deftones prints guitar tabs and guitar lesson i'll play all the different sections right at the beginning here afterwards i'll go back through give the whole explanation for everything please hit that subscribe button it's the best way of letting me know that you like this video and want to see more deftone stuff and now let's get on into the lesson [Music] do [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] so [Music] all right so as far as the tuning uh i'm pretty sure he's using his uh you know standard f-sharp tuning but in actuality all we need is a low c that's as far as we go is a low c so we can do this in a drop c tuning just right works just fine so we can do cgc fad and we'll be all set and this tuning of course you know works with a lot of other deftone stuff and is a lot more of a common tuning okay so it should work fairly nicely for us and this initial verse section it's basically a you know an amalgamate of you know the bass a guitar and the synth kind of just being over the top of each other doing their own little things so i'll try to put it all together just to give you know an overall perspective of what's happening here so initially the bass does this fun little riff where we'll do an open open low c comes down hits an open g and then it does this little bendy back and forth with the c note and we can make that work pretty easily here by just hitting that low c and just giving it a little bend and release behind the nut here all right and then ultimately we just land on this first fret all right for that c sharp all right and at that point the bass kind of drops and the guitar comes in with basically just this kind of noise strum and essentially you're just hitting some open strings arbitrary and i'm pretty sure he has this kind of pitched up in a higher range just to make it extra kind of noisy and nasty so just like a a big arbitrarily noisy distorted strum all right nothing nothing super crazy there and after that happens guitar cuts and then the synth comes in and finishes it up with a little couple notes basically just a f to a c note and uh we could just do that by hitting a open third string and then open middle c [Music] so just kind of put it all together here [Music] all right and for the chorus section guitar just kind of comes in full like power chord style now and we just kind of hang out on this f power chord here at the fives we strum that out for a good you know uh 16 times or so and just before the final beat there uh we come off to an open c just kind of hang there momentarily and then we slide uh the third fret power chord threes down the first fret for that d flat and then we just hang out on that first fret to finish up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] bridge section come off to just a bunch of open low c strums here strum that out for you know almost about a couple measures there just before that last beat we'll hit the first rep for the d flat slide it all the way up to five for the f and then back down to that first fret for the d flat hang out there for about half a dozen strums or so six or seven and then we come up to the second fret and we bend that and give it a release okay so just slowly here [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right in this next riff here this is the the end of the first bridge the pre-second chorus riff so it happens just before the second chorus and it happens at the very end and basically we're just coming off to some open low c power chord strums about four of them and then we do that bend at the second fret that bend and release and essentially we just repeat that [Music] you