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Band: System Of A Down
Album: Toxicity
Track # 8
Song: Forest
Bassist: Shavo Odajian
Tabbed by: punkbasser15

Key:
‘/’ = slide up neck
‘>’= play fret 8 times
‘~’ = let note ring

This song can be played with a pick like Shavo, but I recommend fingers for this one
because you have to silence certain strings after playing them and it’s really difficult w/ a
pick. This song is horror to memorize but other than that this track is great! I truly believe that this is the one correct tab here. And unlike everyone else, I didn’t do this in riffs (that’s so annoying). So have fun with this one, kiddies, and rock out!

-------------------Forest-----------------
(this song is in, low to high, CGCF tuning)
Intro part I (0:00)
|-----------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------
|---5-55-55-5-5-5---6-66-66-6-6-6---7-77-77-7-7-7---8-88-88-8-8-8-
|-----------------------------------------------------------------

|------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------
|---5-55-55-5-5-5---6-66-66-6-6-6---7-77-77-7-7-7---8-88-88/-
|------------------------------------------------------------
Pre-verse (0:12)
|-------X4-|-------X4-|--------------|
|----------|----------|----REPEAT----|
|----------|----------|--------------|
|---0-450--|---0-445--|--------------|

Verse (0:26) “Walk with me my little child!!!...”
|----------|------X4--|------------|-------X4-|-------------|
|----------|----------|------------|----------|-------------|
|---5>-6>--|----------|---7>-8>----|----------|---5>-6>-----|
|----------|---0-450--|------------|---0-445--|-------------|

|-------X4---|----PRECHORUS------------
|------------|-------------------------
|------------|---5>-6>-7>-8>--5>-6>-7>-
|---0-450----|-------------------------
Chorus (0:56) “Why can’t you see that you are...MY...CHILD?!...”
|---------------------X4--|-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------|
|---8-9-8-7-5-4-0~-4~-5~--|-8-9-8-7-5-4-|

Pre-verse (1:23)
Verse 2 (1:29) “Walk with me my little FRIEND!!!..”
|---------------------
|---SAME AS VERSE 1---
|---------------------
|---------------------
Chorus 2 (1:59) “Why can’t you see that you are....my...child?...”
Bridge (2:24)  (no words)
|---------X3-|------X4--|------X4--|-----------------------------
|------------|----------|----------|-----------------------------
|------------|----------|----------|-----------------------------
|---8888-75--|--00-450--|--00-445--|---8888-75--12-12-12-12-11-9-

|--------X4--|--------------------------------------|--------X4--|
|------------|--------------------------------------|------------|
|------------|------------------------------8888-75-|------------|
|---00-450---|---8888-75--12-12-12-12-11-9----------|----00-450--|

|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|---8888-75---10-10-10-10-87---11-11-11-11-10-8---13-13-13-13-11-10-
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
 “Take this promise for a ride, You saw the forest, Now come inside...”
|------------X4--|----------------------------------X2----|
|----------------|----------------------------------------|
|----------------|-50505050-60606060-70707070-80808080----|
|---00-450--0004-|----------------------------------------|

Pre-chorus (3:14) “No televisions in the air...”

Final Chorus (3:25) “Why can you see that you are...my...child?!”
|----------------X2-|-------X2-|-------X2-|------X2-|
|-------------------|----------|----------|---------|
|-------------------|----------|----------|---------|
|-898754-0~-4~-5~---|--00-440--|--00-550--|--00-660-|

|--------|------X2-|------X2-|------X2-|--------------
|--------|---------|---------|---------|--------------
|--------|---------|---------|---------|--------------
|-898754-|--00-440-|-00-550--|-00-660--|-898754-0~-