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Still Alive

Portal

PC

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Tabber: kindkayne

Composer: Jonathan Coulton

Style: Transcription

Instrument: Guitar

76651 views 17 years ago

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Portal - Still alive

Bm is played -[X-2-0-0-3-2]  (more accurately a Gm7 )
Bb sus2 is played [X-1-3-3-1-X]

         D              Bm
E|--------2--------------2--------
B|-----3-----3--------3-----3-----
G|--------------------------------
D|--0-----------------------------
A|-----------------2--------------
E|--------------------------------

                         D          Bm       D       Bm
This was a triumph.
                         D                   Bm         D                Bm 
 I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

          Em            A                             D        Bm    D     Bm
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.

                     D            Bm       D      
Aperture Science       

          Bm               D            Bm                 D       Bm   
We do what we must because we can.

Em                            A                                   Bbsus2
For the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.

                     F                    C                     Bb         F
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

                  Bb              C                       F               Dm 
And the Science gets done. And you make a neat gun.
             Bb               A             D
For the people who are still alive.



I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart. And killed me.
And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!

Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time.
So I'm GLaD. I got burned. Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are still alive.

Go ahead and leave me. I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa THAT WAS A JOKE. HAHA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist.

Look at me still talking when there's Science to do.
When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you.
I've experiments to run. There is research to be done.
On the people who are still alive.

                   D           Bm       D      Bm
And believe me I am still alive.
I'm doing Science and I'm still alive.
I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive.
While you're dying I'll be still alive.
And when you're dead I will be still alive.
STILL ALIVE (x2)

@superdoughboy4 17 years ago

ROFL THIS IS GREAT!

@Bakuryu42 17 years ago

This tab is so confusing can someone explain it to me?

@Kabukibear 17 years ago

This is inaccurate starting from the very first chord, what you have is not what is being played.

E||-------------------|--------2-----------2-----|--------2-----------2-----|
B||-------------------|-----3-----3-----3-----3--|-----3-----3-----3-----3--|
G||-------------------|--2-----------4-----------|--2-----------4-----------|
D||-------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A||-------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
E||-------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|

And so on...

@Alex Brenzinger 17 years ago

Sweeeeeet, I love this song!

@XZeon34 17 years ago

Haha xD Nice job :D Love this song xD Even though, I hate the computer in the game -.-

@Anonymous 17 years ago

the nice bit of the GLaD, is the singing computer is named GLaDos.

@Ghastly 16 years ago

I believe the chords for the "and the science gets done / and you make a neat gun" part should be

Bb F C / F C Dm

Otherwise it's sounding pretty good. I'm playing it on the accordion as we speak.

@max 16 years ago

The "It's hard to overstate my satisfaction." goes like this:

E||-------------------|--------3-----------3-----|--------3-----------3-----|
B||-------------------|-----5-----5-----5-----5--|-----5-----5-----5-----5--|
G||-------------------|--4-----------4-----------|--2-----------2-----------|
D||-------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
A||-------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|
E||-------------------|--------------------------|--------------------------|

The ending of the verse: "Except the ones who are dead." (Played along "ones who are", while "dead" ist a... well... dead note.)

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

(corrections welcome)

@random 16 years ago

LOL!! love portal^^ this was by far the best bit of the game... good job!

@bigman 16 years ago

U should be more precise on whatv u right sometimes i can t understand how to play u should right hou many times to play the cord and so on otherwise it was fun thanks!!!!!!!!!!

@superdoughboy4 16 years ago

The tabs as well as chords for the song have been released by Valve publically.

@andrew 16 years ago

Here's a [pretty] professional [looking] sheet: http://www.steamgames.com/v/img/whatsnew/StillAlive.pdf

have fun!

@kindkayne 16 years ago

Look the tab is messed up because the site is displaying the chords off center. every chord should be shifted over to the left. and i tabbed this right after the game came out... if you compare it to the official valve sheet music you will see that i am almost dead on. i think it's not bad considering im tabbing from synth to guitar by ear. sorry for sounding bitter :)

@ErrorProxy 15 years ago

I'm a really really beginner guitar and would like to play something..

Could someone rewrite these in tabs like all the parts?

@Polaron 15 years ago

Good job...... Oooooo a Ocarina :D

@roddinblack 15 years ago

I looked into many sites but this one tuned up accurately.

Thanks for sharing it.

Regards, david Abrahams