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A Poor Mans Memory

Explosions in the Sky
Tab
★4.6(7)

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

1:59

|-------------------|
|8-7----------------|
|----9-7------------|

|--------9-/11-7~---| (guitar 2 should stop playing as guitar 1 starts

|-------------------| the beginning riff once more)

|-------------------|

x8

Guitar 1 (clean) [2:12]

|--------------------------------------|
|----------7---------------------------|
|4~-7~---9---9---7-6-------------------|
|--------------9-----7---7-------------|
|----------------------9---9/7~---7~---|
|--------------------------------------|

x 2

2:52

|-------------|
|-------------|
|4~-7~---9~-6~|
|-------------|
|-------------|
|-------------|

x2

Both guitars

|------|
|------|

|4~-2~-|

|------|
|------|
|------|

[3:36] Guitar 3 (delay)

|21t|

|---|
|---|
|---|
|---|
|---|

Guitar 1 (clean)

|---------------|--------------------|
|8~-9~-\3~---5~-|8~-9~-\3~---5~-/7~--|
|---------------|----------------7~--|
|---------------|----------------7~--|
|---------------|----------------5~--|
|---------------|--------------------|

x4

[4:26] Guitar 2 (delay)

|---|-------------------|
|7~-|6h7-6h7-6h7-8-7----|
|7~-|----------------7-9|
|7~-|-------------------|
|5~-|-------------------|
|---|-------------------|

[4:47] Guitar 1 (Distortion)

|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|

|4-4-4-4-66666666-7-7-7-7-99999999|

|x-x-x-x-xxxxxxxx-x-x-x-x-xxxxxxxx|

|2-2-2-2-44444444-5-5-5-5-77777777|

|---------------------------------|

x2

|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|

|1111111111111111-99999999-77777777-66666666-44444444|

|x x x x x x x x -xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx|

|9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 -77777777-55555555-44444444-22222222|

|----------------------------------------------------|

x2

|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|

|4-4-4-4-66666666-7-7-7-7-99999999|

|x-x-x-x-xxxxxxxx-x-x-x-x-xxxxxxxx|

|2-2-2-2-44444444-5-5-5-5-77777777|

|---------------------------------|

x2

|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|

|1111111111111111-99999999-77777777-66666666-4~|

|x x x x x x x x -xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxx-x~|

|9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 -77777777-55555555-44444444-2~|

|----------------------------------------------|

x2

<end with guitar 3 still tremolo picking>

Tabbed by Aaron Gutteridge

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