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The Police
Message in a Bottle
Written by Sting
Tablature
|----------------------------------------------------------------| |----------------------------------------------------------------| |-------8---------4---------6------------------------------------| |----6---------2---------4------------6\7------------------------| |-4---------0---------2------------4-----------------------------| |-------------------------------2--------------------------------|
h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (release immediately if no number after "r")
/\ - slide in or out (from or to "nowhere specific")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tapping
TP - tremolo picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = how much to dip the bar
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend (also connects hammer-ons and pull-offs)
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - in rhythms, indicates a muted strum
o - in rhythms, indicates a single note strum
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