Concatenation

- transcription by mti

Updated 1999-03-08

This transcription is rhythms only. If you can do guitar tabs, you're welcome to do a better transcription! (I don't know anything about palm muting and stuff like that.) My goal was to figure out the beat and metrics.

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The orded sequence of riffs

00:00   A,A,A,A
00:26 B,B,B,B
00:52 A2,A2
01:06 A,A
01:19 B2,B2,B2,B2
01:46 A2,A2
01:59 B3,B3
02:13 C,C,C,C
02:39 C2,C2,C2,C2
03:05 C,C,C,C
03:31 A3
03:34 A,A,A,A
03:59 B3,B4

Below follow the riffs, in horizontal "tracker" notation. The song runs in 4/4.

Each character below represents a 16th note.
B   "bass crunch" (bass drum + rhythm guitars + bass guitar)
S snare drum
H hihat/cymbal
- rest
= hold previous note

Riff A

	H--H-H-H--
	B--B-B-B--
	----S-----	6 times, then

	H---
	B---

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff A2

	H--H-H-H-- H--H-H-H--
	B==B=B-B-B B==B=B=B=-
	----S----- ----S-----	3 times, then

	H---
	B==-

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff A3

	B--B-B-B--	2 times, then

	----

(total: 6 quarter notes)

Riff B

	---H-H-H--
	BBBB=B-B-B
	----S-----	6 times, then

	BBBB

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff B2

	H--H-H-H-- H--H-H-H-H--
	BBBB=B-B-B BBBB=B-B-B-B
	----S----- ----S-------		2 times, then

	H--H-H-H-- H--H-H-H-H
	BBBB=B-B-B BBBB=B-B-B
	----S----- ----S-----

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff B3

	H--H------
	BBBB=B-B-B
	S--S------	6 times, then

	H---
	BBBB
	S---

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff B4

	BBBB=B-B-B
	S--S------	6 times, then

	B---
	S---

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff C

	B=BB-- B=BB---
	---S-- ---S---		4 times, then

	B=BB-- B=BB--
	---S-- ---S--

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff C2

	B==B-- B==B---
	---S-- ---S---		4 times, then

	B==B-- B==B--
	---S-- ---S--

(total: 16 quarter notes)

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