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Borealia - In Fragments And In Wholes
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Borealia - In Fragments And In Wholes
Song is downloadable for free here:
http://www.last.fm/music/Borealia/In+Fragments+And+In+Wholes
This is the first song recorded for my upcoming album of the same title.
This is a basic outline of the song, no lead guitar parts are shown because
I pretty much improvised all of them, so besides the fact that I can scarcely
remember exactly how they were played, the only really musically important
bits are the rhythm guitar parts.
Seven string in standard tuning throughout.
Opeth-like Intro
(clean tone)
|--0------0-------------------|
|--0----0---0-----------------|
|--2----2---2-2/5----5-4-2-0--|
|--2----2---2-2/5-------------|
|--0--------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------| x3
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|
|------------------|
|-----------0------|
|--2----3-----2----|
|---------------3--|
|-------------------------------|
|------------0------------------|
|----------0-----------------0--|
|--------2-----------------4----|
|------3-----------------5------|
|-------------------------------|
|--1-----------------1/3--------| x8
(turn on distortion)
|--0------7-----------------------------------|---------3-------2-------|
|--0------8----8---6---6---5---3---3-3-3-3-3--|---------3-------2-------|
|--0------9----8---7---6---5---4---4-4-4-4-4--|---------0-------4-------|
|--2------9----8---7---6---5---4---4-4-4-4-4--|--2------0-------4-------|
|--2---7-------6---5---4---3---2---2-2-2-2-2--|--2------x-------2-------|
|--0------------------------------------------|--0------3-------2-------|
|---------------------------------------------|-------------------------|
Faux-Gothic METAAAAALLL part
Variations on this:
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|-----------------------------|
|--2--------------------------|
|--2--------------------------|
|--0-------------------3-2----|
|-----------------------------|
Latin Funk-ass part
(Clean tone)
|--x-x-7-6--6-5--x-x-7-6--6-5--x-x-7-6--6-5--7/9----10-9-------|
|--x-x-8-8--7-7--x-x-8-8--7-7--x-x-8-8--7-7--8/10--------10----|
|--x-x-9-9--8-8--x-x-9-9--8-8--x-x-9-9--8-8--7/9------------9--|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
Lead over Latin Funk-ass part
(distortion)
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--12-x--11-x--11-x--10----12-x--11-x--11-x--10----12-x--11-x--11-x--10-12/14--|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--9--x--8--x--8--x--7-----9--x--8--x--8--x--7-----9--x--8--x--8--x--7--9-/11--|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Ambient Chill-out Synth part
|-----7-------7---7/9------10---12---|
|-----8-------8---8/10-----10---10---|
|-----7-------7---7/9----------------|
|------------------------------------|
|--0-------0-------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
Last bar, a second guitar plays:
|-------------------|
|--5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
|-------------------|
Exceedingly Climactic Synth Solo Ending Part
(clean, fingerpicked)
|-----0----4p0---0---0----0----3p0---0---0--|
|--5-----5-----5---5---5-----5-----5---5----|
|--6---------------6---5---------------5----|
|--6---------------6---5---------------5----|
|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------|
|-----0----2p0---0---0-----0---1-----|
|--3-----3-----3---3---3-------------|
|--4---------------4---3-------------|
|--4---------------4---3-------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
Rhythm:
(distorted)
|--12---12-12--| repeat for 2nd repeat of above
|--x----x--x---|
|--9----9--9---|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|----------------------------------------------------0---1---|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|--6--------------5--------------4---------------3-----------|
|--6--------------5--------------4---------------3-----------|
|--4--------0-4-0-3--------0-3-0-2---------0-2-0-1-----------|
|--4--------0-4-0-3--------0-3-0-2---------0-2-0-1-----------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
Clean guitar ends with slowly picking these chords:
|--4-----3-----2-----1-------|
|--5-----3-----2-----1-------|
|--6-----5-----4-----3-------|
|--6-----5-----4-----3-------|
|--4-----3-----2-----1-------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
. . . .
|--4--3--2--1--------------------0--------------|
|--4--3--2--1--------------------0--------------|
|--6--5--4--3--------------------0------------------|
|--6--5--4--3--------------------2------------------|
|--4--3--2--1-----1-0------------2------------------|
|---------------------3~~~~~-----0------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
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