Author/Artist: Queensryche
Title: Operation: Mindcrime
Album: Operation: Mindcrime
Transcribed by: Raven
Email: grans@earthlink.net
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----4-----5v------------7\-*|--2-----0----|----------4----0---------4----0----
-2-----2--------------------|-------------|--0--0--2---2------0--2-----2------
feedback 4rth time end then this riff
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-2-|---2---2-|--2---|---4--------7---4------4-------7----2--|-----------------
-2-|---------|--2---|*--4--------7---4------4-------7----2-*|----4-----5v-----
-0-|---------|--0---|---2--------5---2------2-------5----0--|-2-----2---------
end# 1 end# 2 verse riff, twice
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----------------------4----2--|-------------2---------------------------------
----------------------4----2--|-----2---4------4---2--------------------------
-7\-------4-----5v----2----0--|--4--------------------4---2-------------------
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to verse Eddie Jackson's Bass Fill "Watch the dragon"
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-6--------6--------6---2------6--------6--------6---4----6--------6--------6--
-6--------6--------6---2------6--------6--------6---4----6--------6--------6--
-4--4--4--4--4--4--4---0------4--4--4--4--4--4--4---2----4--4--4--4--4--4--4--
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Bridge
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-2-------4-----------------------4--------4-----------------------------------
-2-------4--------------------------------------------------------------------
-0-------2--------------------------------------------------------------------
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so take this numba!!! and welcome . . . to chorus (reuse intro)
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-5^------------------------------------------5b7v----2--5--2-----2------------
----\--------0---\---------/\---------/-----------------------4-----4--2--4---
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Killer Guitar Solo \ = bar dives, by the way
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-2-----2---------------------------------------------------2------------------
----4----4--2--2-----2-------------------------------2--4-----4v-----2---4-4--
------------4-----4-----4--3--2----------------2--4---------------------------
------------*---------------------5---2b42v-----------------------------------
A mistake? the two notes, "double stop" on the recording PM--------
-------------------------------------12-b14------------------14--17b19--------
-----------------------------12--14----------14-13-14v---17-------------------
----------------------4v------------------------------------------------------
-2-4-4-2-4-4-2-4-4--2---------------------------------------------------------
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-14--17--14------14-----------------------------------------------------------
-------------17------17--14-17------14------14--17--14-----14-----------------
--------------------------------16------16-------------16-----16--14----------
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-16--18---14v----16-----------------------------------------------------------
---------------------16v---------14--12-----12--14--12--14--12-----12--14-12--
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Ab key change
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-14--12------12--14--12--14-12-----12--14/---16v----------/12--11---------12--
---------13---------------------13---------------------------------11---------
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-11-------12--11-------14----12-11------12--12--11----------------------------
-----11-----------11----------------11--------------11---13--11--13b15r13-----
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-11---13v---11----------------------------------------------------------------
------------------13--14--16--14--13------13--14--16--14--13-----13--14--16---
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-14--13------13--14--16--14--13------13--14--16--14--13------14--13--11-13----
---------16----------------------16----------------------16-------------------
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-----------------------------6b7-----^6r-p4--6b7---4h6--4--6---4v-------------
-11--9--11--11-11-11-9\--6----------------------------------------------------
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don't pick string after artificial harmonic
-0---------0------------------------------------------------------------------
---4---------4----------------------------------------------------------------
-----4-----------------------------------4----2-------------------------------
-----------------------------------------4----2-------------------------------
-------------------------4-------5v------2----0-------------------------------
---------------0-----2-------2------------------------------------------------
verse riff, chorus, then
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--5--------------------------------------------------------------2------------
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the end jam . . . the note here is a D feeding back . . . then
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show off that Whammy Bar ya' got!! feedback to "Speak"
h - hammer on
p - pull off
* - trill
b - bend (use tremolo bar for downbend)
r - release bend
/ - slide up
\ - slide down
v - vibrato
t - tap (with strumming hand)
x - fret-hand muting
^ - natural harmonics
ph- artificial (pinch) harmonics
PM palm mute
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Lines going diagonally up and down --\--------/-----
These mean whammy bar --\------/-------
- --\----/------
\ - bar down
/- bar up
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