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INVITATION
As recorded by Helloween
(From the 1988 Album KEEPER OF THE SEVEN KEYS PT. 2)
Transcribed by Asmogriff (erik_alfredsson@hotmail.com) (ComfortablyDumb)
Music by Michael Weikath
Arranged by Tommy Hansen
D
x 5 4 x 3 5
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Dist'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Dist'
Gtr III (E A D G B E) - 'Strings'
Gtr IV (E A D G B E) - 'Trumpet'
00:00
Q=157
E5 B/Eb B5
4/4
Gtrs I, II
Wx5 W W H H
|------------|------------|-----------|-----------||------------|------------|-----------|-----------||------------|------------|-9---------|-8----4----||------------|------------|-9---------|-9----4----||------------|------------|-7---------|-6----2----||------------|------------|-----------|-----------|
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| Gtr III| Wx5 H q q H H H H|------------|------------|-----------|-----------||------------|------------|-----------|-----------||------------|------------|-----------|-----------||------------|------------|-2---------|-4----1----||------------|---------2--|-----------|-----------||------------|------4-----|-----------|-----------|
C#5 G#5 A5 A5 E/Ab W W W H H|----------|----------|----------|------------||----------|----------|----------|-10----9----||-6--------|----------|----------|--9----9----||-6--------|-6--------|-7--------|--7----6----||-4--------|-6--------|-7--------|------------||----------|-4--------|-5--------|------------|
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| W W W H H|----------|----------|----------|------------||----------|----------|----------|------------||----------|----------|----------|-------1----||----------|----------|----------|--2---------||-4--------|-2--------|-4--------|------------||----------|----------|----------|------------|
00:27 B5 F#5 B5/F# E5 W H H W|----------|-------------||-------------------------------||----------|--7-----7----||-------------------------------||-4--------|--6-----4----||-9-----------------------------||-4--------|--4-----4----||-9-----------------------------||-2--------|-------------||-7-----------------------------||----------|-------------||-------------------------------|
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| W +W W|----------|-------------||-------------------------------||----------|-------------||-0-----------------------------||----------|-------------||---------------------1---------||-4--------|-(4)---------||-----2----------4--------------||----------|-------------||-------------------------------||----------|-------------||-------------------------------|| Q E E E E E E
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| Gtr IV
| |---3---| |---3---|
| W W Q E E E E E E E E|----------|-------------||-------------------------------||----------|-------------||----12-12---12-12---12-12---12-||----------|-------------||-------------------------------||----------|-------------||-------------------------------||----------|-------------||-------------------------------||----------|-------------||-------------------------------|
F#5 G#5 H H|--------------------------------------||--7-------------------9---------------||--6-------------------8---------------||--4-------------------6---------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|
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| H H|--------------------------------------||----------------------0---------------||--2-----------------------------------||-----------4----------2----1----------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|| Q E E E E E E
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| |--3--| |---3---| |---3---|
| E E E E E E E E E E E|--------------------------------------||-12-12-12-12-12---12-12---12-12---12--||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|
G#5 D#5 W W|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||--9------------------------------|--------------------------------||--8------------------------------|--8-----------------------------||--6------------------------------|--8-----------------------------||---------------------------------|--6-----------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------|
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| W W|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------||--1------------------------------|--------------------------------||------------------1----2---------|--4---1-------------------------||-------4-------------------------|-----------------4----2---------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------|| Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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| |---3---| |---3---| |---3---| |---3---|
| E E E E E E E E E E Q E E E Q E E E|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------||-13---13-13---13-13---13-13---13-|--------------------------------||---------------------------------|-16--16-16---16-16---16-16---16-||---------------------------------|--------------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------|
C#5 C#5 G#5 W H H|---------------------------------|--------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-14-------------------9---------------||--6------------------------------|-13-------------------8---------------||--6------------------------------|-11-------------------6---------------||--4------------------------------|--------------------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
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| W H H|---------------------------------|--0-------------------4---------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------------||-----------------------1---------|-----------1--------------------------||--2----2----------4----2---------|----------------------2----2----------||-------4----------6--------------|--------------------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------------|| Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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| |---3---| |---3---| |--3--| |---3---| |---3---|
| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|---------------------------------|--------------------------------------||-14---14-14---14-14---14-14---14-|-14-14-14-14-14---14------------------||---------------------------------|---------------------13---13-13---13--||---------------------------------|--------------------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
B5 F#5 B5 W H H|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------|--7--------------------12--------------------|||--4------------------------------|--6--------------------11--------------------|||--4------------------------------|--4---------------------9--------------------|||--2------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||
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| W W|--7------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------|--0------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||-------1----------2----4---------|-------------4----------2----------1---------|||---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||| Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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| |---3---| |---3---| |---3---| |---3---| |---3---| |---3---|
| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|---------------------------------|----------------------------------14-16---19-|||-12---12-12---12-12---12-12---12-|-12-12---12-12-12---12-12-14---16------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------------------------------||
00:39 E/Ab F#m/A G#m/B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W H H|--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|----------9---------||--9-----------------|-11-------4---------||--6-----------------|--7-----------------||--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------|| W H H
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| W H H|--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------||--1-------------1---|--------------------||-------2---4----2---|--4--4----2---1-----||-------4---6--------|-----6----4---2-----||--------------------|---------11---------|| Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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| E E E E Q E E W|-19---16-------14---|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------|
C#m/E B/EC#m/B/Eb C#m B C#5/Ab ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ H. E E W W H H|-9--------------9-|-----------------|-12-----------------|-11-------9--------||-5-----------12-5-|-12--------------|--------------------|-------------------||--------------8---|--8--------------|--6-----------------|--4----------------||------------------|-----------------|--------------------|----------6--------||------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------|| H. E E W W H H
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| W W W H H|------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----0-----------|--------------------|-------------------||--------------1---|---------1-------|--------------------|------1---1--------||-----2---4----2---|-----1-------1---|------2-----1---2---|--2---2---2---2----||-4---4---6--------|--2------4---2---|--4---4-----2---4---|--------------2----||------------------|-----------------|--------------------|----------4--------|| 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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| W W Q E E E E Q Q E E H|------------------|-----------------|-----12----12-------|-----19------------||------------------|-----------------|--------16----------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|--------------------|-------------------|
B5/F# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W +W|-------------------|-----------------------|||-12----------------|-(12)------------------|||-------------------|-----------------------|||--4----------------|--(4)------------------|||-------------------|-----------------------|||-------------------|-----------------------||| W +W
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| W +W|-------------------|-----------------------|||-------------------|---0-------------------|||-------------------|-----------------------|||--4----------------|--(4)----4----2----1---|||------6---7----9---|---------6----4----2---|||------7---9---11---|-----------------------||| Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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| Q E E H Q E E E E E E|-----19------------|--------19---14--------|||-------------------|------------------16---|||-------------------|-----------------------|||-------------------|-----------------------|||-------------------|-----------------------|||-------------------|-----------------------||
00:51 Em/G F#m/A G#m/B ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W H H|-----------------|------------------||-----------------|---------9--------||-9---------------|-11------4--------||-6---------------|--7---------------||-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------|| W H H
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| W H H|-----------------|------------------||-0---------------|---------0--------||-------------1---|--2---------------||-----2---4---2---|-----4---2---1----||-----4---6-------|-----6---4---2----||-----------------|------------------|| Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E
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| Q E E H W|----16-----------|------------------||-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------|
C#m/E B/EC#m/Bm/D C# B G# ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ H. E E W W H H|-9--------------9-|-----------------|-9-----------------|-------------------||-5-----------12-5-|-12--------------|-------------------|-12-------9--------||--------------8---|--8--------------|-6-----------------|--4----------------||------------------|-----------------|-------------------|----------6--------||------------------|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------|| H. E E W W H H
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| W W W H H|------------------|-----------------|-------------------|--0----------------||------------------|-----0-----------|-------------------|----------4--------||-1------------1---|---------1-------|-------------------|------1------------||-----2---4----2---|--4--1-------1---|-2---2-----1---2---|------2---2---2----||-----4---6--------|---------4---2---|-----4-----2---4---|--------------2----||------------------|-----------------|-------------------|----------4--------|| 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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| W W Q E E E E Q Q E E H|------------------|-----------------|----12----12-------|-----19------------||------------------|-----------------|-------16----------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------||------------------|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------|
F# D# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W +H H|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||-11-----------------------------|-(11)---------------------8--------------------||--4-----------------------------|--(4)------------------------------------------||--------------------------------|--------------------------6--------------------||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|| W +H H
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| W +W|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||--0-----------------------------|--(0)------------------------------------------||--------------------------------|---4-------------------------------------------||------1----------2----4---------|---4-----------4----------2----------1---------||------2----------4----6---------|---------------6----------4----------2---------||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|| Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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| Q E E H Q E E E E E E|-----19-------------------------|--------------19---------14---------19-19---19-||-----12-12---12-12---12-12---12-|--19--19---19-19-19---19-24-24---24-16---------||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E |---3---| |---3---| |---3----| |---3---| |---3---| |---3---|
1:03 E ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ W +W +W|-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||--9----------|-(9)--------|-(9)----*||-------------|------------|--------*||--7----------|-(7)--------|-(7)----*||-------------|------------|--------*|| W +W +W
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| W W W|-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*|
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| Q Q H W W|-12----------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*||-------------|------------|--------*|
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
