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A.T.W.A Guitar Tablature
CHOP SUEY!

this cd has 3 guitar layers....electric, 12 string acoustic, and a 6 string acoustic guitar. plus you have keyboard and violin....if you add in the drums, vocals and bass it begins to seem like a slipknot song....

DROP C TUNING - CGCFAD

Intro
Acoustic guitar
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|-5---7---4---2-|
|-7---9---5---3-|
|-0---0---0---0-|
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the other guitar kicks in....listen to the song for rhythm....just keep playing this 
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----5-----5-----5-----------7----7---7--------4----4---4-------2------2----2------|
-------7----7-----7----------9-----9---9---------5---5---5---------3-----3-----3--|
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Guitar 2 (this part starts right when the drums do) (tremolo pick this)
----8-----10------7-----12--------------------------------------|
----10----12------8-----13--------------------------------------|
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play these parts over and over...for example, 8787878787878 76767676767
....i was too lazy to put that all out
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|----8-7-8-etc------7-6-7-etc--10-9-10--etc--12-10-12-etc--------------------------|


pick these notes fast like this.......7777777777777 66666666666 etc
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|-7------6-----9-----12-----------------------------------------|
 "WAKE UP"
All Guitars (repeat this a little)
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|-87------87878787-87878787-87878787-87878787-----------------|
|-87------87878787-87878787-87878787-87878787---------------|
 WAKE UP
 
Slow part....
Guitar 1
"trust...in....my...."

12 string acoustic.....if you dont have a 12 string, just play it palm muted with distortion
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---5-----5-----5--|---7-----7-----7-|---4----4-----4-|---2-----2----2----------|
------7----7------|-----9-----9-----|-----5----5-----|-----3-----3-------------|
-0------0-----0---|-0-----0-----0---|-0-----0----0---|-0-----0-----0-----------|
------------------|-----------------|----------------|-------------------------|
                     
guitar 2
----8-----10------7-----12--------------------------------------|
----10----12------8-----13--------------------------------------|
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Bridge
"why have you forsaken me..."
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|--------------10-10---5-----5--5-5----10----10--10--10--------|
|---7--7-7------8--8---3-----3--3-3-----8-----8---8---8--------|
|---7--7-7------------------------------------------------------|

Ending
play one chord for each syllable of: "When Ang-els de-serve to die"
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|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-| hold last chord and do a bit of volume swelling
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-| to make it sound the way its supposed to
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