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Helicon 1 by Mogwai
Helicon 1
When Mogwai plays this song on stage there is a feedback loop at the very start of the
tune, which lasts until the end. The note is a D. An E-bow can make this sound better.
Delay settings (DD-6) 8/10, 6/10, 4/10, 800 ms
Gtr1 with delay clean sound
e|-------------------------||
B|-------------------------||
G|-/-11-------9-----7------||
D|-------------------------||
A|-------------------------||
E|-------------------------||
Gtr1
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||-(7)-/-11--12----14----||
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Gtr1
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||--(14)--/-19---------------||
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Gtr1
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||---(19)------------------||
||--------0-0-0------------||
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Gtr2 enters (1'20) clean sound
(*on string G, it could be 7 or open, your choice. open might sound better.)
** repeat this throughout nearly the whole song.
e|------------------------------------------------------------||
B|---10--7---10--10---7--10---10--7--10---10--7------7--5--7--||
G|-7----7---7---7----7---7-----7----7--7----7----7------4--4--||
D|------------------------------------------------------------||
A|------------------------------------------------------------||
E|------------------------------------------------------------||
Gtr1
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||----11--9---7---11---9---7-----------||
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Gtr1
||----------------------------------------------------||
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||----11------9------7----11------9-------7-----------||
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change (2'22)
Gtr1
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||---11---12---14-------7-------11----12-----14----------7-------||
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Gtr2 repeat...
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||---10--7---10--10---7--10---10--7--10---10--7------10--7--|
||-7----7---7---7----7---7-----7----7--7----7----7------7---|
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DISTORTION! (2'54)
There must be a third gtr which carries on playing Gtr 2 clean part.
Gtr1 with disto (not too heavy… beware of feedbacks)
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||--11----9----7-----11------9------7----------||
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Gtr2
Power chords (heavy distortion)
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||---7------------------3----||
||---7------------------4----||
||---7------------------4----||
||---5------------------2----||
||---------------------------||
Gtr2
||---------------------------||
||---7------------------3----||
||---7------------------4----||
||---7------------------4----||
||---5------------------2----||
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Variation (3'25
Gtr1 with distortion.
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||----7---9-----7---9---------7-------9-------11-----||
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Gtr2
||---------------------------||
||---7------------------3----||
||---7------------------4----||
||---7------------------4----||
||---5------------------2----||
||---------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||
||----11-----------9-----------7-------||
||-------------------------------------||
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Gtr2
||---------------------------||
||---7------------------3----||
||---7------------------4----||
||---7------------------4----||
||---5------------------2----||
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Variation (3'58)
Gtr1
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||---14-----12---11-------14----12-----11-----||
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Gtr2
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||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------||
||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------||
||----5---------3---------5-------------3-----------||
Gtr1
very fast, trill.
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||----19---21---19-----------------21----------------19------||
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Gtr2
Power chords
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||--------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------||
||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------||
||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------||
||----5---------3---------5-------------3-----------||
Distortion off.
Outro (4'29)
Gtr1 feedback
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||--(19)--(0)-------/----9-----7-----------||
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gtr1
||--------------------------------||
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||-----(11)------(14)-----(19)----||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
gtr 2 returns
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||---10--7---10--10---7--10---10--7--10---10--7------7--------||
||-7----7---7---7----7---7-----7----7--7----7----7------4-----||
||------------------------------------------------------------||
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gtr1
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||--\--0-/-11----\--/-14---19---21--19------------||
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gtr2 w./ slight delay
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||------7H------------7---11-----||
||----------7H-12H---------------||
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