Bon Iver - Woods
Tabbed by Dan Ray (http://danray.org/)
Sat 10/09/10

Why would anybody tab a song without a guitar part? If you've heard the song, 
and you like spacey jams like I do, maybe you'll understand. This track, first 
released on Bon Iver's Blood Bank EP, might as well be an instrumental, with 
Justin Vernon's Autotuned voice as the instrument. Given the pitch correction, 
it's pretty easy to pick out the melody on a guitar. I haven't played around 
with it too much yet, but I'm envisioning cascading loops, some delay and 
reverb, and some judicious pitch-shifting — a spacey jam. Of course, there's a
lot of arrangement possibilities — if you haven't heard it, check out the 
fuller treatment Justin Vernon gives it on the Volcano Choir's "Unmap" (where 
it's retitled "Still").

There are four vocal lines to a "verse," and eleven verses in the Blood Bank 
version. I've just tabbed out the main line and given a road map for the rest of
the song. Where the voices diverge in the last half of the song, there's no 
sense in following the recording exactly — and anyway, I'm not up to tabbing out
every last flourish.

"I'm up in the woooods"

e-----------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------|
G----------7---10---~---------------------|
D--8-8-10---------------------------------|
A-----------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------|

"I'm down on my mind"

e-----------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------|
G-----------8--p6-------------------------|
D------6-8--------------------------------|
A--9-9------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------|

"I'm building a still"

e-----------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------|
G-----------------------------------------|
D------6-8--6-----------------------------|
A--9-9------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------|


"to slooooow down time"

e-----------------------------------------|
B-----------------------------------------|
G-----------------------------------------|
D----6h8-p-6------------------------------|
A--9---------9-p-6------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------|

(Second verse gets a lower harmony:

		G----------13~~--------|
		D--------8-------------|
		A-9-9-11---------------|
		
		G-----------10-/-8-----|
		D--------8-------------|
		A-9-9-11---------------|
		
		A-9-9-9-9--6-----------|
		
		A------9--6------------|
		E------------9---------|)

(Fourth verse embellishes the last line:
		e----9------------------------------------|
		B----------11-9-p-7-----------------------|)
		
(Fifth verse adds a higher voice to the full verse:

		e-9-9-9-9-9~~~~-------|
		
		e---11--9-------------|
		B-11------11p9----/4--|
		
		e----------9-----------|
		B-7-7-9-11----11p9--/6-|
					 (yes, really)
		e-7----6---------------|
		B---------9--6---------|)
		
(Sixth verse adds a leading chord: C#5, G#5, F#5, C#5 (I think))

(Seventh verse has a higher leadng voice that does some vampy ornaments)

(Eighth verse adds more ornaments)

(...and, yeah, more of that)