Artist: Staind
Song: Break
Album: Tormented

Notes: The intro/first verse is a huge strech to hold and play perfectly...but it is how the intro is played. If you watch some videos you can see that. Also during the verses and such it seems as if Mike is hitting a lot of open strings at some points. I'm not going to put that in the tab you can just put that in when you'd like.

Tuning: (low to high) Db Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)

Legend:
h=hammer on
p=pull off
/=slide up
=slide down
t=tap
*=harmonic
p.m=palm mute


INTRO:

Eb|-4-1-4-4-4-1-4-1--------------------------|
Bb|-1---1-------1----------------------------|
Gb|-4---4-------4----------------------------|
Db|------------------------------------------|
Ab|------------------*5--*5------*5--*5------|
Db|------------------------------------------|

VERSE:

Eb|-4-1-4-4-4-1-4-1-4-t6p1-4-1-4-4-1-4-1---------------------|
Bb|-1---1-1-----1---1------1---1-----1-----------------------|
Gb|-4---4-------4---4------4---------4-----------------------|
Db|-------------3--------------------3-----------------------|
Ab|---------------------------------------*5--*5-----*5-*5---|
Db|----------------------------------------------------------|

The second time through the verse play the first 2 harmonics then crank on the distortion and 
play:

Eb|--------------|
Bb|--------------|
Gb|--------------|
Db|--------------|
Ab|--3-0-0-5-----|
Db|--3-0-0-5-----|
p.m  . . . 

HEAVY VERSE PART 1:

         3x                       1x
Eb|-----------------------|------------------|
Bb|-----------------------|------------------|
Gb|-----------------------|------------------|
Db|-----------------------|------------------|
Ab|-3p2-0-0-2h3-0-0-0-2-0-|--3p2-0-2h3-0-0-2-|
Db|-3p2-0-0-2h3-0-0-0-2-0-|--3p2-0-2h3-0-0-2-|
p.m     . .     . . .   .        .     . .

HEAVY VERSE PART 2:
                          4x
Eb|------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|------------------------------------------------------|
Db|------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-3p2-0-0-0-3p2-0-0-0-3p2-0-0-0-2-X-X-X-X-X-X----------|
Db|-3p2-0-0-0-3p2-0-0-0-3p2-0-0-0-2-X-X-X-X-X-X----------|
p.m     . . .     . . .     . . . 

HEAVY VERSE PART 3:

Eb|-----------------------|
Bb|-----------------------|
Gb|-7-7---7-7---7-7--5----|
Db|-7-7---7-7---7-7--5----|
Ab|-5-5---5-5---5-5--3----|
Db|-----------------------|

HEAVY VERSE PART 4:
          
	    2x
Eb|------------------------|
Bb|------------------------|
Gb|------------------------|
Db|------------------------|
Ab|-3p2-0-0-2h3-0-0-2-0----|
Db|-3p2-0-0-2h3-0-0-2-0----|

Go back and forth between the heavy verse part 3 and part 4 four times except on the last time instead of playing part 4 play part 1. Hopefully that isn't confusing...
Then play part 2 again...
Then go back and forth between part 3 and 4 like I said right above.


SOLO: Heavy verse part 2 is being played behind the solo

Eb|-volume swell--|--------------------------------------------------------------|
Bb|---------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
Gb|----7----------|-10-9/10-9/10-9-7-5-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-10-9/10-9/10-12-12-10-14--|
Db|----x----------|--X-X--X-X--X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X-X--X-X-X--X-X---X--X--X--X--|
Ab|----5----------|--8-7/-8-7/-8-7-5-3-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--8-7/8--7/8--10-10--8-12--|
Db|---------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|

Whenever I play this solo for the next part I either just sustain the last octave from the above riff or I just improvise playing something near the 20th fret on the first 2 strings. If you improvise just end on a full step bend on the 20th fret on the high E string. 

The last part is just all the heavy riffs...you figure out the order...it's not hard.


END ON:

Eb|----|
Bb|----|
Gb|----|
Db|----|
Ab|-2--|
Db|-2--|