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STRANGER THAN FICTION
As recorded by Bad Religion
(From the 1994 Album STRANGER THAN FICTION)
Transcribed by Unregistered
Words and Music by Brett Gurewitz
C5
x 3 5 5 x x
Bb5
x 1 3 3 x x
A5
x 0 2 2 x x
G5
3 5 5 x x x
E5
0 2 2 x x x
F5
1 3 3 x x x
A5(type 2)
5 7 7 x x x
B5
x 2 4 4 x x
B5VII
7 9 9 x x x
Gtr I (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) - 'Overdriven'
Gtr II (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) - 'Overdriven 2'
Gtr III (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) - 'Vocals 1'
Gtr IV (Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb) - 'Vocals 2'
Intro Q=165 4/4 Gtrs I, II W E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E 3x|----------||------------------|------------------|||----------||o-----------------|-----------------o|||----------||------------------|------------------|||----------||------------------|------------------|||----------||o-3-3-2-2---------|-------------3-3-o|||----------||----------3-3-0-0-|-1-1-0-0-1-1------||
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|||-3-3-2-2---------|-------------3-3-|||---------3-3-0-0-|-1-1-0-0-1-1-----||
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| Gtr III| W H E E E E|-----------------|-----------0-0-0-|||-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------||
Verse 1
C5 Bb5 A5 G5
Gtrs I, II
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr III E H E E E E H E E E E Q E E E E E E Q Q E E E|-0---------0-0-0-|-----------0-0-0-|-0-0---0-0-0-----|-1-0-------------||-----------------|-3---------------|-------------1-1-|-------1---1-1-1-||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
C5 E5 F5 G5
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E Q Q Q Q Q Q E E E E|-----------------|-0-0---0-1-0-----|-1--1---3---1---|-0--------0-0-0-|||-1-1---1-1-1---1-|-------------3-0-|----------------|----3-----------|||-----------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------||
Verse 2
C5 Bb5 A5 G5
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q Q E E E E Q Q. E E E S S S E. Q E E E E E Q. E E E|-0--(0)-----0-0-0-|-----------------|-----0-0--------------|------------------||------------------|-3---------3-3-3-|-1-1------------3-3-3-|-0----------1-1-3-||------------------|-----------------|----------------------|---2--------------||------------------|-----------------|----------------------|------------------||------------------|-----------------|----------------------|------------------||------------------|-----------------|----------------------|------------------|
C5 E5 F5 G5
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q E Q Q|-0-0---0-0-0-----|-0-0-0-0-1-0-0---|-1-1-1-1-3-1-1-0-|---------0-------|||-------------3-1-|---------------3-|-----------------|-3-3---1-----3---|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
Interlude
F5 G5 A5(type 2) G5 F5 G5 A5(type 2) G5
Q E E Q E E Q E E Q Q Q E E Q E E Q E E Q Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W E E E E E E E E Q Q H E E E E E E E E|---------------|---0-0-0-0-------|---------------|---0-0-0-0-------||---------------|-----------3-1-0-|-3--1----------|-----------3-1-0-||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr IV| H H H H H H H H|-1------3------|-5---------------|-1------3------|-5---------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||--------0------|-2---------------|--------0------|-2---------------||-3-------------|-----------------|-3-------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
F5 E5 C5
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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Q Q Q Q Q. E Q Q H H|------------1---|-0-----0-----0---|-0--------------||-3--1-----------|---------3-------|--------3-------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------|
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| W W W|-1--------------|-0---------------|-8--------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|-5--------------||-3--------------|-2---------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------|
G5
E H.. E E E E E Q.
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/ / / / /
E E E E E E E E H Q Q|-----------0-------|---------0-------|||---1---1-3---3-1-3-|--------------3--|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------||
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| W W|-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------||
Chorus Gtrs I, II E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||-5-5-5-5-4-4--4-4-|-2-2-2-2----------||-5-5-5-5-4-4--4-4-|-2-2-2-2-5-5--5-5-||-3-3-3-3-2-2--2-2-|-0-0-0-0-5-5--5-5-||------------------|---------3-3--3-3-|
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| Gtr III| E E Q E Q. E E E E E Q.|------------------|------------------||-1-1-1---0--------|------------------||------------------|-2---2---0--------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-||-----------------|-----------------|-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-||-3-3-2-2-0-0-----|-----------------|-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-||-------------3-3-|-1-1-0-0-1-1-3-3-|-----------------|
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| Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q E E Q E|-0---------------|---------0-------|-0-0---0-0-----0-||-----3-3-1-1-0-0-|-1-1-3-3-----3---|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
C5 Bb5 A5 G5 F5 G5
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
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtrs I, II E E E E E Q. E E E E E Q E E E Q Q Q|-3-1-0---0--------|-0-------1-----0-|-0-0-----1---0---||-------3----------|-----3-----------|-----3-----------||------------------|-----------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
F5 G5
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
+H H H. E E|-(0)---------------|--------------0-0-|||-------------------|------------------|||-------------------|------------------|||-------------------|------------------|||-------------------|------------------|||-------------------|------------------||
Verse 3
C5 Bb5 A5 G5
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q 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 E E E E E E E E E E E E Q E E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-3-3-1-1-0-0-----|-------0---------||-----------------|-----------------|-------------3-1-|-3-3-3-------1-3-||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
C5 E5 F5 G5
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q 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 E E E E E E E E E. E. E Q Q|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-1-1-1-1-3-1-0---|-----------0-------|||-----------------|-----------------|---------------3-|-3--3----1-----3---|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------||
Interlude
F5 G5 A5(type 2) G5 F5 G5 A5(type 2) G5
Q E E Q E E Q E E Q Q Q E E Q E E Q E E Q Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W E E E E E E E E Q Q H E E E E E E E E|---------------|---0-0-0-0-------|---------------|---0-0-0-0-------||---------------|-----------3-1-0-|-3--1----------|-----------3-1-0-||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr IV| H H H H H H H H|-1------3------|-5---------------|-1------3------|-5---------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||--------0------|-2---------------|--------0------|-2---------------||-3-------------|-----------------|-3-------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------||---------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
F5 E5 C5
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q Q Q Q Q. E Q Q H H|-------------1--|-0------0-----0--|-0--------------||-3---1----------|----------3------|---------3------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------|
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| W W W|-1--------------|-0---------------|-8--------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|-5--------------||-3--------------|-2---------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------||----------------|-----------------|----------------|
G5
E H.. E E E E E Q.
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/ / / / /
E E E E E E E E H Q Q|-----------0-------|---------0-------|||---1---1-3---3-1-3-|--------------3--|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------||
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| W W|-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------||
Chorus Gtrs I, II E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||-5-5-5-5-4-4--4-4-|-2-2-2-2----------||-5-5-5-5-4-4--4-4-|-2-2-2-2-5-5--5-5-||-3-3-3-3-2-2--2-2-|-0-0-0-0-5-5--5-5-||------------------|---------3-3--3-3-|
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| Gtr III| E E Q E Q. E E E E E Q.|------------------|------------------||-1-1-1---0--------|------------------||------------------|-2---2---0--------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-||-----------------|-----------------|-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-||-3-3-2-2-0-0-----|-----------------|-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-||-------------3-3-|-1-1-0-0-1-1-3-3-|-----------------|
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| Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q E E Q E|-0---------------|---------0-------|-0-0---0-0-----0-||-----3-3-1-1-0-0-|-1-1-3-3-----3---|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
C5 Bb5 A5 G5 F5 G5
Gtrs I, II
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 III E E E E E Q. E E E E E Q E E E Q Q Q|-3-1-0---0--------|-0-------1-----0-|-0-0-----1---0---||-------3----------|-----3-----------|-----3-----------||------------------|-----------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
F5 G5
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
+H H W|-(0)---------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-----------------||
Bridge
A5(type 2) G5 F5 E5
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
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E Q. E Q E E E E E Q Q Q E E Q. E E E E E Q E E|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||-1--------1-----1-|-0-1-1-1-----1---|-0---1-1--------1-|-0-1-1-1-----1-0-||------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr IV| E Q. E Q E E E E E Q Q Q E E Q. E E E E E Q E E|------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||-1--------1-----1-|-0-1-1-1-----1---|-0---1-1--------1-|-0-1-1-1-----1-0-||-2--------2-----2-|-0-2-2-2-----2---|-0---2-2--------2-|-0-2-2-2-----2-0-||------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|
C5 G5 F5 G5 A5(typG52) A5(tB5VII)
Gtrs I, II
W W E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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Gtr II Q. Q. Q Q. Q. Q W W|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|||--------5----------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-5--------------5--|--------4----------|-----------------|-----------------|||-5-----------------|-5-------------5---|-----------------|-----------------|||-3-----------------|-5-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-3-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
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| Gtr III| E E Q E Q. E E E E Q. E E E E E E E E E E E Q H|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|---------0-------|||-----------1-------|-----------------0-|---0-0-0-1-1-1-1-|-3-3-3-----------|||-2--2-2------------|-0--0-0-0----------|-2---------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------||
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| Gtr IV| E E Q E Q. E E E E Q. E E E E E E E E E E E Q H|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|---------0-------|||-----------1-------|-----------------0-|---0-0-0-1-1-1-1-|-3-3-3---1-------|||-2--2-2----2-------|-0--0-0-2--------0-|-2-0-0-0-2-2-2-2-|-4-4-4-----------|||-3--3-3------------|-2--2-2-3----------|-3---------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----------------||
Outro Gtrs I, II E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||--5--5-5-5-4-4-4-4-|--2--2-2-2---------||--5--5-5-5-4-4-4-4-|--2--2-2-2-5-5-5-5-||--3--3-3-3-2-2-2-2-|--0--0-0-0-5-5-5-5-||-------------------|-----------3-3-3-3-|
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| +W +W|-(0)---------------|-(0)---------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|
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| +W +W|-(0)---------------|-(0)---------------||-(1)---------------|-(1)---------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-||-----------------|-----------------|-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-||-3-3-2-2-0-0-----|-----------------|-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-||-------------3-3-|-1-1-0-0-1-1-3-3-|-----------------|
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| W W W|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
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| W W W|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-2-2-2-2---------|-----------------|-----------------||-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-||-0-0-0-0-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-||---------3-3-3-3-|-1-1-1-1-3-3-3-3-|-1-1-1-1-3-3-3-3-|
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| W E E E E E Q E E E Q Q Q|-----------------|-0-------1-----0-|-0-0-----1---0---||-----------------|-----3-----------|-----3-----------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-------------------|-----------------||-------------------|-----------------||-------------------|-----------------||-------------------|-----------------||--3--3-2-2-0-0-----|-----------------||---------------3-3-|-1-1-0-0-1-1-3-3-|
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| +H H W|-(0)---------------|-----------------||-------------------|-----------------||-------------------|-----------------||-------------------|-----------------||-------------------|-----------------||-------------------|-----------------|
> W +W +W +W +W|----------|------------|------------|------------|--------*||-5--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)----*||-5--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)----*||-5--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)----*||-3--------|-(3)--------|-(3)--------|-(3)--------|-(3)----*||----------|------------|------------|------------|--------*|
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| Gtr II| >| W +W +W +W +W|----------|------------|------------|------------|--------*||----------|------------|------------|------------|--------*||-5--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)----*||-5--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)--------|-(5)----*||-3--------|-(3)--------|-(3)--------|-(3)--------|-(3)----*||----------|------------|------------|------------|--------*|
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
