Song: The Velorium Camper II: Backend of Forever
Artist: Coheed and Cambria
Album: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
If you can't read it, put it in size 8 and cut and paste it to have 4 measures
per line. It looked kick-ass on my wordpad, but I had to cut and edit the hell out
of it to make it fit here. Sigh....this was made on a 20" screen!
Symbols
PM - - Palm Mute
LR _} - let note ring/hold until line ends
. - Staccato
p - Pull-off
h - Hammer-on
s - Slide
~ - vibrato
* - Pinch Harmonic
\ - slide out (hit the chord or note and just slide on down the neck till it fits
w/ the song)
TUNING: Standard (EADGBE)
The guitars are the same unless otherwise noted, as in the top is claudio's clean and
the bottom is travis's distorted unless I put something different. I think you can
figure out that it's 2 guitars w/o me making a grand staff. The numbers at the top
of each measure tell what guitar it is.
Intro: (Its in 6/8, BTW, for counting off or getting the beats right)
Guitar one (Claudio) Clean
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Guitar 2 (Travis) Distorted
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-----------------------||-------------------------|
|-3-----------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
.
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-5---------------------||-5-5---------------------|
|-3-3---------------------||-3-3---------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
Verse
Guitar one (Claudio) Clean
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Guitar 2 (Travis) Distorted
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-3-----------------------||-------------------------|
|-1-----------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
LR___________________________________________________}
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-5---------5-----------||-6-6---------6-----------|
|-3-3---------3-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---3-4-6-3-4---3---------||---3-4-6-3-4---3---------|
|-------------6---4-6-3-4-||-------------6---4-6-3-4-|
|-6-----------------------||-6-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-8-8---------8-----------||-9-9---------9-----------|
|-6-6---------6-----------||-8-8---------8-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||o-------------------------||-------------------------|
||----0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
||--------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
||o-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||o-------------------------||-------------------------|
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||--5-5---------5-----------||-6-6---------6-----------|
||o-3-3---------3-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
||-------------------------||-------------------------|
||-------------------------||-------------------------|
||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
||-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
||-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
||-------------------------||-------------------------|
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
||-------------------------||-------------------------|
||-------------------------||-------------------------|
||-------------------------||-------------------------|
||-5-5---------5-----------||-8-8---------8-----------|
||-6-6---------6-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
||-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-5---------5-----------||-6-6---------6-----------|
|-3-3---------3-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||--------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------o||
|---3-4-6-3-4---3---------||---3-4-6-3-4---3----------||
|-------------6---4-6-3-4-||-------------6---4-6-3-4--|| (go back to
|-6-----------------------||-6-----------------------o|| repeat sign)
|-------------------------||--------------------------||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||--------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------o||
|-------------------------||--------------------------||
|-8-8---------8-----------||-9-9---------9------------||
|-6-6---------6-----------||-8-8---------8-----------o||
|-------------------------||--------------------------||
. .
Last part of verse
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-8-8---------8-----------||-9-9---------9-----------|
|-6-6---------6-----------||-8-8---------8-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
Pre-chorus
Guitars 1 and 2 (still same, but together); Claudio
changes to distorted at the plus sign on 4th repeat
1 & 2
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||------------------------||-------------------------|
||------------------------||-------------------------|
||5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-||-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|
||3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-||-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
||------------------------||-------------------------|
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1 & 2 +
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-4-4-4-4-4-4-------------| x4
|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||-------------0-0-0-0-0-0-|
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Chorus - I personally only play the bottom 2 notes in each chord, but this sounds
fuller & more accurate
Guitar 1 (Claudio) - Distorted
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||o-------------------------||-------------------------|
||--------------------------||-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
||--6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-||-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
||o-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
||--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-------------------------|
Guitar 2 (Travis) - Distorted
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||o-7p4---4-----7p4---4-----||-5p4---4-----5p4---4-----|
||------7---7p4-----7---7p4-||-----6---6p4-----6---6p4-|
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||o-------------------------||-------------------------|
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
1 x3
||-------------------------||--------------------------||
||-------------------------||-------------------------o||
||-------------------------||--------------------------||
||-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-2-----------2------------||
||-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-o||
||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||
2 x3
||-----4-----4-----4-----4-||-----7-----7--------------||
||-------------------------||---4-----4-----4---4-7p4-o||
||-4h6---4h6---4h6---4h6---||-6-----6-----7---7--------||
||-------------------------||--------------------------||
||-------------------------||-------------------------o||
||-------------------------||--------------------------||
1
||------------------------||-------------------------|
||------------------------||-------------------------|
||------------------------||-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
||6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-||-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
||6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
||4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-------------------------|
2
||------------------------||-------------------------|
||7p4---4-----7p4---4-----||-4h5p4---4---4h5p4---4---|
||----7---7p4-----7---7p4-||-------6---4-------6---4-|
||------------------------||-------------------------|
||------------------------||-------------------------|
||------------------------||-------------------------|
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-2-----------2-----------||
|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
- - - - - - - - - -
2
|-----4-----4-----4-----4-||-----7-----7-----7-----7-||
|-------------------------||---4-----4-----4-----4---||
|-4h6---4h6---4h6---4h6---||-6-----6-----6-----6-----||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
Interlude
Guitar 1 (Claudio) Clean
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Guitar 2 (travis) Distorted
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-4---------(4)s1~~~~~~~~~||~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
LR__________
Guitars 1 and 2 (both distorted)
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--0-1-3-0-1---0------------0-1-3-0-1---0------------0-1-3-0-1---0--------|
|------------3---1-3-0-1--------------3---1-0------------------3---1-3-0-1|
|3------------------------3-------------------3~~~-3----------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|------------------------|
| |
Okay, I think it's good to do this riff all in light Pinch Harmonics (not all the
way, just to give it that Squeal), but it sounds fine without it. But with the
vibrato 3's in the measure below, they need to be strong.
1 & 2
|-------------------------|
|-------*-----------*-----|
|---0-1-3~~~~---0-1-3~~~~-|
|-------------------------|
|-3-------------3---------|
|-------------------------|
Verse 2
Guitar 1 (Claudio) Clean
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|--------rest-------------||----------rest-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-5---------5-----------||-6-6---------6-----------|
|-3-3---------3-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---3-4-6-3-4---3---------||---3-4-6-3-4---3---------|
|-------------6---4-6-3-4-||-------------6---4-6-3-4-|
|-6-----------------------||-6-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-8-8---------8-----------||-9-9---------9-----------|
|-6-6---------6-----------||-8-8---------8-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-5---------5-----------||-6-6---------6-----------|
|-3-3---------3-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-5---------5-----------||-8-8---------8-----------|
|-6-6---------6-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-5---------5-----------||-6-6---------6-----------|
|-3-3---------3-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---3-4-6-3-4---3---------||---3-4-6-3-4---3---------|
|-------------6---4-6-3-4-||-------------6---4-6-3-4-|
|-6-----------------------||-6-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-8-8---------8-----------||-9-9---------9-----------|
|-6-6---------6-----------||-8-8---------8-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|---0-1-3-0-1---0---------||---0-1-3-0-1---0---------|
|-------------3---1-3-0-1-||-------------3---1-3-0-1-|
|-3-----------------------||-3-----------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
2
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-5-5---------5-----------||-5-5---------5-----------|
|-3-3---------3-----------||-3-3---------3-----------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------|
. .
Okay, now go back to the pre-chorus and chorus, and then after doing the chorus,
do this outro....
Outro
Guitar 1 (Claudio) Distorted
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||o-------------------------||-------------------------|
||--------------------------||-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
||--9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-||-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-|
||o-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
||--7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-||-------------------------|
Guitar 2 (Travis) Distorted
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||o-4~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~||(4)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~|
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
||o-------------------------||-------------------------|
||--------------------------||-------------------------|
1
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------9-9---9-9---||
|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-6-6---6-6---9-9---9-9---||
|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-||-6-6---6-6---7-7---7-7---||
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||-4-4---4-4---------------||
2
|-7~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~||(7)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~||/
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
|-------------------------||-------------------------||
Okay, after the last x799xx chord in repeats 1-5 there is a 16th rest. At the
end of the 6th repeat, substitute it for this last chord and add this one in a
new measure (its actually just one note in the measure, with a lot of resting
:P)
|---|-----------|
|---|-----------|
|---|-----------|
|-9-|-9\--------|And then you're done with another great Co & Ca song!
|-9-|-9\--------| (Please note I looked at other tabs to get some riffs,
|-7-|-7\--------| but the chording was almost all me)
