Pain As A Prelude To Death

Album: A New Dawn For The Dead

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.  - palm mute           /  - slide up to
\  - slide down to       ~  - vibrato
p  - pull off            Suffixes for bend
t  - tap                 f  - full bend    h - half bend
^ - pinched harmonic    q  - quarter bend t - tap bend
*  - see comment         H  - Hold bend    r release bend
,  - slight palm mute    () - ghost note, sustained note
"  - tremolo note        tr - Trill

Tuning: Down 1 Step ( D G C F A D )

Riff 1a x3
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||-------|-3------||
||----5--|-----4--||
||-2-----|--------||
   "  "    "   "

Riff 1b x1
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||-------|-3---6--||
||----5--|-----4--||
||-2-----|--------||
   "  "    "   .

Riff 1c x4
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||--------------|-5-5-5--------||
||-------7--7-7-|-3-3-3-6--6-6-||
||-4-4-4-5--5-5-|-------4--4-4-||
||-2-2-2--------|--------------||
     . .    . .     . .    . .

Riff 2 x1
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||-4------------------||
||-2------------------||

Riff 1a x4
Riff 2  x1
Riff 1a x4

Riff 3 x2
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||-4-4-4-4-5-5-4-4-4-4-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-4-4-3-3-3-3-4-4-||
||-2-2-2-2-3-3-2-2-2-2-3-3-|-1-1-1-1-2-2-1-1-1-1-2-2-||
           . .         . .         . .         . .

Riff 4a x2
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||----------|----------|| *These arent really trills,
||----------|----------||  but I wrote that to save
||-4tr5-----|-3tr4-----||  space =) these are just slow
||----------|----------||  hammer ons and pull offs.


Riff 5a x2
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||------------9h10p9----||
||------10-11--------12-||
||-9-10-----------------||
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   .  .  .  .

Riff 5b x2
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||----------8h9p8----||
||-----9-10-------11-||
||-8-9---------------||
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   . . .  .

Riff 5a x2
Riff 5b x2
Riff 5a x2
Riff 5b x2
Riff 5a x2
Riff 5b x2
Riff 3  x2

Riff 4b x2
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||-4tr7-----|-3tr6-----||
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Riff 5a x2
Riff 5b x2
Riff 5a x2
Riff 5b x2
Riff 5a x2
Riff 5b x2
Riff 5a x2
Riff 5b x2

Riff 1a x6
Riff 1c x3

Ending x1
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||--------------|-5-5-5------||
||-------7--7-7-|-3-3-3-6\\\-||
||-4-4-4-5--5-5-|-------4\\\-||
||-2-2-2--------|------------||
     . .    . .   . .

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