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MEMORY
As recorded by Avantasia
(From the 2002 Album THE METAL OPERA PT.II)
Transcribed by Ivan - (peekaboo104@hotmail.com)
Words and Music by Tobias Sammet
E5
x 7 9 9 x x
A5
5 7 7 x x x
F5
1 3 3 x x x
G5
3 5 5 x x x
E5open
0 2 2 x x x
D5
x 5 7 7 x x
Gtr I (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) - 'Jens Ludwig (Edguy) - Rhythm '
Gtr II (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) - 'Jens Ludwig (Lead 1)'
Gtr III (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) - 'Jens Ludwig (Lead 2)'
Gtr IV (Eb Ab Db Gb) - 'Bass'
Intro
Moderately Fast Q=169
N.C.(E)
4/4
Gtr I
PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-------------0---|---0-------------|-------------0---|---0-------------||-2---0---2---0-2-|---0---4---0-----|-2---0---2---0-2-|---0---4---0-----||-2---0---2-----2-|-------4---0-----|-2---0---2-----2-|-------4---0-----||---0---0---0-----|-0---0---0---0-0-|---0---0---0-----|-0---0---0---0-0-|
C5 D5 B5 C5 A5 B5 PM PM PM PM PM PM ~~~~~ E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q. Q. Q +E E +Q Q Q|-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------|||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------|||-------------0---|---0-------------|--------------|----------------------|||-2---0---2---0-2-|---0---4---0-----|-5----7----4--|-(4)-5-(5)--2----4----|||-2---0---2-----2-|-------4---0-----|-3----5----2--|-(2)-3-(3)--0--([2])--|||---0---0---0-----|-0---0---0---0-0-|--------------|----------------------||
N.C.(E) PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM E E E E E E E E 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-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|||--------------0---|---0-------------|-------------0---|---0--------------|||--2---0---2---0-2-|---0---4---0-----|-2---0---2---0-2-|---0---4---0------|||o-2---0---2-----2-|-------4---0-----|-2---0---2-----2-|-------4---0------|||----0---0---0-----|-0---0---0---0-0-|---0---0---0-----|-0---0---0---0-0--|
1.,2. C5 D5 B5 C5 A5 B5 B5 PM PM PM PM PM PM ~~~~~ E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q. Q. Q +E E +Q Q Q|-----------------|-----------------|--------------|-----------------------|||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------o|||-------------0---|---0-------------|--------------|-----------------------|||-2---0---2---0-2-|---0---4---0-----|-5----7----4--|-(4)-5-(5)--2----4-----|||-2---0---2-----2-|-------4---0-----|-3----5----2--|-(2)-3-(3)--0--([2])--o|||---0---0---0-----|-0---0---0---0-0-|--------------|-----------------------||
3. C5 B5 C5 D5 PM PM PM PM PM PM E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q. Q. Q Q Q H|-----------------|-----------------|--------------|------------|||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|------------|||-------------0---|---0-------------|--------------|------------|||-2---0---2---0-2-|---0---4---0-----|-5----4----5--|-7----------|||-2---0---2-----2-|-------4---0-----|-3----2----3--|-5----------|||---0---0---0-----|-0---0---0---0-0-|--------------|------------||
1st and 2nd Verses
N.C.(E)
PM------------------------------| PM PM| PM PM----------|
E E E E E E E E 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-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|||------------------|-----------------|-2-----0---3---2-|------------------|||o-----------------|-----------------|-2-----0---3---2-|------------------|||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|---0-0---0---0---|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--|
C5 D5 B5 C5 A5 B5
PM----------------------------| ~~~~~
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q. Q. Q +E E +Q Q Q|-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------||-2---------------|-----------------|-5----7----4--|-(4)-5-(5)--2----4----||-2---------------|-----------------|-3----5----2--|-(2)-3-(3)--0--([2])--||---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|--------------|----------------------|
PM------------------------------| PM PM| PM PM----------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-2-----0---3---2-|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-2-----0---3---2-|-----------------||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|---0-0---0---0---|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
C5 D5 B5 C5 A5 B5
PM----------------------------| ~~~~~
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q. Q. Q +E E +Q Q Q|-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------|||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------|||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|----------------------|||-2---------------|-----------------|-5----7----4--|-(4)-5-(5)--2----4----|||-2---------------|-----------------|-3----5----2--|-(2)-3-(3)--0--([2])--|||---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|--------------|----------------------||
(A) 4/4 PM| PM| PM| PM| PM PM| PM| PM PM| PM| PM E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-------5---------|-----------------|-------5---------||-7-----5-----7---|-8-----------8---|-7-----5-----7---|-8-----------8---||---5-5---5-5---5-|---5-5---5-5---5-|---5-5---5-5---5-|---5-5---5-5---5-|
(B) (C) B5 D5 PM| PM| PM PM| PM| PM PM| PM| PM E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q Q Q Q|-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|--------------|||-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|--------------|||-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|--------------|||-----------------|-------------------|-----------------|--------4--7--|||-9-----7-----9---|-10-----9-----10---|-9-----7-----9---|-10-----2--5--|||---7-7---7-7---7-|----7-7---7-7----7-|---8-8---8-8---8-|--------------||
Chorus $ E5 C5 D5 B5 4/4 W W W W|----------|----------|----------|------||----------|----------|----------|------||----------|----------|----------|------||-9--------|-5--------|-7--------|-4----||-7--------|-3--------|-5--------|-2----||----------|----------|----------|------|
To Coda C5 A5 D5 B5 D5 W W W +H Q Q|----------|----------|----------|--------------||----------|----------|----------|--------------||----------|----------|----------|--------------||-5--------|-2--------|-7--------|-(7)----4--7--||-3--------|-0--------|-5--------|-(5)----2--5--||----------|----------|----------|--------------|
E5 C5 D5 B5 4/4 W W W W|----------|----------|----------|------||----------|----------|----------|------||----------|----------|----------|------||-9--------|-5--------|-7--------|-4----||-7--------|-3--------|-5--------|-2----||----------|----------|----------|------|
C5 A5 D5 W W W +W|----------|----------|----------|--------||----------|----------|----------|--------||----------|----------|----------|--------||-5--------|-2--------|-7--------|-(7)----||-3--------|-0--------|-5--------|-(5)----||----------|----------|----------|--------|
1. 2.
C5 C5
PM--------------|
W +W E E E E S S E E E E E Q H E E Q H|----------|------------|-------------------|--------------||-------------|||----------|------------|-------------------|-------------o||-------------|||----------|------------|-------------------|--------------||-------------|||-5--------|-(5)--------|-------------------|-5------------||-5-----------|||-3--------|-(3)--------|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|-3-----------o||-3-----------|||----------|------------|-------------------|--------------||-------------||
Bass Solo N.C. W W W W||-----------|----------|----------|------|||o----------|----------|----------|------|||-----------|----------|----------|------|||-----------|----------|----------|------|||o----------|----------|----------|------|||-----------|----------|----------|------|
W W W W|----------|----------|----------|-------|||----------|----------|----------|------o|||----------|----------|----------|-------|||----------|----------|----------|-------|||----------|----------|----------|------o|||----------|----------|----------|-------||
Bridge G5 F5 W +W W +W|----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||-5--------|-(5)--------|-3--------|-(3)----||-3--------|-(3)--------|-1--------|-(1)----|
Eb5 W +W W +W|----------|------------||----------|--------||----------|------------||----------|--------||----------|------------||----------|--------||-5--------|-(5)--------||-8--------|-(8)----||-3--------|-(3)--------||-6--------|-(6)----||----------|------------||----------|--------|
Bb5 C5 W +W W +W|----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|-5--------|-(5)----||-8--------|-(8)--------|-3--------|-(3)----||-6--------|-(6)--------|----------|--------|
G5 F5 W +W W +W|----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||-5--------|-(5)--------|-3--------|-(3)----||-3--------|-(3)--------|-1--------|-(1)----|
G5 F5 W +W W +W|----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||----------|------------|----------|--------||-5--------|-(5)--------|-3--------|-(3)----||-3--------|-(3)--------|-1--------|-(1)----|
E5 E
Gtr I
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
/ o / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr II W W|---------------------|---------------------||-8tr9----------------|-8tr9----------------||---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------|
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| Gtr III| W W|---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------||-9tr10---------------|-9tr10---------------||---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------|
E E E E E E E E
| | | | | | | |
/ / / / / / / /
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|---------------------------------------||-10p8---10p8---10p8---10p8---10p8---10-||------9------9------9------9------9----||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------|
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| S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||--9p7----9p7----9p7----9p7----9p7----9-||------9------9------9------9------9----||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------|
W
|
/
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|---------------------------------------|||-10p8---10p8---10p8---10p8---10p8---10-|||------9------9------9------9------9----|||---------------------------------------|||---------------------------------------|||---------------------------------------||
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| S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|---------------------------------------|||---------------------------------------|||--9p7----9p7----9p7----9p7----9p7----9-|||------9------9------9------9------9----|||---------------------------------------|||---------------------------------------||
Guitar Solo - J.Ludwig
A5 F5
Gtr I
W W
| |
/ /
Gtr II ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~ a +H E +E E E +E a +E E E Q. E|------------------------------|--------------------------------||-12b13==(12)----12r(12)p10-12-|-(12)-12b13-(12)-12-10-12----12-||------------------------------|--------------------------------||------------------------------|--------------------------------||------------------------------|--------------------------------||------------------------------|--------------------------------|
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| Gtr III| ~~~~~~~~~ ~~~| a +H E +E E E +E a +E E E Q. E|------------------------------|--------------------------------||--8b10===(8)-----8r=(8)p=6--8-|--(8)--8b10--(8)--8--6--8-----8-||------------------------------|--------------------------------||------------------------------|--------------------------------||------------------------------|--------------------------------||------------------------------|--------------------------------|
G5 E5
W W
| |
/ /
~~ E E E E E E E E a +Q +E S S H|----------------------|------------------------------||-12-10-10-8-8---------|------------------------------||--------------10-10-9-|-10b12==(10)r=(10)-10p9-10----||----------------------|------------------------------||----------------------|------------------------------||----------------------|------------------------------|
|
| ~~| E E E E E E E E a +Q +E S S H|----------------------|------------------------------||--8--6--6-------------|------------------------------||----------9-9--7--7-5-|--7b9====(7)r==(7)--7p5--7----||----------------------|------------------------------||----------------------|------------------------------||----------------------|------------------------------|
F5 D5 G5
W W W +W
| | | |
/ / / /
~~ Q. Q. Q Q. Q. Q a +H +Q. S S W|----------------|-----------------|----------------------------|-------||------------13--|-12----10--------|----------------------------|-------||-------9--------|-------------12--|-10b12==(10)r===(10)---10p9-|-------||-10-------------|-----------------|----------------------------|-12----||----------------|-----------------|----------------------------|-------||----------------|-----------------|----------------------------|-------|
|
| ~~| Q. Q. Q Q. Q. Q a +H +Q. S S W|----------------|-----------------|----------------------------|-------||------------10--|--8--------------|----------------------------|-------||-------5--------|-------10-----9--|--7b9====(7)r====(7)----7p5-|--4----||--7-------------|-----------------|----------------------------|-------||----------------|-----------------|----------------------------|-------||----------------|-----------------|----------------------------|-------|
A5 F5
W W
| |
/ /
~~ S S E E S S E E E E W|-------------------------------|-----------||-15h17p15----15h17p15----15-17-|-15--------||-------------------------------|-----------||----------17----------17-------|-----------||-------------------------------|-----------||-------------------------------|-----------|
|
| ~~| S S E E S S E E E E W|-------------------------------|-----------||-12h13p12----12h13p12----12-13-|-12--------||-------------------------------|-----------||----------14----------14-------|-----------||-------------------------------|-----------||-------------------------------|-----------|
G5 E5
W W
| |
/ /
~~ S S E E S S E E E E W|-------------------------------|-------||-15h17p15----15h17p15----15-17-|-------||-------------------------------|-------||----------17----------17-------|-17----||-------------------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------|
|
| ~~| S S E E S S E E E E W|-------------------------------|-------||-12h13p12----12h13p12----12-13-|-------||-------------------------------|-------||----------14----------14-------|-14----||-------------------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------|
F5
W
|
/
S S E E S S E E E E|-------------------------------||-15h17p15----15h17p15----15-17-||-------------------------------||----------17----------17-------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
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| S S E E S S E E E E|-------------------------------||-12h13p12----12h13p12----12-13-||-------------------------------||----------14----------14-------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
D5 G5
W W +W
| | |
/ / /
~~ ~~ ~~ H a +H H e q T T S W|-------19b20-(19)----|-19----19-17--15h17p15-|-------||-15------------------|-----------------------|-18----||---------------------|-----------------------|-------||---------------------|-----------------------|-------||---------------------|-----------------------|-------||---------------------|-----------------------|-------|
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| ~~| H a +H H e q T T S W|-------15b17-(15)----|-15----15-13--12h13p12-|-------||-12------------------|-----------------------|-15----||---------------------|-----------------------|-------||---------------------|-----------------------|-------||---------------------|-----------------------|-------||---------------------|-----------------------|-------|
F5
W
|
/
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|----------15-17-15----15-20p15----15-17-15-------||-15-17-18----------18----------18----------18-17-||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
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| S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-------------------------------------------------||----------17-18-17----17-20p17----17-18-17-------||-16-17-19----------19----------19----------19-17-||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
G5 F5
W W
| |
/ /
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|----------15-17-15----15-22p15----15-17-15-------|----------15-17-15----15-20p15----15-17-15-----||15-17-18----------18----------18----------18-17-|-15-17-18----------18----------18----------18-17||-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
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| S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||----------17-18-17----17-22p17----17-18-17-------|----------17-18-17----17-20p17----17-18-17-----||16-17-19----------19----------19----------19-17-|-16-17-19----------19----------19----------19-17||-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
G5 F5
W W
| |
/ /
S S S S S S S S H S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|----------15-17-15-------------|-----------------------------------------||-15-17-18----------18-17-15----|-8p6h8h10p6h8h10p8h10p8h10S12p8h10h12p10S||-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
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| S S S S S S S S H S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||----------17-18-17-------------|-5p3h5h=6p3h5h=6p5h=6p5h=6S=8p5h=6h=8p=6h||-16-17-19----------19-17-16----|-----------------------------------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G5
W
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/
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|--------------------------------------------------||-12p10h12h13p10S12h13p12h13p12h13S15p12h13h15S17--||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------|
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| S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|--------------------------------------------------||--8p=6h=8h10p=6S=8h10p=8h10p=8h10S12p=8h10h12S13--||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------|
A5
W
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/
a +H E +E E a +E|-19b20-(19)----19b20r(19)-17-------------||-----------------------------20b22==(20)-||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|
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| a +H E +E E a +E|-15b17-(15)----15b17r(15)-13-------------||-----------------------------17b18==(17)-||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|
+W
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/
~~~~ +E E a +E E a H|--------------17--------------------17---------17-----|||-(20)r------------20b22-(20)------------20b22-(20)----|||------------------------------------------------------|||------------------------------------------------------|||------------------------------------------------------|||------------------------------------------------------||
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| ~~~~| +E a +E a +E a +E a +H|------------------------------------------------------|||-(17)r-17b18-(17)-17b18-(17)-17b18-(17)-17b18-(17)----|||------------------------------------------------------|||------------------------------------------------------|||------------------------------------------------------|||------------------------------------------------------||
D.S. al Coda D5 Bb5 C5 Q Q H W W|------------|----------|-------|||------------|----------|-------|||-7----------|-3--------|-5-----|||-7----------|-3--------|-5-----|||-5----------|-1--------|-3-----|||------------|----------|-------||
Outro-Chorus & E5 C5 D5 B5 W W W W||-----------|----------|----------|------|||o----------|----------|----------|------|||-----------|----------|----------|------|||--9--------|-5--------|-7--------|-4----|||o-7--------|-3--------|-5--------|-2----|||-----------|----------|----------|------|
C5 A5 D5 B5 D5 W W W +H Q Q 3x|----------|----------|----------|---------------|||----------|----------|----------|--------------o|||----------|----------|----------|---------------|||-5--------|-2--------|-7--------|-(7)----4--7---|||-3--------|-0--------|-5--------|-(5)----2--5--o|||----------|----------|----------|---------------||
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
-----------
| - 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
