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STRATOSPHERE
As recorded by Stratovarius
(From the 2002 Album 1996)
Transcribed by Bruno Di Giorgi
Music by Stratovarius
Arranged by Stratovarius
Gtr I (D# G# C# F# A# D#) - 'Timo Tolkki'
Gtr II (D# G# C# F# A# D#) - 'Timo Tolkki Right'
Gtr III (D# G# C# F# A# D#) - 'Timo Tolkki Left'
Q=160 4/4 Gtr I S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S 4x||--12-0-0-0-8-0-0-0-7-0-0-0-5-0-0-0--||||o----------------------------------o||||------------------------------------||||------------------------------------||||o----------------------------------o||||------------------------------------||
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S||--12-0-0-0-8-0-0-0-7-0-0-0-5-0-0-0-|||o----------------------------------|||-----------------------------------|||-----------------------------------|||o----------------------------------|||-----------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-12-13-12-10----------------------10-12-13-12-10--||-------------13-12-10----10-12-13-----------------||----------------------13--------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-12-0-0-0-10-0-0-0-7-0-0-0-4-0-0-0-||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S 4x|-12-13-12-10----------------------10-12-13-12-10--|||-------------13-12-10----10-12-13----------------o|||----------------------13--------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------------o|||--------------------------------------------------||
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E||--12p9----9h12p9h13p9h12p9----9h12p9----|||o------10------------------10--------10-|||----------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------|||o---------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E|-17p13----13h17p13h18p13h17p13----13h17p13----||-------15----------------------15----------15-||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E|-10p7---7h10p7h12p7h10p7---7h10p7---||------8------------------8--------8-||------------------------------------||------------------------------------||------------------------------------||------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E|-15p12----12h15p12h17p12h15p12----12h15p12-----||-------13----------------------13----------13--||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E|----------------------------------------------||-13p10----10h13p10h15p10h13p10----10h13p10----||-------10----------------------10----------10-||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E|-14p11----11h14p11h15p11h14p11----11h14p11-----||-------12----------------------12----------12--||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-19p16----16h19p16h20p16h19p16----16h19p16----16h||-------17----------------------17----------17----||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S Q|-19p16----16h19p16h20p16h19p16----16h19----|||-------17----------------------17---------o|||-------------------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------|||------------------------------------------o|||-------------------------------------------||
$ S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S||----------------------------------------------|||o-10-13-12-10-9-12-10-9-10-13-12-10-9-12-10-9-|||----------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------|||o---------------------------------------------|||----------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|----------------10-------8-12-10-8-9-12-10-9--||-10-13-12-10-12----13-12----------------------||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-10-13-12-10-9-12-10-9-10-13-12-10-9-12-10-9-||---------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------|
1. S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-10-13-12-10-11-14-12-11-12-13-12-10--------------|||-------------------------------------13-12-10----o|||----------------------------------------------13--|||--------------------------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------------o|||--------------------------------------------------||
2. D.S. 3/4 TP TP TP S S S S S S S S H Q Q Q|-10-13-12-10-11-14-12-11-12----|-19--16--12--||-------------------------------|-------------||-------------------------------|-------------||-------------------------------|-------------||-------------------------------|-------------||-------------------------------|-------------|
TP TP TP TP TP TP TP TP TP Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q|-------------|-------------|-------------||-12----------|-------------|-------------||-----14--13--|-------------|-------------||-------------|-14----------|-------------||-------------|-----14--12--|-11----------||-------------|-------------|-----13--10--|
Q=120 Q=90 Q=60 4/4 Gtr II H H H H H H H H|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------||-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------||-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------||-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------||-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------||-12----13----|-10----12----|--8----10----|--7-------8------|
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| Gtr III| \1/ \1/| H H H H H H H H|-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------||-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------||-13----14----|-------13----|-------------|-----------------||-------------|-15----------|-14----15----|-12------14------||-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------||-------------|-------------|-------------|-----------------|
Q=40 Q=110 Gtr I > \7 W Wx3 H. Q|-----------|------------|-------------||-----------|------------|-------------||-----------|------------|-------------||-----------|------------|-------------||-----------|------------|---------/7--||-5---------|------------|-------------|
|-3--|
H. Q H Q Q Q Q E H +E +H. Q||---------------|-------------|----------------|--------------|||o--------------|-------------|----------------|--------------|||-----------/9--|-7-----------|----------------|--------------|||--10-----------|------9------|-----7-7----(7)-|-(7)----------|||o--------------|--------10-5-|-/7-------------|----------/7--|||---------------|-------------|----------------|--------------|
H. Q H. Q W +H. Q|--------------|--------------|-----------|--------------||--------------|--------------|-----------|--------------||----------/9--|-7-------/12--|-\9--------|-(9)------/9--||-10-----------|--------------|-----------|--------------||--------------|--------------|-----------|--------------||--------------|--------------|-----------|--------------|
1. Gtr III H. Q H Q Q H +E. S +Q H. Q|---------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------||---------------|-/10----12--13--|-12b13=====(12)-12r(12)--|-10-------12b13--||-10-------/12--|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------|
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| Gtr I| H. Q H Q Q H +E. S +Q H. Q|---------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------||---------------|------------10--|-------------------------|-----------------||--7--------/9--|-/10----12------|-12b14=====(12)-12r(12)--|-10-------12b14--||---------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------||---------------|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------|
W +H E E E E W +H. Q|-----------|--------------------|----------|---------------|||-12--------|-(12)---------------|----------|--------------o|||-----------|---------/10-9-7-10-|-9--------|-(9)-----------|||-----------|--------------------|----------|---------------|||-----------|--------------------|----------|----------/7--o|||-----------|--------------------|----------|---------------||
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| W +H H W W|-----------|--------------------|----------|---------------|||-----------|--------------------|----------|--------------o|||-13--------|-(13)---------------|----------|---------------|||-----------|--------------------|----------|---------------|||-----------|--------------------|----------|--------------o|||-----------|--------------------|----------|---------------||
2. H. Q W|-----------------|-----------||-10-------12b13--|-12--------||-----------------|-----------||-----------------|-----------||-----------------|-----------||-----------------|-----------|
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| H. Q W|-----------------|-----------||-----------------|-----------||-10--------9b10--|--9--------||-----------------|-----------||-----------------|-----------||-----------------|-----------|
+H S +S +E E E H. +E E W|---------12-(12)b13r(12)-10-13-|-12-------(12)--12-|-12----||-(12)--------------------------|-------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------------------|-------|
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| +H H H. E E W|-------------------------------|---------------/19-|-19----||-------------------------------|-------------------|-------||--(9)--------------------------|-------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------------------|-------||-------------------------------|-------------------|-------|
Gtr I Q Q Q Q W Q Q Q Q W||--/12--9---------|----------|-/10--7--------|----------|||o---------10--8--|-6--------|---------8--6--|-5--------|||-----------------|----------|---------------|----------|||-----------------|----------|---------------|----------|||o----------------|----------|---------------|----------|||-----------------|----------|---------------|----------|
Q Q Q Q W Q Q Q Q W|-----------------|----------|---------------|-------|||-/13--10---------|----------|---------------|------o|||----------10--9--|-7--------|-/8--11--8-----|-9-----|||-----------------|----------|------------9--|-------|||-----------------|----------|---------------|------o|||-----------------|----------|---------------|-------||
Q=160 S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S||--12-0-0-0-8-0-0-0-7-0-0-0-5-0-0-0-|||o----------------------------------|||-----------------------------------|||-----------------------------------|||o----------------------------------|||-----------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-12-13-12-10----------------------10-12-13-12-10--||-------------13-12-10----10-12-13-----------------||----------------------13--------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-12-0-0-0-10-0-0-0-7-0-0-0-4-0-0-0-||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S 6x|-12-13-12-10----------------------10-12-13-12-10--|||-------------13-12-10----10-12-13----------------o|||----------------------13--------------------------|||--------------------------------------------------|||-------------------------------------------------o|||--------------------------------------------------||
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S||--12-13-12-10----------------------10-12-13-12-10--||||o-------------13-12-10----10-12-13----------------o||||-----------------------13--------------------------||||---------------------------------------------------||||o-------------------------------------------------o||||---------------------------------------------------||
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q|-12--13--10--12--|-----10----------||-----------------|-13------12--13--||-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|
Q=120 Q=100 Q=90 Q=70 Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q|-----------------|--------------|---------------|-------------||-10--12------10--|--------------|---------------|-------------||---------13------|-9--10--7--9--|-----7---------|-------------||-----------------|--------------|-10-----9--10--|-7--9--6--7--||-----------------|--------------|---------------|-------------||-----------------|--------------|---------------|-------------|
Q=60 Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q W +W|-------------|-------------|----------|--------||-------------|-------------|----------|--------||-------------|-------------|----------|--------||-------------|-------------|----------|--------||-7--8--5--7--|----5--------|-3--------|-(3)----||-------------|-8-----7--8--|-1--------|-(1)----|
Q=160
6/4 4/4
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S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S q H.|-------------------------------------------------------------|-5--------*||-------------------------------------------------1-3-5-1-3-5-|----------*||-------------------------------------0-2-4-0-2-4-------------|----------*||-------------------------0-2-3-0-2-3-------------------------|----------*||-------------0-2-3-0-2-3-------------------------------------|----------*||-0-1-3-0-1-3-------------------------------------------------|----------*|
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
