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Band:  Excel
Album: The Joke's On You
Song:  Message In A Bottle

Copyright (c)  Rotten Records 1989
Version 1.0 - 10/19/06

Transcribed By: Gary
Email:          hyperslob@yahoo.com


.  - palm mute           /  - slide up to
  - slide down to       ~  - vibrato
h  - hammer on           b  - Bend
p  - pull off            Suffixes for bend
t  - tap                 f  - full bend    h - half bend
ph - pinched harmonic    q  - quarter bend t - tap bend
*  - see comment         ^  - Hold bend    r release bend
x  - Stuccatto           ~  - vibrato bend
,  - slight palm mute    () - ghost note, sustained note
"  - tremolo note        <> - Trill

Tune All Strings to E flat (1/2 step down)

Main Riff  (Distortion)
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----8------2------4-----------------------------------------------|
|---6------2------4--------6/7--------------------------------------|
|-4------0------2--------4------------------------------------------|
|----------------------2--------------------------------------------|

Riff A  "Ill send an SOS to the world..."
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-7-7-7-9-9-9-9-9-----------------------------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-7-----------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
  pm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Part 2  "i hope that someone gets my..."
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--------------------------------------|
|-4------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--------------------------------------|
|-4------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------|
|-2------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------|
               . . . . . . . .

Part 3 "message in a bottle..."
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------2-------------|
|-6-------2-------6-6-6-6--2--------6--------2--------2-------------|
|-6-------2-------6-6-6-6--2--------6--------2--------4-------------|
|-4-------0-------4-4-4-4--0--------4--------0--------4-------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------2-------------|

and thats pretty much it, just repeat that stuff over again and... yeah...

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