I have already tried transcribing this once. Now, 6 years later, I'm still not completely sure that it's correct and authentic to the album version. For example the part starting on bar 95: I can't figure out the first 2 chords. I know that the 3rd one in bar 97 is a Csus2, but I can't hear what comes before it. Some violin parts are also simplified and missing specifics like slides.

Regardless of that, I've noticed that my transcription skills have improved more during the past few months of doing these than over the course of 15 years that I've been "playing the guitar". I reckon the availability of state-of-the-art stem splitting tools is partly responsible for that.

You'll Have to Swim is a fun song to play on guitar. The only thing which made me sad, apart from being reminded that Clann Zu will never release another album, is my inability to dial in the guitar tone. No matter what I do, I just can't get the distortion right. It's not exclusive to this song, but it reminded me of my hatred and despair when it comes to distorted tones. I just don't understand how everyone else can have those creamy, distinct distorted sounds with full blown chords but me. I narrowed it down to intermodulation distortion, but how come no one else is experiencing it but me? If I play anything that's not a perfect fifth with distortion, my guitar sounds like it's farting from a 32kbps MP3 file. There's a weird, tremolo-esque, weak, high-pitched, distorted tone and it's driving me crazy.

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