Transmission Chords & Tabs
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TRANSMISSION - Joy Division
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Tabbed by: Andrew Reynolds
Email: mr.andrew.reynolds@gmail.com
Tuning: standard
Note: The existing tabs for this song are incomplete and inaccurate. I used as a visual
reference the band's video at youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwMs2fLoVE
0:24
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0:50
Radio . . . live transmission
(palm muted) [could also play as octave instead of power chord]
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D|--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---|
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(palm muted) (no mute) (palm muted)
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1:03
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1:17
Listen to the silence, let it ring on.
Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun.
We would have a fine time living in the night,
Left to blind destruction, waiting for our sight.
(palm muted) [could also play as octave instead of power chord]
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1:30
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1:43
And we would go on as though nothing was wrong.
And hide from these days we remained all alone.
Staying in the same place, just staying out the time.
Touching from a distance, further all the time.
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G|------7-7----5-5----7-7----5-5------------------------|
D|------7-7----5-5----7-7----5-5------------------------|
A|------5-5----3-3----5-5----3-3------------------------|
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1:55 guitar solo
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G|-9^-9-9^9-9^9--9~7--7-7-7--|-9^-9-9^9-9^9--9-7--7-7-7---|
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/joy_division/transmission_tab_ver_4.html ]
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2:22
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio. . . .
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2:46
Well I could call out when the going gets tough.
The things that we've learnt are no longer enough.
No language, just sound, that's all we need know,
to synchronize love to the beat of the show.
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3:05
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| ^ Bend
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