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THE WRETCHED
As recorded by Nine Inch Nails
(From the 1999 Double Album THE FRAGILE)
Transcribed by Zach Kraemer
Words and Music by Trent Reznor
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Piano'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'String Synth'
Gtr III (E A D G B E) - 'Distortion I'
Gtr IV (E A D G B E) - 'Clean'
Gtr V (E A D G B E) - 'Distortion II'
Intro
Q=74
N.C.
4/4
Gtr I
E E E Q Q. +W E E E Q Q. +W
|---------------|------------|---------------|--------|||---------------|------------|---------------|--------|||---------------|------------|---------------|--------|||---------------|------------|---------------|--------|||-------5-------|------------|-------5-------|--------|||-1-3-4----4----|-(4)--------|-1-3-4----4----|-(4)----||
Verse N.C. E E E Q Q. +W E E E Q Q. +W|---------------|------------|---------------|--------||---------------|------------|---------------|--------||---------------|------------|---------------|--------||---------------|------------|-------3-------|--------||-------5-------|------------|----------5----|-(5)----||-1-3-4----4----|-(4)--------|-1-3-4---------|--------|
Gtr II < < E +E +H Q E +E +H Q|-12-(12)-(12)----------|-12--(12)-(12)-------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------|
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| Gtr I| E E E Q Q. +W|-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||--------------5--------|---------------------||--1---3----4-----4-----|-(4)-----------------|
< < E +E +H Q E +E +H Q|-12-(12)-(12)----------|-12--(12)-(12)--------|||-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|----------------------||
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| E E E Q Q. +W|-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|----------------------|||--------------3--------|----------------------|||-----------------5-----|-(5)------------------|||--1---3----4-----------|----------------------||
Pre-Chorus 1.,2.,3. N.C. Gtr III E e e E +E Q. E e e E +S E S S E.||-----------------------------|--------------------------------||||o----------------------------|-------------------------------o||||-----------------------------|--------------------------------||||---------------3b4-(3)-0-----|--------------3b4-(3)-----------||||o--3---2----1----------------|--3---2----1-------------------o||||-----------------------------|----------------------3-1-1h3---||
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| Gtr II| < <| E +E +H Q E +E +H Q||--12-(12)-(12)---------------|-12-(12)-(12)-------------------||||o----------------------------|-------------------------------o||||-----------------------------|--------------------------------||||-----------------------------|--------------------------------||||o----------------------------|-------------------------------o||||-----------------------------|--------------------------------||
4. E e e E +S S S S S E.|----------------------------------|||----------------------------------|||----------------------------------|||--------------3b4-(3)-------------|||--3---2----1----------------------|||----------------------3-3-1-1h3---||
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| <| E +E +H Q|-12-(12)-(12)---------------------|||----------------------------------|||----------------------------------|||----------------------------------|||----------------------------------|||----------------------------------||
Chorus AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 2/4 Gtr III S S S S S S S S S S E S E S 7x S S S S S S S S||-----------------------------------||---------------------|||o---------------------------------o||---------------------|||-----------------------------------||---------------------|||-----------------------------------||---------------------|||o-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5-o||-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-|||--4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3--||-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-|
Verse
N.C.
4/4
Gtr II
< <
E +E +H Q E +E +H Q
|-12-(12)-(12)----------|-12--(12)-(12)-------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------|
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| Gtr I| E E E Q Q. +W|-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||--------------5--------|---------------------||--1---3----4-----4-----|-(4)-----------------|
< < E +E +H Q E +E +H Q|-12-(12)-(12)----------|-12--(12)-(12)--------||-----------------------|----------------------||-----------------------|----------------------||-----------------------|----------------------||-----------------------|----------------------||-----------------------|----------------------|
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| E E E Q Q. +W|-----------------------|----------------------||-----------------------|----------------------||-----------------------|----------------------||-----------------------|----------------------||--------------5--------|----------------------||--1---3----4-----4-----|-(4)------------------|
< < E +E +H Q E +E +H Q||--12-(12)-(12)----------|-12--(12)-(12)-------|||o-----------------------|---------------------|||------------------------|---------------------|||------------------------|---------------------|||o-----------------------|---------------------|||------------------------|---------------------|
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| E E E Q Q. +W||------------------------|---------------------|||o-----------------------|---------------------|||------------------------|---------------------|||------------------------|---------------------|||o--------------5--------|---------------------|||---1---3----4-----4-----|-(4)-----------------|
< < E +E +H Q E +E +H Q|-12-(12)-(12)----------|-12--(12)-(12)--------|||-----------------------|---------------------o|||-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|---------------------o|||-----------------------|----------------------||
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| E E E Q Q. +W|-----------------------|----------------------|||-----------------------|---------------------o|||-----------------------|----------------------|||--------------3--------|----------------------|||-----------------5-----|-(5)-----------------o|||--1---3----4-----------|----------------------||
Pre-Chorus N.C. Gtr IV H H Q. E Q. +E|---------------|-------------------------||-/15S===13\----|-3----/(17)-/17----(17)\-||---------------|-------------------------||---------------|-------------------------||---------------|-------------------------||---------------|-------------------------|
H H Q. E Q. +E|---------------|--------------------------||-/15S===13\----|-3----/(17)-/17----(17)\--||---------------|--------------------------||---------------|--------------------------||---------------|--------------------------||---------------|--------------------------|
F5 H H Q. E Q. +E|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-/15S============13\-------------|-3------------/(17)-/17----------(17)\---||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
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| Gtr III| S S S S S S E E S S +E S S S S S S S S E E S S +E S S|---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---1-1-1-1-1-1-1--1--1-1-(1)-1-1-|-1--1-1-1-1-1----1----1--1-1-(1)---1---1-|
W W|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-------------------------------||
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| S S S S S S E E S S +E S S W|-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-------------------------------|||-----------------------------|-3-----------------------------|||-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-(1)-1-1-|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-(1)-1-1---|| S S S S S S E E S S +E S S
Chorus AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 Gtr III S S S S S S S S S S E S E S S S S S S S S S S S E S E S 4x||----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||||o---------------------------------|----------------------------------o||||----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||||----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||||o-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5-|-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5--o||||--4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3-|-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3---||
Bridge N.C. Gtr V < < < > E +e E +e E +e Q +H +H||------------------------------|----------------||||o-----------------------------|---------------o||||------------------------------|----------------||||--2b3r(2)-2b3r(2)-2b3r(2)-/5--|-(5)----(5)-----||||o-----------------------------|---------------o||||------------------------------|----------------||
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| Gtr III| W H H||------------------------------|----------------||||o-----------------------------|---------------o||||------------------------------|---------0------||||------------------------------|--------/5------||||o-----------------------------|---------------o||||------------------------------|----------------||
C5 G/B < < < E +e E +e E +e Q +W 3x|-||------------------------------|---------|||-||o-----------------------------|--------o|||-||------------------------------|---------|||-||--2b3r(2)-2b3r(2)-2b3r(2)-/5--|-(5)-----|||-||o-----------------------------|--------o|||-||------------------------------|---------||
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| <| H E +Q. W 3x|-||------------------------------|---------|||-||o-----------------------------|--------o|||-||------------------------------|---------|||-||------------------5---(5)-----|-(5)-----|||-||o-----------------3---(3)-----|--2-----o|||-||------------------------------|---------||
N.C.
Gtr IV
PM----------------------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E|-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-----0-------------------------|-----0--------------------------||-2-3-3-3-2-3-2-----------------|-2-3-3-3-2-3-2------------------||---------------3---3-1---1-----|---------------3---3-1---1------||---------------------------3---|---------------------------3----|
G Gadd4
PM-------------------------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------|||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------|||------0-------------------------|--------0--------------------------|||--2-3-3-3-2-3-2-----------------|---2--3-3-3-2-3-2------------------|||----------------3---3-1---1-----|------------------3---3-1---1------|||----------------------------3---|------------------------------3----||
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| Gtr II| W W|--------------------------------|---8-------------------------------|||-12-----------------------------|-(12)------------------------------|||-12-----------------------------|-(12)------------------------------|||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------|||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------|||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
Guitar Solo Ab5 Bb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 Ab5 Bb5 BCDbD5 F5G5 F5G5 Gtr V TP TP TP TP H H H H|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-3---------------------------------|-3---------------------------------||-5b7-------------------------------|-5b7-------------------------------||-----------------------3-----------|-----------------------3-----------||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
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| Gtr III| S S S S S S S S S S E S E S S S S S S S S S S S E S E S|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-6s==8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5-|-6s==8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5-||-4s==6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3-|-4s==6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3-|
AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5 G5 F5G5 E. S +E E +E S S Q|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------5-----||-1-----3-(3)----3b4=====(3)r-------------||-------------------------------6p3-------|
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| S S S S S S S S S S E S E S|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s===12--3s==5-5---3s5-5-||-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s===10--1s==3-3---1s3-3-|
AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5 G5 F5G5 E. S +E E +E S S S E.|-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-1-----3-(3)----3b4=====(3)r---------------||-------------------------------6p3-6p3-----|
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| S S S S S S S S S S E S E S|-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s===12--3s==5-5---3s5--5--||-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s===10--1s==3-3---1s3--3--|
Ab5 Bb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 Ab5 Bb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 TP TP TP TP H H H E S S S E.|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||-3---------------------------------|-3------------------------------------||-5b7-------------------------------|-5b7----------------------------------||-----------------------3-----------|-----------------------3---3p0-3h5----||-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
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| S S S S S S S S S S E S E S S S S S S S S S S S E S E S|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------||-6s==8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5-|-6s==8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5---3s5--5-||-4s==6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3-|-4s==6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3---1s3--3-|
AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5 G5 AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 S S S S S S S S S S S S +S S E S S S S S S S S S E. S E.|--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|||---------------------------5-(5)3-5---|----------------------------5p3-----|||-8s7-7s6--6s=5--5s=3------------------|-8s7-7s6--6s=5--5s=3----------------|||---------------------6p3-3------------|---------------------6p3------------||
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| S S S S S S S S S S E S E S S S S S S S S S S S E S E S|--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------|------------------------------------|||-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5----3s5---5-|-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5--5-3s5--5--|||-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3----1s3---3-|-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3--3-1s3--3--||
Out-Chorus AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 Gtr III S S S S S S S S S S E S E S S S S S S S S S S S E S E S 3x||----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||||o---------------------------------|----------------------------------o||||----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||||----------------------------------|-----------------------------------||||o-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5-|-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5--o||||--4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3-|-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3---||
AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 F5G5 F5G5 AbBb5 B5C5 Db5 D5 2/4 S S S S S S S S S S E S E S S S S S S S S S|---------------------------------|---------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------|||---------------------------------|---------------------|||-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-3s5-5-3s5-5-|-6s8-8s9-10s11-11s12-|||-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-1s3-3-1s3-3-|-4s6-6s7--8s=9--9s10-||
Outro N.C. 4/4 Gtr IV H H Q. E Q. +E|--------------------|--------------------------||-/15S======13\------|--3----/(17)-/17----(17)\-||--------------------|--------------------------||--------------------|--------------------------||--------------------|--------------------------||--------------------|--------------------------|
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| Gtr I| E E E Q Q. +W|--------------------|--------------------------||--------------------|--------------------------||--------------------|--------------------------||--------------------|--------------------------||---------5----------|--------------------------||---1-3-4-------4----|-(4)----------------------|
H H Q. E Q. +E|--------------------|---------------------------||-/15S======13\------|--3----/(17)-/17----(17)\--||--------------------|---------------------------||--------------------|---------------------------||--------------------|---------------------------||--------------------|---------------------------|
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| E E E Q Q. +W|--------------------|---------------------------||--------------------|---------------------------||--------------------|---------------------------||---------3----------|---------------------------||---------------5----|-(5)-----------------------||---1-3-4------------|---------------------------|
Q. E Q. +E H E Q +E|-----------------------------|-------------------------||-3------/(17)-/17------(17)\-|--3-----/(17)-/17--(17)\-||-----------------------------|-------------------------||-----------------------------|-------------------------||-----------------------------|-------------------------||-----------------------------|-------------------------|
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| E E E Q Q. +W|-----------------------------|-------------------------||-----------------------------|-------------------------||-----------------------------|-------------------------||-----------------------------|-------------------------||-----------5-----------------|-------------------------||-1--3-4------------4---------|-(4)---------------------|
> H H +W|--------------------|---------||-/15S======13\------|-(13)----||--------------------|---------||--------------------|---------||--------------------|---------||--------------------|---------|
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| E E E Q Q. +W|--------------------|---------||--------------------|---------||--------------------|---------||---------3----------|---------||---------------5----|--(5)----||---1-3-4------------|---------|
Gtr IV
PM----------------------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||||o-------------------------------|-------------------------------o||||------0-------------------------|-----0--------------------------||||--2-3-3-3-2-3-2-----------------|-2-3-3-3-2-3-2------------------||||o---------------3---3-1---1-----|---------------3---3-1---1-----o||||----------------------------3---|---------------------------3----||
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
