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Battle For The Sun

Placebo

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By Michael Bird.

This song can be played in drop-d as below, but knowing Placebo it�s probably in some
crazy tuning. You�ll get pretty close to the sound on the album if you have a guitar 
humbuckers, mid-range distortion
and the pickup selector all the way to neck pickups for the beginning (but as 
as Placebo records have
gotten, it�ll help if you have 3 guitars and 15 MIDI keyboards too).
For the main riff, the open D is optional for the Bb chord, but
probably a good idea to keep it droning if you�re the only guitar in the room.

0:00-1:16

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------1-----------------|
D|-------14-------------15---------3�-3�-3�-3�-0h2h3-3--3--3-----------------|
A|-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12\--1--1--1--1--1-----1--1--1-----------------|
D|-0--0--0--0�-0--0--0--0�-0--15\--0--0--0--0--0-----0�-0--------------------|


1:17-1:29

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-0-----2-----3-----5-----7-------0-----2-----3-----5-----8-----------------|
A|-0-x4--2-x4--3-x4--5-x4--7-x16---0-x4--2-x4--3-x4--5-x4�-8-x16-------------|
D|-0-----2-----3---�-5-----7-------0-----2�----3-----5-----8-----------------|


1:30-2:19

Play the intro/verse again, with occasional flourishes, hit a big old fuzzy harmonic and then:


2:20-2:47

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------Play this twice, then bend this note�-13^-|
D|--10------8------0------8--------------------------------------------------|
A|--10-x16--8-x16--0-x16--8-x16----------------------------------------------|
D|--10------8------0------8--------------------------------------------------|


This is all you need, the rest of the song proceeds in this order:

Verse: mostly just palm mute/softly play the chords (Dm to Bb)
Chorus: Same, maybe fuller chords in the order C, Bb, Dm, Bb.
Bridge: Played four times, the last chord changes, 1st time A, 2nd and 3rd time Bb, 4th 
let the A ring out.
Chorus: Same a few times over, with fiddly keyboard add-ons and some strings, end on Bb.

There�s some extra guitar stuff in there, some minor chord shifts in the verses and some 
here or there, but that�s the bones of it.
If you have questions or comments, call Placebo on 1800-NEWDRUMMER

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Battle For The Sun

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