The Mouth Licking What You've Bled

- transcription by mti

Updated 1999-02-18

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
00:13 B
00:15 C,C,C
00:52 A,A,A,A
01:05 B
01:07 D,D,D,D
01:33 C2
01:39 D
01:46 C2
01:52 D2,D2,D2,D2
02:18 E,E,E,E
02:45 F
02:46 G,G,G,G,G,G,G,G (fade out)

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---H---H---H---H---
	BBB-BBBB-BBBB-BBBBBB-BBBB-BBBB--
	--------S---------------S-------

(total: 8 quarter notes)

Riff B

	BBBB-		3 times, then

	-

(total: 4 quarter notes)

Riff C

	BBB-B
	S----		25 times, then

	BBB
	S--

(total: 32 quarter notes)

Riff C2

	BBB-B
	S----		12 times, then

	BBB-
	S---

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff D

	BBB-BBBB-BBBBBBBB-B
	S----S----S---S----		3 times, then

	BBB-BBB
	S----S-

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff D2

	Same as D, but different drum accompaniment.

Riff E

	B=BBBB==B--	5 times, then

	B=BBBB==B

(total: 16 quarter notes)

Riff F

	----

(total: 1 quarter note)

Riff G

	BBBB=BB--
	S--------	7 times, then

	B
	-

(total: 16 quarter notes)

end

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