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A Perfect Circle
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Author/Artist: A Perfect Circle

Title: The Package

Album: Thriteenth Step

Transcribed by: Andrew Biles

I got the album through this morning and this is the first track off it. It's a

great album, seems to be concentrated quite a lot on the softer side from what

I've heard of it though.

Anyway, you're all gonna say, no this songs in drop C tuning or whatever, but my

guitar was tuned to standard tuning so that's the way I've tabbed it out, cos

most of it worked. If you want to be more accurate, the chorus part is played an

octave lower so the drop tuning will help and it'll be like fret 1 and open for

the two main chords.

Well here's the tab anyway.

|---7---7---6---6---6-------9-----9------9---11-9---7---7---6---6---6-------9--
|-9---9---9---9---9---9-9-9---9-9---9-9----9------9---9---9---9---9---9-9-9----
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------

guitar 1

|-----9-----9------9-----------------------------------------------------------
|-9-9---9-9---9--9-------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-/8-8-8-8-8-8-6-6-6-6-6-6-/9-9-9-9-9-8-11-11-11-11-\8-8-8-8-8-8-6-6-6-6-6-6---
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------

guitar 1

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-\1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-----------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-11-------14-------12---------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------

guitar 2 (tremelo picked when vocals stop) guitar 1 then plays intro riff

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-/8-8-8-8-8-8-6-6-6-6-6-6-/9-9-9-9-9-8-11-11-11-11-\8-8-8-8-8-8-6-6-6-6-6-6---
|--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x-x-x-x--x--x--x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---
|-/6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-/7-7-7-7-7-6-9--9--9--9--\6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4---
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------

guitar 1 then plays the same riff but as octaves (around 2:53)

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6------------------------------------------------------
|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x------------------------------------------------------
|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4------------------------------------------------------
|----------------12-------11-------14------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-7-7-7-7-7-7------------------------------------------------------------------
|-x-x-x-x-x-x------------------------------------------------------------------
|-5-5-5-5-5-5------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------

guitar 2 (3:06) then plays intro

Chorus

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------6--
|-----7-7-7-6--x-x-------------7-7-7-6--x-x-------------7-7-7-6--x-x-----------
|-----7-7-7-6--x-x-4p3-/6------7-7-7-6--x-x-4p3---------7-7-7-6--x-x-4p3-/6----
|-x-x-5-5-5-4--x-x---------x-x-5-5-5-4--x-x------4--x-x-5-5-5-4--x-x-----------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------

guitar 1 distortion (4:10)

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-7-6---------------------------------------------------6-7-6------------------
|----------7-7-7-6--x-x--------------7-7-7-6--x-x-----6------------7-7-7-6--x--
|----------7-7-7-6--x-x-4p3----------7-7-7-6--x-x-4p3--------------7-7-7-6--x--
|------x-x-5-5-5-4--x-x-----4----x-x-5-5-5-4--x-x--------------x-x-5-5-5-4--x--
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------

^pickscrape

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-x----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-x-4p3------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-x----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------

then intro with distortion

|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------6-9/--6-6--6-9--6-6-6-4/--6-6--6-9--6-6--6-6-6---
|-5*--------------------------6-9/--6-6--6-9--6-6-6-4/--6-6--6-9--6-6--6-6-6---
|-5*--------------------------4-7/--4-4--4-7--4-4-4-2/--4-4--4-7--4-4--4-4-4---
|-7*---------------------------------------------------------------------------

guitar 2 (4:26) harmonics (4:55)

The Harmonics are a little off due to the tuning. The rest of the song is

basically above, I can't remember the order totally but I think it goes back

into the chorus part and then the intro and that's it.

any questions? andrewbiles@hotmail.com

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