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  Band: Manic Street Preachers
  Album: Know Your Enemy
  Song: The Convalescent
  Year: 2001
  Versions: 2
  
  
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  The Convalescent
  (Wire/Bradfield/Moore)
  
  Transcribed by Daniel Bamsey (drbams@yahoo.com)
  
  standard tuning (eadgbe)
  
  Chords:
  
   Em Esus2 D      Am   Asus2
  -7----7------2---5-0---5-0-----------
  -8----7---7--3---5-1---5-0-----------
  -9----9---7--2---5-2---5-2-----------
  -9----9---7--0---7-2---9-2-----------
  -7----7---5------7-0---7-0-----------
  -----------------5-----5-------------
  
   F   E    Am7 D7  F   G   G#  C   C7
  ----------0---2---1-------4---0---0---
  -10--9----1---1---1-------4---1---1---
  -10--9----0---2---2---4---8---0---3---
  -10--9----2---0---3---5---6---2---2---
  -8---7----0-------3---5---6---3---3---
  ------------------1---3---4-----------
  
  INTRO: Em       RIFF A x2
  
   Em
  ---------------------------------||
  ---------------------------------||
  ---------------------------------||
  ---------------------------------|| x2
  -/7-7-7---5-7--------------------||
  --------8-----8--7-7-7-7-7-7-7---||
   Am
  ---------------------------------||
  ---------------------------------||
  ---------------------------------||
  -/7-7-7---5-7---/8-8-8-8-8-8-8---||x2
  --------8-----8------------------||
  ---------------------------------||
  
  Verse:
  
   Em       Esus2           Em       Esus2      D
  ---7--7---7-7-----7-7---|---7--7---7-7-----7----
  ---8--8---7-7-----7-7---|---8--8---7-7-----7--7-
  ---9--9---9-9-----9-9---|---9--9---9-9-----9--7-
  -9-9--9---9-9--9--9-9---|-9-9--9---9-9--9--9--7-
  -7-------------7--------|-7-------------7-------
  ------------------------|-----------------------
  
   Am       Asus2           Am       Asus2
  ---0--0---0-0-----0-0---|---0--0---0-0-----0-0-
  ---1--1---0-0-----0-0---|---1--1---0-0-----0-0-
  ---2--2---2-2-----2-2---|---2--2---2-2-----2-2-
  -2-2--2---2-2--2--2-2---|-2-2--2---2-2--2--2-2-
  -0-------------0--------|-0-0-----------0------
  ------------------------|----------------------
  
  repeat verse x2
  
  Pre-chorus: F            E            Am7
  D7  x2
  
              F            E            Am (let ring)
  
              D (let ring)   RIFF B
  
  
  RIFF B (Bass arr for guitar)
  ---------------
  ---------------
  ---------------
  -5-4-2--0-2-4--
  ---------------
  ---------------
  
  Chorus: C            C7            Am            F
  
          F      G     G#            C             C7
  
          Am                         D(with RIFF C x2)
  
  RIFF C
  
   D l.r
  -2-------10-(10)--10-10-10-10-||
  -3-------10-(10)--10-10-10-10-||
  -2-------12bu14---------------||
  -0----------------------------||
  ------------------------------||
  ------------------------------||
  
  in 3rd verse play RIFF D over chords
  
  RIFF D
  
  -------------------------||   ---------------------||
  -/12-10------------------||   ---------------------||
  --------12-11-9/7-7/9--9-||x2 -7/9-/11-11/12-12/14-||
  -------------------------||   ---------------------||
  -------------------------||   ---------------------||
  -------------------------||   ---------------------||
  
  x2
  
  ---------------------------||
  ----------------------||
  -/12~~~~---12/15--12~~~~~~-||
  -12-10----------------||
  ---------------------------||x2-------12-11-9/7-7/9-9||
  ---------------------------||
  ----------------------||
  ---------------------------||
  ---------------------||
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  x2
  
  ----------
  -5-(5)---
  -7bu9----
  ----------
  ----------
  ----------
  
  Outro: Em            D            C            Am
  
  with crescendo of the following riffs over above
  chords
  
  (in E minor: E F# G A B C D E) just ad lib it sounds
  just as good
  
  RIFF E
  ------------------------------------------||
  ------------------------------------------||
  -11--11--11-11-11-11-11-11-9/11/12-119---||
  -x---x---x--x--x--x--x--x--x-x--x--x--x---|| x4
  -9---9---9--9--9--9--9--9--7/9-/10-9-7---||
  ------------------------------------------||
  
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  ---------------------------------||
  -4-4-4---2-2-2--0-0-0------------||
  -----------------------4-4--2--4-|| x2
  ---------------------------------||
  ---------------------------------||
  
  -----------------------||
  -----------------------||
  -----------------------||
  -2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-|| x2
  -----------------------||
  -----------------------||
  
  RIFF F
          l.r          l.r
  --------------------------||
  -12-(12)-----12-(12)------||
  -14bu16------14bu16-------||
  --------------------------|| x4
  --------------------------||
  --------------------------||
            hold and repick
  ---------------------------||
  -8---(8)-(8--8--8--8-)-----||
  -10bu12--(12-12-12-12)-----|| x2
  ---------------------------||
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                   hold and repick
  --------------------------------||
  -7--(7)---5-(5)-(5--5--5--5-)---||
  -9bu11----7bu9--(9--9--9--9-)---|| x2
  --------------------------------||
  --------------------------------||
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  RIFF G
                           Am  l.r
  ------------------||     -0------
  -7--(7)-----------||     -1------
  -9bu11------------|| x12 -2------
  -----------2bu4---||     -2------
  ------------------||     -0------
  ------------------||     --------
  
  End on Em
  
  ("Scream until the war is over")
  
  
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  The Convalesent  - Tabbed by Dezfriel
  
  Em-x79977 
  Am-577555 
  F-133xx 
  A-577655 
  A#-68866 
  D-x57755 
  C-x355x 
  G#-466xx 
  
  intro/verse-- Em Am 
  
  Bridge/Chrous-F G# A Dx3 A D, C A# A D, G# C A#,A D A D 
  
  outro- Em D,Am D 
  

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