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Performance Alpha
Seigmen
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'Performance Alpha' the opening song from the Radiowaves album. Great stuff.
Tabbed by newm1ke.
Guitar delay will be something like 62.5 ms
Tuning: Drop D >> to play in standard, play the notes on the deep string 2 frets lower
There's a lot of synths and effects in between riffs in this song.
0:54 MAIN RIFF (repeated a lot, delay effect)
|-----10--11--10--13--10--11--10---|-----10--11--10--13--10--11--10---
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------
|-0-12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12-|---12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12-
|----------------------------------|-0--------------------------------
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------
variation at 2:10
|-----10--11--10--13--13--11--11---|
|----------------------------------|
|---12--12--12--12--12--12--12--12-|
|-0--------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
2:51 (bass kicks in)
|------------------| these are the main notes Kim plays around on this
|-5...--------3----|.. part - I've got a feeling it could be an octave
|-----5...3...-----| lower coz it sounds so deep (but that would mean
|------------------| a lower bass tuning)
2:51 LEAD (distortion w/ delay)
|-----------------------------------------------------13-11-11-----------------------|
|-8~~~~~~~~~~~~-8/11~-10-13--10-11~~~~~~~-11-/15~~~~-----------11-11~~10--13--10-11--|
|--hold for a------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|---long time------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
After, repeat main riff but slightly palm muted.
4:12 ENDING SYNTH (on guitar)
|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--8--------------------------------|--8-----------------------------|
|-----8--10--7--8----7--------------|-----8--10--7--8----7~~vvvv~~---|
|-----------------10-----5~~vv~~~---|-----------------10-------------|
|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|--------------------------------|