Meltdown

                      (B. Dickinson, A. Dickson)

         Guitar transcription by Aaron Shay (*)


after drum intro.
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let ring throughout
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hey..       you   wait           cringing in the dark
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you    create                  what you ve always feared
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a puppet of hatred      dishing out
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poison
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then they repeat the above riff over another vocal
passage leading to.....

          I can smell the difference     your truth and
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your  fiction            you and your twisted convictions
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Chorus:

F#5         G#5
Were you my friend when I belonged?

A5          Bsus2
Were you my friend when I was strong?

F#5         G#5
Were you my friend when I was weak?

A5          Bsus2
Were you my freind when I was callin', crawlin', out of
my head?

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then another verse,another chorus then this riff...

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The solo is in F# pentatonic, I believe, for any improvisers
or theory buffs.  No promises on this tab...Alex is very
creative and very hard to follow.  Oh yeah, in the chorus
that Bsus2 chord looks like this:

--2-- 
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--4-- 
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--2-- 

• A5
• Bsus2
• F#5
• G#5

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