerpedia. Its relatively simple composition (only distorted lead and rhythm guitars, bass, drums, and vocals) as well as its straightforward love lyrics slot it nicely within the early 2000s Weezer era, though its chugging palm-muted chord progression, short runtime, varied drumbeat, and guitar solo (which doesn't just follow the vocal melody) specifically aligns it with other Maladroit tracks. I particularly enjoy the amount of reverb on the vocals, as well as the overdubbing during the choruses ("And I want you") and post-choruses—it makes the track feel a lot more powerful.

As I mentioned in the previous section, its simpler composition helped speed up the tabbing process, as there were not as many instruments to focus on that could get lost in the mix—though, I should admit that sometimes the solo guitar and bass guitar were hard to make out at times, since the rhythm guitar's chugging progression itself seemed to have a lot of bass frequencies which sometimes came through the mix more strongly in my headphones than the actual bass guitar.

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Can you do Living Without You? from Maladroit (Japan/UK Version)

The tab is done and on Songsterr—thanks for the request!

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[DECEMBER 2023] Songsterr Tab for Rivers Cuomo's "Meet Up with Our Maker" has been completed and uploaded!

"Meet Up with Our Maker" is a demo recorded by Rivers Cuomo between 2011 and 2012 as a possible contender for Weezer's ninth EP, Everything Will Be Alright in the End, according to Weezerpedia. The track was later released as part of Rivers' demo collection, Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years, in 2020. Similar to another demo from the collection, "Let's Go to the 33rd Dimension", I found that the overdriven intro guitars of this song feels very Ratatat-y, though that feeling quickly changes to a very dissonant, chugging chord progression in the verses that makes great use of palm-muted notes. I also love the little guitar that plays a repeating riff in the background during the choruses. I particularly enjoy the solo in this song, which features two different guitars: a higher-pitched one with a more classic free-feeling solo, followed by a lower-pitched solo with a focus on syncopation.

Like with "Let's Go to the 33rd Dimension", the most difficult part of this song to tab out was the sheer number of guitars that play during the intro, as well as the rapid notes that play during the solos; other than that, this song was easier to tab out since many instruments in the first verse were simply repeated in successive verses, and ditto with the choruses. (This is juxtaposed by songs on White, where there are often small changes between each verse and chorus that require paying closer attention when tabbing.)

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[NOVEMBER 2023] Songsterr Tab for Weezer's "(Girl We Got A) Good Thing" has been completed and uploaded!

"(Girl We Got A) Good Thing" is the fourth track from Weezer's 2016 self-titled album, better known as the White Album. This song's swing-time feel sets it apart from the rest of the songs on the LP, though its usage of a piano chord progression helps connect it to tracks like "Wind In Our Sail" and "Jacked Up". In particular for this song, I love the usage of pseudo-dead-space on some of the beats during the chorus to emphasize specific lyrics, like in the middle of "good-thing", "love-birds", and "great-unknown"; when you listen to the chorus, it feels like the song hangs in the air for a moment between these lyrics, which is accentuated by the symbol crashes that comes afterwards. I also love the way the verses' and choruses' lovey-dovey lyrics and general uplifting feel are juxtaposed by the heavy, anxious bridge; in particular, the distortion on the bridge vocals really contributes to its raw feeling, in tandem with the way the instruments slam down on only the first two beats every two measures. (The song also sounds like it returns to normal 4/4 time during the bridge instead of swing-time.)

Like with many of the songs on White, there are a wealth of random instrument riffs thrown in throughout this track that really help contribute to the general fun feeling of its composition, at the expense of making it fairly difficult to tab out by ear. For example, the intro chorus's lovey-dovey feeling seems to have been achieved with three different guitars playing long, drawn-out notes—something only present in the intro chorus. During the later choruses, they are primarily replaced by a riff played by a sawtooth synth (a staple instrument in many tracks off of White).

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[OCTOBER 2023] Songsterr Tab for Rivers Cuomo's "Let's Go to the 33rd Dimension" (v10) has been completed and uploaded, as per user request!

"Let's Go to the 33rd Dimension" (v10) is a demo recorded by Rivers Cuomo between 2011 and 2014 as a possible contender for Weezer's ninth EP, Everything Will Be Alright in the End, according to Weezerpedia. The track was later released as part of Rivers' demo collection, Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years, in 2020. For some reason, this track feels guitar-focused in a way to me that makes it have the vibes of a Ratatat song—especially the twinkly overdriven chords during the verses. The heavyness of the power chords and drum beat during the choruses and bridge—in addition to the falsetto ascending vocals in the bridge—sounds similar to "Everybody Needs Salvation", another demo I love dearly that was originally recorded for EWBAITE; these similarities between the two tracks meant it was inevitable I'd like "33rd Dimension" as well.

Tabbing out the guitars for this track was a little tricky at times, since there are two guitars playing different strumming patterns during the verses, as well as a few droning guitar notes during the intro which blended in with each other so well that I didn't realize how many there were at first. In addition, the chord progression during the chorus was unique and surprisingly difficult to figure out—I'm pretty sure the second chord in the pattern is a tritone chord, since that fit the most with the harmonies of the vocals.

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This is Weezer-adjacent, but could you do Let’s Go To The 33rd Dimension (v10)? It’s one of Rivers Cuomo’s demos from the EWBAITE pack.

The tab is done and on Songsterr—thanks for the request!

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[SEPTEMBER 2023] Songsterr Tab for Weezer - "Getting Up and Leaving" has been completed and uploaded!

"Getting Up and Leaving" is a track from Weezer's 2010 deluxe edition of Pinkerton. According to Weezerpedia, it was originally recorded as a demo as early as 1993, so it makes sense that the song's tone closely aligns with the pop-punk sound of Blue more than the grungy, emo sound of Pinkerton. Then again, I could just be led to feel that way due to confirmation bias, since I used to feel like it was a more Pinkerton-y song back when I thought it was originally recorded during the Pinkerton era. In any case, it still has a relatively straightforward composition in the grand scheme of Weezer songs—a simple power chord progression, a catchy intro hook, plenty of octave riffs, a basic drumbeat—yet the song as a whole still manages to be catchy and emotional, especially due to its disconsolate, sentimental lyrics.

Probably the hardest thing to tab out in the song—and the part that I am still a bit unsure on—were the verses, where the guitar parts are somewhat ethereal in the original recording. It would seem the band used pedals to change the sounds of the guitar—I assume a wah pedal, which is especially apparent during the buildup near the end of the song—which sometimes made it hard to hear what exactly the guitar was playing. As a whole, however, there's a lot of repeating sections in the song that helped speed up the process of tabbing things out—especially for the chorus. That sounds like a given—the purpose of the chorus is that it repeats, after all—but many of Weezer's later songs feature slight variations between each chorus that make copy-pasting unviable, so the simplicity of "Getting Up and Leaving" was a welcome reprise.

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love being a weezer fan

I've done it again

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[AUGUST 2023] Songsterr Tab for Weezer - "Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me" has been completed and uploaded, as per user request!

"Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me" is one of Weezer's earliest demo tracks, according to Weezerpedia. Prominently featured on demos like The Kitchen Tape from 1992, this track clearly bears many elements characteristic of Weezer's early recordings, from its breathy vocals, to Cropper's yells, to its high-energy beat, to its low audio fidelity. There's a somewhat atmospheric synth throughout the song that kind of reminds me of a similar one featured in "Since You Came Around"—another track I fell in love with for capturing Weezer's early sound despite coming out in the 2010s.

Like many of Weezer's early tracks, it was difficult to write a tab for this one due to its aforementioned poor audio quality, which often causes the multilayered guitars to get lost in the mix—especially the acoustic guitar. Still, I'm glad the acoustic guitar is there—it always gives their tracks a much fuller sound. Pat also really wails on the drums thoughout this song, which is yet another characteristic of Weezer's early tracks, like in "Lullaby for Wayne" and "Paperface".