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PAIN AND MISERY
As recorded by Toxik
(From the 1988 Album WORLD CIRCUS)
Copyright (c) 1988 Roadrunner
Words and Music by Josh Christian
Arranged by Toxik
Transcribed by Steve Rubaszek
Version - 2.0 - December 7, 2008
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Josh I'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Josh II'
Intro - 0:00
Q=115
4/4
Gtr I
PM----| PM----| PM----|
||-----------------|----------------|----------------|
||o----------------|----------------|----------------|
||-----------------|----------------|----------------|
||----------2------|---------2------|---------2------|
||o---------2------|---------2------|---------2------|
||--0-0-0-0-0------|-0-0-0-0-0------|-0-0-0-0-0------|
PM------| PM----|
3x
|----------------------||-||------------------||
|---------------------o||-||o----------------o||
|----------------------||-||------------------||
|-----------5-(5)\-----||-||----------2-------||
|-----------5-(5)\----o||-||o---------2------o||
|-0-0-0-0-0-3-(3)------||-||--0-0-0-0-0-------||
0:28
PM------| ~~~~~~ PM----|
|--------------------------|----------------||----------------|
|--------------------------|-------------4--||----------------|
|----------------------[3]-|-----7---5---0--||----------------|
|-----------5------4h5-----|---7------------||---------2------|
|-----------5--4h5---------|-5-----3---3----||---------2------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-3--------------|----------------||-0-0-0-0-0------|
PM----| PM----| PM------| ~~~~~~
|----------------|--------------------|---------------------------|
|----------------|--------------------|---------------------------|
|----------------|--------------------|----------------------[3]--|
|---------2------|---------2----------|-----------5------4h5------|
|---------2------|---------2---8s17\--|-----------5--4h5----------|
|-0-0-0-0-0------|-0-0-0-0-0----------|-0-0-0-0-0-3---------------|
1.
PM----| PM----|
||-----------------|--------------------||
||o----------------|-------------------o||
||-----------------|---------------12\--||
||----------2------|---------2-----12\--||
||o---------2------|---------2---------o||
||--0-0-0-0-0------|-0-0-0-0-0----------||
2.
PM------| ~~~ ~
|--------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------|-------------4--|
|----------------------[3]-|-----7---5---0--|
|-----------5------4h5-----|---7------------|
|-----------5--4h5---------|-5-----3---3----|
|-0-0-0-0-0-3--------------|----------------|
0:46
Q=125
||--------------------------|--------------------------|
||o-------------------------|--------------------------|
||--------------------5-5-5-|-------------------5-4-5--|
||--------------------3-3-3-|-------------------3-2-3--|
||o-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5-------|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5--------|
||--------------------------|--------------------------|
7/8
|-------------------------|--------------------------||----------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------o||----------------|
|-------------------5-5-5-|--------------------------||----------------|
|-------------------3-3-3-|--------------------------||-------4--------|
|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5-------|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-----5-----o||-3-----2-3------|
|-------------------------|---------------6-6---4-4--||---2-2---1------|
1:03
Q=115
4/4
PM----| PM----| PM--------------| ~~~~~~
||------------------||------------------|--------------------------|
||o----------------o||------------------|--------------------------|
||------------------||------------------|----------------------[3]-|
||----------2-------||---------2--2-2-2-|-----------5------4h5-----|
||o---------2------o||---------2--2-2-2-|-----------5--4h5---------|
||--0-0-0-0-0-------||-0-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-3--------------|
1:11
PM------| ~~~~~~
||------------------||-------------------|--------------------------|
||o----------------o||-------------------|--------------------------|
||------------------||-------------------|----------------------[3]-|
||--2-2-2-2-2-------||-2-2-2-2-2---------|-----------5------4h5-----|
||o-2-2-2-2-2------o||-2-2-2-2-2-----7\--|-----------5--4h5---------|
||--0-0-0-0-0-------||-0-0-0-0-0---0-5\--|-0-0-0-0-0-3--------------|
1.
PM----| PM----|
||-----------------|-------------------||
||o----------------|------------------o||
||-----------------|---------------12--||
||----------2------|---------2-----12--||
||o---------2------|---------2--------o||
||--0-0-0-0-0------|-0-0-0-0-0---------||
2.
PM------| ~~~ ~
|--------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------|-------------4--|
|----------------------[3]-|-----7---5---0--|
|-----------5------4h5-----|---7------------|
|-----------5--4h5---------|-5-----3---3----|
|-0-0-0-0-0-3--------------|----------------|
1:30
PM----| PM------| ~~~
3x
||------------------||--------------------------|
||o----------------o||--------------------------|
||------------------||----------------------[3]-|
||--9-9-9-9-8-------||-----------5------4h5-----|
||o-8-8-8-8-8------o||-----------5--4h5---------|
||------------------||-0-0-0-0-0-3--------------|
1.
PM----| PM----|
||-----------------|-------------------||
||o----------------|------------------o||
||-----------------|---------------12--||
||--9-9-9-9-8------|-9-9-9-9-8-----12--||
||o-8-8-8-8-8------|-8-8-8-8-8--------o||
||-----------------|-------------------||
2.
PM------| ~~~ ~
|--------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------|-------------4--|
|----------------------[3]-|-----7---5---0--|
|-----------5------4h5-----|---7------------|
|-----------5--4h5---------|-5-----3---3----|
|-0-0-0-0-0-3--------------|----------------|
1:48
Q=125
||--------------------------|--------------------------|
||o-------------------------|--------------------------|
||--------------------5-5-5-|-------------------5-4-5--|
||--------------------3-3-3-|-------------------3-2-3--|
||o-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5-------|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5--------|
||--------------------------|--------------------------|
2/4
|-------------------------|--------------------------||-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------o||-------------|
|-------------------5-5-5-|--------------------------||-------------|
|-------------------3-3-3-|--------------------------||-------4-----|
|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5-------|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-----5-----o||-3-----2-3-3-|
|-------------------------|---------------6-6---4-4--||---2-2---1-1-|
Incredible solo I can`t tab
Q.=135
4/4 12/8
|------------------||-------------------------|-----------------------------|
|------------------||-------------------------|-----------------------------|
|--------12-12-12--||-------------------------|-----------------------------|
|--------12-12-12--||-9-9-9-------7-7-7-------|-5-5-5-4-4-4-10-10-10-9-9-9--|
|-2------10-10-10--||-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-2-2-2--8--8--8-7-7-7--|
|-0----------------||-------5-5-5-------3-3-3-|-----------------------------|
7/8
|-------------------------|-------------------|-----|
|-------------------------|-------------------|-----|
|-------------------------|-------------------|-----|
|-9-9-9-------7-7-7-------|-5-5-5-4-4-4-------|-----|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-2-2-2-------|-----|
|-------5-5-5-------3-3-3-|-------------------|-----|
12/8
||--------------------------|--------------------------||
||o-------------------------|-------------------------o||
||--------------------------|--------------------------||
||--4-4-4-5-5-5-4-4-4-7-5-4-|-4-4-4-5-5-5---7---7---7--||
||o-2-2-2-3-3-3-2-2-2-5-3-2-|-2-2-2-3-3-3---7---7---7-o||
||--------------------------|-------------5---5---5----||
1. 2.
||------------------------|------------------------||--------------------|
||o-----------------------|-----------------------o||--------------------|
||------------------------|------------------------||--------------------|
||--7-7-7-5-5-5-7-7-7-7---|-7-7-7-5-5-5-3-3-3-2----||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7------|
||o-5-5-5-3-3-3-5-5-5-7---|-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-3-3-2---o||-5-5-5-5-5-5-5------|
||--------------------5---|------------------------||--------------------|
Q=115
4/4
PM----| PM----| PM--------------| ~~~
||------------------||------------------|--------------------------|
||o----------------o||------------------|--------------------------|
||------------------||------------------|----------------------[3]-|
||----------2-------||---------2--2-2-2-|-----------5------4h5-----|
||o---------2------o||---------2--2-2-2-|-----------5--4h5---------|
||--0-0-0-0-0-------||-0-0-0-0-0--0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-3--------------|
2:39
PM----| PM----| PM------| ~~~
||------------------||--------------------|--------------------------|
||o----------------o||--------------------|--------------------------|
||------------------||--------------------|----------------------[3]-|
||--9-9-9-9-8-------||-9-9-9-9-8----------|-9-9-9-9-8-5------4h5-----|
||o-8-8-8-8-8------o||-8-8-8-8-8---7S10\--|-8-8-8-8-8-5--4h5---------|
||------------------||--------------------|-----------3--------------|
PM----| PM----| PM----|
|----------------|-------------------|-----------7S12-7S15\--|
|----------------|---------------13\-|-----------------------|
|----------------|-------------------|-----------------------|
|-9-9-9-9-8------|-9-9-9-9-8---------|-9-9-9-9-8-------------|
|-8-8-8-8-8------|-8-8-8-8-8---------|-8-8-8-8-8-------------|
|----------------|-------------------|-----------------------|
PM------| ~~~ ~
|--------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------|-------------4--|
|----------------------[3]-|-----7---5---0--|
|-9-9-9-9-8-5------4h5-----|---7------------|
|-8-8-8-8-8-5--4h5---------|-5-----3---3----|
|--------------------------|----------------|
2:58
Q=125
||--------------------------|--------------------------|
||o-------------------------|--------------------------|
||--------------------5-5-5-|-------------------5-4-5--|
||--------------------3-3-3-|-------------------3-2-3--|
||o-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5-------|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5--------|
||--------------------------|--------------------------|
1.
|-------------------------|--------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------o||
|-------------------5-5-5-|--------------------------||
|-------------------3-3-3-|--------------------------||
|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5-------|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-----5-----o||
|-------------------------|---------------6-6---4-4--||
2.
6/4
Gtr I
|-------------------------|----------------------------------------*|
|-------------------------|----------------------------------------*|
|-------------------5-5-5-|----------------------------------------*|
|-------------------3-3-3-|----------------------------------------*|
|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5-------|-7-4-5-7-4-5--7--------5-----3-----2----*|
|-------------------------|-----------------6--6----4-4---2-2---1--*|
|
| Gtr II
|-------------------------|----------------------------------------*|
|-------------------------|----------------------------------------*|
|-------------------5-5-5-|-------------12-------10-----8-----7----*|
|-------------------3-3-3-|----------------11-11----9-9---7-7---6--*|
|-7-4-5-7-4-5-7-4-5-------|-7-4-5-7-4-5----------------------------*|
|-------------------------|----------------------------------------*|
Tablature Legend
----------------
h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
<n> - natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
-----------
| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - <E/E./Q/Q./H/H.> = BPM(8/16=s8/s16),
where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
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