GREEN ONIONS
As recorded by Booker T. & The MG's
(From the 1962 Album GREEN ONIONS)
Music by Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Lewis Steinberg, and Al Jackson, Jr.
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Organ'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Guitar'
Main Theme
Moderately fast shuffle Q=136(8=s8)
F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb
4/4
Gtr I
E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q
|----------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||------6---4--3--|------6---4--3--|------6---4--3--|------6---4--3---||------5---5--3--|------5---5--3--|------5---5--3--|------5---5--3---||---3-(3)--6--3--|---3-(3)--6--3--|---3-(3)--6--3--|---3-(3)--6--3---||----------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||----------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr II| W W W H Q E e|----------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------3-||----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------3-||----------------|----------------|----------------|---------------3-||----------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------||----------------|----------------|----------------|-----------------|
F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb/Eb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||------6---4--3---|------6---4--3---|------6---4--3---|------6---4--3---||------5---5--3---|------5---5--3---|------5---5--3---|------5---5--3---||---3-(3)--6--3---|---3-(3)--6--3---|---3-(3)--6--3---|---3-(3)--6--3---||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
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| H Q E e H Q E e H Q E e H Q E e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||---------------3-|---------------3-|---------------3-|---------------8-||---------------3-|---------------3-|---------------3-|---------------8-||---------------3-|---------------3-|---------------3-|---------------8-||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
Bb Db Eb Bb Db Eb F Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||------3---6--4---|------3---6--4---|------6---4--3---||------3---6--5---|------3---6--5---|------5---5--3---||---3-(3)--6--5---|---3-(3)--6--5---|---3-(3)--6--3---||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
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| H Q E e H Q E e H Q E e|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||---------------8-|---------------3-|---------------3-||---------------8-|---------------3-|---------------3-||---------------8-|---------------3-|---------------3-||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
F Ab Bb C Eb F/Eb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|------------------|-----------------||------6---4--3----|------5---4--6---||------5---5--3----|------5---3--5---||---3-(3)--6--3----|---5-(5)--5--7---||------------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|
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| H Q E e H Q E e|------------------|-----------------||---------------10-|---------------8-||---------------10-|---------------8-||---------------10-|---------------8-||------------------|-----------------||------------------|-----------------|
Bb Db Eb F Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|-----------------|-----------------||------3---6--4---|------6---4--3---||------3---6--5---|------5---5--3---||---3-(3)--6--5---|---3-(3)--6--3---||-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|
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| H Q E e H Q E e|-----------------|-----------------||---------------3-|---------------3-||---------------3-|---------------3-||---------------3-|---------------3-||-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|
Organ Solo I F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q H Q E E Q E E|----------------||-1-1-----------|------1-4--6-5-||------6---4--3--||---------------|---------------||------5---5--3--||---------------|---------------||---3-(3)--6--3--||---------------|---------------||----------------||---------------|---------------||----------------||---------------|---------------|
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| PM------------------------|
| W Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|----------------||---------------|---------------||----------------||---------------|---------------||----------------||---------------|---------------||----------------||---------------|---------------||----------------||------------1--|-----------1---||----------------||-1---1-1-4-----|-1--1-1-4------|
F Ab Bb F Ab Bb Bb Db Eb E E Q H Q E E Q Q E E Q H|-1-1-----------|-----------1--|-1-1-----------||---------------|------1-4-----|---------------||---------------|--------------|---------------||---------------|--------------|---------------||---------------|--------------|---------------||---------------|--------------|---------------|
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| PM--------------------------------------------| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|---------------|--------------|---------------||---------------|--------------|---------------||---------------|--------------|---------------||---------------|--------------|------------1--||------------1--|-----------1--|-1---1-1-4-----||-1---1-1-4-----|-1--1-1-4-----|---------------|
Bb/Cb Db Eb F Ab Bb Q E S S Q Q E E Q H|----8-7-6-4--1--|-1-1-------------||----------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------|
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| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|----------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------||-------------1--|-----------------||-1--1-1---4-----|------------1----||----------------|-1---1-1-4-------|
F Ab Bb C Eb F Q a Q a Q a Q a Q Q Q a Q|----12h13---12h13--12h13--|-12p8---------7h8--||--------------------------|-------------------||--------------------------|-------------------||--------------------------|-------------------||--------------------------|-------------------||--------------------------|-------------------|
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| PM--------------------------------------------| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|--------------------------|-------------------||--------------------------|-------------------||--------------------------|-------------------||--------------------------|----------------3--||-----------------------1--|----3--3-3-6-------||-1------1-1-----4---------|-------------------|
Bb/Ab Db Eb F/Ab Ab Bb F/Eb Ab Bb/Eb a Q Q a Q a Q a Q Q H Q e E S S E Q|-4p1--6---5h6--5h6--|-4p1------------|-----------------|||--------------------|----------------|----4---4-4---4--|||--------------------|----------------|----5---5-5---5--|||--------------------|----------------|-----------------|||--------------------|----------------|-----------------|||--------------------|----------------|-----------------||
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|----------------------------------------------------|
| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|--------------------|----------------|-----------------|||--------------------|----------------|-----------------|||--------------------|----------------|-----------------|||-----------------1--|----------------|-----------------|||---1--1-1---4-------|-------------1--|--------------1--|||--------------------|---1--1-1-4-----|-1--1-1-4--------||
F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb Q Q H Q Q E E E E Q Q H Q E E Q Q|-1------------|----------------|--------------|-----------1--||--------------|----1-----------|--------------|--------4-----||--------------|--------3-1-----|--------------|------5-------||--------------|------------3-x-|-3------------|--------------||--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------||--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------|
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| PM-------------------------------------------------------|
| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------||--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------||--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------||--------------|----------------|--------------|--------------||-----------1--|------------1---|-----------1--|-----------1--||-1--1-1-4-----|-1--1-1-4-------|-1--1-1-4-----|-1--1-1-4-----|
Bb/Ab Db Eb Bb/Ab Db Eb F Ab Bb/Eb F Ab Bb/Eb |-3-| S E. Q H E E E E Q. E E E Q Q E E E E E Q E E E E|-4-4------------|---1-4-6-6-----5-|-1-1--------------|---------------1-||----------------|-----------------|------------4-1-4-|-1---------1-4---||----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------|
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| PM----------------------------------------------------------------|
| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||----------------|-----------------|------------------|-----------------||-------------1--|-------------1---|------------------|-----------------||-1----1-1-4-----|-1---1-1-4-------|------------1-----|-------------1---||----------------|-----------------|-1---1-1-4--------|-1---1-1-4-------|
C Eb F F/Eb Db Eb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb a Q Q a Q a Q a Q Q a Q E E E E Q H W|-1h3--3-------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------|||----------4p1--5h6--|-4h6--6---5h6--6-5-|-6-6-----------|---------------|||--------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------|||--------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------|||--------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------|||--------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------||
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| PM---------------------------------------------------------------|
| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|--------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------|||--------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------|||--------------------|-------------------|---------------|---------------|||-----------------3--|---------------1---|---------------|---------------|||---3--3-3---6-------|---1--1-1---4------|------------1--|-----------1---|||--------------------|-------------------|-1---1-1-4-----|-1--1-1-4------||
Guitar Solo F Ab Bb F Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|-------------------|--------------------||------6---4--3-----|------6---4---3-----||------5---5--3-----|------5---5---3-----||---3-(3)--6--3-----|---3-(3)--6---3-----||-------------------|--------------------||-------------------|--------------------|
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| H Q E E E E Q E E E E|-------------------|------------1-1-----||-------------------|------------1-------||-------------3b5r3p|=1--------------3b5r||-------------------|--------------------||-------------------|--------------------||-------------------|--------------------|
F Ab Bb F Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|----------------------|---------------------||--------6---4----3----|---------6---4---3---||--------5---5----3----|---------5---5---3---||-----3-(3)--6----3----|----3---(3)--6---3---||----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------|
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| ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~| |3-|| E E Q E E +E Q E +E Q E E E E|----------------------|-----------------4-6-||--------------6-(6)-6-|-6-(6)\--------6-----||-3b5------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------||----------------------|---------------------|
Bb/Ab Db Eb Bb/Ab Db Eb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|----------------------|------------------||--------3---6---4-----|------3---6---4---||--------3---6---5-----|------3---6---5---||-----3-(3)--6---5-----|---3-(3)--6---5---||----------------------|------------------||----------------------|------------------|
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| E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E|-6b7p4--------1-------|------------------||--------------1-------|------------1-----||----------------3b5-3p|=1----------1-----||----------------------|--------------3-3-||----------------------|------------------||----------------------|------------------|
F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb/Ab E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------||--------6---4---3---|------6---4-----3---|--------5---4---6---||--------5---5---3---|------5---5-----3---|--------5---3---5---||-----3-(3)--6---3---|---3-(3)--6-----3---|-----5-(5)--5---7---||--------------------|--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
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| +E E Q E E E E H E Q E E E Q E E E E|--------------------|------------------1-|--------------------||------------1-1-----|------------------1-|--------------------||------------1-1-3p0-|------------3b5-----|-3b5------------1-3-||-(3)----------------|--------------------|--------------3-----||--------------------|--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
Bb/Ab Db Eb/Ab F Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|--------------------------|--------------------||------------3---6---4-----|------6---4-----3---||------------3---6---5-----|------5---5-----3---||---------3-(3)--6---5-----|---3-(3)--6-----3---||--------------------------|--------------------||--------------------------|--------------------|
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| S +S E Q E E E E Q Q E E a E E|------------------1-------|--------------------||------------------1-------|--------------------||-3b5r(3)p1----------3b5-1-|--------------------||--------------------------|-3------------6h7---||--------------------------|------------8-----8-||--------------------------|--------------------|
F Ab Bb F/Ab Ab Bb F/Ab Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|-----------------------||--------------------|----------------------||---------6---4---3-----||------6---4---3-----|------6---4---3-------||---------5---5---3-----||------5---5---3-----|------5---5---3-------||----3---(3)--6---3-----||---3-(3)--6---3-----|---3-(3)--6---3-------||-----------------------||--------------------|----------------------||-----------------------||--------------------|----------------------|
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| E +E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E|---------------1-------||------------1-------|------------1---------||---------------1-------||------------1-------|------------1---------||-----------------3b5-3p||=1------------3b5-3p|=1------------3b5-3p==||-----------------------||--------------------|----------------------||-8-(8)\----------------||--------------------|----------------------||-----------------------||--------------------|----------------------|
F/Ab Ab Bb F/Ab Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|--------------------|---------------------||------6---4---3-----|------6---4---3------||------5---5---3-----|------5---5---3------||---3-(3)--6---3-----|---3-(3)--6---3------||--------------------|---------------------||--------------------|---------------------|
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| E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E|------------1-------|------------6--------||------------1-------|------------6--------||-1------------3b5-3p|=1------------8b10-8p||--------------------|---------------------||--------------------|---------------------||--------------------|---------------------|
Bb/Db Db Eb Bb/Db Db Eb F/Ab Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|---------------------|--------------------|---------------------||------3---6---4------|------3---6---4-----|------6---4---3------||------3---6---5------|------3---6---5-----|------5---5---3------||---3-(3)--6---5------|---3-(3)--6---5-----|---3-(3)--6---3------||---------------------|--------------------|---------------------||---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
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| E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E|------------6--------|------------1-------|------------1--------||------------6--------|------------1-------|------------1--------||-6------------8b10-8p|=6------------3b5-3p|=1------------3b5-3p=||---------------------|--------------------|---------------------||---------------------|--------------------|---------------------||---------------------|--------------------|---------------------|
F/Ab Ab Bb C/Eb Eb F E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|-----------------------|---------------------||------6---4----3-------|------5---4---6------||------5---5----3-------|------5---3---5------||---3-(3)--6----3-------|---5-(5)--5---7------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------|
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| E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E|------------8----------|------------6--------||------------8----------|------------6--------||-1------------10b12-10p|=8------------8b10-8p||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------||-----------------------|---------------------|
Bb/Db Db Eb F/Ab Ab Bb F/Ab Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|--------------------|--------------------|----------------|||------3---6---4-----|------6---4---3-----|------6---4--3--|||------3---6---5-----|------5---5---3-----|------5---5--3--|||---3-(3)--6---5-----|---3-(3)--6---3-----|---3-(3)--6--3--|||--------------------|--------------------|----------------|||--------------------|--------------------|----------------||
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| E E Q E E E E E E Q E E E E E E Q H|------------1-------|------------1-------|----------------|||------------1-------|------------1-------|----------------|||-6------------3b5-3p|=1------------3b5-3p|=1--------------|||--------------------|--------------------|----------------|||--------------------|--------------------|----------------|||--------------------|--------------------|----------------||
Organ Solo II F Ab Bb F/Ab Ab Bb/Ab F/Ab Ab Bb Q Q H E E E E E E E E a E S S E E H|-1------------|---1-4-6-6-4-6-4-|-6h8-6-4-1---------||--------------|-----------------|-------------------||--------------|-----------------|-------------------||--------------|-----------------|-------------------||--------------|-----------------|-------------------||--------------|-----------------|-------------------|
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| PM--------------------------------------------------| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|--------------|-----------------|-------------------||--------------|-----------------|-------------------||--------------|-----------------|-------------------||--------------|-----------------|-------------------||-----------1--|-------------1---|----------------1--||-1--1-1-4-----|-1---1-1-4-------|---1-----1-1-4-----|
F/Eb Ab Bb Bb/Eb Db Eb Q a Q a Q a Q a Q Q S S E a Q|----11h13---11h13--11h13--|-11p8--8---6-4-1-4h6----||--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------|
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| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------||--------------------------|-------------------1----||-----------------------1--|----1--1-1-4------------||-1------1-1-----4---------|------------------------|
Bb/Ab Db Eb F/Eb Ab Bb/Eb F Ab Bb a Q a Q a Q Q a Q Q E E E E E E Q Q E E|-4h6--4h6---4p1--1--|------------------|----------------||--------------------|-4p1--------4-6-4-|-6-6--------0-0-||--------------------|------------------|----------------||--------------------|------------------|----------------||--------------------|------------------|----------------||--------------------|------------------|----------------|
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| PM----------------------------------------------------| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|--------------------|------------------|----------------||--------------------|------------------|----------------||--------------------|------------------|----------------||-----------------1--|------------------|----------------||---1----1-1---4-----|--------------1---|------------1---||--------------------|---1--1-1-4-------|-1---1-1-4------|
C Eb F Bb/Eb Db Eb a Q Q S E. Q a Q a Q a Q a E E|-1h3--3--------1--|------------------------||----------4-1-----|-4h6--4h6---4h6--4h6-4--||------------------|------------------------||------------------|------------------------||------------------|------------------------||------------------|------------------------|
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| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|------------------|------------------------||------------------|------------------------||------------------|------------------------||---------------3--|-------------------1----||---3--3-3-6-------|---1----1-1---4---------||------------------|------------------------|
F Ab Bb F/Ab Ab Bb/Ab F/Ab Ab Bb E E Q H E E a Q a Q a E E a E E E E H|---------------|---1-4h6---4h6--4h6-4-|-6h8-4-1---------||-6-6-----------|----------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------------|-----------------|
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| PM------------------------------------------------------| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|---------------|----------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------------|-----------------||------------1--|------------------1---|--------------1--||-1---1-1-4-----|-1-----1-1---4--------|---1---1-1-4-----|
F/Ab Ab Bb/Ab F/Ab Ab Bb E E a Q a Q a E E a E E E E H|---1-4h6---4h6--4h6-4-|-6h8-4-1-----------||----------------------|-------------------||----------------------|-------------------||----------------------|-------------------||----------------------|-------------------||----------------------|-------------------|
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| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|----------------------|-------------------||----------------------|-------------------||----------------------|-------------------||----------------------|-------------------||------------------1---|--------------1----||-1-----1-1---4--------|---1---1-1-4-------|
F/Eb Ab Bb Bb/Ab Db Eb/Ab Bb/Ab Db Eb/Ab F Ab Bb a Q E E Q a Q Q E E Q E E q E E q E E E E Q Q a Q|------------------|---------------|---------------|------------------||-4h6--1-----------|---------------|---------------|------------------||-------------3h5--|-3--3-1-3--5-1-|-3--3-1-3--3-1-|------------1h3---||------------------|---------------|---------------|-3-3--------------||------------------|---------------|---------------|------------------||------------------|---------------|---------------|------------------|
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| PM------------------------------------------------------------|
| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|------------------|---------------|---------------|------------------||------------------|---------------|---------------|------------------||------------------|---------------|---------------|------------------||------------------|-----------1---|-----------1---|------------------||---------------1--|-1--1-1-4------|-1--1-1-4------|--------------1---||---1--1-1-4-------|---------------|---------------|-1---1-1-4--------|
F/Ab Ab Bb C Eb F S E S Q Q E E Q Q a Q a Q|------------------|-3--3-------------||------------------|--------4p1--4h6--||----------------5-|------------------||-6-3--------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------|
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| PM-----------------------------------| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|---------------3--||--------------1---|-3--3-3---6-------||-1-----1-1-4------|------------------|
Bb/Eb Db Eb F Ab Bb/Eb F Ab Bb |-3-| a Q a Q a Q a E E E E Q E E E E E E E Q H|-----------------------|-------------------|-----------------||-4h6--4h6---4h6--4h6-4-|-6-6-------1-4-1-4-|-1---------------||-----------------------|-------------------|-----------------||-----------------------|-------------------|-----------------||-----------------------|-------------------|-----------------||-----------------------|-------------------|-----------------|
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| Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q|-----------------------|-------------------|-----------------||-----------------------|-------------------|-----------------||-----------------------|-------------------|-----------------||-------------------1---|-------------------|-----------------||---1----1-1---4--------|-------------1-----|------------1----||-----------------------|-1---1-1-4---------|-1---1-1-4-------|
Outro F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|----------------------|-----------------|----------------------||------6-------4----3--|------6----4--3--|------6-------4----3--||------5-------5----3--|------5----5--3--|------5-------5----3--||---3-(3)------6----3--|---3-(3)---6--3--|---3-(3)------6----3--||----------------------|-----------------|----------------------||----------------------|-----------------|----------------------|
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| Q E E +E E Q Q E e H Q E E +E E Q|----------------------|-----------------|------1---------------||----------------------|---------3-------|------1---------------||---------3b5r(3)p1----|---------3-------|---------3b5r(3)p1----||----------------------|---------3-------|----------------------||----------------------|-----------------|----------------------||----------------------|-----------------|----------------------|
F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb F Ab Bb E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q E E Q Q Q|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------|------------------*||------6----4--3--|------6----4------3--|------6----4--3--|------6-----4--3--*||------5----5--3--|------5----5------3--|------5----5--3--|------5-----5--3--*||---3-(3)---6--3--|---3-(3)---6------3--|---3-(3)---6--3--|---3-(3)----6--3--*||-----------------|---------------------|-----------------|------------------*||-----------------|---------------------|-----------------|------------------*|
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| ~~~~~~~~| |3-|| Q E e H E E +E Q E +E Q Q E e H Q E E H|-----------------|---------------------|-----------------|-----13--13-------*||---------3-------|---6-(6)-6-6-(6)\----|---------3-------|-----13--13-------*||---------3-------|---------------------|---------3-------|------------------*||---------3-------|---------------------|---------3-------|------------------*||-----------------|---------------------|-----------------|------------------*||-----------------|---------------------|-----------------|------------------*|
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Duration Legend
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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
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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
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| - 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
