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Still Alive (Portal) Guitar Tab

Submitted: Oct 22, 2007 by kindkayne (Last updated: Sep 20, 2009)

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Game: Portal
Composer(s): Jonathan Coulton
Style: Transcription

This song is also called End/Credits Theme

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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)
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20 comments on Still Alive

ROFL THIS IS GREAT!

ROFL THIS IS GREAT!

This tab is so confusing can

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

This is inaccurate starting

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...

good comment

good comment

no offense but it's not

no offense but it's not wrong. all i did is play the first note of each chord an octave low... it's still same note. i think it gives the song a fuller sound when playing it solo.

Well, no that's not right

Well, no that's not right either, it's A-B not D-B, and if this is a transcription what you "think sounds better" doesn't apply.

No offense intended.

Sweeeeeet, I love this song!

Sweeeeeet, I love this song!

Haha xD Nice job :D Love

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

the nice bit of the GLaD, is

4

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

I believe the chords for the

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.

The "It's hard to overstate

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)

LOL!! love portal^^ this was

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

U should be more precise on

3

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!!!!!!!!!!

The tabs as well as chords

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

Here's a [pretty]

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

have fun!

Look the tab is messed up

4

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 :)

No worries man, I think you

No worries man, I think you did a great job considering. I had started doing this one too for all the instruments but got bored with it so props for getting the chords out there. I didn't mean to sound like a hard-ass about the intro figure, just trying to correct a minor error.

Rewrite please?

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

Could someone rewrite these in tabs like all the parts?

chamone

5

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

I looked into many sites but

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

Thanks for sharing it.

Regards,
david Abrahams