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She is Suffering

Manic Street Preachers
Tab
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Song

Manic Street Preachers - She Is Suffering

From The Holy Bible

(Music Bradfield/Moore, lyrics James/Wire)

Guitarists - James Dean Bradfield (lead, Les Paul Custom with hi gain distortion,

in treble position for the solo), Richey James (rhythm, I think it's a tele but

I can't be sure.)

INTRO/VERSE a fairly simple pattern of going up and down the chords. The A/Am

bit can be done in open position (X02220/X02210) if you feel more comfortable

with that.

It is lightly palm muted, but you don't really have to do that.

Em Em/Eb A Am

E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------8-----------------8----------------------------------------------|
G|-------9-----9-----------9-----9---------------6-----------------5----------|
D|-----9---9-----9-------9---9-----9---------7-----7-----------7-----7--------|
A|---7-------------7---6-------------6-----7---7-----7-------7---7-----7------|
E|---------------------------------------5-------------5---5-------------5----|

G B Em

She is suffering

G B A5

She sucks you deeper in

G B Em

She is suffering

G B A5

You exist within her shadow

Those make up pretty much the whole song.

SOLO, this bit's pretty odd to be honest, and this is just an interpretation

that sounds similar to me. I'm not really one to play the exact solo, but this

is pretty much what I do. The bends are up about half a semitone, not enough

to go to the next fret. What I do is the first bit as it's written here,

then mainly impro the next bit on those notes and a few others from

the Em pentatonic. End on that high E though.

E-|---------------------------------------------|
B-|--------------------------15-----------------|
G-|-14b-12-14b----14b-12-14b------14b-12-14b----|
D-|------------12-----------------------------12|
A-|---------------------------------------------|
E-|---------------------------------------------|
E-|----15-12-----12----12----12--------15b-12--|
B-|----------15b----15----15----12b-15---------|
G-|-14-----------------------------------------|
D-|--------------------------------------------|
A-|--------------------------------------------|
E-|--------------------------------------------|

Let the last note of the solo ring, as it then goes into the verse, where this

or something like it is played over the other guitar.

E-|-12p10h12-------------------------|
B-|-------------------12p10h12-------|
G-|----------------------------------|
D-|----------------------------------|
A-|----------------------------------|
E-|----------------------------------|

Enjoy! Great song from a good album that I picked up last week. I still

prefer Generation Terrorists though.

Tabbed by Whill, comments to infectedwill AT hotmail DOT com

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