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Secret Face

Death
Tab
4.1(3)

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

"Secret Face" by Death

Transcribed by Brian Meloon (bmeloon@geom.umn.edu)

*(NOTE: guitars must be tuned down 1 whole step (i.e. to D))*

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

(Second time play the note in paranthesis)

|-----------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------*|
|------------------------------------(5)-*|
|-5---------------6---------------4-------|
|-----3-3-3-3-3-3-----3-3-3-3-3-3---------|

(As above, second time play the note in paranthesis)

--Play above 2 1/2 times, stopping after playing the top section for the

third time...

|1. |2.

|------------------|-------------------------|-------------
|------------------|-------------------------|-------------
|------------------|------------------------*|-------------
|-------------5----|-------------5---4------*|-------------
|-4---4-4-4---3----|-4---4-4-4---3---2---5---|-4\3---4\3---
|-2---2-2-2--------|-2---2-2-2-----------3---|-2\1---2\1---

Play this three times, then move to this:

|1.

|----------------------|------------------------------|
|----------------------|------------------------------|
|----------------------|-----------------------------*|
|----------------------|-----------------------------*|
|-5-5-4-4------4-4-----|-4-4-3-3-----3-3-----3-3------|
|---------2-2------2-2-|---------1-1-----1-1-----1-1--|

|2.

|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|-----------------------------*|
|-4-4-3-3-----3-3-----3-3-----*|
|---------1-1-----1-1-----1-1--|
|------------------------------|

Play four times, then:

|---------------------------------|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------
|-----4---3---0-------------------|-----6---5---2-------------------
|-2-------------------5---4---1---|-4-------------------7---6---3---
|-----------------3---------------|-----------------5---------------

Play two times.

Then:

A5 |1.C#5

|------12------12------|-------16-------16--------|
|---12------12----12---|----16-------16----16-----|
|-9-------9----------9-|-13-------13----------13-*|
|----------------------|-------------------------*|
|----------------------|--------------------------|
|----------------------|--------------------------|

|2.G#5 B5

|-11------11------11----14-------14-------14-----
|----11------11------------14-------14-----------
|-------8-------8----8--------11-------11----11--
|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------------------------

Play the first three bars two times each, but the second ending only once...

but play the whole thing two times, followed by:

|-12---------12-16----------------14--------
|----12---12-------16----------16----14-----
|-------9-------------13----13----------11--
|------------------------13-----------------
|-------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------

The chords under the guitar solo sound like E5 and F5, played as straight

sixteenth notes, and simply alternating back and forth...

Finally, after the guitar solo, we move to:

| E5 | F5

|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------
|-9---------------------------------|--------7-9-10-13-10-9------------------
|---10-12-10-9-10-9-7-6-------------|-7-9-10---------------------------------
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------|----------------------------------------

Repeat twice, then move to:

|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|----------6---------------6---------------6---------------6--------
|-5----------------5---------------5---------------5----------5-----
|---4-4-4----4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4---4-4-4-------4--
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------9---------------9---------------9---------------9---------
|-6---------------6---------------6---------------6----------6------
|---6-6-6---6-6-6---6-6-6---6-6-6---6-6-6---6-6-6---6-6-6-------6---
|-------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------

Repeat this part three times, then go back to the beginning, and

play through once more, ending on A5...

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