CANDLEMASS - THE TALE OF CREATION
From the Album TALES OF CREATION
Copyright 1989 Music For Nations
Version 2.0 - October 1997
First Transcription by: TALAL DAGHESTANI
Corrections and Additions by: RICHARD BROADHEAD II()
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. - palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - bend
p - pull off Suffixes for bend
t - tap with finger f - full bend h - half bend
* - see comment fh - bend 1.5 steps
ph - pinched harmonic ~ - vibrato bend
(#) - pick # while in bend
Tuning: Eb(Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb) every string down half a step
RIFF A |------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------||-2-2--7\6--3--6\5--3----------||-0-0--5\4--1--4\3--1----------| . .
PLAY RIFF A 10 TIMES
RIFF B(bass notes doubled by synth)|----------------------------||----------------------------||----------------------------||--------10-9-10-9-----------||-7-9-10-8--7-8--7-----------||-5-7-8----------------------|
PLAY RIFF B 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF A 8 TIMES
PLAY RIFF B 2 TIMES
RIFF C(doubled by synth)|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||------/9-10-9-10-9-------------||-7-10---------------10---------|
PLAY RIFF C 2 TIMES
RIFF D(doubled by synth)|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-----/7-8-7-8-7----------------||-5-8------------8--------------|
PLAY RIFF D 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF C 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF D 2 TIMES
RIFF E|----------------------------------||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||-2---7-6---10-9-10-9-7-6-3-2-3----||-0---5-4---8--7-8--7-5-4-1-0-1----|
PLAY RIFF E 4 TIMES
PLAY RIFF A 10 TIMES
PLAY RIFF B 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF C 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF D 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF C 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF D 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF E 4 TIMES
Riffs under solo
|------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------| x4|------------------------------||--5-6-\1-/4-------------------|
|------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------| x2|--5-6-\1-/4-------------------||------------------------------|
|------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------| x2|------------------------------||--5-6-\1-/4-------------------|
end of riffs under solo
|---------------------------------|----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----10--8h10p8h10p8--------------------||----5-4h5p4h5p4---3--------------|--10-----------------10-8---------------||--7-------------7---3------------|--------------------------10--6~--------| |-----------------------5~--------|----------------------------------------| |---------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|----------------------------------------||---------------------------------|-----10--8h10p8h10p8--------------------||----5-4h5p4h5p4---3--------------|--10-----------------10-8----7bh~-------||--7-------------7---3------------|--------------------------10------------| |-----------------------5~--------|----------------------------------------| |---------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
/--not a 100, but sure damn close!!! --\|---------------------|-------------------------------------------||---------------------|-----------------------8h9h11p9p8---8bh~---||-7bf~(7)-9~---9-7-10-|-----------------7h8h10----------h10-------||---------------------|-------7h8h10p8p7--------------------------||---------------------|-7h8h10------------------------------------||---------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|-------t----t----t--------------------|---------------------||*15bf-(20)-(18)-(16)-16bf-13bf~-13bf~-|---------------------||--------------------------------------|-14h16p14-14-13~-----||--------------------------------------|---------------------||--------------------------------------|---------------------||--------------------------------------|---------------------|* bend 15 up to 17 and tap 22,20,18 while bent
|-t17p13p12p10-t17p13p12p10-t17p13p12p10-t17p13p12p10-t18p15p13p11-|------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------
-t18p15p13p11-t18p15p13p11-t18p15p13p11-t13p10p8p6-t13p10p8p6-t13p10p8p6------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-t13p10p8p6-t21p18p16p14-t21p18p16p14-t21p18p16p14-t21p18p16p14-|----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
t *whammy a step up |-20bf~-20-17-20bfh~-20-17-*20bf-p17---------------19------------||-------------------------------------18-20-22-18--19------------||--------------------------------------------------harmonics-----||----------------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------|*tap 20th fret with finger and bend note while tapped up 1 step. Thenrelease the tap while having a finger position at the 17th fret, but makesure when you release the tap finger you also release the bend. *whammy part, not 100eÛ¿¿Û¿¿Û¿¿¬Û¿¿ËÛ¿¿åÛ¿¿LÜ¿¿Ü¿¿Ü¿¿¬Ü¿¿ÓÜ¿¿ïÜ¿¿Ý¿¿.Ý¿¿=Ý¿¿Ý¿¿µÝ¿¿ÓÝ¿¿íÝ¿¿Þ¿¿Þ¿¿'Þ¿¿XÞ¿¿sÞ¿¿Þ¿¿ure, but it sounds close
|----8-7h8p7h8p7----6-------------|----15bf-15----------------------||-10-------------10---------------|-18---------18-16----------------||---------------------10-7--------|------------------*17bfh~--------||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|* use whammy bar for bend and vibrato
|----8-7h8p7h8p7----6-------------|----15bf-15----21bf-21-19-21bf~--||-10-------------10---------------|-18---------18-------------------||---------------------10-7--------|---------------------------------||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
PLAY RIFF A 10 TIMES
PLAY RIFF B 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF A 8 TIMES
PLAY RIFF B 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF C 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF D 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF C 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF D 2 TIMES
PLAY RIFF E 4 TIMES
|----------------------------------------||----------------------------------------||----------------------------------------||----------------------------------------| GUITAR 1 KEEPS PLAYING |----------------------------------------| THIS TILL IT FADES OUT|-5~---5~-3~-5~--1~--0~--8~-7~-8~-7~-3~--|
Guitar 2|----------------------------||------------5-3-5-3h5p3-----||-5-4-5-2-1--------------4~--||----------------------------| x8|----------------------------||----------------------------|
Guitar 3|-12-10-12------------13bf-13-13bf-13-12--||----------13(*13bf~)---------------------||-----------------------------------------| x5|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|* pull note up a full step and vibrato with whammy bar
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