Tuning: B E A D F# B
. - palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - Bend
p - pull off Suffixes for bend
t - tap f - full bend h - half bend
ph - pinched harmonic q - quarter bend t - tap bend
* - see comment ^ - Hold bend r release bend
x - Stuccatto ~ - vibrato bend
, - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note
" - tremolo note <> - Trill
nh – natural harmonic (lightly touch a string over the fret indicated
in TAB and pick)
d - downstroke
u - upstroke
Guitar 1 = Left channel
Guitar 2 = Right channel
Note: it’s hard to get into the rhythm and all the breaks
(hey we’re talking about Cryptopsy...) so listen carefully
RIFF 1 (0:00) gtr. 1
|-------------------||
|-------------------||
|-------------------||
|-5-6-8\5-----5-3---||
|-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-||
|-----------2-----0-||
RIFF 1 (0:00) gtr. 2
|-------------------||
|-------------------||
|-------------------||
|-5-----------5-3---||
|-3---------4-3-1-2-||
|-----------2-----0-||
RIFF 1 (0:01) both gtr.
|-------------------||
|-------------------||
|-------------------||
|-5-6-8\5-----5-3---||
|-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-||
|-----------2-----0-||
RIFF 2 (0:07) both gtr.
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|-36----8---36----8---36---36---36-----3-||
|-14---06---14---06---14---14---14-----1-||
.. .. .. .. .. .. ..
RIFF 1 (0:10) both gtr.
|-------------------||
|-------------------||
|-------------------||
|-5-6-8\5-----5-3---||
|-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-||
|-----------2-----0-||
RIFF 2b (0:19) both gtr.
|-----------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------||
|-----------------------------------------||
|-36----8---36----8---36---36---36---36---||
|-14---06---14---06---14---14---14---14---||
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
RIFF 3 (0:22) both gtr.
|--------------------------||
|--------------------------||
|--------------------------||
|--------------------------||
|-----55--5555----55--5555-||
|-2222--22----2222--22-----||
RIFF 2c (0:25) both gtr.
|--------------------||
|--------------------||
|--------------------||
|--------------------||
|-36----8----8-----3-||
|-14---06---06-----1-||
.. .. ..
(0:26) "SOLO"
RIFF 1 (0:26) both gtr.
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-5-6-8\5-----5-3---5-6-8\5-----5-3---|
|-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-|
|-----------2-----0-----------2-----0-|
-----------------------------------------------||
-----------------------------------------------||
-----------------------------------------------||
-5-6-8\5-----5-3---5-6-8\5-----5-3---5-6-8\5---||
-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-3-4-6\3---||
-----------2-----0-----------2-----0-----------||
RIFF 4 (0:33) both gtr.
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------4-------------4-------------4-------------4---|
|-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-|
|-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-|
---------------------------------------------------------||
---------------------------------------------------------||
---------------------------------------------------------||
-----------4-------------4-------------4-------------4---||
-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-2-||
-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---0-||
---------------------------------------------------------||
---------------------------------------------------------||
---------------------------------------------------------||
-----------4-------------4-------------------------------||
-5-6-5/6-5-2-4-6-7-6/7-5-2-3-----------------------------||
-3-4-3/4-3---2-4-5-4/5-3---1-----------------------------||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
RIFF 5 (0:45) gtr. 1 only “CLEAN TONE”
nh--- nh--- nh--------||
|-----------------5------------12-----||
|-----5-----------5---------12-12-----||
|---5-5---------5-----------12--------||
|-5-----------5-----------------------||
|-5-------7/8-5-------7/8-7-----------||
|---------5/6---------5/6-5-----------||
d d u d d u d u
NOTE for RIFF 6:
5\/
5\/ = First put your whammy bar in a good position near to the high strings.
(You better do it before the song starts LOL)
Then play that notes as natural harmonics, followed immediately
by a light touch to your whammy bar and release it again (fast).
RIFF 6 (0:47) both gtr.
nh/whammy bar
|-------------||
|-------5\/---||
|-------5\/---||
|-------------||
|-7/8---------||
|-5/6---------||
RIFF 6b (0:54) gtr. 1
nh/w.bar nh/w.bar nh/w.bar
|---------------------------------------------------||
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/-----------------||
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/-----------------||
|---------------------------------------------------||
|-7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------7/8-9-9-------||
|-5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------5/6-7-7-14\---||
. .
RIFF 6b (0:54) gtr. 2
|---------------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------------||
|-7/8-9-------7/8-9-------7/8-9-------7/8-9-9-------||
|-5/6-7-------5/6-7-------5/6-7-------5/6-7-7-14\---||
. . . . .
RIFF 7 (0:58) gtr. 1
nh--- nh/w.bar
|---------------------5---------------------------||
|-------------------------------5\/---------------||
|-------------------5-----------5\/---------------||
|-----------------5-------------------------5-----||
|-7/8--10-5---7/8---------7/8---------7/8-6-3-4---||
|-5/6--8--3---5/6---------5/6---------5/6-4---2---||
. .
RIFF 7 (0:58) gtr. 2
nh/w.bar nh/w.bar
|-------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------5\/---------5\/---------------||
|-------------------5\/---------5\/---------------||
|-------------------------------------------5-----||
|-7/8--10-5---7/8---------7/8---------7/8-6-3-4---||
|-5/6--8--3---5/6---------5/6---------5/6-4---2---||
. .
RIFF 7b (1:01) gtr. 1 (3 times)
nh/w.bar nh--- nh/w.bar
|---------------------5---------------------------||
|-------5\/---------5-----------575---------------||
|-------5\/-------5-------------575---------------||
|-------------------------------------------5-----||
|-7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------7/8-6-3-4---||
|-5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------5/6-4---2---||
. .
RIFF 7b (1:01) gtr. 2 (3 times)
nh/w.bar nh/w.bar nh/w.bar
|-------------------------------------------------||
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---------------||
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---------------||
|-------------------------------------------5-----||
|-7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------7/8-6-3-4---||
|-5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------5/6-4---2---||
. .
RIFF 6 (1:12) both gtr.
nh/w.bar nh/w.bar nh/w.bar nh
|-----------------------------------------------||
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---------5---||
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---------5---||
|-----------------------------------------------||
|-7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------7/8-------||
|-5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------5/6-------||
Note for RIFF 8: This next part is really sick and hard to play.
It looks crazy but I think it is close to what
Alex plays.
Pick the lower notes first, followed immediately
by the slides.
I wrote down the way I use my fingers to handle this.
Left hand:
i - index
r – ring
m – middle
RIFF 8 (1:15) both gtr. (5 times)
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|---2/5---5\2---5/8---8\5---8/11----11\8----11/14-|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-2-----5-----5-----8-----8------11------11-------|
m r m r m r m r m r m r m r
----------------------------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------------------------||
----11\8---8/11---8\5---5/8---5\2---2/5---5\2---5/8----4--||
----------------------------------------------------------||
-11------8------8-----5-----5-----2-----5-----5-----8-----||
m r m r m r m r m r m r m r m r m i
RIFF 8 gtr. 1 last time
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|---2/5---5\2---5/8---8\5---8/11----11\8----11/14-|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-2-----5-----5-----8-----8------11------11-------|
m r m r m r m r m r m r m r
----------------------------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------------------------||
----11\8---8/11---8\5---5/8---5\2---2/5---5\2---5/8----4--||
----------------------------------------------------------||
-11------8------8-----5-----5-----2-----5-----5-----8-----||
m r m r m r m r m r m r m r m r m i
RIFF 8 gtr. 2 last time
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|---2/5---5\2---5/8---8\5---8/11----11\8----11/14-|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-2-----5-----5-----8-----8------11------11-------|
m r m r m r m r m r m r m r
----------------------------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------------------------||
----------------------------------------------------------||
----11\8---8/11---8\5---5/8---5\2---2/5---5\2---5/8-------||
-------------------------------------------------------9--||
-11------8------8-----5-----5-----2-----5-----5-----7777--||
m r m r m r m r m r m r m r m r ....
RIFF 3 (1:45) gtr. 1 only
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|-----55--5555-||
|-2222--22-----||
RIFF 3 (1:46) both gtr.
|------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------||
|-----55--5555----55--5555----55--55-||
|-2222--22----2222--22----2222--22---||
RIFF 3 (1:48) both gtr.
(8 times)
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|-----55--5555-||
|-2222--22-----||
RIFF 3 (1:56) gtr. 1
(8 times)
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|--------------||
|-----55--5555-||
|-2222--22-----||
RIFF 3 (1:56) gtr. 2
(8 times)
|-----2---2---||
|-----3---3---||
|-------------||
|-------------||
|-------------||
|-222---2-----||
RIFF 9 (2:03) both gtr.
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-----55--4444----44--6666----55--4444----44--6666-|
|-2222--22----1111--33----2222--22----1111--33-----|
------------------------------------------------||
------------------------------------------------||
------------------------------------------------||
------------------------------------------------||
-----55--4444----44--6666----55--4444----44--66-||
-2222--22----1111--33----2222--22----1111--33---||
RIFF 9 (2:10) both gtr.
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-----55--4444----44--6666----55--4444----44--6666-|
|-2222--22----1111--33----2222--22----1111--33-----|
--------------------------------------------------||
--------------------------------------------------||
--------------------------------------------------||
--------------------------------------------------||
-----55--4444----44--6666----55--4444----44--6666-||
-2222--22----1111--33----2222--22----1111--33-----||
RIFF 10 (2:17) gtr. 1
|--------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||
|-----55--5555----55--5555----77--7777----88--8888-||
|-2222--22----2222--22----4444--44----5555--55-----||
RIFF 10 (2:17) gtr. 1
|--------------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------------||
|-----77--7777----77--7777----77--7777----1010--10101010-||
|-4444--44----4444--44----------------7777----77---------||
|-------------------------7777--77-----------------------||
RIFF 2b (2:21) both gtr.
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|-36----8---36----8---36---36---36-----3-||
|-14---06---14---06---14---14---14-----1-||
.. .. .. .. .. .. ..
RIFF 1 (2:24) both gtr.
|---------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------||
|-5-6-8\5-----5-3---5-6-8\5-----5-3---5-||
|-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-3-||
|-----------2-----0-----------2-----0---||
RIFF 1 (2:27)
|both-gtr.|--guitar-one-only--|
|---------|-------------------|
|---------|-------------------|
|---5-3---|-5-6-8\5-----5-3---|
|-4-3-1-2-|-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-|
|-2-----0-|-----------2-----0-|
RIFF 1b (2:30) both gtr.
|---------------------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------------------||
|-5-6---5---5---6-8\5-----5-3---5-6-8\5-----5-3---5-6-8\5-||
|-3-4-6-3-4-3-6-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-3-4-6\3---4-3-1-2-3-4-6\3-||
|-----4---2---4---------2-----0-----------2-----0---------||
RIFF 4 (2:35) both gtr.
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------4-------------4-------------4-------------4---|
|-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-|
|-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-|
---------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------------|
-----------4-------------4-------------4-------------4---|
-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-|
-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-|
---------------------------------------------------------||
---------------------------------------------------------||
---------------------------------------------------------||
-----------4-------------4-------------4-------------4---||
-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-5-6-5/6-5-2-3-||
-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-3-4-3/4-3---1-||
RIFF 6 (2:49) gtr. 2 only
nh/w.bar
|-------------||
|-------5\/---||
|-------5\/---||
|-------------||
|-------------||
|-------------||
RIFF 6 (2:50) both gtr.
nh/w.bar nh/w.bar nh/w.bar nh/w.bar
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---|
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------|
|-5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------|
nh/w.bar nh/w.bar nh/w.bar
---------------------------------------------------||
-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/-----------------||
-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/-----------------||
---------------------------------------------------||
-7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------7/8-9-9-------||
-5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------5/6-7-7-14\---||
RIFF 7b (2:57) gtr. 1 (4 times)
nh/w.bar nh--- nh/w.bar
|---------------------5---------------------------||
|-------5\/---------5-----------5\/---------------||
|-------5\/-------5-------------5\/---------------||
|-------------------------------------------5-----||
|-7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------7/8-6-3-4---||
|-5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------5/6-4---2---||
. .
RIFF 7b (2:57) gtr. 2 (3 times)
nh/w.bar nh/w.bar nh/w.bar
|-------------------------------------------------||
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---------------||
|-------5\/---------5\/---------5\/---------------||
|-------------------------------------------5-----||
|-7/8---------7/8---------7/8---------7/8-6-3-4---||
|-5/6---------5/6---------5/6---------5/6-4---2---||
. .
ending gtr. 1
nh- whammy bar
|-----------------------------|
|-------5---/---/---/---------|
|-------5---------------------|
|-----5-----------------------|
|-7/8-------------------------|
|-5/6-------------------------|
ending gtr. 1
nh whammy bar
|-----------------------------|
|-------5---/---/---/---------|
|-------5---------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-7/8-7-----------------------|
|-5/6-5-----------------------|
.
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