Band: Manic Street Preachers
Album: Know Your Enemy
Song: The Convalescent
Year: 2001
Versions: 2
The Convalescent
(Wire/Bradfield/Moore)
Transcribed by Daniel Bamsey ([email protected])
standard tuning (eadgbe)
Chords:
[Em] [Esus2] [D] [Am] [Asus2]
[F] [E] [Am7] [D7] [F] [G] [G#] [C] [C7]
INTRO: Em RIFF A x2
[Em]
[Am]
Verse:
[Em] [Esus2] [Em] [Esus2] [D]
[Am] [Asus2] [Am] [Asus2]
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)
Chorus: C C7 Am F
[F] [G] [G#] [C] [C7]
Am D(with RIFF C x2)
RIFF C
D l.r
in 3rd verse play RIFF D over chords
RIFF D
x2
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
RIFF F
l.r l.r
hold and repick
hold and repick
RIFF G
Am l.r
End on Em
("Scream until the war is over")
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
Album: Know Your Enemy
Song: The Convalescent
Year: 2001
Versions: 2
The Convalescent
(Wire/Bradfield/Moore)
Transcribed by Daniel Bamsey ([email protected])
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||
---------------------------||
----------------------||
---------------------------||
---------------------||
---------------------------||
---------------------||
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--11-11-11-11-11-11-9/11/12-11\9---||
-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---||
------------------------------------------||
---------------------------------||
---------------------------------||
-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
---------------------------||
---------------------------||
---------------------------||
hold and repick
--------------------------------||
-7--(7)---5-(5)-(5--5--5--5-)---||
-9bu11----7bu9--(9--9--9--9-)---|| x2
--------------------------------||
--------------------------------||
--------------------------------||
RIFF G
Am l.r
------------------|| -0------
-7--(7)-----------|| -1------
-9bu11------------|| x12 -2------
-----------2bu4---|| -2------
------------------|| -0------
------------------|| --------
End on Em
("Scream until the war is over")
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