• Song:

    Speak

  • Artist:

    Queenryche

  • Album:

    Classic Masters

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Author/Artist: Queensyche
Title: Speak
Album: Operation: Mindcrime
Transcribed by: Raven
Email: grans@earthlink.net

Thanks to several people from the Official Michael Wilton Website ..  and
the Whip himself . . .for clues on figuring out the opening riff and rhythm parts.
 "Make your hand like a spider . . .."

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 intro riff

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-12--------10--------9--------7-------5--------4v-----------------------------|
-----0--9------0--7-----0--5----0--4-----0--2---------------------------------|
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----5--7--------7---------5--7--------5-------|-------------------------------|
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 main riff/verse riff. Palm mute it, duh          these are the verse fills:

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-0-----0--8---00-8-----------------5------------------------------------------|
 religion is to blame   ...with a gun       then, the chorus

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-3----5----3-----5----5---5-|----5----5----7----------5---5---5---7---9--2-*-|
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 SPEAK TO ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!     Speak the world . . . the word is all of us

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--5------4-----5-----7--------5-----4------4---4------5-----4-----7---7---7---|
--2------2-----2-----4--------2-----2------2---2------2-----2-----4---5---7---|
------0-----0-----0--------------0-----3---3---0---------0-----0--------------|
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 Bridge "Seven years of power"

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-2----2-----5----5--5--------4------------------------------------------------|
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 Yey!! Another Guitar Solo

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                                 I'll have a natural harmonic with whammy.

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h  - hammer on
p  - pull off
* - trill
b  - bend (use tremolo bar for downbend)
r  - release bend
/  - slide up
\  - slide down
v  - vibrato
t  - tap (with strumming hand)
x  - fret-hand muting
^ -  natural harmonics
ph- artificial (pinch) harmonics
PM palm mute
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Lines going diagonally up and down   --\--------/-------------|
These mean whammy bar                     --\------/----------|
          -                                    --\----/-------|
\ - bar down
/- bar up
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