Author/Artist: Queensryche
Title: Spreading The Disease
Album: Operation: Mindcrime
Transcribed by: Raven
Email: grans@earthlink.net
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intro repeat 4 times over rhythm guitar, then hold the unison E notes
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verse riff-palm mute the low E string
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repeat, but then,
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after rhythm choking x's, play
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chorus (Geoff Tate broke my windows!!!)
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Guitar Solo
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the delay pedal he's got on then repeats the last notes.
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This part played after the infamous speech, "Religion and sex are power..."
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This part played after "While we pay for wars in South America"
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now faster, as the palm muted E sneaks up
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conclusion
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 --\------/-------
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\ - bar down
/- bar up
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