Spreading The Disease Chords & Tabs
Spreading The Disease Tab
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Author/Artist: Queensryche
Title: Spreading The Disease
Album: Operation: Mindcrime
Transcribed by: Raven
Email: grans@earthlink.net
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intro repeat 4 times over rhythm guitar, then hold the unison E notes
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-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--0-0---0-0----0-0------0--0--8----0----------
verse riff-palm mute the low E string
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repeat, but then,
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after rhythm choking x's, play
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-8-------7-------5------3---0----3---8-------7-------5-------3---0---------*|-
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chorus (Geoff Tate broke my windows!!!)
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-14b16--16r--14-12-14----14b16-----14--16--17---------------------------------
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Guitar Solo
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/q/queensryche/spreading_the_disease_tab.html ]
-17b19--19------17-15-14-15-14-15-17-15-14-15-17-15-14------------------------
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-11-----------11-12-11v--------------9b11--r9--9--7--9--7-6-7-6------6--------
-----9h10h12--------------9h10h12---------------------------------9-----9--7--
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-5--4--5--2--4-0-2-4v----222--444--555----------------------------------------
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the delay pedal he's got on then repeats the last notes.
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-10-h-12-----12---------10-h-12----12--10--8--7--3-/--5--5--------------------
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This part played after the infamous speech, "Religion and sex are power..."
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This part played after "While we pay for wars in South America"
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now faster, as the palm muted E sneaks up
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-0-------0-------0-------0-------0--------0-------0---------------------------
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conclusion
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 --\------/-------
- --\----/------
\ - bar down
/- bar up
