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IN THE BEGINNING
As recorded by Amorphis
(From the 1994 Album TALES FROM THE THOUSAND LAKES)
Transcribed by Snakerf (Kemal Cagri Ozcan) & Mikko Leimu [Kheimos]
Words and Music by Holopainen & Laine
A5
x 0 2 2 x x
E5
0 2 2 x x x
F5
1 3 3 x x x
G5
3 5 5 x x x
A5V
5 7 7 x x x
B5VII
7 9 9 x x x
C5
x 3 5 5 x x
B5
x 2 4 4 x x
Bb5VI
6 8 8 x x x
Eb5VI
x 6 8 8 x x
D5V
x 5 7 7 x x
Gtr I (Db Gb B E Ab Db) - 'Lead 1'
Gtr II (Db Gb B E Ab Db) - 'Lead 2'
Gtr III (Db Gb B E Ab Db) - 'Rhythm 1'
Gtr IV (Db Gb B E Ab Db) - 'Rhythm 2'
Gtr V (Db Gb B E Ab Db) - 'Organ'
Intro & 1st Verse
Moderately Q=115
A5 E5
4/4
Gtrs III, IV
W W
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/ /
Gtr I ~ ~ Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E||-----------------|----------------|||o----------------|----------------|||-----------------|----------------|||--2--------------|-2--------------|||o----5-3-2-3-2---|----5-3-2-3-2---|||---------------5-|--------------5-|
F5 G5 F5 G5
|-3-| |-3-|
W W Q Q Q Q Q Q
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/ / / / / / / /
~ ~
|-3-| |-3-|
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E 4x Q Q Q Q Q Q|----------------|-----------------||--------------|||----------------|----------------o||--------------|||----------------|-----------------||--------------|||-3--2-3-5-3-2---|-----------------||-3-3-3-/5-5-5-|||--------------5-|-3--2-3-5-3-2---o||--------------|||----------------|--------------3--||--------------||
Interlude
E5
4/4
Gtr IV
W +H. Q
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/ / o
Gtr II ~~~~~~~ Q E +E +S +S E Q Q E E H|-------------------------------|-----------------||----10b12==(10)-(10)r(10)-8-7--|--7b8r===========||-------------------------------|-------9-7-9-----||-------------------------------|-----------------||-------------------------------|-----------------||-------------------------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr I| >| W W|-------------------------------|-----------------||-------------------------------|-----------------||-------------------------------|-----------------||-2-----------------------------|-----------------||-------------------------------|-----------------||-------------------------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr III| ~| W +H. Q|-------------------------------|-----------------||-------------------------------|-----------------||-------------------------------|-----------------||-2-----------------------------|-(2)-------------||-2-----------------------------|-(2)-------------||-0-----------------------------|-(0)----------2--|
G5 A5V
W +H. Q
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/ / /
~~~~~ ~ +Q E +E +S +S E Q Q E E H|---------------------------------|------------------||------10b12==(10)-(10)r(10)-8-7--|--7b8r============||-(9)-----------------------------|-------9-7-9------||---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------|
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| W W|---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------|
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| W +H. Q|---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------||---------------------------------|------------------||--5------------------------------|-(5)----------7---||--3------------------------------|-(3)----------5---|
B5VII
Gtr IV
W +W
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/ /
Gtr II ~~~ ~~~~~~~ +Q E +E +S +S E Q Q E E H|---------------------------------|-----------------||------10b12==(10)-(10)r(10)-8-7--|--7b8r===========||-(9)-----------------------------|-------9-7-9-----||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr III| W +H H|---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------x\----||--9------------------------------|-(9)-------x\----||--7------------------------------|-(7)-------------|
E5
W +W
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/ /
~~~~~ ~ +Q E +E +S +S E Q Q E E H|---------------------------------|----------------||------10b12==(10)-(10)r(10)-8-7--|--7b8r==========||-(9)-----------------------------|-------9-7-9----||---------------------------------|----------------||---------------------------------|----------------||---------------------------------|----------------|
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| W +W|---------------------------------|----------------||---------------------------------|----------------||---------------------------------|----------------||--2------------------------------|-(2)------------||--2------------------------------|-(2)------------||--0------------------------------|-(0)------------|
E5
W +H. Q
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/ / o
~~~ ~~~~~~~ +Q E +E +S +S E Q Q E E H|---------------------------------|-----------------||------10b12==(10)-(10)r(10)-8-7--|--7b8r===========||-(9)-----------------------------|-------9-7-9-----||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------|
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| ~| W +H. Q|---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||--2------------------------------|-(2)-------------||--2------------------------------|-(2)-------------||--0------------------------------|-(0)----------2--|
G5 A5V
W +H. Q
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/ / /
~~~~~ ~ +Q E +E +S +S E Q Q E E H|---------------------------------|-----------------||------10b12==(10)-(10)r(10)-8-7--|--7b8r===========||-(9)-----------------------------|-------9-7-9-----||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------|
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| W +H. Q|---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||--5------------------------------|-(5)----------7--||--3------------------------------|-(3)----------5--|
B5VII
W +H. Q
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/ / o
~~~ ~~~~~~~ +Q E +E +S +S E Q Q E E H|---------------------------------|-----------------||------10b12==(10)-(10)r(10)-8-7--|--7b8r===========||-(9)-----------------------------|-------9-7-9-----||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------|
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| ~| W +H. Q|---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||---------------------------------|-----------------||--9------------------------------|-(9)-------------||--9------------------------------|-(9)-------------||--7------------------------------|-(7)----------3--|
H=H
E5 N.C.
E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q.
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / /
~~~~~ ~ +Q E +E +S +S E Q Q E E H|-----------------------------------|------------------|||-------10b12==(10)-(10)r(10)-8-7---|-7b8r=============|||-(9)-------------------------------|-------9-7-9------|||-----------------------------------|------------------|||-----------------------------------|------------------|||-----------------------------------|------------------||
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| PM-----------------------------|
| E E E E E E E E W|-----------------------------------|------------------|||-----------------------------------|------------------|||-----------------------------------|------------------|||-----------------------------------|-x\---------------|||--2--2--2-------2----2-------2-2-2-|-x\---------------|||--0--0--0-------0----0-------0-0-0-|------------------||
2nd Verse
Slightly Faster Q=125
EE5 G5 C5
Gtr IV
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr I E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||------------------|------------------|-----------------|||o-8-7-7---8-7-7---|-10-8-8-7-----7-8-|-8-7-7---8-7-7---|||--------9-------9-|----------7-9-----|-------9-------9-|||------------------|------------------|-----------------|||o-----------------|------------------|-----------------|||------------------|------------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr III| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||------------------|------------------|-----------------|||o-----------------|------------------|-----------------|||------------------|------------------|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|||o-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-----------------|
1.,2.,3. 4.
B5 B5 N.C.
E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q.
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / /
E E E E E E E E 4x E E E E H|------------------||-------------------------|||-----------7-7-8-o||-------------------------|||-9-8-8-9-9--------||-9-8-8-9-----------------|||------------------||-------------------------|||-----------------o||-------------------------|||------------------||-------------------------||
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| PM| E E E E E E E E 4x E E E E E E E E|------------------||-------------------------|||-----------------o||-------------------------|||-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--||-4-4-4-4-----------------|||-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--||-4-4-4-4-----------------|||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-o||-2-2-2-2-0-[2]b2.5p0-----|||------------------||---------------------3---||
3rd Verse E5 N.C. E5 N.C. E5 N.C. E5 G5 PM| ~ PM| ~ PM| ~ PM Q Q S S E E E Q Q S S E Q Q Q S S E E E Q Q S E S Q 4x||------------------|----------------|-----------------|------------------||||o-----------------|----------------|-----------------|-----------------o||||------------------|----------------|-----------------|------------------||||--2--2------------|-2--2-----------|-2--2------------|-2--2----5---5----||||o-2--2------2-----|-2--2------2----|-2--2------2-----|-2--2--x-5---5---o||||--0--0--3-5---5-3-|-0--0--3-5---5--|-0--0--3-5---5-3-|-0--0--x-3---3----||
Pre-Chorus C#5 E5 A5 Gtr I ~~~~~~~~ ~~~ E E E E E E E E +E E E E E E E E|--------------------|----------------------||--------------------|----------------------||---/9-9-8--8s=6-6-4-|-(4)-/9-9-8--8s=6-6-4-||--------------------|----------------------||--------------------|----------------------||--------------------|----------------------|
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| Gtrs III, IV| H +Q E E +H +Q E E|--------------------|----------------------||--------------------|----------------------||-6--------(6)---6---|----------------------||-6--------(6)---6-2-|-(2)--------(2)---2-7-||-4--------(4)---4-2-|-(2)--------(2)---2-7-||------------------0-|-(0)--------(0)---0-5-|
F#5 C#5/Ab ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~ +E E E E E E E E +E E E E E E E E|----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------||-(4)-/9-9-8--8s=6-6-4-|-(4)-/9-9-8-8-6-6-4--||----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------|
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| PM--|| +H +Q E E +H E E E E|----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------||-(7)--------(7)---7-4-|-(4)--------------6--||-(7)--------(7)---7-4-|-(4)--------4-4-4-4--||-(5)--------(5)---5-2-|-(2)--------2-2-2-4--|
E5 E5A5 ~~~ ~~~~~~~~ ~~~ +E E E E E E E E +E E E E E E E E|------------------------|----------------------||------------------------|----------------------||-(4)-/9-9-8--8s=6--6--4-|-(4)-/9-9-8--8s=6-6-4-||------------------------|----------------------||------------------------|----------------------||------------------------|----------------------|
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| +H +Q E E +H +Q E E|------------------------|----------------------||------------------------|----------------------||-------------------6----|----------------------||-(6)--------(6)----6--2-|-(2)--------(2)---2-7-||-(4)--------(4)---(4)-2-|-(2)--------(2)---2-7-||-(4)--------(4)---(4)-0-|-(0)--------(0)---0-5-|
F#5 ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~ +E E E E E E E E +E E E E E E E E|--------------------|---------------------|||--------------------|---------------------|||-(4)-/9-9-8-8s6-6-4-|-(4)-/9-9-8-8s6-6-4--|||--------------------|---------------------|||--------------------|---------------------|||--------------------|---------------------||
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| PM--------------|
| +W E E E E E E E E|--------------------|---------------------|||--------------------|---------------------|||--------------------|---------------------|||-(7)----------------|--4---4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|||-(7)----------------|--4---4-4-4-4-4-4-4--|||-(5)----------------|--2---2-2-2-2-2-2-2--||
Chorus
EE5 G5 C5
Gtr IV
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr I E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||------------------|------------------|-----------------|||o-8-7-7---8-7-7---|-10-8-8-7-----7-8-|-8-7-7---8-7-7---|||--------9-------9-|----------7-9-----|-------9-------9-|||------------------|------------------|-----------------|||o-----------------|------------------|-----------------|||------------------|------------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr III| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||------------------|------------------|-----------------|||o-----------------|------------------|-----------------|||------------------|------------------|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|||o-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-----------------|
1. 2.
B5 B5
5/4
E E E E E E E E E E E E H.
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / x
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|------------------||------------------------||-----------7-7-8-o||------------7-7-8-8-8---||-9-8-8-9-9--------||-9-8-8-9-9--------------||------------------||------------------------||-----------------o||------------------------||------------------||------------------------|
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| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|------------------||------------------------||-----------------o||------------------------||-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--||-4-4-4-4-4--4-4-4-4-4---||-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--||-4-4-4-4-4--4-4-4-4-4---||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-o||-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2---||------------------||------------------------|
G5 Bb5VI
4/4
Gtrs III, IV
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr I E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||--------------------------|-------------------------|||o-11-10-10----11-10-10----|-13-11-11-10-------10-11-|||-----------12----------12-|-------------10-12-------|||--------------------------|-------------------------|||o-------------------------|-------------------------|||--------------------------|-------------------------|
Eb5VI D5V
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-------------------------|---------------------------|||-11-10-10----11-10-10----|----------------10-10-11--o|||----------12----------12-|-12-11-11-12-12------------|||-------------------------|---------------------------|||-------------------------|--------------------------o|||-------------------------|---------------------------||
F5 G5 E5 N.C.
Gtr IV
|-3-| |-3-|
Q Q Q Q Q Q H H
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/ / / / / / /
Gtr II
~
|-3-| |-3-|
Q Q Q Q Q Q H H|--------------|----------------|||--------------|----------------|||--------------|----------------|||-3-3-3-/5-5-5-|-2--------------|||--------------|----------------|||--------------|----------------||
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| Gtr III
| PM| ~
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| Q Q Q Q Q Q H S S E E E|--------------|----------------|||--------------|----------------|||--------------|----------------|||-3-3-3--5-5-5-|-2--------------|||-3-3-3--5-5-5-|-2--------2-----|||-1-1-1--3-3-3-|-0----3-5---5-3-||
Organ Solo E5 N.C. E5 N.C. Gtr V Q Q S S E S S E Q Q S S E S S E||----------------------------|---------------------------|||o-----17--------15----14-17-|-----17--------15----14-17-|||----------14-16----16-------|---------14-16----16-------|||--14------------------------|-14------------------------|||o---------------------------|---------------------------|||----------------------------|---------------------------|
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| Gtrs III, IV| PM| ~~ PM| ~~| Q Q S S E E E Q Q S S E Q||----------------------------|---------------------------|||o---------------------------|---------------------------|||----------------------------|---------------------------|||---2---2--------------------|--2---2--------------------|||o--2---2---------2----------|--2---2---------2----------|||---0---0---3--5-----5-----3-|--0---0---3--5-----5-------|
E5 N.C. E5 G5 Q Q S S E S S E Q Q S S S S S E.|---------------------------|----------------------------||-----17--------15----14-17-|-----17-----------15--------||---------14-16----16-------|------------14-16----16-14--||-14------------------------|-14------17-----------------||---------------------------|----------------------------||---------------------------|----------------------------|
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| PM| ~~ PM| Q Q S S E E E Q Q S E S Q|---------------------------|----------------------------||---------------------------|----------------------------||---------------------------|----------------------------||--2---2--------------------|--2---2------5--------5-----||--2---2---------2----------|--2---2---x--5--------5-----||--0---0---3--5-----5-----3-|--0---0---x--3--------3-----|
E5 N.C. E5 N.C. Q Q S S E S S E Q Q S S E S S E|---------------------------|---------------------------||-----17--------15----14-17-|-----17--------15----14-17-||---------14-16----16-------|---------14-16----16-------||-14------------------------|-14------------------------||---------------------------|---------------------------||---------------------------|---------------------------|
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| PM| ~~ PM| ~~| Q Q S S E E E Q Q S S E Q|---------------------------|---------------------------||---------------------------|---------------------------||---------------------------|---------------------------||--2---2--------------------|--2---2--------------------||--2---2---------2----------|--2---2---------2----------||--0---0---3--5-----5-----3-|--0---0---3--5-----5-------|
E5 N.C. E5 N.CG5 Q Q S S E S S E Q Q S E S Q|---------------------------|------------------------|||-----17--------15----14-17-|-----17-----15---15----o|||---------14-16----16-------|------------16---16-----|||-14------------------------|-14---------17---17-----|||---------------------------|-----------------------o|||---------------------------|---------12-------------||
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| PM| ~~ PM| Q Q S S E E E Q Q S E S Q|---------------------------|------------------------|||---------------------------|-----------------------o|||---------------------------|------------------------|||--2---2--------------------|--2---2------5----5-----|||--2---2---------2----------|--2---2---x--5----5----o|||--0---0---3--5-----5-----3-|--0---0---x--3----3-----||
N.CG5 N.CG5 E5 N.C. 2/4 S E S Q S E S Q E Q.|-------------------------|---------|||----15---15-----15---15--|-15------|||----16---16-----16---16--|-16------|||----17---17-----17---17--|-17------|||-------------------------|---------|||-12----------12----------|---------||
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| PM PM| S E S Q S E S Q E Q.|-------------------------|---------|||-------------------------|---------|||-------------------------|---------|||-----5----5------5----5--|--2------|||--x--5----5---x--5----5--|--2------|||--x--3----3---x--3----3--|--0------||
Finale Freely Q=125 E5 4/4 H S S T S T T S T T S T|---------------------------------------||------17p15h17p15p14h15p14p12h14p12p10h||---------------------------------------||-2-------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||-0-------------------------------------|| W
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| TP| H H|---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||-2-----2-------------------------------||-2-----2-------------------------------||-0-----0-------------------------------|
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| Gtr I| TP| H H|---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||-9-----9-------------------------------||-7-----7-------------------------------||-0-------------------------------------|
T S T T S T T S T T S T Q +Q +W|-------------------------------------|--------||-12p=10p9h10p9p7h9p7p5h7p5h7p5--(5)--|-(5)----||-------------------------------------|--------||-(2)---------------------------------|-(2)----||-------------------------------------|--------||-(0)---------------------------------|-(0)----|| +W +W
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| TP| H. Q +W|-------------------------------------|--------||-------------------------------------|--------||-------------------------------------|--------||--2------------------------------2---|-(2)----||--2------------------------------2---|-(2)----||--0------------------------------0---|-(0)----|
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| TP TP| W W|-------------------------------------|--------||-------------------------------------|--------||--9----------------------------------|--9-----||--9----------------------------------|--9-----||-(7)---------------------------------|--------||-------------------------------------|--------|
N.C. +W +W +H. Q|------------|--------------|---------------------------*||-(5)--------|-(5)----------|-(5)-----------------------*||------------|--------------|---------------------------*||-(2)--------|-(2)----------|-(2)-----------------------*||------------|--------------|---------------------------*||-(0)--------|-(0)----------|-(0)-----------------------*|| +W +W +H. Q
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| +W +W S S S S E S S S Q E.|------------|--------------|---------------------------*||------------|--------------|---------------------------*||------------|--------------|---------------------------*||-(2)--------|-(2)----------|--9--9-9-9---9-9-9-9\------*||-(2)--------|-(2)----------|--7--7-7-7---7-7-7-7\------*||-(0)--------|-(0)----------|---------------------------*|
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| TP TP TP ~| W Q Q H S S S S E S S S Q E.|------------|--------------|---------------------------*||------------|--------------|---------------------------*||--9---------|--9---9--9----|---------------------------*||------------|--------------|--9--9-9-9---9-9-9-9\------*||------------|--------------|--7--7-7-7---7-7-7-7\------*||------------|--------------|---------------------------*|
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Duration Legend
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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff
Tablature Legend
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h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
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| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
