"Helicon 1"
When Mogwai plays this song on stage there is a feedback loop at the very start of the
tune, which lasts until the end. The note is a D. An E-bow can make this sound better.
Delay settings (DD-6) 8/10, 6/10, 4/10, 800 ms
Gtr1 with delay clean sounde|-------------------------||B|-------------------------||G|-/-11-------9-----7------||D|-------------------------||A|-------------------------||E|-------------------------||
Gtr1||-----------------------||||-----------------------||||-(7)-/-11--12----14----||||-----------------------||||-----------------------||||-----------------------||
Gtr1||---------------------------||||---------------------------||||--(14)--/-19---------------||||---------------------------||||---------------------------||||---------------------------||
Gtr1||-------------------------||||-------------------------|| ||---(19)------------------||||--------0-0-0------------|| ||-------------------------||||-------------------------||
Gtr2 enters (1'20) clean sound(*on string G, it could be 7 or open, your choice. open might sound better.)** repeat this throughout nearly the whole song.e|------------------------------------------------------------||B|---10--7---10--10---7--10---10--7--10---10--7------7--5--7--||G|-7----7---7---7----7---7-----7----7--7----7----7------4--4--||D|------------------------------------------------------------||A|------------------------------------------------------------||E|------------------------------------------------------------||
Gtr1||-------------------------------------||||-------------------------------------||||----11--9---7---11---9---7-----------||||-------------------------------------|| ||-------------------------------------||||-------------------------------------||
Gtr1||----------------------------------------------------||||----------------------------------------------------||||----11------9------7----11------9-------7-----------||||----------------------------------------------------|| ||----------------------------------------------------||||----------------------------------------------------||
change (2'22)Gtr1||---------------------------------------------------------------||||---------------------------------------------------------------||||---11---12---14-------7-------11----12-----14----------7-------||||---------------------------------------------------------------|| ||---------------------------------------------------------------||||---------------------------------------------------------------||
Gtr2 repeat...||----------------------------------------------------------|||---10--7---10--10---7--10---10--7--10---10--7------10--7--|||-7----7---7---7----7---7-----7----7--7----7----7------7---|||----------------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------------------|
DISTORTION! (2'54)
There must be a third gtr which carries on playing Gtr 2 clean part.
Gtr1 with disto (not too heavyÂ… beware of feedbacks)||---------------------------------------------||||---------------------------------------------||||--11----9----7-----11------9------7----------||||---------------------------------------------|| ||---------------------------------------------||||---------------------------------------------||
Gtr2
Power chords (heavy distortion)
||---------------------------||||---7------------------3----|| ||---7------------------4----||||---7------------------4----|| ||---5------------------2----||||---------------------------||
Gtr2||---------------------------||||---7------------------3----|| ||---7------------------4----||||---7------------------4----|| ||---5------------------2----||||---------------------------||
Variation (3'25Gtr1 with distortion. ||---------------------------------------------------||||---------------------------------------------------||||----7---9-----7---9---------7-------9-------11-----||||---------------------------------------------------|| ||---------------------------------------------------||||---------------------------------------------------||
Gtr2||---------------------------||||---7------------------3----|| ||---7------------------4----||||---7------------------4----|| ||---5------------------2----||||---------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||||-------------------------------------||||----11-----------9-----------7-------||||-------------------------------------|| ||-------------------------------------||||-------------------------------------||
Gtr2
||---------------------------||||---7------------------3----|| ||---7------------------4----||||---7------------------4----|| ||---5------------------2----||||---------------------------||
Variation (3'58)Gtr1||--------------------------------------------||||--------------------------------------------||||---14-----12---11-------14----12-----11-----||||--------------------------------------------|| ||--------------------------------------------||||--------------------------------------------||
Gtr2
||--------------------------------------------------||||--------------------------------------------------|| ||--------------------------------------------------||||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------|| ||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------||||----5---------3---------5-------------3-----------||
Gtr1very fast, trill.||-----------------------------------------------------------||||-----------------------------------------------------------||||----19---21---19-----------------21----------------19------||||-----------------------------------------------------------|| ||-----------------------------------------------------------||||-----------------------------------------------------------||
Gtr2 Power chords||--------------------------------------------------||||--------------------------------------------------|| ||--------------------------------------------------||||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------|| ||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------||||----5---------3---------5-------------3-----------||
Distortion off.
Outro (4'29)
Gtr1 feedback||-----------------------------------------||||-----------------------------------------||||--(19)--(0)-------/----9-----7-----------||||-----------------------------------------||||-----------------------------------------||||-----------------------------------------||
gtr1||--------------------------------||||--------------------------------|| ||-----(11)------(14)-----(19)----||||--------------------------------|| ||--------------------------------||||--------------------------------||
gtr 2 returns||------------------------------------------------------------||||---10--7---10--10---7--10---10--7--10---10--7------7--------||||-7----7---7---7----7---7-----7----7--7----7----7------4-----||||------------------------------------------------------------||||------------------------------------------------------------||||------------------------------------------------------------||
gtr1||------------------------------------------------||||------------------------------------------------||||--\--0-/-11----\--/-14---19---21--19------------||||------------------------------------------------||||------------------------------------------------||||------------------------------------------------||
gtr2 w./ slight delay||-------------------------------||||-------------------------------||||------7H------------7---11-----||||----------7H-12H---------------||||-------------------------------||||-------------------------------||
