Band: Scorpions
Album: Love At First Sting
Song: I'm Leaving You
Copyright (c) (Harvest) (1984)
Version 1.0 - (02/08/06)
Transcribed By: Steve
Email: stephen.elvidge1@ntlworld.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 <> - harmonic
pb - pre bend
Tuning E A D G B E
~~~ ~~~~|------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------||--------------------7/9---------------------9\--||---7p5------7-5---5-5/7---7p5------7-5----5-7\--||-0-----8--------8-------0------8--------8-------| Rpt 3 X
~~~ ~~~~|----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||--------------------7/9-----------------------||---7p5------7-5---5-5/7---7p5------7-5----5-5-||-0-----8--------8-------0------8--------8-----|
~~~~|---------------||---------------||---------------||---------------||---7p5---------||-0-----8-----\-|
Intro solo ~~~~|-22-\-------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------9-9-----9\----------------------12b--||------------------77/99-1212----------------------77/99-1212------||--------7-99-1010-----------------------7-99-1010-----------------||------------------------------------------------------------------|
~~~~ph ph h|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-9----9\----------------------9-9----9\-------11-12-11-12p11-------||-------------------77/99-1212-----------12-14----------------14-12-||---------7-99-1010-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
~~|----------------17-15p14----14-19-17-15----20b-r---19-20---------||-------------17----------17-------------17-----------------------||-14b-r-b-r-b---------------------------------------------16-16---||-----------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------|
~~~~ ~~~~~~ h ~~~~~~~~|---------------22fb----r--19-20-19-20p19-17-15-14------------------||-17-19-20-17--------------------------------------17-15-17-------\-||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse
Clean guitar
|---------------0-----0---||---3-----3-------0-1-1---||-----2-----2-------------||-0-----0-----0-----------||-------------------------||-------------------------| Rpt 3 X
Distorted
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2--||-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||------------------||------------------|
|-----------------3---2--||-------------3---3---3--||-------------2---2---2--||-9---\5------0-x-0-x-0--||-7---\3----x------------||------------------------| Rpt with clean guitar 3 X
|------------||------------||------------||------5-----||-5----3-----||-3----------|
Rpt Main Riff 2 X for chorus
|------------||------------||------------||-9---\5-----||-7---\3-----||------------|
Rpt verse
|------------||------------||------------||-9---\5-----||-7---\3-----||------------| Rpt 3 X
Guitar solo ~~~~~~ h ph|-----------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------7-8-7-8p7-----10b-r-b-r-b-10\---||------------5-7-9p7-9b-----\-7-9-----------9-7-------------------||-2-4-/5-7/9------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------|
ph~~~~~ ph ~~~~~~~|--------------------------------------------12-----------------||------------------------------7-8-7-8p7---7-12-12-15b-------\--||------------7-9-7-9-------7-9-----------9----------------------||-2-4-/5-7/9----------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------|
Mid 8
Guitar 1
[---------------------------------------------------------|[----------------------------------------8----------------|[----------------------------------------7----------------|[------------5--7----------5--5-------------7--9--7/9-\7--|[-5----------3--5----------2--3-------------5--7--5/7-\5--|[-3-------------------------------------------------------|
[Guitar 2[ [---PM--] [---PM--] [---PM--][---------------------------------------------------------|[----------------------------------------8----------------|[----------------------------------------7----------------|[------------5--7----------5--5----------7--7--9--7/9-\7--|[-5----------3--5--5-5-5-5-2--3--3-3-3-3----5--7--5/7-\5--|[-3--3-3-3-3----------------------------------------------| Rpt 2 X
Guitar 1 ph~~~~[---------------------------------------------------------|[----------------------------------------8----------------|[----------------------------------------7----------------|[--------------------------5--5----------7--7--9--7/9-\7--|[-5----------3--5----------2--3-------------5--7--5/7-\5--|[-3-------------------------------------------------------|
[Guitar 2[ [---PM--] [---PM--] [---PM--][---------------------------------------------------------|[----------------------------------------8----------------|[----------------------------------------7----------------|[------------5--7----------5--5----------7--7--9--7/9-\7--|[-5----------3--5--5-5-5-5-2--3--3-3-3-3----5--7--5/7-\5--|[-3--3-3-3-3----------------------------------------------|
Guitar 1 ph~~~~ ph~~~~[---------------------------------------------------------|[---------------------------------------------------------|[---------------------------------------------------------|[--------------------------5--5----------5-----9--7/9-\7--|[-5----------3--5----------2--3-------------5--7--5/7-\5--|[-3-------------------------------------------------------|
[Guitar 2[ [---PM--] [---PM--] [---PM--][---------------------------------------------------------|[----------------------------------------8----------------|[----------------------------------------7----------------|[------------5--7----------5--5----------7--7--9--7/9-\7--|[-5----------3--5--5-5-5-5-2--3--3-3-3-3----5--7--5/7-\5--|[-3--3-3-3-3----------------------------------------------|
Guitar solo
use pinch harmonics ~~~~ ~~~~~~ |--------------------------------12-15-22-17fb----222222fb-----r19--||------------------------8-12-15------------------------------------||--------------------7-9--------------------------------------------||-x\-2-4-4/5-5/7-7/9------------------------------------------------||-x\----------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
~~~~~~[---PM----] ~~~ ~~~~|-22fb--------------10------------14-------15-------17-14----17fb----||------------7-8-10----13--p12p10----15p12----15p12-------17---------||----------9---------------------------------------------------------||--------9-----------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-/15-14-------15p14-------15-14----15b-14-12-------------------------||--------17-15-------17-15-------17-----------15-15-14-12-11----------||------------------------------------------------------------14-12----||------------------------------------------------------------------14-||---------------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------------|
[-PM-] [-PM-] ~~~|-----------------------------------------------------------||-/12-p10---------10bp8-------------------------------------||---------12-11-9-------12-11-9----------12-1212-9----9-----||-------------------------------12-10--------------12----9--||-------------------------------------12--------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------|
~~~ ~~~|------------------------------------------------------------14-----||-12----12-12-----15bp12-------------------12-------------15----15--||-12----12-12------------14p12-14-12-------12-x---------------------||----14-------14---------------------14p12----x-14p12-14------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
~~~~~~|----------------------------------15p12-15p12-17-19-22p19-22fb-----||----------------12----15p12-15p12----------------------------------||----12----12-14----14----------------------------------------------||-14----14----------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
h ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|-22fb--r-19-20-19-20p19-17\15-14-15--------------------------||------------------------------------17-15-17--------------\--||-------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------|
Rpt Verse
Rpt Chorus with lead breaks
Rpt mid 8 to fade with lead below
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|-------------------------------------------------------------------||-12-13p12-slow trill-13b---------------------------------------\---||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------| Rpt
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~|-pb15-r----------------------------------------10-11-12-15-17fb--r-||----------12-15b------------------fb\------/12---------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|-15--17br17p15-17b-------17\-------22b--------22fb-----------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------|
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