The Gathering – ‘Strange Machines’
                     From the Album ‘Mandylion’
              Copyright 1995, Century Media
                     Version 1.0 – June 2003

Transcribed by: Vortigern

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.  - palm mute                  ph    - pinched harmonic
/  - slide up to                ah    - artificial harmonic
  - slide down to              th    - tap harmonic 
~  - vibrato                    hr    - natural harmonic
h  - hammer on                  b     - bend 
p  - pull off                      Suffixes for bend    
t  - tap with finger                    f - full bend    h - half bend
"  - tremolo picking                    r - release      t - tap bend
X  - percussion mute                    p - pick when bent 
>  - accented note                 Prefixes
() - ghost note, sustained note         p - pre-bend     w - use bar
*  - see comment                        d - don't pick start of bend 

Tune Gtr to D

STRANGE MACHINES

Riff A
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|Guit I
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-5-5-5-5-4-4-4-2------------------------------------| 
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|

First guitar I plays this alone. Then guitar II enters with this:
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-2-------------------2----------------------------------------------| 
|-0----5----4---------0----------------------------------------------|
|------3----2----0---------------------------------------------------|

Riff B
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------------| 
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-5-5----------------------------------------|
|-------------------------3-3----------------------------------------|

Riff C
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-------------------------5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3------------| 
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-5-5-5-5----|
|-------------------------3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-----------------3-3-3-3----|
                                  . . . . . . . .                 . . . .

Riff D
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------2~-----------------3-2-0-2~-------------------------------| 
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-0---0-0------0-0-----0-0-0-----------------------------------------|

Riff E
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------| 
|-5-----5-5-----5-5-----5-8-8-8-7-5-----5-5-----5-5-----5-8-8-8-7----|
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-6-6-6-5-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-6-6-6-5----|
    . .     . .     . .             . .     . .     . .

|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------| 
|-3-----3-3-----3-3-----3-7-7-7-7-8-----8-8-----8-8-----8-8-8-8-7----|
|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-5-5-5-5-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-5----|
    . .     . .     . .             . .     . .     . .

|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------| 
|-3-----3-3-----3-3-----3-----7-7-7-7-8-----8-8-----8-8-8-8-8-8-7----|
|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-5-5-5-5-5-5-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-5----|
    . .     . .     . .   . .           . .     . .

Riff F
This is the part with the sample. Just play F5 chord couple times with palm muting except for the last two.

Riff G: ending with E5 chord.

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