Nevermore "Matricide"
Transcribed by: Jonathan Beachy (jbeachy02@hotmail.com)
Edited by: Chris (DedEndShredMastr@aol.com)
Date last modified: 2/22/02
Tuning: Eb
Intro 1st 2nd|--------------|-----------------------|--------------------------||-8-8---7--7---|--3-3---4--------------|--------------------------||-9-9---8--8---|--4-4---5--------------|---------------4-4---5----||-9-9-x-8--8---|--4-4-x-5--------------|--2-2---1--1---4-4-x-5----| |-7-7-x-6--6---|--2-2-x-3--------1-4~--|--2-2---1--1---2-2-x-3----||--------------|-----------0-2-3---2~--|--0-0-0-------------------|
. . . . . 1st 2nd|---------------|----------------------|-----------------||-8-8---7--7----|--3-3---4-------------|-----------------||-9-9---8--8----|--4-4---5-------------|-----------------||-9-9-x-8--8----|--4-4-x-5-------------|--2-2---1--1-----||-7-7-x-6--6----|--2-2-x-3-------1-4~--|--2-2---1--1-----||---------------|----------0-2-3---2~--|--0-0-0-------0--| . . . .
Fill 1|----------------------------||----------------------------||--12-12\11-11\7-7\2-2/7\4---||----------------------------||--10-10\ 9- 9\5-5\0-0/5\2---||----------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------||--4-----------4/6/7---------/9-9/11/12\11----------------|Gtr 1|---------------------------------------------------------||--2-----------2/4/5---------/7-7/ 9/10\ 9----------------||---------------------------------------------------------|
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|------------------------0--2------------------0-------0--||--------2-3-----------3------3---------0--3---3---3---3--||------4-----4---4---2----------2--------------2---4---2--|Gtr 2|----4---------4---0------------------4--------0---4---0--||--2--------------------------------4--------------2------||---------------------------------2-----------------------|
Riff 1 (2 clean guitars)|------------------------0--2------------2-3---------------5-7------||--------2-3-----------3------3------3-5-----5---5-------8-----8----||------4-----4---4---2----------2--------------4-------7---------7--||----4---------4---0---------------------------------0--------------||--2----------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|“Hear our mother crying…”
|--------------------------------------------------------||--------2-3-------------0----------------7--------------||------4-----4--------------3---------6-7---7-6-7--------|Gtr 1|----4-----------------4----------8-9-------------8-9----||--2-----------------4----------9---------------------9--||--------------0-3-2-------------------------------------|
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|---------------------------------------------6-7--------||--------2-3-------------0----------------7-8-----7------||------4-----4--------------3---------6-7-----------7----|Gtr 2|----4-----------------4----------8-9-----------------9--||--2-----------------4----------9------------------------||--------------0-3-2-------------------------------------|
Riff 2|------------------------0--2-----------------0-----0---||--------2-3-----------3------3---------0-----3--3--3---||------4-----4---4---2----------2----------3--2--4--2---||----4---------4---0------------------4-------0--4--0---||--2--------------------------------4------------2------||---------------------------------2---------------------|“Draw the final curtain”
Riff 3 distorted|-------------------------------------------------------||--------2-3--------------------------------------------||------4-----4---4-7-----------------9------------------||----4---------4---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--||--2---------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--||-------------------------------------------------------| . . . . . . . . . .“Is it not what you thought…”
|---------------------------||---------------------------||--12-----------------------||--12-12-12-12-12-12-----9--||--10-10-10-10-10-10-0-0-ah-||---------------------------| . . . . . . .
Riff 4clean distorted|-------------------------------------------------------||--------2-3-------------0-----------2-3---3-2-3--------||------4-----4--------------3------4-----4-------4-0----|Gtr 1|----4-----------------4---------4-------------------4--||--2-----------------4---------2------------------------||--------------0-3-2------------------------------------|
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|-------------------------------------------------------||--------2-3-------------0-----------2-3----------------||------4-----4--------------3------4-----4-4-3-4--------|Gtr 2|----4-----------------4---------4---------------4-2----||--2-----------------4---------2---------------------5--||--------------0-3-2------------------------------------|“For Mother Earth…”
Riff 5 - Chorus|-----------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------||--4-----4-4------7-----7-7---------------------------||--4-----4-4------7-----7-7------2--/4-2-2-----/2-4-4-| Gtr 1|--2---2-2-2------5---5-5-5------2----------5---------||--------------------------------0----------3---------|| . .
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|-----------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------||--4-----4-4------7-----7-7---------------------------||--4-----4-4------7-----7-7---------------------------| Gtr 2|--2---2-2-2------5---5-5-5------4--/5-4-4--5--/4-5-5-||--------------------------------2----------3---------| . . “Earth Mother is screaming…”
|----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||--4-----4-4------7-----7-7--------------------||--4-----4-4------7-----7-7--------4-------4---||--2---2-2-2------5---5-5-5------4-4---4-4-4---||--------------------------------2-2---2-2-2---| . . . . .“No time left…”
1st 2nd|-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------||-----------------|------------------| |------4-----4----|--9---7---5-------||----4-----4------|--7---5---3-------||--2-----0--------|--7---5---3-------|
|------------------------------------||------------------------------------||--9----7h9p7h9p7p5h7-------5--7-----||---------------------9-----------9--||------------------------------------||------------------------------------|
|---10-12-------12h14p12----------15-----------||--x------10-------------12--------------------||-x----------9--------------12-------12-11-12--||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------|
w/Riff 2|--------------------------||--------------------------||--11----------------------||--------------------------||--------------------------||--------------------------|“Feel our Mother nurture…”
Riff 1 “She gives us all we need…”
Riff 2 “Oh forgive us Mother…”
Riff 3 “We’ve blistered and burned you…”
Riff 4 “We’ve raped you…”
Riff 5 “Earth Mother is screaming…”
Fill 1|----------||----------||----------||--2-------||--2-------||--0-------|
Riff 6|---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||--------------------------2------------||-------------4--------------5-4--------||--2h4-4-4------2h4-4-4-----------------||--0h2-2-2------0h2-2-2----------2-5-3--| . . . .
|------------------------------------||------------------------------------||------------------------------------||-------------4----------------------||--2h4-4-4------2h4-4-4---4---7---5--||--0h2-2-2------0h2-2-2---2---5---3--| . . . .
Riff 5 |----------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------||--11-11-11-10--11----------------9--7-7-7-6--7------------||------------------11--11-11-11------------------9—-9-9-9--||--9--9--9--8---9-----------------7--5-5-5-4--5------------||------------------9---9--9--9-------------------7--7-7-7--|
|---------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------||--11-11-11-10--11----------------9--7-7-7-6--7----------9b11---||------------------11--11-11-11------------------9—-9-9---------| |--9--9--9--8---9-----------------7--5-5-5-4-—5-----------7b9----||------------------9---9--9--9-------------------7—-7-7---------|
Riff 6a (Solo Rhythm)|----------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------||--11-11-11-10--11----------------9--7-7-7-6--7------------||------------------11--11-11-11------------------9—-9-9-9--| 4x|--9--9--9--8---9-----------------7--5-5-5-4--5------------||------------------9---9--9--9-------------------7--7-7-7--|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------| 4x|--2h4-4-4-4-4-4\3—-2h4-4-4-4-4-4/5—-2h4-4-4-4-4-4\3—-2h4-4-4-7--5--||--0h2-2-2-2-2-2\1-—0h2-2-2-2-2-2/3—-0h2-2-2-2-2-2\1—-0h2-2-2-5—-3--| . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|----------------------------------------------------------||-8-8---7--7---3-3---4-------------------------------------||-9-9---8--8---4-4---5--------------------------4-4---5----||-9-9-x-8--8---4-4-x-5-------------2-2---1--1---4-4-x-5----| |-7-7-x-6--6---2-2-x-3--------1-4~-2-2---1--1---2-2-x-3----||-----------------------0-2-3---2~-0-0-0-------------------| . . . . .
|-------------------------------------------------||-8-8---7--7---3-3---4----------------------------||-9-9---8--8---4-4---5----------------------------||-9-9-x-8--8---4-4-x-5-------------2-2---1--1-----||-7-7-x-6--6---2-2-x-3--------1-4~-2-2---1--1-----||-----------------------0-2-3---2~-0-0-0-------0--| . . . .
Solo (Repeat back here from 1st ending)|--14t9p5h9p5h9p5hp9h5-15t9p5h9p5-14t9p5h9p5-12t9p5h9p5-14t9p5h9p5--||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--15t10p7h10p7h10p7—17t10h7h10p7-15t10p7h10p7-14t10p7h10p7-15t10p7h10p7--||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
1st Ending|--14t9p5h9p5h9p5hp9h5-15t9p5h9p5-14t9p5h9p5-12t9p5h9p5-14t9p5h9p5--||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--15t10p7h10p7h10p7-14t10p7h10p7-15t10p7h10p7-14t10p7h10p7-15t10p7h10p7--||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
2nd Ending|--14t9p5h9p5h9p5hp9h5-15t9p5h9p5-14t9p5h9p5-12t9p5h9p5-14t9p5h9p5--||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--15t10p7h10p7h10p7--------------19h21h22p21p19---------------||---------------------18h19h21h22-----------------22p21p19p18--||--------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--17b19-19------14-15-17p15p14h15p14--------------------||-------------17----------------------17b19r17---14tr15--||--------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------||--14-14/15-15-15\14-14--\7-7/8-8--------------7----------------------------||---------------------------------6-/7-7—6h7h9---9p7p6h7p6---6-7-6----------||----------------------------------------------------------9-------8b9r8-8--||---------------------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--17b19-19------15-17-15h17p15h17p15----------------||-------------19-----------------------17b19r17--17--||------------------------------------------------ah--||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------|
really fast here|--21h22h24p22p21h22p21—21h22h24p22p21-20h21h23p21p20-----------||-----------------------------------------------------22h24p22--||---------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------|
|--21h22h24p22p21h22p21----------------------------------------------------||-----------------------24p22p21p19h21p19----------------------------------||-----------------------------------------22p20p19p17h19h20h22p20p19p17h19-||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------||----------------------11------11--------------------||--20b23r21-21--------------------------------11-----||------------------9-9-----9-9----9-9-12-10-9----9---||------------------------------------------------ah--||----------------------------------------------------| . . . . . . . . .
|---------------------------------------------------------------||-------12---12------11---9----11b12r11-9-11b12-----------------||---------------------------12------------11b13----------9-12~--||--9-10----9-------9-----------------------------12-9-----------||-----------------------------------------------------12--------||---------------------------------------------------------------| . . . .
|--16b17-17---21pbr19-17--14----14-15--||----------------------------17--------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|
|--------21-------19--17—19h21p19p17p15h17h19p17p15\14h15p14h15p14-12~~--||--18-19----17-19--------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Riff 5 with this change:|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||------------------5-3-2---3-2------||--------2-----2-3-------5-----5-3--||--2-3-5---3-5----------------------| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .“Have we forgot our future?”
Ending w/Fill 1|----------------------------------||--------0--------------0----1-----||------2--------------2------------||----2--------------2--------------||--2--------2-----2----------------||----------------------------------|“Think of our little ones…”
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Notation:
10b12 = pick the 10th fret, then bend to the 12th fret.
10b12r10 = pick the 10th fret, then bend to the 12th fret,
then release to the 10th fret.
[10]12r10 = bend to the 12th fret from the 10th fret, pick,
then release to the 10th fret.
10b12 [14] = pick the 14th fret while holding the previous bend.
10b15* = tremolo bar bend, from the 10th fret to the 15th fret.
7d2* = tremolo bar dive, from the 7th fret to the 2nd fret.
12~* = tremolo bar vibrato.
x = mute with fret-hand
* = palm mute
X\\ = pick slide
h = hammer-on
p = pull-off
~ = vibrato
t = finger tap
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
h = natural harmonics
a = artificial harmonics
(9) = ghost note
tm = trem picking
tr = trill
