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UNCLE JOHN'S BAND
As recorded by The Grateful Dead
(From the 1970 Album WORKING MAN'S DEAD)
Transcribed by an unregistered user
Words by Robert Hunter Music by Jerry Garcia
G
3 5 5 4 3 3
Bm
x 2 4 4 3 2
C
x 3 5 5 5 x
D
x 5 7 7 7 x
Am
x 0 2 2 1 0
Em
0 2 2 0 0 0
Dopen
x x 0 2 3 2
Gmaj7
3 x 4 4 3 x
Dm/A
x 0 0 2 3 1
D5/A
x 0 0 2 3 x
Dsus2/A
x 0 0 2 3 0
Copen
x 3 2 0 1 0
Gopen
3 2 0 0 0 3
Bm/G
x x 5 4 3 2
G6
3 x 5 4 5 3
G/F
1 x 5 4 3 3
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Untitled'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Untitled'
Intro
Moderate Country Rock Q=132
G
4/4
Gtr I
Q E E Q E E E E E E Q E E Q E E Q E E E E E E Q E E
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/ x / / x / / / / x / / x / / x / / / / x /
Gtr II W W W W|---------------|----------------|---------------|----------------|||---------------|----------------|---------------|----------------|||---------------|----------------|---------------|----------------|||---------------|----------------|---------------|----------------|||---------------|----------------|---------------|----------------|||---------------|----------------|---------------|----------------||
G Bm C D G Bm C D
Q E E Q E E E E E E Q E E Q E E Q E E E E E E Q E E
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/ x / / x / / / / x / / x / / x / / / / x /
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-7-----7-10-5-----5-8-|-3---3-5-2-------|-7---7-10-5---5-7-|-3---3-5-2-------|||---(8)--------(7)-----|---5-------3-----|---8--------7-----|---5-------3---3-|||----------------------|-------------2---|------------------|-------------4---|||----------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|||----------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|||----------------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||
1st Verse
G C G
3/4
Q E E Q E E Q Q E E Q Q E E +E E Q Q E E E E
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/ / / / x / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W H E E E E Q Q H Q E E E E|---------------|-3-----5-3-3-5-|-3--------------|----5-3-2h3--||---------------|---------------|----------------|-------------||-4-------------|---------------|----------------|-------------||---------------|---------------|----------------|-------------||---------------|---------------|----------------|-------------||---------------|---------------|----------------|-------------|
G C G
4/4 3/4
Q E E +E Q E Q E E +E E Q Q E E +E E q Q E E E E
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/ / / / / / / x / / / / / x / / / / / / / / /
W Q E E E E E E W W|----------------|----10-8----7-------|----------------|-------------||----------------|--------------10-10-|-8--------------|-------------||----------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------||----------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------||----------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------||----------------|--------------------|----------------|-------------|
Am Em C Dopen
4/4
Q E E Q E E E E q H Q E E E E E E E E q Q q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / x / / / / /
H Q E E +E E q Q +E E H. Q E E q H|---------------|-------------------|-----------------|-----10--10-----||-----------7-5-|-(5)---5--5--(5)h7-|-8---------------|----------------||---------------|-----4-------------|-----------------|-7-7------------||---------------|-------------------|-----------------|----------------||---------------|-------------------|-----------------|----------------||---------------|-------------------|-----------------|----------------|
C D G D C G D G
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E Q E E Q Q H
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/ / / / / / / / / x / / / x / / /
W W W H E E E E|----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------||----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------||----------------|----------------|---------------|-------4-5s7-7-||----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------||----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------||----------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
2nd Verse
G G
Q. E Q E E E E E E H Q E E Q E E Q Q E E Q
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/ / / / / / / x / / / / / x / / / / /
~~~~ ~~~~~~ +E E E E E E E E E E E E +Q Q W Q E E +Q E E|-------------------|-------------------||---------------|------10-(10)---9-8-||---------8-7---7-8-|-10-8-8-8-(8)--8\--||---------------|--------------------||-(7)S9-7-----9-----|-------------------||---------------|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------||---------------|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------||---------------|--------------------||-------------------|-------------------||---------------|--------------------|
C G
3/4 4/4
Q E E +E E Q Q E E E E Q E E +E Q E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
+H. Q E E E E E E +H H|-(8)--------------|--------------|------------------||------------------|------8-7-----|------------------||------------------|---/7-----9-7-|-(7)--------------||------------------|--------------|------------------||------------------|--------------|------------------||------------------|--------------|------------------|
G C G
3/4
Q E E +E E Q Q E E +E E q Q E E E E
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/ x / / / / / x / / / / / / / / /
H Q E E Q Q Q E E +H Q|-----------------|-----------------|--------------||-----------------|-----------------|--------------||-------------4h5-|-5-----------2h4-|-(4)----------||-----------------|-----------------|--------------||-----------------|-----------------|--------------||-----------------|-----------------|--------------|
Am Em C Dopen
4/4
Q E E Q E E E E q H Q E E E E E E E E q Q q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / x / / / / /
W E E q H +H H E E q H|---------------|-------------|------------------|-----10--10-----||---------------|---5-5--5----|-(5)--------------|----------------||---------------|-------------|------------------|---7------------||---------------|-------------|------------------|----------------||---------------|-------------|------------------|----------------||---------------|-------------|------------------|----------------|
C D G D C G D G
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E Q E E Q Q H
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/ / / / / / / / / x / / / x / / /
W W W H E E E E|----------------|----------------|---------------|----------------||----------------|----------------|---------------|-------8-7-8-10-||----------------|----------------|---------------|----------------||----------------|----------------|---------------|----------------||----------------|----------------|---------------|----------------||----------------|----------------|---------------|----------------|
3rd Verse
G G
Q. E Q E E E E E E H Q E E Q E E
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/ / / / / / / x / / x / / x /
E E E E E E E E Q. E Q Q W|-7-------10---8-7----|----------------||---------------||----8-10----------10-|-8--------------||---------------||---------------------|--------9-7s=5--||-4-------------||---------------------|----------------||---------------||---------------------|----------------||---------------||---------------------|----------------||---------------|
G C Am G Dopen C
E E E E Q E E Q E E Q E E E E Q Q E E E E E E Q Q
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/ x / / x x / / x / x / x / / x x / / / /
+H H W E E q Q Q W|------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------||------------------|---------------|-----7--7------|---------------||-(4)--------------|---------------|-----7--7------|---------------||------------------|---------------|-----7--7------|---------------||------------------|---------------|---5-----------|---------------||------------------|---------------|---------------|---------------|
1st Chorus
C G D C D G
E E E E Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q Q Q Q E E
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/ / x / / / x / / x / / / x / / / x / / / / / / / / /
H E E Q Q E E E E E E E E E E Q E E E Q. H|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||----------------||---------5-7s8---|-----------------|---------3---3s5-||---3-----3------||-----------------|-7---7-5---7---4-|---5s4-2---------||-4--------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||----------------|
G C Am Em D
+E E E E Q e E E E Q Q E E
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/ / / / / x x / / / / / /
W Q E E E E E E|-----------------|-----8s7-7h8h10------||-----------------|----------------(10)-||-----------------|---------------------||-----------------|---------------------||-----------------|---------------------||-----------------|---------------------|
C
E E Q Q E E E E E E Q E E
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x / / / / x / / x / / x /
~~~~~~~~~~~ E E E E E E E E E Q. +H|------------7-8p7----|-7-----------------||---(7)-8-10-------10-|---8------(8)------||---------------------|-------------------||---------------------|-------------------||---------------------|-------------------||---------------------|-------------------|
Guitar Solo
C G D C D G Gmaj7 C
E E E E Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q Q E E Q E E
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/ / / / x / / x / / / x / / x / / / / / x / / x /
H E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q E Q Q H E E E E|------------------|-7------7-------------|----------------||----------------||-------------8-10-|---8h10---10-----7-10-|-8-----8s7------||------------7-8-||---------7h9------|-------------(7)------|---9------------||-7------7-9-----||------------------|----------------------|----------------||----------------||------------------|----------------------|----------------||----------------||------------------|----------------------|----------------||----------------|
D G Bm C
E E E E Q E E Q E E Q E E
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/ / / x / / / / x /
E E E E E E E E +E E q Q E E|-7-8p7----7-8-9-10-|-(10)p(9)------------||-------10----------|----------8----------||-------------------|-------------------5-||-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|---------------------|
D G Bm C
E E E E Q E E Q E E Q E E
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/ x / / x / / x / / x /
+E E E E +E E E E +E E E E E E E E|---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------||-(5)-7-4-------------|---------4-5p4---4-5-||---------7-(7)-9p7S5-|-(5)p(4)-------7-----||---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------|
4th Verse
C D G Bm C D G
E E E E Q E E Q E E Q E E E E E E Q E E Q E E Q E E
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/ / / x / / x / / x / / x / / / x / / / / x /
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E +H H|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------||-7h9-7-9-7h9-7-9-|-5-7-4-5---4-----|-----------------||-----------------||-----------------|---------7---5-7-|-4-5-4-5-4-------||-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------5-3-2-||-(2)-------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|
G C G
3/4 4/4
Q Q E E Q Q E E +E E Q Q E E E E Q E E +E Q E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E Q E +E Q E H Q Q W W|-------------------|-------------3--|------------|-----------------||---8---7-(7)-5---3-|-5--------------|------------|-----------------||-------------------|----------------|------------|-----------------||-------------------|----------------|------------|-----------------||-------------------|----------------|------------|-----------------||-------------------|----------------|------------|-----------------|
G C G
3/4
Q E E +E E Q Q E E +E E q Q E E E E
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/ x / / / / / x / / / / / / / / /
H E Q. H Q E E E E E E Q|-----------10-----|-------------------|-10-8-7--------||------------------|-------------------|--------10-8---||------------------|---------------(7)-|---------------||------------------|-------------------|---------------||------------------|-------------------|---------------||------------------|-------------------|---------------|
Am Em C Dopen
4/4
Q E E Q E E E E q H Q E E E E E E E E q Q q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / x / / / / /
W E E E E H H E E E E E E q H|---------------|--------------|------------------|-----10--10-----||---------------|--------------|--------8p7---(7)-|----------------||---------------|---9p7---9----|------------9-----|-7h9------------||---------------|-------9------|------------------|----------------||---------------|--------------|------------------|----------------||---------------|--------------|------------------|----------------|
C D G D C G D G
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E Q E E Q Q H
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/ / / / / / / / / x / / / x / / /
~~~~~~~~ ~ Q. E +E Q E E +E Q +E E q H H W|-8-----8-(8)-8-----|---------------------------|---------------|------------||-------------------|-10b12r(10)-8---(8)-8h10---|-8-------------|------------||-----------------7-|---------------------------|---------------|------------||-------------------|---------------------------|---------------|------------||-------------------|---------------------------|---------------|------------||-------------------|---------------------------|---------------|------------|
5th Verse
G G
Q. E Q E E Q E E Q E E Q Q E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / x / / / / /
PM--| E E E e E Q E +E E Q H H E E E E|------------------||------------------|--------------------||------------------||------------------|-------8-7-8-10b11==||------------4---5-||-(5)-7s9---7------|--------------------||--------5---------||------------------|--------------------||----5-7-----------||------------------|--------------------||------------------||------------------|--------------------|
C G
3/4 4/4
Q E E +E E Q Q E E E E Q E E +E Q E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
+E +S S E E +Q Q E E E E E E Q. E +H|--------------------------|----------7----|-7-----7-(7)------||-(10)r(10)p8--------------|-8---8-10---10-|------------------||-------------9-7-(7)------|---7-----------|------------------||--------------------------|---------------|------------------||--------------------------|---------------|------------------||--------------------------|---------------|------------------|
G C G
3/4
Q E E +E E Q Q E E +E E q Q E E E E
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/ x / / / / / x / / / / / / / / /
H E E E E E E E E +E E Q H Q|-----------------|------------------|------------||---------8p7-----|------------------|------------||-------------9S5-|-5h7s9-7-(7)---7--|-7----------||-----------------|-------------9----|------------||-----------------|------------------|------------||-----------------|------------------|------------|
Am Em C Dopen
4/4
Q E E Q E E E E q H Q E E E E E E E E q Q q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / x / / / / /
~~ ~ Q E E Q E E E E E E H W E S S E E H|------------------------|----------10----|----------------|-------------------||----8-10-10b12--8-10b12-|---8-10---------|----------------|-------------------||------------------------|--------9-------|----------------|---11s9p7---7------||------------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------||------------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------||------------------------|----------------|----------------|-------------------|
C D G D C G
Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / /
Q E E +Q E E +E Q E +Q Q|-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|-----8---8-(8)-------||------/7-(7)---5-7-|-(7)-----------------||-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|---------------------||-------------------|---------------------|
D G
Q E E Q E E Q Q H
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/ x / / / x / / /
~ a Q +E E E E Q Q E E Q. E|--------------------|-----------------||---8--(8)s7---------|-----------------||-7----------7-9-7---|----(4)---4----5-||--------------------|--------5--------||--------------------|-----------------||--------------------|-----------------|
2nd Chorus
G G
Q. E Q E E E E E E H Q Q Q E E
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/ / / / / / / x / / / / / /
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ +E E Q H +E E q E E q W|------------------|------------------||--------------||------------------|---------------8--||-8------------||-(5)-5s7---7------|-(7)-7s9---7-9----||--------------||------------------|------------------||--------------||------------------|------------------||--------------||------------------|------------------||--------------|
G C Am G D C
+E E E E Q e E E E Q Q E E E E Q Q E E E E E E Q E E
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/ / / / / x x / / / / / / x / / / / x / / x / / x /
+W H E Q. E E E E Q Q W|------------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------||-(8)--------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------||------------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------||------------------|-----------------|----------------|----------------||------------------|--------7-5------|---3s5---5------|----------------||------------------|-----------------|-------5----3---|----------------|
C G D C D G
E E E E Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q Q Q Q E E
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
/ / / / x / / x / / / x / / x / / / / / / / / /
W E E E E Q E E +Q q H W|----------------|-----------------|------------------|--------------||----------------|-------------3---|------------------|--------------||----------------|---7S4-4-2-----0-|-(0)--------------|--------------||----------------|-----------------|-------5---4------|-5------------||----------------|-----------------|------------------|--------------||----------------|-----------------|------------------|--------------|
G C Am G D C
+E E E E Q e E E E Q Q E E E E Q Q E E E E E E Q E E
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/ / / / / x x / / / / / / x / / / / x / / x / / x /
~ W W E E E E H W|-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------||-----------------|---------------|-7h8-7----------|----------------||-----------------|---------------|-------9-7------|----------------||-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------||-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------||-----------------|---------------|----------------|----------------|
C G D C
E E E E Q E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / x / / x / / / x /
~ W E E Q E E E E|----------------|-----7---------------||----------------|---------10-----10-8-||----------------|---7-----------------||----------------|------------(0)------||----------------|---------------------||----------------|---------------------|
Interlude
Dopen Dm/A
E E H. Q. E E E E E
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/ / / / / / x
+E E E E E Q. Q. a E E Q E|-------------------||-------------------||-(8)------8p7------||o------------------||-----9--------7----||-----------2-0-----||-------------------||--0----2s3-------3-||-------------------||o------------------||-------------------||-------------------|
G C D5/A Dsus2/A
3/4 4/4
E E E E E E H H H H W
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/ / x / x / / / / /
Q E E +E E 7x H E E E E E E E E E E E E W|----------------||------0---------|-0-------0-------|-0----||---------------o||--------3-----3-|---3---3---3---3-|------||----------------||----------(2)---|-----2-------2---|------||-0---2-------2--||-0--------------|-----------------|------||-------3-(3)---o||----------------|-----------------|------||----------------||----------------|-----------------|------|
Breakdown Chorus
Copen Gopen
W W q H. +W W
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/ / / /
+W W W W Wx8|-(0)--------|----------|------------|-----------||--------|||------------|----------|------------|-----------||--------|||------------|----------|------------|-----------||--------|||------------|----------|------------|-----------||--------|||------------|----------|------------|-----------||--------|||------------|----------|------------|-----------||--------||
Out-Chorus
G Gmaj7G6 G/F C Am G D
Q. E Q. E E Q E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E Q Q E E
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/ x / / / / / x x / / / x / / x / / / x /
~ W W W Q E E E E Q|---------------|---------------|----------------|------------------||---------------|---------------|----------------|-----10-8-7-------||---------------|---------------|----------------|------------9-7---||---------------|---------------|----------------|------------------||---------------|---------------|----------------|------------------||---------------|---------------|----------------|------------------|
C G D C Dopen
E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E Q E E Q E E E E E E Q. E
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/ / / / / / / / / x / o / / / / /
W H E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|||----------------|-----------------|-------7-------5-|---5--------------|||----------------|-------------4h5-|-7-4---7-7-7---5-|---5--------------|||----------------|-----------5-----|---------7-7-----|-------7-7--7-----|||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------9-9--9-----|||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||
Outro
Dm/A Dm/A G C Dm/A
3/4 4/4
Q E E E E E E E E E E E E Q. E E E E E
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/ o / / / x x / x x / x x / / / / x x
Q. a E E Q E Q E E E E Q. E E Q E|------------------|-------------|----------------||------------------|-------------|----------------||----------2-0-----|-------------|--------2-0-----||-0h===2s3-------3-|-0---2-----2-|-0----3-------3-||------------------|-------3-----|----------------||------------------|-------------|----------------|
G C Dm/A G C Dsus2/A
3/4 4/4 3/4 4/4
E E E E E E Q. E E E E E E E E E E E W
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/ x x / x x / / / / x x / x x / x x /
E E E Q E Q. a E E Q E E E E Q E W|--------------|------------------|--------------|------*||--------------|------------------|--------------|------*||--------------|----------2-0-----|--------------|------*||-0-2-2-5\---2-|-0----2s3-------3-|-0-2-2-5\---2-|-0----*||--------------|------------------|--------------|------*||--------------|------------------|--------------|------*|
Duration Legend
---------------
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
----------------
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
