Song: Katharsis
Artist: Amaran
Album: Pristine in Bondage
Guitarists: Kari Kainulainen and Ronnie Backlund
afternoon. amaran are a swedish band, cool as hell. enjoy, pretty sure this is right,
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Tuned down 2 steps
0:00 - 0:10
Gtr. 1
PM------------------------| PM PM-------------------------| PM PM
C ||-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G ||-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D#||-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A#||-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
F ||-8p7------------------------------8p7---8p7---11p7---8p7---8p7-8p7-8p7-|
C ||-----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------0-----0------0-----0-------------|
1. 2.
PM------------------------| PM-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
-----------------------------|--------------------------------|
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-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----12\-----------|
0:10 - 0:21
Gtr. 1 & Gtr. 2
PM------------------------| PM PM--------------------------| PM PM
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-8p7------------------------------8p7---8p7---11p7---8p7---8p7-8p7-8p7--|
||-----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------0-----0------0-----0--------------|
PM-------------------------------------|
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-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------|
0:21 - 0:35 Solo 1
|Gtr. 1
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|-----9-/10-9-7-|-------------------||
||-----9s10-9-7-|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|---7-----------|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|| x2
||---7----------|-8-----------------|-5-------------|-8-----------------||
||-5------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
|Gtr. 2
||--------------------------------------------------12---------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------|
||-/17-16h17p16-14----------------------------12b14----12b14---|
||-----------------17-15-14-12---------------------------------|
||-----------------------------15-14-12-14-15------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------/20-19-17-|
-15-11-11-11-15-11-11-11-15-11-11-15-11-15-11------------|
---------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------|
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----------------------------------------12----12--------12-13-15-12-------||
-20-18-17-------------------------------15b17-15b17r15-----------15b17----||
----------19-17-16-14----------------14-----------------------------------||
----------------------17-15-14-15-17--------------------------------------||
--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
0:35 - 0:56
Gtr. 1 & Gtr. 2
PM------------------------| PM PM--------------------------| PM PM
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-8p7------------------------------8p7---8p7---11p7---8p7---8p7-8p7-8p7--|
||-----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------0-----0------0-----0--------------|
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-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
0:56 - 1:23
1st and 3rd time.
|Gtr. 1
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|-----9-s10-9-7-|-------------------||
||-----9s10-9-7-|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|---7-----------|---10-9-10s12-10-9-||
||---7----------|-8-----------------|-5-------------|-8-----------------||
||-5------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
| |
|Gtr. 2 |
||--------------|------3------------|-----0---1-0---|-------------------||
||--------1-0---|-------------------|-------------3-|----1-0------------||
||-----4------2-|----5--------------|---2-----------|-----------/5--4-2-||
||---2----------|-3-----------------|-0-------------|-3-----------------||
||-0------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
2nd and 4th time.
|Gtr. 1
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|-----9-s10-9-7-|-------------------||
||-----9s10-9-7-|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|---7-----------|---10-9-10s12-10-9-||
||---7----------|-8-----------------|-5-------------|-8-----------------||
||-5------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
| |
|Gtr. 2 |
||--------------|------3--3h5---3-1-|-----0---1-0---|-------------------||
||--------1-0---|-------------------|-------------3-|----1-0------------||
||-----4------2-|----5--------------|---2-----------|-----------/5--4-2-||
||---2----------|-3-----------------|-0-------------|-3-----------------||
||-0------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
1:23 - 1:37
||Gtr. 1
|| PM-------| PM-| PM-------------| PM-------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------9---------------------------------|
||-7--7--7--7--7--10--7--7-----7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7-10--|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||
||Gtr. 2
|| PM--------| PM--| PM--------------| PM--------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------9-------12-----------------------------9--|
||-10-10-10-10-10----10-10----10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-10-----|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
|Gtr.1
| PM-| PM-------| PM-------| PM-| PM----------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
--------9------------------------------------------------------|
--7--7-----7--7--7--7--------------------------9---------------|
-----------------------7--7--7--7--7--10--7--7-----7--7--7--7--|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
|
|Gtr. 2
|PM--| PM--------| PM--------| PM--| PM-----------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
-------12------------------------------------------------------|
-10-10----10-10-10-10------------------9-------12--------------|
-----------------------10-10-10-10-10----10-10----10-10-10-10--|
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|Gtr. 1
----------------------------------------||
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--10-12-10-9-10-9-------9h10p9----------||
------------------10-12--------12-10~---||
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| | x2
|Gtr. 2 |
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---9-10--9-7--9-7-------7-h9p7----------||
-------------------9-10--------10--9~---||
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1:37 - 2:05
|Gtr. 1
||------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------|
||-10-9-7--10-9-7--10-9-7------5-7-9h10p9----10-9-10----|
||-------------------------7-8------------12------------|
||------------------------------------------------------|
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-10-9-7--10-9-7--10-9-7--10-9-7----------|
---------------------------------8--8----|
---------------------------------6--6----|
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-10-9-7--10-9-7--10-9-7--10-9-7----||
-----------------------------------||
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|Gtr. 2 Slow riff above the last one (Gtr. 1).
||----------------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------10~-------10/13~-----------------------10~------10/13~---||
||-----------9---------9----------------------------9--------9----------||
||-/7~---10--------------------------------/7~---10---------------------||
||-----------------------------------8--8-------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------6--6-------------------------------||
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/amaran/katharsis_tab.html ]
2:05
Gtr. 1 & Gtr. 2
PM------------------------| PM PM--------------------------| PM PM
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-8p7------------------------------8p7---8p7---11p7---8p7---8p7-8p7-8p7--|
||-----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------0-----0------0-----0--------------|
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-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
2:26 - 2:56
1st and 3rd time.
|Gtr. 1
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|-----9s10-9-7--|-------------------||
||-----9s10-9-7-|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|---7-----------|---10-9-10s12-10-9-||
||---7----------|-8-----------------|-5-------------|-8-----------------||
||-5------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
| |
|Gtr. 2 |
||--------------|------3------------|-----0--1-0----|-------------------||
||--------1-0---|-------------------|------------3--|----1-0------------||
||-----4------2-|----5--------------|---2-----------|-----------/5--4-2-||
||---2----------|-3-----------------|-0-------------|-3-----------------||
||-0------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
2nd time.
|Gtr. 1
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|-----9s10-9-7--|-------------------||
||-----9s10-9-7-|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|---7-----------|---10-9-10s12-10-9-||
||---7----------|-8-----------------|-5-------------|-8-----------------||
||-5------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
| |
|Gtr. 2 |
||--------------|------3--3h5---3-1-|-----0--1-0----|-------------------||
||--------1-0---|-------------------|------------3--|----1-0------------||
||-----4------2-|----5--------------|---2-----------|-----------/5--4-2-||
||---2----------|-3-----------------|-0-------------|-3-----------------||
||-0------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
4th time.
|Gtr. 1
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-----------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|--6--6--6--------||
||--------------|-------------------|-----9-s10-9-7-|--7--7--7--------||
||-----9s10-9-7-|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|---7-----------|-----------------||
||---7----------|-8-----------------|-5-------------|-----------------||
||-5------------|-------------------|---------------|-----------------||
| |
|Gtr. 2 |
||--------------|------3--3h5---3-1-|-----0---1-0---|-----------------||
||--------1-0---|-------------------|-------------3-|--6--6--6--------||
||-----4------2-|----5--------------|---2-----------|--7--7--7--------||
||---2----------|-3-----------------|-0-------------|-----------------||
||-0------------|-------------------|---------------|-----------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-----------------||
2:56 - 3:09
|Gtr.1
||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-17--16h17p16-14----------------------------------------/16----16--17-17--|
||------------------17-15-14-12-----------------12-14-14------17------------|
||------------------------------15-14--12-14-15-----------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|
|Gtr.2
||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-17--15h17p15-------------------------------------------/15----15--17-17--|
||--------------17--16-14--------------------------12-12------16------------|
||------------------------17-15-14-12-----12-14-15--------------------------|
||-------------------------------------15-----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|Gtr. 1
------------------------------------------------------------------------|
--17h18p17-15h17p15-13h15p13-12h13p12-----------------------------------|
--------------------------------------14-12-----------------------------|
--------------------------------------------15-14-12-----------------12-|
------------------------------------------------------15-14-12-14-15----|
------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|
|Gtr. 2
--15h17p15-13h15p13-12h13p12-10h12p10-----------------------------------|
--------------------------------------13-12-----------------------------|
--------------------------------------------14-12-----------------------|
--------------------------------------------------15--14-12----12-14-15-|
------------------------------------------------------------15----------|
------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|Gtr. 1
---------------------------||
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----12--/17-15~------------||
-15------------------------||
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| |
|Gtr. 2 |
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----------------------18---||
----------------14-16------||
-14-15s17-14-17------------||
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3:09 - 3:31 Solo 2
|Gtr. 1
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
||--------------|-------------------|-----9-s10-9-7-|-------------------||
||-----9s10-9-7-|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|---7-----------|---10-9-10s12-10-9-|| x3
||---7----------|-8-----------------|-5-------------|-8-----------------||
||-5------------|-------------------|---------------|-------------------||
|Gtr. 2
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-15b17--15p13-18b20--18-17-18--/17-15-13-15-15b17--/18-17-15-13-15b17r15-|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
--------------------15------------12-13-15b17--15--------------------|
----13-----13-15b17----15b17r15-------------------13-12--------------|
-14-----14----------------------------------------------14-----------|
------------------------------------------------------------15-14-12-|
---------------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------------------|
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----------------------------------18-17~---||
----------------------------16-17----------||
----------17----------17-19----------------||
-17-19-20----20-19-20----------------------||
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3:31 - 3:46
|Gtr. 1
| PM-------| PM-| PM-------------| PM-------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------9---------------------------------|
||-7--7--7--7--7--10--7--7-----7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7-10--|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
|
|Gtr. 2
| PM--------| PM--| PM--------------| PM--------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-------------------------16--------------------------------|
||-14-14-14-14-14-17-14-14----14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-17--|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------|
|Gtr.1
||PM-| PM-------| PM-------| PM-| PM------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
--------9--------------------------------------9----------------|
--7--7-----7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7-10--7--7-----7--7--7--7----|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
|
|Gtr. 2
|PM--| PM--------| PM--------| PM--| PM-------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
-------16-------------------------------------16----------------|
-14-14----14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-14-17-14-14----14-14-14-14----|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------|
1.
-----------------------------------------|
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-16-17-16-14-16-14-------14-16-14--------|
--9-10--9--7--9--7-15-17--7--9--7-15-17~-|
--------------------8-10-----------8-10~-|
-----------------------------------------|
2.
-----------------------------------------|
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-16-17-16-14-16-14-------14h16p14--------|
--9-10--9--7--9--7-15-17--7-h9-p7-15-17~-| x2
--------------------8-10-----------8-10~-|
-----------------------------------------|
3:46
Gtr. 1 & Gtr. 2
|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|--2-----------|
|--2-----------|
|--0-----------|
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
