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The Edge Of Darkness Tabs by Iron Maiden

The Edge Of Darkness tab by Iron Maiden

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Song: The edge of Darkness
               By : Iron Maiden / The X factor
               Trans. by: Patrick Julien


Helicopter sound...  4x Rhy.#1
---------|------------||-----------------|-----------------|----------------
---------|------------||--------5-----5--|--------3-----3--|--------5-----5-
---------|--4--2--4--*||--4--4-----4-----|--2--2-----2-----|--4--4-----4----
---------|--4--0--4--*||--4--------------|--0--------------|--4-------------
---------|--2--0--2---||--2--------------|--0--------------|--2-------------
---------|------------||-----------------|-----------------|----------------
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             2x Rhy.#2 (w/vocal)
|------------------------||--------------------------|----------------------
|------------------------||--------5-----5-----5-----|----------------------
|-----------5--------7--*||--4--4-----4-----4-----4--|--2-----3-----3-----3-
|--------5--------7-----*||--2-----------------------|--0--2-----2-----2----
|-----3--------5---------||--------------------------|----------------------
|------------------------||--------------------------|----------------------


                 1st           2nd
---|--------------------------|------------------------|--------------------
---|--------5-----5-----5-----|------------------------|--------------------
---|--4--4-----4-----4-----4--|---------5-----------7--|---------5----------
2--|--2-----------------------|------5-----------7-----|------5-----------2-
---|--------------------------|---3-----------5--------|---3-----------0----
---|--------------------------|------------------------|--------------------


  x4  Rhytm#3/w.dist                     1st
----||------------------------------------------------------|---------------
----||------------------------------------------------------|---------------
2--*||---9--9--9--9--9-----7--7--7--7--7-----9--9--9--9--9--|---5--5--5-----
---*||---9--9--9--9--9-----7--7--7--7--7-----9--9--9--9--9--|---5--5--5-----
----||---7--7--7--7--7-----5--5--5--5--5-----7--7--7--7--7--|---3--3--3-----
----||------------------------------------------------------|---------------


       2nd          x3  variation of Rhy.#3
---------|-------------------------||---------------------------------------
---------|-------------------------||---------------------------------------
7--7--7--|---5--5--5-----2--2--2--*||---9--9--9--9--9-----5--5--5--5--5-----
7--7--7--|---5--5--5-----2--2--2--*||---9--9--9--9--9-----5--5--5--5--5-----
5--5--5--|---3--3--3-----0--0--0---||---7--7--7--7--7-----3--3--3--3--3-----
---------|-------------------------||---------------------------------------


                      Rhy.#4
---------------------------------------||-----------------------------------
---------------------------------------||--------------------------------12-
7--7--7--7--7-----5--5--5-----7--7--7--||------9--11--12--11--9--11--12-----
7--7--7--7--7-----5--5--5-----7--7--7--||---9-------------------------------
5--5--5--5--5-----3--3--3-----5--5--5--||-----------------------------------
---------------------------------------||-----------------------------------



----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------12--12~~~------------------------
12--11--9~~~-----9--11--12--11--9--11--12----------------9--11--12--11--9---
--------------9---------------------------------------9---------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------


               1st/3rd
--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
--------12----------------|------------------------------------------------|
11--12------12--11--9~~~--|------9--11--12--11--9--------9--11--12--11--9--|
--------------------------|---9-----------------------9--------------------|
--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
--------------------------|------------------------------------------------|


2nd            Rhy.#5
-----------------------||---------------------------------------------------
-----------------------||---------------------------------------------------
----9--11--12--11--9---||--9-----9--9--9--9--9--9-----9--9--9-----9--9--9---
-9---------------------||--9-----9--9--9--9--9--9-----9--9--9-----9--9--9---
-----------------------||--7-----7--7--7--7--7--7-----7--7--7-----7--7--7---
-----------------------||---------------------------------------------------



----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
9--9--9-----9--9--9-----9--9--12-----7---7--7--7-----7--7--7-----7--7--7----
9--9--9-----9--9--9-----9--9--12-----7---7--7--7-----7--7--7-----7--7--7----
7--7--7-----7--7--7-----7--7--10-----5---5--5--5-----5--5--5-----5--5--5----
----------------------------------------------------------------------------


                    2x Rhy.#4(2nd) Rhy.#5 x4Rhy.#4(2nd)
----------------------------------------||------------|--------||----------|
----------------------------------------||------------|--------||----------|
7--7--4-----4--4--4-----4--4--5-----9--*||------------|-------*||----------|
7--7--4-----4--4--4-----4--4--5-----9--*||------------|-------*||----------|
5--5--2-----2--2--2-----2--2--3-----7---||------------|--------||----------|
----------------------------------------||------------|--------||----------|


Play Rhy.#5 during Guitar solos...


----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----10--12--13--12--10--10---------10--12--10-------------------------------
12-----------------------------12--------------12--12--11------9--11--12--9-
-----------------------------------------------------------12---------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------


 5x Rhy.#3    2x Rhy.#2    2x then, play this part...
-||----------------||----------------||--------------------------|----------
-||----------------||----------------||--------5-----5-----5-----|----------
*||---------------*||---------------*||--4--4-----4-----4-----4--|--2-----3-
*||---------------*||---------------*||--2-----------------------|--0--2----
-||----------------||----------------||--------------------------|----------
-||----------------||----------------||--------------------------|----------


         slower.........................
---------------|-----------------------------------||-----------------------
---------------|--------5-----5-----5-----5-----5--||-----------------------
---3-----3-----|--4--4-----4-----4-----4-----4-----||-----------------------
2-----2-----2--|--2--------------------------------||-----------------------
---------------|-----------------------------------||-----------------------
---------------|-----------------------------------||-----------------------

Note: The guitar solos are not too hard to play but the first one is more
   confused. I didn't put them in this tab cause they were too long and
   too hard to write!!! So, enjoy and try to find how to they play them!!!


If you want other Iron Maiden songs, just e-mail me and I will see what I can
do for you!!! Up the Irons!!!

Patrick Julien, Montreal, Quebec
E-mail: maiden@accent.net

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