Screaming Trees Guitar Tabs

Fans of the Seattle grunge movement will be eager to learn how to play Screaming Trees guitar tabs. While bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and Soundgarden made the biggest waves during the grunge heyday, smaller bands like Mudhoney, the Melvins and the Screaming Trees were also very influential. With their fuzzy guitars, strong melodies and heartfelt songwriting, the Screaming Trees are critically considered one of the greatest bands of the early 1990s. This article will refresh your memory about this fantastic band and then take you to places on the Internet where you can find tabs to play some of their best songs.

The Screaming Trees were a four-piece rock band from Ellensburg, Washington that formed in the mid 1980s. It seems like all the best bands have brothers in them (think of the Kinks, the Black Crowes, Van Halen, Oasis, the Allman Brothers, the Beach Boys, et cetera), and the Screaming Trees are no exception since they were formed around brothers Gary Lee Conner and Van Conner who played guitar and bass guitar, respectively. The band broke up in 2000, but vocalist Mark Lanegan has gone on to become a permanent member of the popular group Queens of the Stone Age. Lanegan has also worked with notable artists like Greg Dulli of the Afghan Wigs and Isobel Campbell from Belle and Sebastian.

The Screaming Trees' career was unfortunately too short since they only released three full-length major label albums including 1991's Uncle Anesthesia, 1992's Sweet Oblivion, and 1996's Dust. Their seminal work is widely considered to be Sweet Oblivion, and it featured the band's only real hit, the single Nearly Lost You. This song was also featured on the soundtrack to the film Singles. While there were no other radio hits, Sweet Oblivion is a classic record from top to bottom, and it features classic songs like Dollar Bill, Shadow of the Season, and Julie Paradise. Their final record, Dusk, was also critically received, but the band never achieved the same level of success that they found in Sweet Oblivion.

Check out the following sites for excellent Screaming Trees guitar tabs.

• Ultimate Guitar – Ultimate Guitar is one of the web's original guitar tab sites. Their Screaming Trees section features over 40 versions of some of their most popular songs, like Nearly Lost You, Butterfly and More or Less. Like many tab sites, visitors to Ultimate Guitar submit the tabs offered here, so some of the transcriptions are very accurate and some are a little less so. Ultimate Guitar tries to help you out by allowing users to rate the transcriptions so you can see which ones are being well received and which are being ignored.

• Fret Play – Fret Play has a short collection of some of the Screaming Trees' biggest hits like All I Know, Dollar Bill, No One Knows and Sweet Oblivion all transcribed in guitar tabs.

• Chordie – At Chordie, you can find tabs for songs like Witness, Bed of Roses, Before We Arise, Uncle Anesthesia and Winter Song.

• Guitare Tab – Twenty plus Screaming Trees songs are available here at Guitare Tab including Troubled Times, Sworn and Broken, Disappearing, Butterfly and more.

• Tab Scout – A long list of the Trees tunes are offered at Tab Scout as well, including some more obscure numbers like Alice Said, Shadow Song and Change Has Come.

• Guitar Masta – Guitar Masta is a site with a nice interface that also includes some biographical information on the band and photos of their albums. This site's top ten Screaming Trees songs include No One Knows, Dollar Bill, Dying Days, Revelator and, of course, Nearly Lost You.

As you work through this great decade of rock music, make sure you take some detours from the most popular music to explore some of the off the road gems like the Screaming Trees. These songs are rock solid, passionately performed and straightforward enough so that any aspiring guitar player can quickly learn how to play them.

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