Chord/Tab song: Meltdown

"Meltdown"
(B. Dickinson, A. Dickson)

Guitar transcription by Aaron Shay ([email protected])

after drum intro.

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let ring throughout

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------2-------2-------------4------------4--------------
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hey.. you wait cringing in the dark

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you create what you ve always feared

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a puppet of hatred dishing out

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poison

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then they repeat the above riff over another vocal
passage leading to.....

I can smell the difference your truth and

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your fiction you and your twisted convictions

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Chorus:

[F#5]Were you my [G#5]friend when I belonged?

[A5]Were you my [Bsus2]friend when I was strong?

[F#5]Were you my [G#5]friend when I was weak?

[A5]Were you my [Bsus2]freind when I was callin', crawlin', out of
my head?

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| ^ ^ |

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then another verse,another chorus then this riff...

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The solo is in F# pentatonic, I believe, for any improvisers
or theory buffs. No promises on this tab...Alex is very
creative and very hard to follow. Oh yeah, in the chorus
that Bsus2 chord looks like this:

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[--4--]
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