Band: Excel
Album: The Joke's On You
Song: The Stranger
Website: www.rottenrecords.com/bios.php?artist=Excel
Copyright (c) Rotten Records 1989
Version 1.0 - 10/19/06
Transcribed By: Felix
Email: hyperslob@yahoo.com
. - palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - Bend
p - pull off Suffixes for bend
t - tap f - full bend h - half bend
ph - pinched harmonic q - quarter bend t - tap bend
* - see comment ^ - Hold bend r release bend
x - Stuccatto ~ - vibrato bend
, - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note
" - tremolo note <> - Trill
Tune All Strings to E flat (1/2 step down)
Intro (Clean)|--------------------------0----0-----------------------------------||--------------------------0----0-----------------------------------||--------------------------2\1--2\1---------------------------------||-----2-------0------0--------------------2-------0------0----------||---2---2---2------5--------------------2---2---2------5------------||-0-------3-----/6------0-------------0-------3-----/6--------------|
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Interlude (distortion)|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-----9------8--7\--------------------------------------------------||---8------7----x---------------------------------------------------||-7------6------5\--------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Riff A|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-2-----5-----8-----------3-2-3-2-2-----5-----8---------------------||-0-0-0-3-0-0-6-0-0-0-0-0-1-0-1-0-0-0-0-3-0-0-6-0-0-0-0-000-0-0-0---| pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . .
Chorus|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-9---/12---/15-----10\9-10\9--9----12\--5--------------------------||-x-----x-----x----0-x----x----x-----x---x--------------------------||-7---/10---/13----0-8\7--8\7--7----10\--3--------------------------||------------------0------------------------------------------------|
Riff B|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------5-------------9\--------------------------------------||-4-------4-5-3-4-----------x---------------------------------------||-2-------2-3---2-2---------7\--------------------------------------||---0-0-0---------0-0-0-0-0-----------------------------------------| . . . . . . .
Riff CGtr 1|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||----------------------4--------------------------------------------||-0-0-3-0-6hb--0-0-3-0---0-6hb--------------------------------------|
Gtr 2 enters after 2nd time with drums|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-------------------------------------||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-------------------------------------||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-------------------------------------| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Both Gtrs|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||---------3---------------6---3-------------------------------------||-2---5---3---2-2---5-----6---3-------------------------------------||-2---5---1---2-2---5-----4---1-------------------------------------||-0-0-3-0---0-0-0-0-3-0-0---0---0-----------------------------------| . . . . . . . .
OutroGtr 1 Distortion|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-4---------5-4----------3----------4-3-----------------------------||-4---------5-4----------3----------4-3-----------------------------||-2---------3-2----------1----------2-1-----------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Gtr 2 Clean 4x then...|-----------------|--1------1---------------------------------------||-----------0-----|--2--------2-----2-------------------------------||-----0-------0---|--3----------3-----3-----------------------------||---4-----4-----4-|--3------------3-----3---------------------------||-2-----2---------|--1----1-----------------------------------------||-----------------|--1---1------------------------------------------|
Outro Fades Away
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