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

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 intro

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-x-\-------------0------0----------------0------0-----3----------0-------0----
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 pick scrape

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 verse riff        pm--------

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 prechorus riff

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 chorus

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 Guitar Interlude

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 pre solo   de  eep  un  der ground. . .

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-^3-----\-------5b7r5--3--5b7r5--/-2h3h5--3p2h3h5--------------------5--------
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 Guitar Solo

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                        pm----------------------        bar scoop

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 can't look back . . .

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 Last Interlude

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                                                         we know you did it.
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                     --\------/-------
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\ - bar down
/- bar up