American Sleep
By Clutch
From the album ‘Pure Rock Fury’

Here’s a great song by Clutch called American Sleep. This tab does not show timings though so you’ll have to listen to the song to know the exact timing of it.

Intro – this is just feedback and squealing noises.
Then we go into Riff 1:

D|---------3---------4-----3-
A|---------3---------4-----3- x8
E|-0-0-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-2-0-0-1-
   *******   *******   ***    

Then the song’s main riff starts – Riff 2:

D|---------------------1-----2/5-5-5-3/5-5-5-----1-------1-----
A|-1/3-3-3-1/3-3-3-2-1---3-2-1/3-3-3-3/5-5-5-3-2---3-2-1---3-1-
E|-------------------------------------------------------------

Next, the lead comes in over the above riff.
Lead:

e|-------------------------      
B|-13-13-13-11—14b16r14---- x2 
G|----------------------12-

e|---11-13-13b14r13-13b14r13-11-11----
B|-13------------------------------13- x2
G|------------------------------------

Verse – Riff 3:

e|-----------------------8-----
D|-8/101010-8/101010-9-8-8-108-
A|-8/101010-8/101010-9-8-6-108- x4
E|-6/8-8-8--6/8-8-8--7-6---8-6-

Chorus – Riff 4:

D|-101010108-
A|-101010108- x4
E|-8-8-8-8-6-

Then the main riff comes in again and more lead follows:

e|-----------------
B|-----------------
G|-5-5-5-3—5b7r5--- x2
D|---------------5-

The next part of the lead is tremolo picked with loads of wah. Listen to the song to get an idea of how long to tremolo pick each note.

G|-5-4-3-0-3-0-

Verse: Same as before

Chorus: Same as before
Next riff – Riff 5:

e|------------------
B|------------------
G|-----------8------
D|---8-10------10-8-
A|--------10--------
E|-8----------------

Lead that plays over above riff:
Note – this lead is really just a mess so you can do pretty much whatever you want as long as it is along the general theme of what’s below:

e|-------------------------------------------------------------6-
B|-8b9-6-------8----8b9-6-----------6-----6-----6b---------6-8---
G|-------8-5-5-8-5--------8-5---5h8---5h8---8-5----8-5-5-8-------

e|-10b12r10-6---
B|------------8- etc etc. Just mess about along those lines.
G|--------------

For the spoken part, the bass plays riff 5 while this wah riff plays in the background – Riff 6:

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------
G|-8-6---6---6---6b----6---6---------6---6---6-----6---6---6---6---
D|-----8---8---8---8-5---8---8-5-5-5---8---8---8-5---8---8---8---8-

Again, it’s pretty messy so the above is just a part of the riff – improvise around the above for the rest.

For the last verse, play riff 5.

Final chorus – same as before, play twice.

Key to the tab:
h = hammer-on
b = bend to next note to pitch of next note
r = release bent note to pitch of next note
/ or  = slide to next note
*** = palm mute

Email me with any corrections / suggestions - [email protected]
JK