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Updated 23-Jan-2016
Guitar Pro-generated melody and rhythm guitar tracks in Guitar Pro 5, MP3 (735K), MIDI, and PDF formats. I can't sing; more precisely, you wouldn't want to hear me attempt to sing!
I knew my originality was too good to be true. Faith No More has a song, "From Out of Nowhere", with a line "Obsession rules me ..." And I already had it listed on my OCD Music page!
Cast adrift upon the ocean of life
Every breeze is a storm.
I've got no rudder and I've got no sail
Don't know which way I am going.
Chorus:
Feel buffeted upon all sides
North and South
East and West.
Tossed about
Left and right
Up and down.
My mind can't get no rest.
Moving through a fog that never lets up
No beginning, no end.
I can't see the light on everyone else
Only darkness my ken.
Chorus
Obsessions rule me, thoughts prey on my mind
Always more, never less.
Compulsions fool me, promise time after time
Some relief from distress.
Chorus
When I actually play the song, I'm a little imprecise about the timing between lines, so take the transcriptions below with a grain of salt. I play the rhythm guitar part for the verses delicately and then wallop the chords on the chorus - like waves crashing, you know! Since I can't sing, I don't know if the melody is singable or better used as a guitar solo.
(Ironically, I can't play along with my own song! I lost the Guitar Pro and Power Tab tablature for the song, leaving me only with the MIDI file. I imported the MIDI file into Guitar Pro 5 and edited it to match the Power Tab music I used to have on this web page. As I did so, I noticed that, after playing the rhythm guitar in idle moments over many years, the rhythm part had changed from what it originally was and no longer matched the melody rhythm. As an example, the line, "Always more, never less", descends through the chords G, F, C, and G. In the original rhythm, shown below, the chords are played as "chord, chord, cho-chorddd". Now, I play it as "cho-ch-ch, ch-ch-ch, cho-chorddd". The new way sounds pretty cool, but it's out-of-sync with the melody. Which, come to think of it, really is no problem for me, because I don't sing anyway!)
Guitar-Pro-generated images (GP5 and PDF):
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Melody (Lead Guitar):
Verse ...
E||--------------------6--6--|--5-------------------|-----------------------|
B||--5--5--6--5--------------|-----8~---------8-----|--6-----5-----------5--|
G||--------------7--5--------|-------------------7--|-----5-----7~----------|
D||--------------------------|----------------------|-----------------------|
A||--------------------------|----------------------|-----------------------|
E||--------------------------|----------------------|-----------------------|
--------------------6--6--|--5-------------------|-----------------------|
--5--5--6--5--------------|-----8~---------8-----|--6-----5--5-----------|
--------------7--5--------|-------------------7--|-----5--------7~-------|
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Chorus ...
-----------------6--8--6--|-------------8--6----|---------------------|
--8--6--8--8--8-----------|----8~---------------|--8~---------6-------|
--------------------------|---------------------|----------------8----|
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---------------------|----------6--8--6-------|--------8--6---------|
---------------8--6--|--8----8-------------8~-|----------------8~---|
--5~-----------------|------------------------|---------------------|
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---------8----8----6--|--------------------||
------5---------------|--8----5~-----------||
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Rhythm Guitar:
Verse ...
C C Csus4 Fsus4 F C G F C G
E||-------------------6--6--|--5--3----------7----|--5----3--3----------|
B||--5--5--6----x--x--6--6--|--6--5----------8----|--6----5--3----------|
G||--5--5--5----x--x--------|-----5----------7----|--5----5--4----------|
D||-------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
A||-------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
E||-------------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
C C Csu4 Fsus4 F C G F C G
-------------------6--6--|--5--3----------7----|--5----3----3--------|
--5--5--6----x--x--6--6--|--6--5----------8----|--6----5----3--------|
--5--5--5----x--x--------|-----5----------7----|--5----5----4--------|
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Chorus ...
G G G G G C C G C C G F F7
--3--3--3----3--3--3--3--|----3--------3--3----|--3----------1--1----|
--3--3--3----3--3--5--5--|----3--------5--5----|--3----------1--4----|
--4--4--4----4--4--5--5--|----4--------5--5----|--4----------2--2----|
--5--5--5----5--5--5--5--|----5--------5--5----|--5----------3--3----|
--5--5--5----5--5--3--3--|----5--------3--3----|--5----------3--3----|
-------------------------|----3----------------|--3------------------|
C G G G G G C C G C C G
--0------------3--3--|--3----3--3--3--3----3--|--------3--3----3----|
--1------------3--3--|--3----3--3--5--5----3--|--------5--5----3----|
--0------------4--4--|--4----4--4--5--5----4--|--------5--5----4----|
--2------------5--5--|--5----5--5--5--5----5--|--------5--5----5----|
--3------------5--5--|--5----5--5--3--3----5--|--------3--3----5----|
--0------------------|---------------------3--|----------------3----|
G G F F7 C
--------3----3----1--|--1----0------------||
--------3----3----1--|--4----1------------||
--------4----4----2--|--2----0------------||
--------5----5----3--|--3----2------------||
--------5----5----3--|--3----3------------||
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