Author/Artist: Queensryche
Title: Spreading The Disease
Album: Operation: Mindcrime
Transcribed by: Raven
Email: grans@earthlink.net

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 intro      repeat 4 times over rhythm guitar, then hold the unison E notes

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 verse riff-palm mute the low E string

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                                                           repeat, but then,

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 after rhythm choking x's, play

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 chorus  (Geoff Tate broke my windows!!!)

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 Guitar Solo

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          the delay pedal he's got on then repeats the last notes.

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 This part played after the infamous speech, "Religion and sex are power..."

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 This part played after "While we pay for wars in South America"

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                    now faster, as the palm muted E sneaks up

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 conclusion

h  - hammer on
p  - pull off
* - trill
b  - bend (use tremolo bar for downbend)
r  - release bend
/  - slide up
\  - slide down
v  - vibrato
t  - tap (with strumming hand)
x  - fret-hand muting
^ -  natural harmonics
ph- artificial (pinch) harmonics
PM palm mute
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Lines going diagonally up and down   --\--------/-------------|
These mean whammy bar                     --\------/----------|
          -                                    --\----/-------|
\ - bar down
/- bar up