Candlemass - The Dying Illusion Tabs

Tuning: Eb



The song begins with some light keyboards, before going into the intro riff (this
riff is very similar to the main riff used in the verses, but is just a little bit
different.) 



Intro Riff (0:23)
================

Intro [Part I] (Guitar 1)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|----------------10----7-----7/10|----------------10----7-----7/10
|----------------8-8-8-5-5-5-5/8||----------------8-----5-----5/8|
|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----------------||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0----|
 . . . . . . . .   . .   . .      . . . . . . . .   . .   . .


Intro [Part I] (Guitar 2)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|----------------8-----5-----5h8||7---------------8-----5-----5h8|
|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0----------------||----0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0----|
 . . . . . . . .                      . . . . . .   . .   . .




Intro [Part II] (Guitar 1)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|----------------10----7-----7/10|----------------10----7-----7/10
|----------------8-----5-----5-8||----------------8-----5-----5/8|
|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0 0---0 0----||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0----------|
 . . . . . . . .   . .   . .      . . . . . . . .   . .


Intro [Part II] (Guitar 2)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|-------------------------------||----------------10----7-----7/10
|7-7-------------8-----5-----5h8||----------------8-----5-----5/8|
|----0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0----||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0 0----------|
     . . . . . .   . .   . .      . . . . . . . .   . .




Verse I (0:33)
==============

Riff 1a (Guitar 1)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------| x8
|----------------10----7-----7/10
|----------------8-----5-----5/8|
|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0----|
 . . . . . . . .   . .   . .


Riff 1a (Guitar 2)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------| x8
|9---------------10----7-----7/10
|7---------------8-----5-----5/8|
|----0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0----|
     . . . . . .   . .   . .




Pre-Chorus I (0:54)
===================

Riff 2a

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|    On the 4th note in the second
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1 measure, only one guitar plays
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|    the note as a pinch harmonic
|------5-----4---2-----------2--||------5-----4--{3]-------------|
|2---------------------3-------3||2---------------------3-----3p0|




Riff 2b

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|-------------------------------||----------------5-----7-----5--|
|------5-----4---2-----------2--||------5-----4---3-----5-----3--|
|2---------------------3-------3||2------------------------------|




Main Riff (1:05)
================

Riff 1b (Guitar 1)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|----------------10----7-----7/10|----------------10----7-----7/10
|----------------8-----5-----5/8||----------------8-----5-----5/8|
|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0----||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0----|
 . . . . . . . .   . .   . .      . . . . . . . .   . .   . . 


Riff 1b (Guitar 2)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|----------------10----5-----7/10|9-9-------------10----7-----7/10
|----------------8-----5-----5/8||7-7-------------8-----5-----5/8|
|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0---0-0----||----0-0-0-0-0-0----------------|
 . . . . . . . .   . .   . .          . . . . . .




Verse II (1:10)
===============

Riff 1a x 8




Pre-Chorus II (1:30)
====================

Riff 2a x 1

Riff 2b x 1

Riff 2a x 1

Riff 2b x 1




Chorus I (1:51)
===============


Riff 3

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|    During this section, only one guitar
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x4 plays the notes in brackets as pinch
|-------------------------------||----------------5-----5-----4--|    harmonics.
|--------2--[1]-------------[1]-||--------2---1---3-----3-----2--|
|0-0-0-0---------0-0-0-0-3------||0-0-0-0------------------------|
 . . . .         . . . .          . . . .




Solo I (2:13)
=============

Riff 4 (Rhythm)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x4
|-------------------------------||2-------2---5---4-------4------|
|2-------2---5---4-------4------||0-------0---3---2-------2------|
|0-------0---3---2-------2------||-------------------------------|




Solo II (2:38)
==============

Riff 5 (Rhythm)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x4
|4-------4-------5-------5------||8-------5-------9-------5------|
|2---222-2---222-3---333-3---333||6---666-3---333-7---777-3---333|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
     ...     ...     ...     ...      ...     ...     ...     ...




Bridge I (3:03)
===============

Riff 6 

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|4-----------4-----------4------||7-----------7-----------7------||6-----------6-----------6\-----| x1
|2---2-2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2-2---2-2||5---5-5-5-5-5---5-5-5-5-5---5-5||4---4-4-4-4-4---4-4-4-4-4\-----|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
     . . . .     . . . .     . .      . . . .     . . . .     . .      . . . .     . . . .




Riff 7

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a 5 e + a
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------7------| x1
|----------------5-------4-------5------|
|2-------5-------3-------2--------------|
|0-------3------------------------------|




Riff 6 x 1




Bridge II (3:15)
================

Riff 8a

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|----------------6-----5--------||-------------------------------|
|2---------------4-----3-----7--||8------------------------------|
|0---------------------------5--||6------------------------------|




Riff 8b

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|6---------------10----9--------||-------------------------------|
|4---------------8-----7-----11-||7------------------------------|
|----------------------------9--||5------------------------------|




Riff 8c

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|5------------------------------||8------------------------------|
|3------------------------------||6------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|




Riff 8d

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|    One guitar plays the last note of
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1 this measure as a pinch harmonic
|2---------------3--------------||8---------------7--------------|    on the 5th fret.
|0---------------1--------------||6--------------[5]-------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------|




Riff 8a x 1

Riff 8b x 1

Riff 8c x 1

Riff 8d x 1




Verse III (3:41)
================

Riff 1b x 1

Riff 1a x 8




Pre-Chorus III (4:07)
=====================

Riff 2a x 1

Riff 2b x 1

Riff 2a x 1

Riff 2b x 1




Chorus II (4:27)
================

Riff 3 x 4




Outro (4:50)
============

Riff 9a (Guitar 1)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||---------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||---------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||---------------| x1
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||---------------|
|2-----------4---5--------------||2-----------4---5-----4-----5--||4-------4------|
|0-----------2---3--------------||0-----------2---3-----2-----3--||2-------2------|


Riff 9a (Guitar 2)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||---------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||---------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||---------------| x1
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||---------------|
|2------------------------------||2------------------------------||---------------|
|0-----------2---3--------------||0-----------2---3-----2-----3--||2-------2------|




Riff 9b (Guitar 1)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------| x1
|2-----------4---5-------5---5--||9-----------5---4-------4---4--||-------------------------------|
|0-----------2---3-------3---3--||7-----------3---2-------2---2--||6tr7---------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|


Riff 9b (Guitar 2)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||8tr9---------------------------| x1
|2-----------4---5-------5---5--||9-----------5---4-------4---4--||-------------------------------|
|0-----------2---3-------3---3--||7-----------3---2-------2---2--||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------------------------------||-------------------------------|




Riff 9a x 1

Riff 9b x 1

Riff 9a x 1

Riff 9b x 1




Riff 9c (Guitar 1)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 2 3 4  1 2 3 4  1 2 3 4  1 2 3 4  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||-------------------------------| x1
|-------------------------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||-------------------------------|
|2-----------4---5--------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||5\-----------------------------|
|0-----------2---3--------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||3\-----------------------------|



Riff 9c (Guitar 2)

 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a  1 2 3 4  1 2 3 4  1 2 3 4  1 2 3 4  1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
|-------------------------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||-------------------------------|
|-------------------------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||12\----------------------------| x1
|-------------------------------||-Solo--||-Solo--||-Solo--||-Solo--||12\----------------------------|
|2-----------4---5--------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||10\----------------------------|
|0-----------2---3--------------||-------||-------||-------||-------||-------------------------------|