Song Title: Breaking the Silence
Artist: Loreena McKennitt
Album: Parallel Dreams
Transcription: David Msika (dmsika@shiny.com)
Notation:
| Measure separation
|| end of the line
// separation
(the left and the right side of the separation are not played back to back)
x/x Slide (make your finger slide rapidly from the first note to the second one)
x~~~x play the same note several time rapidly
xhxpx h stands for hammer (don't strike the second note, but slam your
finger on it)
p stands for pull-up (don't strike the third note, but release your finger
from the second note's fret)
x2 Play twice and then move on to the rest of the song
Intro
E||-8~~~8--//-------------------//-------------6/8---------||B||--------//---------------8---//-----------8-----6-------||G||--------//-------------8-----//---------8---------8-----||D||--------//--------8-10-------//----8/10-------------10--||A||--------//---8-10------------//-------------------------||E||--------//-------------------//-------------------------||
E||---------------8-10-11-8----//--------------------------||B||-------------8--------------//-------------------11-8---||G||-----------8----------------//----8---------8-10--------||D||------8-10------------------//---------8-10-------------||A||-8-10-----------------------//------10------------------||E||----------------------------//--------------------------||
main guitar part (repeated throughout the whole song)
E||-------3--------3-|-------3----4----3--||B||-----4--------4---|-----4--------------||G||---5--------3-----|---3----------------||D||------------------|----------3----5----||A||-3--------5-------|-6------------------||E||------------------|--------------------||
Some variations are played on the arpeggios:
E||-----3--------3---|-------3----4----3--||B||-------4--------4-|-----4--------------||G||---5--------3-----|---3----------------||D||------------------|----------3----5----||A||-3--------5-------|-6------------------||E||------------------|--------------------||
E||-------3----------|-------3----4----3--||B||---4----------4---|-----4--------------||G||-----5------3---3-|---3----------------||D||------------------|----------3----5----||A||-3--------5-------|-6------------------||E||------------------|--------------------||
Guitar solo
E||--------|---------------------------------------||B||-7-8----|----------------11-9-8-----8-8-8-8-8---||G||-----10-|-----------8-10--------10--------------||D||--------|------8-10-----------------------------||A||--------|-8-10----------------------------------||E||--------|---------------------------------------||
E||---11-10-------|----------11-13-11-10-----------||B||--x------13-11-|----11-13-------------13--------||G||-x-------------|-12-----------------------------||D||---------------|--------------------------------||A||---------------|--------------------------------||E||---------------|--------------------------------||
Very, very fast!
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E||-------------------------8-10-11-----------------||B||------------------8-9-11-----------------------8-||G||-------------8-10----------------------8-10-11---||D||------8-9-10----------------------8-10-----------||A||-8-10--------------------------------------------||E||-------------------------------------------------||
E||----------8-10-----------------------------------||B||-8-8-8-11----------------------------------------||G||------------------I'm missing the last measure---||D||------------------(because I'm sloppy :)---------||A||-------------------------------------------------||E||-------------------------------------------------||
