Therion - Cults Of The Shadow Chords & Tabs

 

Cults Of The Shadow Chords & Tabs

Therion Chords & Tabs

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Cults Of The Shadow Bass Tab

   
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CULTS OF THE SHADOW (Bassline)
As recorded by Therion
(From the 1996 Album THELI)

Transcribed by rumitema@freemail.hu
	

Words by T. Karlsson/C. Johnsson Music by C. Johnsson

Gtr I (Ab Db Gb B E) - 'Picked Bass'
Gtr II (Db Gb B E Ab Db) - 'Accoridan'

 Intro
  Q=144
 4/4
  Gtr I
  E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E  E     E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E  E
|-----------------|------------------||------------------|-------------------||
|-----------------|------------------||o-----------------|------------------o||
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2--||
|-----------------|------------------||o-----------------|------------------o||
|-----------------|------------------||------------------|-------------------||
|
| Gtr II
| W                 H       E E E  E     E E Q   H         H       E E E  E
|-----------------|------------------||------------------|-------------------||
|-----------------|------------------||o-----------------|------------------o||
|-----------------|-----------9-8----||------------------|-----------9-8-----||
|-----------------|---------------10-||--9---------------|---------------10--||
|-----------------|------------------||o-----------------|------------------o||
|-----------------|------------------||------------------|-------------------||


  E E E  E E E E  E     E E E E E E E  E  3x
|-------------------||--------------------||
|-------------------||o------------------o||
|-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--0-||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2--0--||
|-------------------||o------------------o||
|-------------------||--------------------||
|
| E E E  E E E E  E     E E Q   E E E  E  3x
|-------------------||--------------------||
|-------------------||o------------------o||
|---9-8------9-8----||------------9-8-----||
|-9-----10-9-----10-||--9-------------10--||
|-------------------||o------------------o||
|-------------------||--------------------||


  E E E  E E E E  E     E E E E E E E  E  3x
|-------------------||--------------------||
|-------------------||o------------------o||
|-2-2-2--0-2-2-2--0-||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2--0--||
|-------------------||o------------------o||
|-------------------||--------------------||
|
| E E E  E E E E  E     H       E E E  E  3x
|-------------------||--------------------||
|-------------------||o------------------o||
|---9-8------9-8----||------------9-8-----||
|-9-----10-9-----10-||--9-------9-----10--||
|-------------------||o------------------o||
|-------------------||--------------------||


  E E E  E E E E  E      E E E E  E  E  E  E  3x
|-------------------||------------------------||
|-------------------||o----------------------o||
|-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--0-||---2-2-2-2--2--2--2--0--||
|-------------------||o----------------------o||
|-------------------||------------------------||
|
| E E E  E E E E  E      H        E  E  E  E  3x
|-------------------||--------------12-11-----||
|-------------------||o-12-------12-------13-o||
|---9-8------9-8----||---------------9--8-----||
|-9-----10-9-----10-||---9--------9-------10--||
|-------------------||o----------------------o||
|-------------------||------------------------||


   E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E    E  E E E E E E E
|-------------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------|
|--2--2--2--0--2--2--2--0-|--2--2-2-2-2-0---0-|
|-------------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------|
|
|  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E    H.           Q
|----12-11-------12-11----|-------------------|
|-12-------13-12-------13-|-12----------------|
|-----9--8--------9--8----|-------------------|
|--9-------10--9-------10-|--9----------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------|


   Verse
    E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2--------|
||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------3-3-3--|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|


  E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|


 1.                  2.
  E E E E E E E E     E E E E E E E E
|------------------||-----------------|
|-----------------o||-----------4-1---|
|-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0--||-2-2-2-2-2-----3-|
|-----------------o||-----------------|
|------------------||-----------------|


   Chorus
    Q  E E E E E E   Q  E E E E E E   Q  E E E E E E
||-----------------|----------------|----------------|
||o----------4-1---|----------4-1---|----------------|
||--2--2-2-2-----3-|-2--2-2-2-----3-|-0--0-0-0-0-2-3-|
||o----------------|----------------|----------------|
||-----------------|----------------|----------------|


 1.                 2.
  Q  E E E E E E     Q  E E E E E E
|-----------------||----------1-------|
|----------4-1---o||------------3-2---|
|-2--2-2-2-----3--||-2--2-2-2---------|
|----------------o||------------------|
|-----------------||------------------|


    +Q   Q  E E E E   +Q   Q  E E E E   +Q   Q  E E E E
||------------1-----|-----------1-----|-----------------|
||o-(2)--2--2---3-2-|-(2)--2--2---3-0-|-(0)--0--0-0-3-2-|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|


 1.                  2.
  +Q   Q  E E E E     +Q   Q  E E E E
|-----------1------||-------------------|
|-(2)--2--2---3-2-o||-(2)--2--2---------|
|------------------||-----------0-0-0---|
|-----------------o||-------------------|
|------------------||-------------------|


 Verse
  E E Q  H      H    E E E E   E E Q  H      H    E E E E
|-------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|
|-------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|
|-2-----------|--------0---0-|-2-----------|--------------|
|-------------|--------------|-------------|--------3---3-|
|-------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|


  E E Q  H      H    E E E E   E E Q  H      H    E E E E
|-------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|
|-------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|
|-0-----------|--------0---0-|-2-----------|--------0---0-|
|-------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|
|-------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|


  $
  E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------3-3-3-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|


  E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|

[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/therion/cults_of_the_shadow_btab.html ]
 Interlude
  E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-0-0-0-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------3-3-3-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|


                                             To Coda
  E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E   E E E E E E E E
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------4-1---|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-----3-|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|


   Chorus
    Q  E E E E E E   Q  E E E E E E   Q  E E E E E E
||-----------------|----------------|----------------|
||o----------4-1---|----------4-1---|----------------|
||--2--2-2-2-----3-|-2--2-2-2-----3-|-0--0-0-0-0-2-3-|
||o----------------|----------------|----------------|
||-----------------|----------------|----------------|


 1.                 2.
  Q  E E E E E E     Q  E E E E E E
|-----------------||----------1-------|
|----------4-1---o||------------3-2---|
|-2--2-2-2-----3--||-2--2-2-2---------|
|----------------o||------------------|
|-----------------||------------------|


    +Q   Q  E E E E   +Q   Q  E E E E   +Q   Q  E E E E
||------------1-----|-----------1-----|-----------------|
||o-(2)--2--2---3-2-|-(2)--2--2---3-0-|-(0)--0--0-0-3-2-|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|


 1.                  2.
  +Q   Q  E E E E     +Q   Q  E E E E
|-----------1------||-------------------|
|-(2)--2--2---3-2-o||-(2)--2--2---------|
|------------------||-----------0-0-0---|
|-----------------o||-------------------|
|------------------||-------------------|


   Interlude
    W          W          W          W     4x
||-----------|----------|----------|-------||
||o----------|----------|----------|------o||
||-----------|-2--------|----------|-2-----||
||o-0--------|----------|-3--------|------o||
||-----------|----------|----------|-------||


    H    H      H    H      H    H      H    H
||------------|-----------|-----------|------------||
||o-----------|-----------|-----------|-----------o||
||------------|-2----2----|-----------|-2----2-----||
||o-0----0----|-----------|-3----3----|-----------o||
||------------|-----------|-----------|------------||


 Bridge
                                              6/4
  E E E E H      E E E E H      E E E E H      E E E +E  +W
|--------------|--------------|--------------|------------------|
|--------------|-4-2-1--------|--------------|-4-2-1-(1)-(1)----|
|--------------|--------------|--------------|------------------|
|-3-2-0--------|--------------|-3-2-0--------|------------------|
|--------------|--------------|--------------|------------------|


   4/4
    E E E S S E E E E   E E E S S E E E E
||--------------------|-------------------|
||o-------------------|-4-2-1-4-2-1-2-4-1-|
||--------------------|-------------------|
||o-3-2-0-3-2-0-2-3-0-|-------------------|
||--------------------|-------------------|


                     1.,2.,3.
  E E E S S E E E E   E E E S S E E E E  4x
|-------------------|--------------------||
|-------------------|-4-2-1-4-2-1-2-4-1-o||
|-------------------|--------------------||
|-3-2-0-3-2-0-2-3-0-|-------------------o||
|-------------------|--------------------||


  4.
  E E E S S E E E  E     E E E E E E E  E  3x E E E  E E E E  E
|--------------------||--------------------||-------------------|
|-4-2-1-4-2-1-2-1----||o------------------o||-------------------|
|------------------3-||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2--0--||-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--0-|
|--------------------||o------------------o||-------------------|
|--------------------||--------------------||-------------------|
|
| Gtr II
| H         E E E  E     E E Q   E E E  E  3x E E E  E E E E  E
|--------------------||--------------------||-------------------|
|--------------------||o------------------o||-------------------|
|-------------9-8----||------------9-8-----||---9-8------9-8----|
|-----------------10-||--9-------------10--||-9-----10-9-----10-|
|--------------------||o------------------o||-------------------|
|--------------------||--------------------||-------------------|


    E E E E E E E  E  3x E E E  E E E E  E     E E E E E E E  E  3x
||--------------------||-------------------||--------------------||
||o------------------o||-------------------||o------------------o||
||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2--0--||-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--0-||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2--0--||
||o------------------o||-------------------||o------------------o||
||--------------------||-------------------||--------------------||
|
|   H       E E E  E  3x E E E  E E E E  E     H       E E E  E  3x
||--------------------||-------------------||--------------------||
||o------------------o||-------------------||o------------------o||
||------------9-8-----||---9-8------9-8----||------------9-8-----||
||--9-------9-----10--||-9-----10-9-----10-||--9-------9-----10--||
||o------------------o||-------------------||o------------------o||
||--------------------||-------------------||--------------------||


                          D.S. al Coda    &
  E E E  E E E E  E   E E E E  E  E E E   E E E E E E E E
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
|-2-2-2--2-2-2-2--0-|-2-2-2-2--2--0-0-0-|-2-0-0-----------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------3-3-2-2-0-|
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
|
| E E E  E E E E  E   H       +E  E Q     W
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
|---9-8------9-8----|-------------------|-----------------|
|-9-----10-9-----10-|-9-------(9)-------|-----------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-----------------|


   Outro
    E E E E E S S E E   E E E E E S S E E
||--------------------|-------------------|
||o-------------------|-------------------|
||------------4-2-1---|-----------4-2-1---|
||o-2-2-2-2-2-------3-|-2-2-2-2-2-------3-|
||--------------------|-------------------|


 1.,2.,3.
  E E E E E E E E   E E E E E S S E E  4x
|-----------------|--------------------||
|-----------------|-------------------o||
|-----------------|-----------4-2-1----||
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-|-2-2-2-2-2-------3-o||
|-----------------|--------------------||


  4.=H          Q=80
  |-3-| |-3-|
  Q Q Q Q Q Q   W
|-------------|------*|
|-------------|------*|
|-------------|------*|
|-0-0-0-0-2-3-|-2----*|
|-------------|------*|



Duration Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for.  Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests.  Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for.  Low
melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature Legend
----------------
 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

Misc Legend
-----------
 |  - bar
||  - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*|  - double bar (ending)
 :  - bar (freetime)
 $  - Segno
 &  - Coda
Tempo markers -  = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths