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"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
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||-(7)-/-11--12----14----||
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||

Gtr1
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
||--(14)--/-19---------------||
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||
||---------------------------||

Gtr1
||-------------------------||
||-------------------------|| 
||---(19)------------------||
||--------0-0-0------------|| 
||-------------------------||
||-------------------------||

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
||-------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||
||----11--9---7---11---9---7-----------||
||-------------------------------------|| 
||-------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||

Gtr1
||----------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------||
||----11------9------7----11------9-------7-----------||
||----------------------------------------------------|| 
||----------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------||

change (2'22)
Gtr1
||---------------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------------||
||---11---12---14-------7-------11----12-----14----------7-------||
||---------------------------------------------------------------|| 
||---------------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------------|| 

Gtr2 repeat...
||----------------------------------------------------------|
||---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---|
||----------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------|

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)
||---------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------||
||--11----9----7-----11------9------7----------||
||---------------------------------------------|| 
||---------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------||

Gtr2
Power chords (heavy distortion)

||---------------------------||
||---7------------------3----|| 
||---7------------------4----||
||---7------------------4----|| 
||---5------------------2----||
||---------------------------||  
 

Gtr2
||---------------------------||
||---7------------------3----|| 
||---7------------------4----||
||---7------------------4----|| 
||---5------------------2----||
||---------------------------|| 

Variation (3'25
Gtr1 with distortion. 
||---------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------||
||----7---9-----7---9---------7-------9-------11-----||
||---------------------------------------------------|| 
||---------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------||
 

Gtr2
||---------------------------||
||---7------------------3----|| 
||---7------------------4----||
||---7------------------4----|| 
||---5------------------2----||
||---------------------------||  


||-------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||
||----11-----------9-----------7-------||
||-------------------------------------|| 
||-------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||
 
Gtr2

||---------------------------||
||---7------------------3----|| 
||---7------------------4----||
||---7------------------4----|| 
||---5------------------2----||
||---------------------------|| 

Variation (3'58)
Gtr1
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||---14-----12---11-------14----12-----11-----||
||--------------------------------------------|| 
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------|| 

Gtr2 

||--------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------|| 
||--------------------------------------------------||
||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------|| 
||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------||
||----5---------3---------5-------------3-----------||


Gtr1
very fast, trill.
||-----------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------||
||----19---21---19-----------------21----------------19------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------|| 
||-----------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------------------------|| 

Gtr2 
Power chords
||--------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------|| 
||--------------------------------------------------||
||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------|| 
||----7---------5---------7-------------5-----------||
||----5---------3---------5-------------3-----------||

Distortion off.
Outro (4'29)

Gtr1 feedback
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||--(19)--(0)-------/----9-----7-----------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------------||

gtr1
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|| 
||-----(11)------(14)-----(19)----||
||--------------------------------|| 
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|| 

gtr 2 returns
||------------------------------------------------------------||
||---10--7---10--10---7--10---10--7--10---10--7------7--------||
||-7----7---7---7----7---7-----7----7--7----7----7------4-----||
||------------------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------------------||
gtr1
||------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------||
||--\--0-/-11----\--/-14---19---21--19------------||
||------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------------------||
 
gtr2 w./ slight delay
||-------------------------------||
||-------------------------------||
||------7H------------7---11-----||
||----------7H-12H---------------||
||-------------------------------||
||-------------------------------||