• Song:

    Message Of Love

  • Artist:

    Journey

  • Album:

    The Journey Continues

Intro:
Wait for synth & vocal entrance to finish, try a few bends on the 12th & 15th on
the B for it on the neck pup, tone right down.


Verse:
"I, walk alone in...."
|-----------------|
|-(8)~---7~---5~--|
|--9~----7~---5~--|
|--9~----7~---5~--|
|--7~----5~---3~--|
|-----------------|

The little palm-mute-to-release parts on the verse goes like:
e|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
B|--8-8-7-7-8-8-7-7-8-8-7-7-8-8-7-7


Follow those 3 chords over a few times until you hit the chorus' entrance solo.

"Now Love's here, where are you..."

e|---12-14b~~~14|

Chorus:
"Baby can you hear me, can you hear me callin..."
|------|
|-(8)--|
|--9---|
|--9---|
|--7---|
|------|
"Baby can you hear my..."
|------|
|-(8)--|
|--9---|
|--10--|
|--7---|
|------|
"Message of love"
|-------------|
|-(8)--(8)--7-|
|--9----9---7-|
|--9----10--7-|
|--7----7---5-|
|-------------|

e|---12-14b~~~14|

"Baby can you hear me, can you hear me callin..."
|------|
|-(8)--|
|--9---|
|--9---|
|--7---|
|------|
"Baby can you hear my..."
|------|
|-(8)--|
|--9---|
|--10--|
|--7---|
|------|
"Message of love"
|-------------|
|-(8)--(8)--7-|
|--9----9---7-|
|--9----10--7-|
|--7----7---5-|
|-------------|

Verse:
Add a few natural harmonics on the D, G & B at the 7th to sort of match the synth.
e|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
B|--8-8-7-7-8-8-7-7-8-8-7-7-8-8-7-7

"Why, have I waited so long to be there...for you "
|-----------------|
|-(8)~---7~---5~--|
|--9~----7~---5~--|
|--9~----7~---5~--|
|--7~----5~---3~--|
|-----------------|
Same for this verse, repeat these parts.

Breakdown before solo:
This follows along the same as the verse, but matching the vocals & keys/synth at parts.
|-----------------|
|-(8)~---7~---5~--|
|--9~----7~---5~--|
|--9~----7~---5~--|
|--7~----5~---3~--|
|-----------------|

A few strums of:
|-----|
|-(8)~|
|--9~-|
|--9~-|
|--7~-|
|-----|

Then...

Solo:
Bend the string then release & pitch down with the trem if you have one.
It's designed to be used with a Floyd Rose trem.
|----------------------------|----------------------------|
|s17br19br15br--17br19br15b13|----20b22~~17-19-20-19-20-19|
|----------------------------|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|----------------------------|
Perform this first bracket      
then perform the 1st part
of the first bracket again then move to the above part.

VERY FAST:
|12h14h15121415----------------------------------------------|
|--------------12h13h15--------------------------------------|
|----------------------12h14h15------------------------------|
|------------------------------12h14h15----------------------|
|--------------------------------------12h14h15--------------|
|----------------------------------------------12h14h15p14p12|

|-----------------------------------------------------------12h14h15-17b19-|
|----------------------------------------------------12h13h15--------------|
|----------------------------------------------12h14h15--------------------|
|----------------------------------------12h14h15--------------------------|
|----------------------------------12h14h15--------------------------------|
|12-10-11-8-6-5-4-5-6-8-9-10-121415----------------------------------------|
Trem dive down slowly whilst picking down from the 12 to the 4

End of Solo:
|------------------------|
|12h15-12h15-12h15-12h15-|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
Perfrom that above a few times whilst pitching down on the trem further each time.


If your not using a trem use:
End of Solo:
|-------------------------------------|
|12h15-11h14-10h13-9h12-8h11-7h10-6h9-|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|


Chorus:
"Baby can you hear me, can you hear me callin..."
|------|
|-(8)--|
|--9---|
|--9---|
|--7---|
|------|
"Baby can you hear my..."
|------|
|-(8)--|
|--9---|
|--10--|
|--7---|
|------|
"Message of love"
|-------------|
|-(8)--(8)--7-|
|--9----9---7-|
|--9----10--7-|
|--7----7---5-|
|-------------|

e|---12-14b~~~14|

"Baby can you hear me, can you hear me callin..."
|------|
|-(8)--|
|--9---|
|--9---|
|--7---|
|------|
"Baby can you hear my..."
|------|
|-(8)--|
|--9---|
|--10--|
|--7---|
|------|
"Message of love"
|-------------|
|-(8)--(8)--7-|
|--9----9---7-|
|--9----10--7-|
|--7----7---5-|
|-------------|


Outro Solo:
|----------------------------|
|s17br19br20br--17br19br15br-|
|----------------------------| X 2
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|

|----------------------------|
|s17br19br21b--17br19br15br--|
|----------------------------| 
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|

|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|s17br19br21b23---12h13h15-------------------------------------|
|----------------------12h14h15--------------------------------|
|------------------------------12h14h15------------------------|
|--------------------------------------12h14h15----------------|
|----------------------------------------------12-14-15-14-12b9|
                            Pitch down to 9 here using the trem
      Very fast picking from
           the '12'above


|--------------------------------------------|
|s17br19br20br--17br19br15br-s17br19br21br17-|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
                                

|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|s17br19br21b23---12h13h15---------------|
|----------------------12h14h15----------|
|------------------------------12h14h15--|
|----------------------------------------|

|------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------12b13r12b15r12v~|
|--------------------121415----------------|
|--------------121415----------------------|
|--------121415----------------------------|
|12h14h15----------------------------------|
VERY FAST AGAIN.


|------------------------------------------------|
|s17br19br20br--17br19br15br-s17br19br20v22b^^^^-|
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|

B|-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-| The bend goes on for 30 picking actions.

Pitch down with the trem alot here
whilst bending the note up then back
with your finger on the fret.



B|10-12-9-7br7br7br7br7br----|

Do the same as above on the 7 a few times
then release the bend off your finger to a
dive on the trem to end the song.
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