Song Title: 	Breaking the Silence
Artist: 	Loreena McKennitt
Album: 		Parallel Dreams
Transcription:	David Msika (dmsika@shiny.com)

Notation:

|  	Measure separation
|| 	end of the line
// 	separation
(the left and the right side of the separation are not played back to back)
x/x Slide (make your finger slide rapidly from the first note to the second one)
x~~~x	play the same note several time rapidly
xhxpx	hstands (x2444x@1)for hammer (don't strike the second note, but slam your 
finger on it)
p stands for pull-up (don't strike the third note, but release your finger 
from the second note's fret)
x2	Play twice and then move on to the rest of the song


Intro

E||-8~~~8--//-------------------//-------------6/8---------||
B||--------//---------------8---//-----------8-----6-------||
G||--------//-------------8-----//---------8---------8-----||
D||--------//--------8-10-------//----8/10-------------10--||
A||--------//---8-10------------//-------------------------||
E||--------//-------------------//-------------------------||

E||---------------8-10-11-8----//--------------------------||
B||-------------8--------------//-------------------11-8---||
G||-----------8----------------//----8---------8-10--------||
D||------8-10------------------//---------8-10-------------||
A||-8-10-----------------------//------10------------------||
E||----------------------------//--------------------------||

main guitar part (repeated throughout the whole song)

E||-------3--------3-|-------3----4----3--||
B||-----4--------4---|-----4--------------||
G||---5--------3-----|---3----------------||
D||------------------|----------3----5----||
A||-3--------5-------|-6------------------||
E||------------------|--------------------||

Some variations are played on the arpeggios:

E||-----3--------3---|-------3----4----3--||
B||-------4--------4-|-----4--------------||
G||---5--------3-----|---3----------------||
D||------------------|----------3----5----||
A||-3--------5-------|-6------------------||
E||------------------|--------------------||

E||-------3----------|-------3----4----3--||
B||---4----------4---|-----4--------------||
G||-----5------3---3-|---3----------------||
D||------------------|----------3----5----||
A||-3--------5-------|-6------------------||
E||------------------|--------------------||

Guitar solo

E||--------|---------------------------------------||
B||-7-8----|----------------11-9-8-----8-8-8-8-8---||
G||-----10-|-----------8-10--------10--------------||
D||--------|------8-10-----------------------------||
A||--------|-8-10----------------------------------||
E||--------|---------------------------------------||



E||---11-10-------|----------11-13-11-10-----------||
B||--x------13-11-|----11-13-------------13--------||
G||-x-------------|-12-----------------------------||
D||---------------|--------------------------------||
A||---------------|--------------------------------||
E||---------------|--------------------------------||

	Very, very fast!
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E||-------------------------8-10-11-----------------||
B||------------------8-9-11-----------------------8-||
G||-------------8-10----------------------8-10-11---||
D||------8-9-10----------------------8-10-----------||
A||-8-10--------------------------------------------||
E||-------------------------------------------------||

E||----------8-10-----------------------------------||
B||-8-8-8-11----------------------------------------||
G||------------------I'm missing the last measure---||
D||------------------(because I'm sloppy :)---------||
A||-------------------------------------------------||
E||-------------------------------------------------||