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Author/Artist: Queensyche
Title: Speak
Album: Operation: Mindcrime
Transcribed by: Raven
Email: grans@earthlink.net
Thanks to several people from the Official Michael Wilton Website .. and
the Whip himself . . .for clues on figuring out the opening riff and rhythm parts.
"Make your hand like a spider . . .."
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intro riff
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main riff/verse riff. Palm mute it, duh these are the verse fills:
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religion is to blame ...with a gun then, the chorus
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SPEAK TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Speak the world . . . the word is all of us
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/q/queensryche/speak_tab_ver_2.html ]
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Bridge "Seven years of power"
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Yey!! Another Guitar Solo
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I'll have a natural harmonic with whammy.
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h - hammer on
p - pull off
* - trill
b - bend (use tremolo bar for downbend)
r - release bend
/ - slide up
\ - slide down
v - vibrato
t - tap (with strumming hand)
x - fret-hand muting
^ - natural harmonics
ph- artificial (pinch) harmonics
PM palm mute
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Lines going diagonally up and down --\--------/-------------|
These mean whammy bar --\------/----------|
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\ - bar down
/- bar up