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Band: Psycroptic
Album: The Scepter of the Ancients
Song: A Planetary Discipline
Copyright (c) Unique Leader (2003)
Version 5.0 - June 11, 2004
Transcribed By: Antoine Poliquin
Email: legrandtony@hotmail.com
. - palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - Bend e.g.: 10b(12) = bend 1 tone
p - pull off pb - pre-Bend
t - tap dv - dive (tremolo bar)
p.h. pinched harmonic
* - commentary r - release bend
x - Stuccatto ~ - vibrato bend
, - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note
" - tremolo note <> - Trill
I think this version is better than the previous one.
Most of the times, two (-) are equal to one 16th note (if else,
i'll indicate it) to lighten the reading of the tabs.
The numbers above the measures are the time signatures.
For the rythm, you have to listen to the CD even if I tried my best
to reproduce it in tab notation.
So, as always, I'm not claiming that this is a perfect tab. It's
simply my interpretation of the song, how I like to play it.
Of course, any suggestions, improvements or comments are welcome.
By the way, the first guitar is panned in the right speaker and the
second guitar is panned in the left speaker.
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A PLANETARY DISCIPLINE
Tuning D A D G B E (dropped D)
RIFF 1 (play 2x all the boxes)
T =120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
E||--------------------------------|
B||--------------------------------|
G||--------------------------------|
D||--------------------------------|
A||--------888855555555------------|
D||00006666------------666666660000|
________________________________________
|1.3.
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------| This run is in 16th triplets.
|----------------------------------2-3-5-|
|----555522222222------2-3-5-2-3-5-------|
|3333------------3-5-6-------------------|
. . . . . . . . . . . .
________________________________
|2.
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------666666666-------3-------|
|----8888--------6-------3-------|
|9999------------6-------3-------|
________________________________
|4.
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------666666666---------------||
|----8888--------6-------4-------||
|9999------------6-------6-------||
BRIDGE (play once)
T=160
Guitar 1 :
4/4
||------------------------||
||------------------------||
||------------------------|| *NOTE : 8ths triplets.
||------------9p6---------||
||----------------8p5-----||
||0-3-6-0-3-6---------7-6-||
. . . .
GUITAR 2 :
4/4
||------------------------||
||------------------------||
||------------10p7--------|| *NOTE : 8ths triplets.
||----------------9p6-----||
||--------------------8-5-||
||0-3-6-0-3-6-------------||
. . . .
RIFF 2 (play 2x all the boxes)(these are all 8ths triplets)
T=160
Guitars 1 & 2 : ________________________
4/4 |1.
||------------------------|------------------------|
||------------------------|------------------------|
||------------------------|------------------------|
||------3-----4-----------|------------------------|
||----------------5-------|------5-----3-----2/3\2-|
||0h3h6---7-6---0---7-6-9-|0h3h6---5-4---4-3-2/3\2-|
. . . . . . . . . .
________________________
|2.
|----------------------||
|----------------------||
|----------------------||
|------0-3-6/9p6-0-----||
|------------------2~--||
|0h3h6-----------------||
. .
BRIDGE (play once)
T=160
Guitar 1 :
4/4
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||9p6-0-12p9----------||
||-----------11-0-----||
||--------------0-----||
. .
Guitar 2 :
4/4
||------------------||
||------------------||
||7p4---10p7--------||
||----6-----9-------||
||------------0-----||
||------------0-----||
. .
RIFF 3 (play 2x) (these are now normal 16ths)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||------------------3\2-----------|------------------------2-------|
||------4-0h1-------3\2---4-0-1-1p|0-----------------------0-2-3-3-|
||0-0-0-4-0h1-1-1-1-----1-4-0-1-1p|0-0-0-1p0-0-0-0-0h1-4-4---0-1-1-|
||0-0-0-------1-1-1-----1---------|--0-0-1p0-0-0-0-0h1-4-4---------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|--------------------------------|------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|------------------------------||
|------------------3\2-----------|*-----------------------------||
|------4-0h1-------3\2-----2-----|0-----------------------------||
|0-0-0-4-0h1-1-1-1-----2-4-0-0-1p|0-----1p0-0-0-----0-1-4-1-4~--||
|0-0-0-------1-1-1-----2-4---0-1p|0-----1p0-0-0-0h4-------------||
. . . . . . . . . . .
*Guitar 2 plays a pinched harmonic somewhere on the fretboard (duh)
BRIDGE (play once)(triplets 16ths)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
2/4
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||----0-1-3-4------------||
||0-4---------0----------||
. . . . . . .
RIFF 4 (play 2x)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||117-8-8-------------------------|117-8-8-7h8p7-------7-------------|
||9-5-6-6-------------------------|9-5-6-6-------9-9-----9-9-6\------|
||--------000011110000444400000000|----------------------------------|
. . .
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|117-8-8---------------------------|------------------------*-------||
|9-5-6-6-----------------4/5-4-1-4-|--------1-2-0-1-----------------||
|--------00001111000044444/5-4-1-4-|--1-3-4---------4-5-1-3-00000000||
. . . . . . . . .
*NOTE : the seconde time you play the riff, stop at the (*)
RIFF 5 (play 4x)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||7/8-x-5---7-------5\4-x---------|---------------------------------||
||5/6-x-3---5-0-0-0-3\2-x-6\5-0---|4/5\4-1-4--------1-2-0-1---------||
||7/8-x-5---7-0-0-0-------6\5-0-4-|4/5\4-1-4--0-3-4---------4-5-1-3-||
. . . . . . . . . . .
BRIDGE (play once)
T=120
Guitar 1 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|---------------/16ths-triplets\----||
||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|----7---4--------------------------||
||--------8---5\--------------0---|1---5---2-----------0-1-3-4--------||
||0--/7---------------6\------0---|1---------------0-4---------0------||
. . . . . . . . .
Guitar 2 (not sure at all about the second bar):
4/4
||--------------------------------|---------------/16ths-triplets\----||
||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||--------5-----------------------|-----------------------------------||
||------------7\------------------|----7---4-------------3-5-6--------||
||0--/5---------------5\------0---|1---5---2-------0-4-7-------0------||
||----------------------------0---|1----------------------------------||
. . . . . . . . .
Then play RIFF 1 with the second box
Then play it with the first box
Then play it with the fourth box
RIFF 6 (play 2x) (it's all in triplets !)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||----------------------------------------|*one of the gtrs plays a p.h.
||----------------------------------------|
||------------------------*---------------|NOTE : It's hard to hear the
||------------4---------------------------| chords here, so it's
||0---2---3---2---4---3---5~--0---3---4---| probably not 100% accurate.
||0---2---3-------4---3-------0---3---4---|
. . . . . . . .
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------3-----------------------------------||
|2---2---2---1---1---0---5p4p0h3p2---------------||
|2---0---0-------1---0-------------5-0-0-2-2-5-5-||
. . . . .
RIFF 7 (play 2x) (again, all in triplets)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|
||------------4\--3-------3-2---------5~------|
||1-1-3-3-3-3-4\--3-3-3-3-----5-3-2-0---------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------2\--1-------5-4-0-3-2---------------||
|0-0-1-1-1-1-2\--1-1-1-1-----------5-0-0-2-2-5-5-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
BRIDGE
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
2/4
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||3-----------1-------||
||3-------6---1-------||
.
RIFF 8 (play 1x) (not in triplets anymore)
T=120
Guitar 1 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||------------------------------5-|--------------------------------||
||--------7777----88888\7---------|7-------8-7---8-5---------------||
||----5555----8888----6\5---5-8---|5-------6-5---6-3-------6p3-----||
||5555--------------------8-------|----------------------------6-3-||
. . . . . . .
Guitar 2:
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|7-------8-7---8-5---------------||
||5-------------------------------|5-------6-5---6-3-------6p3-----||
||5-------------------------------|----------------------------6-3-||
. . . . .
RIFF 8a (play 1x all the boxes)
T=120
Guitar 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------7777--------88888888----|--------------------------------|
||----5555----88888888--------8765|6p3333335p3333336-----5-----4---|
||5555----------------------------|----------------6-----5-----4---|
...... ...... .
_________________________________________________________________
|1.
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||------------------------------5-|--------------------------------|
||--------7777----88888\7---------|--------------------------------|
||----5555----8888----6\5---5-8---|555555556p5555556p3333336p3-----|
||5555--------------------8-------|----------------------------6-3-|
. . . ........ ...... ...... . .
________________
|2. (2/4)
|----------------||
|----------------||
|----------------||
|----------------||
|5\------1-------||
|5\------1-------||
RIFF 9 (play once all the boxes)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
4/4
||--------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------0-|
||2222222222--22222222223~------0-2-3---|
.......... .......... . . .
________________________________ _________________________________
|1.3.5. |2.6.
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|0-------------------------------|
|22223333777733337p3-------------|0-------4-------4h5p4~--4---1---|
|--------------------6-0-5-0-3p1-|0-------6---------------4---1---|
................ . . . . . .
________________________________________________
|4. (6/4)
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|0-----------------------------------------------|
|0-------4-------4h5p4~-------8---7~-------------|
|0-------6---------------------------------------|
________________________________________
|continuation of box 4. (these are 10's, not 1-0-1-0...)
|4/4
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|------------------------7-6-----6\------||
|101010109999666610101010----109-----6\--||
. .
Then play RIFF 2 (2x)
Then play the following BRIDGE once
Then play RIFF 4 (2x)
Then play RIFF 5 (4x)
Then END.
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