Nine Inch Nails - Closer (Third Version) Chords and Tabs

Nine Inch Nails - Closer Third Version: chords and tabs for the song. Watch chords and tablatures for all songs of the singer (group) Nine Inch Nails. Other chords and tabs for the "Closer" can find at the bottom of the page.

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This is the latest single from NIN off the downward spiral-a cool
song,an easy song...


CLOSER
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Note that this may not be totally correct, as I'm trying to adapt a
synth line to guitar-note the tuning...this song is played best with an
envelope filter, but for those who don't have one, a wah sounds ok...

Tuning (low to high):C,G,D,G,B,E

Main "riff"
E|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|-----------------------|
D|-----------------------|
G|------5-----3----------|
C|--0------------5--3--0-|


I know that there's lots more to it, but I haven't figured it out
yet,and I've got a lot of other things to tab out...E-Mail me if there's
anything
you want posted, and I'll see about tabbing it...



P.S. Guitar For The Practicing Musician printed music for "March of the
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Nine Inch Nails -- "Closer"


This thing's loaded with layers of guitar.  The song starts out sparse,
adding parts as it goes; the first big line is the main keyboard riff,
some more lines, transcribed as best I could.


[at 1:04]

"I want to f**k you like an animal," etc.

This line repeats.  Use an octaver to get real low pitches, or use the
tuning suggested earlier.

E-----------------------E
B-----------------------B
G-----------------------G
D------------------1----D
A----3--3----1--3-------A
E-----------------------E


[at 3:45]

Here, like cianyde said about the main riff, you'll want to use an envelope
filter (preferred) or a wah.  Something's going on here with two C notes
being played an octave apart, but I know there's more to it than this:

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------B
G-----5-----5-----5--------5-----5-----5-----5-----5----------------------G
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------D
A--------3-----3-----3--3-----------3-----3-----3-----3-------------------A
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E


[at 4:47]

Pretty easy, a 'typical' rock pattern:

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
B-------------------------------------------------------------------------B
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------G
D----------------------------------------------1--------------------------D
A---3-----1-----3-----1--1---3-----1-----3--------------------------------A
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E

These lines are simple -- but again, you have to get the rhythm down.
Think Prince; at its heart, this is very much a black tune.  Real black
funk is where, I think, Reznor gets many of his rhythms.


[at 5:09]

Here's another funk/blues riff that you can hear in the background.
Bend the D# to _almost_ an E, then hit the low C.

E-----------------------E
B-----------------------B
G----8(9)---------------G
D-----------------------D
A----------10-----------A
E-----------------------E


[at 5:51]

This is the riff at the end of the song, but note that it's also played
quietly in the background for a while before (I first hear it at 5:30,
but knowing Reznor, its probably layered in there somewhere before that,
even).  If you have a whammy bar, you can try playing it by plucking the
string with your thumb while pulling down on the whammy and letting go
right away; doing this with each note makes for a cool effect (different

Oh -- you'll want to play this line with as clean a tone as you can muster.

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
B---20---18-----18---17-----16---15-----11--11--10--13--------------------B
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------G
D--------------------------------------------------------10---------------D
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------A
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E
B---20---18-----18---17-----16---15-----11--11--10--13--------------------B
G-------------------------------------------------------------------------G
D-------------------------------------------------------------------------D
A-------------------------------------------------------------------------A
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------E



--  Michael Stutz