Bruce Dickinson - Strange Death In Paradise guitar tab
"Strange Death in Paradise"
(B. Dickinson / A. Dickson)
Guitar transcription by Jeremy Haines (haines@powered.cs.yale.edu)
[ Watch for the subtle variations throughout the song. Also, things get a bit messy toward the end... ]
[ the bass plays in the same range as the guitar and sounds similar, so I may have accidentally tabbed ]
[ some of that in here. Nevertheless, this should be a reasonable approximation... - JH ]
6/8 time, ~120 bpm. Drop only the bottom string to D.
(let ring)
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0:11
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0:22
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Spiralling, falling, a silver machine... From wings of freedom silent above...
0:34
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Eyelids were burning, summer sun roasting, Tumbling chrome in the clear blue sky...
0:45
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Brighter than sunshine, for all of our lifetimes, One thousand stars turned day into night at the
0:57
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end... Where were you when it fell from the
1:08
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sky? I saw the movie, I read the reply... In the beginning there was only the
1:18
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word...
1:30
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People were kissing in front of their shadows, children were playing out in the yard...
1:41
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I am not guilty... I made no difference... I wasn't born and I wasn't made on that
1:52
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day... Where were you when it fell from the
2:03
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sky? I saw the movie, I read the reply... In the beginning there was only the
2:14
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word...
2:25
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2:36
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2:47
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2:58
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3:09 (new guitar comes in)
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(those are 10's and 13's...space restraints make this kind of messy...)
3:21
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Strange death... in par-... -a- -dise...
3:31
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Strange death... in par-... -a- -dise...
3:42
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Strange death... in par-... -a- -dise...
3:53
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* = 12(13)(12)(10)
Strange death... in par-... -a- -dise...
4:03
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Strange death... in par-... -a- -dise...
4:14
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* = 20(21)(20)(18)
Strange death... in paradise...
4:24
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(slow down to ~90 bpm) (let chord erode)
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