A Couple Questions about Tab and the Scale

[3nd3r3]

I have a couple of questions I got while learning from Fretboard Theory. I recently came across the song "Tomorrow" by Silverchair where I had to learn the Rhythm Guitar Figure 2. I found a tab that seems pretty accurate, but I'm not sure which part of the tab is "Gtr. Rhy. Fig 2". It isn't like most of the other tabs that show "Gtr. Intro" or "Gtr. Chorus". Does figure 2 mean it's figure two on a specific tab (like the official tab, which might have a section labeled Figure two) or is there some common knowledge about that kind of terminology that I don't know.


Secondly, regarding using playing more than one note in the pentatonic scale in one strum. Songs like Money for Nothing use the G Minor Pentatonic Scale with two notes at once which sounds great, but in the song "Tomorrow", the part that I think might be figure two, has four strings worth of pentatonic notes strummed all at once. Are these just chords or is the pentatonic scale also commonly used playing several notes at once?

Here is the tab I tried using for "Tomorrow":

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From: engdm@ix.netcom.com
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 04:01:28 GMT

Tomorrow by Silverchair

tabbed by Evan Mead
engdm@ix.netcom.com

This is a great song of the frogstomp album. The other tabs where way off
so i decided to post an accurate version of the song.

normal tunning
Intro
A D
e---------0--------------0--------------3-2---------------------------
b-----------2--------------2----------------3-------------------------
g---------------2--------------0----2---------2--------0-----0--------
d----2--------2----2--2------2----0---0---------0----0-----0------0---
a--0---0-----------0----0--------------------------3-----2------------
E--------------------------------------------------------------3------
> >

> 1st verse

> I didn't include strumming pattern, but it isn't hard to figure out.
gtr. 1 electric with a little bit of dist.
A G D
e----------0----------3--------2----------------------/
b----------2----------3--------3----------------------/
g----------2----------0--------2----------------------/
d----------2----------0--------0----------------------/
a----------0----------2--------0-----3---0----------/
E---------------------3-------------------------3-----/

gtr 2 mucho distortion

e----------------------------------------------
b-------2-----4-----5--------------------------
g-------2-----4-----5---------------------5----
d-------2-----4-----5-------------5---7------5-
a-------0-----2-----3-------5---7--------------
> E-------------2-----3-----------------------------/

gtr. 1 clean electric

e---5--5----10--12--10--------------8--8---10--12--10-------------
b---5--5----10---------10-12-10-----8--8---10---------10-12-10----
g---6--6----11------------------11--9--9---12------------------11-
d-----------------------------------------------------------------
a-----------------------------------------------------------------
E-----------------------------------------------------------------

chorus
gtr. 2 DISTORTION Is this the "Gtr. Rhy. Fig 2"?
> >
> e---------------------------------------------------------------------
> b-------2------------------------2------------------------------------
g-------2-------7----5-----7-----2---7---5-5-5-5---7-7-7-7--7-7-------
d-------2-------7----5-----7-----2---7---5-5-5-5---7-7-7-7--7-7-------
a-------0-------5----3-----5-----0---5---3-3-3-3---5-5-5-5--5-5-------
E---------------5----3-----5---------5---3-3-3-3---5-5-5-5--5-5-------

Well that's except for the solo. Email me if you want the solo. Send
questions, comments and requests to engdm@ix.netcom.com

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[DesiSerna]

This is the part of "Tomorrow" by Silverchair that includes the pentatonic scale riff.

gtr 2 mucho distortion

e----------------------------------------------
b-------2-----4-----5--------------------------
g-------2-----4-----5---------------------5----
d-------2-----4-----5-------------5---7------5-
a-------0-----2-----3-------5---7--------------
E-------------2-----3-----------------------------/

This is a typical pentatonic style riff because of the box shape it makes on the guitar fretboard.