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EASY LIVIN'
As recorded by Uriah Heep
(From the 1972 Album DEMONS AND WIZARDS)
Transcribed by Per Rannug (prannug@online.no)
Words and Music by Ken Hensley
Arranged by Michael White
Dm
x 5 7 7 6 x
Am
x 0 2 2 1 0
Bm
x 2 4 4 3 2
E
0 2 2 1 0 0
F
1 0 3 2 x x
G
3 5 5 4 x x
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Guitar I (Rythym)'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Guitar II (Lead)'
Gtr III (E A D G B E) - 'Keyboard (Organ)'
Gtr IV (E A D G B E) - 'Keyboard (Bells)'
Intro
Q=145(8=s8)
Dm
4/4
Gtr I
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Gtr III Q Q H E E E E E E Q|-10---------------|-10-10------13-13-13---||-10---------------|-10-10---12-15-15-15---||-10---------------|-10-10---12-14-14-14---||-12---------------|-12-12------12-12-12---||------------------|-----------------------||------------------|-----------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E E H E E E Q E E E Q|-10-10--------------|-10-10------13---13----||-10-10-----------12-|-10-10---12-15---15----||-10-10-----------12-|-10-10---12-14---14----||-12-12--------------|-12-12------12---12----||--------------------|-----------------------||--------------------|-----------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. S S H Q. E S S E Q|-10--------10---------|-10---------13-13---13---||-10--------10---------|-10------12-15-15---15---||-10--------10---------|-10------12-14-14---14---||-12--------12---------|-12---------12-12---12---||----------------------|-------------------------||----------------------|-------------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. S S Q E E Q. E S S E Q|-10--------10----------|-10---------13-13---13---|||-10--------10-------12-|-10------12-15-15---15---|||-10--------10-------12-|-10------12-14-14---14---|||-12--------12----------|-12---------12-12---12---|||-----------------------|-------------------------|||-----------------------|-------------------------||
Verse 1
Dm
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W Q E Q. Q|-10---------------|-10-----10------10---||-10---------------|-10-----10------10---||-10---------------|-10-----10------10---||-12---------------|-12-----12------12---||------------------|---------------------||------------------|---------------------|
F Dm
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W Q E E E E E E|-13---------------|-10-----10---10---10-||-10---------------|-10-----10---10---10-||-10---------------|-10-----10---10---10-||-10---------------|-12-----12---12---12-||------------------|---------------------||------------------|---------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q E E E E E E Q E Q. Q|-10-----10---10---10-|-10-----10------10---||-10-----10---10---10-|-10-----10------10---||-10-----10---10---10-|-10-----10------10---||-12-----12---12---12-|-12-----12------12---||---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------|
F Dm
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W H Q Q|-13---------------|-10-------10---10----|||-10---------------|-10-------10---10----|||-10---------------|-10-------10---10----|||-10---------------|-12-------12---12/---|||------------------|---------------------|||------------------|---------------------||
Chorus 1
G Dm
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W Q E E E Q.|-15---------------|-10-----10---10------||-15---------------|-10-----10---10------||-16---------------|-10-----10---10------||-17---------------|-12-----12---12------||------------------|---------------------||------------------|---------------------|
G Dm
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E E H. Q. E H|-15---15------------|-10--------10-------||-15---15------------|-10--------10-------||-16---16------------|-10--------10-------||-17---17------------|-12--------12-------||--------------------|--------------------||--------------------|--------------------|
G F
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W W|-15---------------|-13---------------||-15---------------|-13---------------||-16---------------|-14---------------||-17---------------|-15---------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------|
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| Gtr II| W W|------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------|
Interlude
Dm (Dm)
E E E E E E Q W
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/ / / / / / /
|-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
W E E E E E E E E E E E|-10--------------||-------------------------------||-10--------------||-10-8----8---------------------||-10--------------||------10---10-9-10-9-----------||-12--------------||---------------------12-10-11--||-----------------||-------------------------------||-----------------||-------------------------------|
|
| |-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
| W E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------||-------------------------------||-----------------||-------------------------------||-----------------||-------------------------------||-----------------||--7p5----5---------------------||-----------------||-------8----8-7--8-7--5--3--4--||-----------------||-------------------------------|
Dm (Dm) Dm
E E E E E E Q W E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
|-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
E E E E e Q. E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E e E E E|-10---10---10-10-----|------------------------------|-10---10---10-10------||-10---10---10-10-----|-10-8----8--------------------|-10---10---10-10---10-||-10---10---10-10-----|------10---10-9-10-9----------|-10---10---10-10------||-12---12---12-12-----|---------------------12-10-11-|-12---12---12-12---10-||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------|
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| |-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
| W E E E E E E E E E E E W|---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------||---------------------|--7p5----5--------------------|----------------------||---------------------|-------8----8-7--8-7--5--3--4-|----------------------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
H Q Q Q E E Q E E H S S E Q|-10-------13---13---|-10--------10--------|-10-------13-13---13----|||-10-------15---15---|-10-----10-10-----10-|-10-------15-15---15----|||-10-------14---14---|-10--------10--------|-10-------14-14---14----|||-12-------12---12---|-12-----10-12-----10-|-12-------12-12---12----|||--------------------|---------------------|------------------------|||--------------------|---------------------|------------------------||
Verse 2
Dm
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E Q. E Q. Q. Q|-10------10-10------10-|-10------10------10---||-10------10-10------10-|-10------10------10---||-10------10-10------10-|-10------10------10---||-12------12-12------12-|-12------12------12---||-----------------------|----------------------||-----------------------|----------------------|
F Dm
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W Q E E Q Q|-13---------------|-10-----10-10----13----||-10---------------|-10-----10-10---(10)---||-10---------------|-10-----10-10---(10)---||-10---------------|-12-----12-12---(12)---||------------------|-----------------------||------------------|-----------------------|
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q E Q. Q Q E Q. Q|-10-----10------10---|-10-----10------10---||-10-----10------10---|-10-----10------10---||-10-----10------10---|-10-----10------10---||-12-----12------12---|-12-----12------12---||---------------------|---------------------||---------------------|---------------------|
F Dm
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W Q E Q. Q|-13---------------|-10-----10------10----|||-10---------------|-10-----10------10----|||-10---------------|-10-----10------10----|||-10---------------|-12-----12------12/---|||------------------|----------------------|||------------------|----------------------||
Chorus 2
G Dm G Dm
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
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W W W Q. E H|-15---------------|-10---------------|-15---------------|-10--------10-------||-15---------------|-10---------------|-15---------------|-10--------10-------||-16---------------|-10---------------|-16---------------|-10--------10-------||-17---------------|-12---------------|-17---------------|-12--------12-------||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------||------------------|------------------|------------------|--------------------|
G F
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W W|-15---------------|-13---------------||-15---------------|-13---------------||-16---------------|-14---------------||-17---------------|-15---------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------|
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| Gtr II| W W|------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------|
Interlude
Dm (Dm)
E E E E E E Q W
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/ / / / / / /
|-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
W E E E E E E E E E E E|-10--------------||-------------------------------||-10--------------||-10-8----8---------------------||-10--------------||------10---10-9-10-9-----------||-12--------------||---------------------12-10-11--||-----------------||-------------------------------||-----------------||-------------------------------|
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| |-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
| W E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------||-------------------------------||-----------------||-------------------------------||-----------------||-------------------------------||-----------------||--7p5----5---------------------||-----------------||-------8----8-7--8-7--5--3--4--||-----------------||-------------------------------|
Dm (Dm) Dm
E E E E E E Q W E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
|-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
E E E E e Q. E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E e Q.|-10---10---10-10-----|------------------------------|-10---10---10-10------||-10---10---10-10-----|-10-8----8--------------------|-10---10---10-10------||-10---10---10-10-----|------10---10-9-10-9----------|-10---10---10-10------||-12---12---12-12-----|---------------------12-10-11-|-12---12---12-12------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------|
|
| |-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
| W E E E E E E E E E E E W|---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------||---------------------|--7p5----5--------------------|----------------------||---------------------|-------8----8-7--8-7--5--3--4-|----------------------||---------------------|------------------------------|----------------------|
Bridge
Am F Am
E E E E E E Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
E E E E Q Q W W W|-10-10------10---10--||---8-------------|--8-------------||--8-------------||-10-10------10---10--||o-10-------------|-10------------o||-10-------------||-10-10---12-10---10--||---9-------------|-10-------------||--9-------------||-12-12---12-12---12--||---7-------------|-10-------------||--7-------------||---------------------||o----------------|---------------o||----------------||---------------------||-----------------|----------------||----------------|
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| Gtr IV| W Q H. Q H. Q H.|---------------------||------12---------|-----8----------||-----12---------||---------------------||o-----10---------|-----6---------o||-----10---------||---------------------||-----------------|----------------||----------------||---------------------||-----------------|----------------||----------------||---------------------||o----------------|---------------o||----------------||---------------------||-----------------|----------------||----------------|
G Am Bm
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W W W W|-7-------------|--8-------------|--8-----------||--10-------------||-8-------------|-10-------------|-10-----------||o-12-------------||-7-------------|--9-------------|--9-----------||--11-------------||-5-------------|--7-------------|--7-----------||---9-------------||---------------|----------------|--------------||o----------------||---------------|----------------|--------------||-----------------|
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| Q H. Q H. W Q H.|----10---------|-----12---------|--------------||------14---------||-----8---------|-----10---------|--------------||o-----12---------||---------------|----------------|--------------||-----------------||---------------|----------------|--------------||-----------------||---------------|----------------|--------------||o----------------||---------------|----------------|--------------||-----------------|
G Am G F
Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W W W W|-10--------------||--8-------------|-7-------------|--8------------||-12-------------o||-10-------------|-8-------------|-10------------||-12--------------||--9-------------|-7-------------|-10------------||-12--------------||--7-------------|-5-------------|-10------------||----------------o||----------------|---------------|---------------||-----------------||----------------|---------------|---------------|
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| Q H. Q H. Q H. Q H.|-----10----------||-----12---------|----10---------|-----8---------||------8---------o||-----10---------|-----8---------|-----6---------||-----------------||----------------|---------------|---------------||-----------------||----------------|---------------|---------------||----------------o||----------------|---------------|---------------||-----------------||----------------|---------------|---------------|
Pre-Verse
Dm
Q Q Q Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
+W H H H Q Q H H|--(8)-----------||-10-------10-------|-10-------13---13---|-10-------10-------||-(10)-----------||-10-------10-------|-10-------15---15---|-10-------10-------||-(10)-----------||-10-------10-------|-10-------14---14---|-10-------10-------||-(10)-----------||-12-------12-------|-12-------12---12---|-12-------12-------||----------------||-------------------|--------------------|-------------------||----------------||-------------------|--------------------|-------------------|
Verse 3
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q. E S S E Q H H|-10---------13-13---13---||-10-------10-------||-10------12-15-15---15---||-10-------10-------||-10------12-14-14---14---||-10-------10-------||-12---------12-12---12---||-12-------12-------||-------------------------||-------------------||-------------------------||-------------------|
F
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
H H W|-10-------10-------|-13----------------||-10-------10-------|-10----------------||-10-------10-------|-10----------------||-12-------12-------|-10----------------||-------------------|-------------------||-------------------|-------------------|
Dm F
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
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W W W W|-10---------------|-10---------------|-10---------------|-13---------------||-10---------------|-10---------------|-10---------------|-10---------------||-10---------------|-10---------------|-10---------------|-10---------------||-12---------------|-12---------------|-12---------------|-10---------------||------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------||------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
Chorus 3
Dm G
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
W W|-10---------------||--15---------------||-10---------------||o-15---------------||-10---------------||--16---------------||-12---------------||--17---------------||------------------||o------------------||------------------||-------------------|
Dm G
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Q E E E Q. W|-10-----10---10------|-15---------------||-10-----10---10------|-15---------------||-10-----10---10------|-16---------------||-12-----12---12------|-17---------------||---------------------|------------------||---------------------|------------------|
Dm G F Dm
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 Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
H H W W W|-10-------(10)-------|-15---------------|-13---------------|-10--------------||-10--------13--------|-15---------------|-13---------------|-10--------------||-10-------(10)-------|-16---------------|-14---------------|-10--------------||-12-------(12)-------|-17---------------|-15---------------|-12--------------||---------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------||---------------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------|
1. 2.
(Dm) Dm
E E E E E E Q W E E E E E E Q
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / /
|-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
W E E E E E E E E E E E Q Q H|-10---------------||------------------------------|--------------10-------||-10--------------o||-10-8----8--------------------|-------10----(10)------||-10---------------||------10---10-9-10-9----------|-10---(10)---(10)------||-12---------------||---------------------12-10-11-|-12---(12)---(12)------||-----------------o||------------------------------|-----------------------||------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------|
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| Gtr II
| |-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
| W E E E E E E E E E E E W|------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------||-----------------o||------------------------------|-----------------------||------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------||------------------||--7p5----5--------------------|-----------------------||-----------------o||-------8----8-7--8-7--5--3--4-|-----------------------||------------------||------------------------------|-----------------------|
(Dm)
W
|-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
E E E E E E E E E E E|------------------------------||-10-8----8--------------------||------10---10-9-10-9----------||---------------------12-10-11-||------------------------------||------------------------------|
|
| |-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
| E E E E E E E E E E E|------------------------------||------------------------------||------------------------------||--7p5----5--------------------||-------8----8-7--8-7--5--3--4-||------------------------------|
Outro
Dm Am
E E E E E E Q W
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/ / / / / / / /
|-3--| |-3--| |-3--|
E E E E e Q. E E E E E E E E E E E|------10---10-10-----||------------------------------||------10---10-10-----||-10-8----8--------------------||-10---10---10-10-----||------10---10-9-10-9----------||-12---12---12-12-----||---------------------12-10-11-||---------------------||------------------------------||---------------------||------------------------------|
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| W W|---------------------||------------------------------||---------------------||------------------------------||---------------------||------------------------------||---------------------||------------------------------||---------------------||------------------------------||---------------------||------------------------------|
G F E
W W W
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/ / /
|-3--| |-3--| |-3--| |-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 W|------------------------------|------------------------------|-7----||-10-8----8--------------------|-10-8----8--------------------|-9----||------10---10-9-10-9----------|------10---10-9-10-9----------|-9----||---------------------12-10-11-|---------------------12-10-11-|------||------------------------------|------------------------------|------||------------------------------|------------------------------|------|
Am Dm
+H. Q Q Q H
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/ / /
+H. Q Q Q H|-(7)----------|-10----------*||-(9)----------|-10----------*||-(9)----------|-10----------*||--------------|-12----------*||----------12--|-------------*||----------12--|-------------*|
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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
----------------
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
