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Touched and Left for Dead

Gehenna
Tab

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

Song

Touched And Left For Dead - Gehenna

Riff 1: "A dying entity has left us..."

1.

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

hold hold hold hold hold hold

Riff 2:

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

Riff 3a: "It is left friendless and unburied..."

 |-------------------------|
 |---------5-----------5---|
 |-----7-6---6-7-6---6---6-|
 |-5-8-------------8-------|
 |-------------------------|
 |-------------------------|

Riff 3b: "Yet fully aware of its emptiness..."

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

|-5-5h7h8-4-4h5h7-5-5h7h8-4-|

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

Okay, I really *hate* transcribing synth to guitar, but since the keyboards

make up a large part of this next piece, here it is. If you don't have a

keyboardist, get one! or learn to play them yourself.

Riff 4a: "Still punished, still repenting..."

 |-8------8------11-8----8--------------------------|
 |---11-9---11-9------11---11-9------8----------8---|
 |------------------------------8-10---8---8-10---8-|
 |--------------------------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------------|

Riff 4b:

 |--------------------------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------------|
 |--------------------------------------------------|
 |-10---------------------------8-------------------|
 |-10---------------------------8-------------------|
 |-8----------------------------6-------------------|

hold hold

Riff 5a:

 |-------------------------|
 |-------------------------|
 |-------------------------|
 |---7-----------7-------5-|
 |-5---8-7-5-4-5---8-7-8---|
 |-------------------------|

Riff 5b:

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

hold hold hold hold

Riff 6a: "This is the way to Hell..."

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

|-5-5h7h8p5--5-5h7h8p5--5-5h7h8p5--4-|

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

Riff 6b:

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

Riff 7a:

 |-------------12----------------12----|
 |-------15-14----14-15-14----14----14-|   7a and 7b are exactly the same
 |-12-15-------------------15----------|   as 3a and 6a, merely an octave

|-------------------------------------| higher.

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

Riff 7b:

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

|-12-12h14h15p12--12-12h14h15p12--12-12h14h15p12--11-|

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

Riff 8a:

 |-------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------|
 |-----------------7---6---7---6-|
 |-5---4---5---4-----------------|
 |-------------------------------|
 |-------------------------------|

Each section is indicated by a dash. (1) will denote the first guitar as will

(2) the second guitar. (b) indicates both guitars.

Song structure:

- Keyboards

- (b) Riff 1 x4 ignoring the bar marked 1. until the fourth repetition

- (1) Riff 3a x2

(2) Riff 2 x4

- (1) Riff 3b x2

(2) Riff 2 x4

- (1) Riff 4a x4

(2) Riff 4b x4

- (1) Riff 5a x2

(2) Riff 5b x2

- (1) I play a really slow solo here... pretty much anything sounds good if

you get the right feel. Keep in mind "less is more" ;)

(2) Riff 5b x2 you'll have to pick up the new timing though

- (1) Riff 5a x2

(2) Riff 5b x2

- (1) Riff 3a x2

(2) Riff 2 x4

- (1) Riff 6a x2

(2) Riff 6b x2

- (1) Riff 3a x2

(2) Riff 2 x4

- (1) Riff 6a x2

(2) Riff 6b x2

- (1) Riff 7a x2

(2) Riff 2 x4

- (1) Riff 7b x2

(2) Riff 6b x2

- (1) Riff 8a x1

(2) Riff 2 x8

- (1) Riff 7b x2

(2) Riff 6b x2

- (1) Riff 3a x2

(2) Riff 2 x4 ending with an F powerchord (3rd fret)

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