Sand And Mercury

Legend:

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b bend
r release
h hammer on
p pull off
~ vibrato
/ slide up
\ slide down

Note: Listen for precise timing of 
chords and notes, I had to condense 
them
a little to save space.

standard tuning

 riff 1                                     

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|--4------------------------------
|--4--------4-----(4)(4)-5--------
|--2--------4-----(4)(4)-5--------
|-----------2-----(2)(2)-3--------

||-------|---| 
||-------|---| 
||--7----|-7-| 
||--7----|-7-| 
||--5----|-5-| 
||-------|---| 

For riff 1, for most of the first 
two repetitions each chord is
strummed once, for the last two reps
 they're strummed in a simple rhythm
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 riff 2                                                 

|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|---7--7--7--7---7--7--7--7---7--
|---7--7--7--7---7--7--7--7---7--
|---5--5--5--5---5--5--5--5---5--

||-------------------|-----------| 
||-------------------|-----------| 
||-------------------|-----------| 
||7--7--7---7--7--7--|--7--5--2--| 
||7--7--7---7--7--7--|--7--5--2--| 
||5--5--5---5--5--5--|--5--3--0--| 

   Heavy palm-muting on the first 
three chords of each set of 4.


|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|--3--3--3--3---3--3--3--3---3--3-
|--3--3--3--3---3--3--3--3---3--3-
|--1--1--1--1---1--1--1--1---1--1-

||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||-3--3---3--3--3--3--| 
||-3--3---3--3--3--3--| 
||-1--1---1--1--1--1--| 


|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|--7--7--7--7---7--7--7--7---5--5-
|--7--7--7--7---7--7--7--7---5--5-
|--5--5--5--5---5--5--5--5---3--3-
|---------------------------------

||---------------------| 
||---------------------| 
||-5--5----------------| 
||-5--5---6--6--6--6---| 
||-3--3---6--6--6--6---| 
||--------4--4--4--4---| 


 riff 3                                 

|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--5---
|--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--5---
|--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--3-2-
   4x                             

||-----| 
||-----| 
||-----| 
||-----| 
||-----| 
||2-2--| 
       


|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--3---
|--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--3-3-3-3--3---
|--1-1-1-1--1-1-1-1--1-1-1-1--1-2-
   4x                             

||----| 
||----| 
||----| 
||----| 
||----| 
||2-2-| 
      

Second time they use this riff, drop
 the second part


For the solo, again beware of the 
condensed note spacing.  Also note 
that
the bends are slow bends,

 semi-riff     mini-solo thing                        

|------------|--------------------
|------------|--7b8r7--7~--7b8r7--
|------------|--------------------
|--5-5-5-5-4~|--------------------
|------------|--------------------
|------------|--------------------

||-------------------| 
||7~---7b8r7--8p7----| 
||----------------7~-| 
||-------------------| 
||-------------------| 
||-------------------| 


|---------------------------------
|--8--8p7-5~---7b8r7--7~---7b8r7--
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------

||---------------------| 
||7~---7b8r7--8p7------| 
||-----------------7~--| 
||---------------------| 
||---------------------| 
||---------------------| 


|----------------10-10-10-9-7~---
|--8--8p7--5~--------------------
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------

||/10--10p9---------|  
||-----------10~----|  
||------------------|  
||------------------|  
||------------------|  
||------------------|  


|--/10--10p9--------------------
|-------------8~---/8--8p7--7~--
|-------------------------------
|-------------------------------
|-------------------------------
|-------------------------------

||-
||-
||-
||(
||-
||-

||--------------------| 
||5~------------------| 
||--------------------| 
||2)----2/5-----4~----| 
||--------------------| 
||--------------------| 


 solo rhythm                                          

|------------|-----------|-------
|------------|-----------|-------
|--4----4----|-----------|-------
|--4----4----|-----------|---5---
|--2----2----|--0---0----|---5---
|------------|-----------|---3---

||----|-----------| 
||----|-----------| 
||----|---2---2---| 
||5---|---2---2---| 
||5---|---0---0---| 
||3---|-----------| 


Final chord

|----| 
|----| 
|--4-| 
|--4-| 
|--2-| 
|----|