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Bite Of The Mosquito Tabs
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                              BITE OF THE MOSQUITO
                          As recorded by John Petrucci
       (From the 2004 Album AN EVENING WITH JOHN PETRUCCI & JORDAN RUDESS)

Words and Music by John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess
Arranged by John Petrucci And Jordan Rudess

Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'John Petrucci'

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  Gtr I
  PM-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  S S S S S S S S  S  S S S S  S  S  S   S S  S  S S S S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------7-8-9-10-13-12-11-10-11-12-13-14-|
|--------------------------------------|-8-9-10-11----------------------------------|
|-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-11-10-9-8-9-10-11-12-|--------------------------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|--------------------------------------------------||
|-------------10-11-12-13-16-15-14-13-14-15-16-17--||
|-10-11-12-13--------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||


     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
||---------------------------------------------------||
||o-16-15-14-13-------------------------12-13-14-15-o||
||--------------16-15-14-13-12-13-14-15--------------||
||---------------------------------------------------||
||o-------------------------------------------------o||
||---------------------------------------------------||


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S S  S  S  S  S  S S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-16-13-14-15-16-15-14-13-------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------16-13-14-15-16-15-14-13-|-12-9-10-11-12-11-10-9---------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|-----------------------13-10-11-12-13-12-11-10---|
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|


                   PM------------------------------------------------------
  S S S S S S S S  S S S S  S S S S    S S S  S  S  S S S S S S S S S S S
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-9-6-7-8-9-8-7-6-------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-----------------10-7-8-9-10-9-8-7-|-------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|-11-8-9-10-11-10-9-8-8-5-6-7-8-7-6-5-|


 ---|     PM|     PM|      PM|
  S S S S S S S S S S S S  S  S  S  S
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|-------------8-8-----9-9-------12-12----|
|-----6-6--------------------------------|
|---------6-6-----7-7-----10-10----------|
|-4-4------------------------------------|


   PM|
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------------------------15-15-|
|-------------------16-16-------17-17-------------|
|-------13-13-------------------------12-12-------|
|-------------13-13-------14-14-------------------|
|-11-11-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|


   E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E    E E  E  E E  E  E  E
|-16-------14-12----------|-12------11-9----------|
|----13-16-------16-14-16-|----9-13------13-11-13-|
|-------------------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------------|-----------------------|
|-------------------------|-----------------------|


                                        $
                                PM-------
   S  S  S S  S  S  S S S S S S S S S S
|-11-12-11-8----------------------------|
|------------12-11-10-9-----------------|
|-----------------------8-9-8-5---------|
|-------------------------------9-8-7-5-|
|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------|


   (0:19, 1:18)
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    E S S E E E E E E     S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
||---------------------||-----------------------------------|
||o-------------------o||-5-6-7-8-9-8-7-6-5-6-7-8-9-8-7-6---|
||----8-8-7-8-9-8-7-8--||-----------------------------------|
||--6------------------||-----------------------------------|
||o-------------------o||-----------------------------------|
||---------------------||-----------------------------------|


                                               To Coda
                                      PM-------------------
  S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S     E S S E E E E E E
|---------4-5-6-5-----------------||---------------------||
|-5-6-7-8---------9-8-7-6---------||o-------------------o||
|-------------------------9-8-7-8-||----8-8-7-8-9-8-7-8--||
|---------------------------------||--6------------------||
|---------------------------------||o-------------------o||
|---------------------------------||---------------------||


 -------------------------------|
  S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-4-5-6-7-8-7-8-5-4-5-6-7-8-7-6-5---|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|


  PM-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S   S S S S  S S S S S S  S  S  S  S  S S
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|---------4-5-6-5-----------------|---------------------------------------|
|-4-5-6-7---------8-7-6-5---------|---------------------------------------|
|-------------------------9-8-7-8-|-6-7-8-9-10-9-8-7-8-9-10-11-12-11-10-9-|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|---------------------------------------|


 ----------------------------------------------|
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|----------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------11-12-13-14----||
|-10-11-12-13-14-13-12-11-12-13-14-15----------------||
|----------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------||


                                           1.
    S  S S S  S S S  S S S  S S S  S S S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
||---------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------||
||o-9-10-9-8-10-8-9-10-9-8----8-9-10-9-8-|-------------------------------------------------o||
||-------------------------11------------|-14-13-12-11--------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------|-------------15-14-13-12-11-12-13-14-15-14-13-12--||
||o--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------o||
||---------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------||


  2.
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|-14-13-12-11-------------------------10-11-12-13---|
|-------------15-14-13-12-11-12-13-14---------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-14-13-12-11-12-13-14-15-16-15-14-13-14-15-16-17-|-18-17-16-15-16-17-18-19-20-19-18-17-18-19-20-21-|
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|


     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
||-----------------------------------------------------|
||o-16-17-16-15-17-15-16-17-16-15----15-16-17-16-15----|
||--------------------------------18-------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------|
||o----------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------|


  1.
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|--------------------------------------------------||
|-17-16-15-14-------------------------------------o||
|-------------17-16-15-14-13-14-15-16-17-16-15-14--||
|--------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------------o||
|--------------------------------------------------||


  2.
                                                    2/4
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------------------------------||-------------12-13-14-15---|
|-17-16-15-14-------------------------13-14-15-16-||-17-16-15-16---------------|
|-------------17-16-15-14-13-14-15-16-------------||---------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------|


   4/4
     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
||--16-12-------16-12-------16-12-------16-12-------|
||o-------14-12-------14-12-------14-12-------14-12-|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||o-------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|


  1.                                                  2.
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S      S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-16-17-16-14-16-17-16-14-17-16-15-14--------------||-16-17-16-14-16-17-16-14-19-18-17-16-17-18-19-20-||
|-------------------------------------17-16-15-14-o||-------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------------o||-------------------------------------------------||
|--------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||


     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
||--21-17----17-21-17----17-21-17----17-21-17----17-|
||o-------19----------19----------19----------19----|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||o-------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|


  1.                                                  2.
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S      S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-20-21-20-17-20-21-20-17-19-18-17-16-17-18-19-20--||-21-22-21-19-21-22-21-19-22-21-20-19---------------|
|-------------------------------------------------o||-------------------------------------22-21-20-19---|
|--------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------o||---------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------|


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   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------17-18-19-20-||-21-21-17-17-------------------------------------|
|-18-19-20-21-------------||-------------19-19-------------------17-18-19-20-|
|-------------------------||-------------------18-18-17-18-19-20-------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|--------------------------------------------------|
|-21-21-17-17-------------------------16-17-18-19--|
|-------------18-18--------------------------------|
|-------------------18-18-16-17-18-19--------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|


                                       PM--------------------|               PM------------------|
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-17-18-19-20-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------16-17-18-19-------------------------|-------------10-11-12-13-------------------------|
|-------------------------15-16-17-18-------------|-------------------------12-13-14-15-------------|
|-------------------------------------14-15-16-17-|-11-12-13-14-------------------------11-12-13-14-|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------10-11-12-13----|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------10-11-12-13----------------|
|-12-13-14-15----------------------------------------|
|-------------11-12-13-14----------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S S  S  S  S S S  S  S    S S S  S  S  S S S  S S  S  S  S  S  S S
|----------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|-11-12-13-14----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------10-11-12-13----------------------|-------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------9-10-11-12-----------|---------------------12-9-10-11-12-11-10-9-|
|------------------------------------8-9-10-11-|-12-8-9-10-11-10-9-8-----------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------14-11-12-13-14-13-12-11----|
|-13-10-11-12-13-12-11-10----------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S      S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------17-14-15-16-17-16-15-14-||--16-15-14-13-------------------------12-13-14-15--||
|-16-13-14-15-16-15-14-13-------------------------||o-------------17-16-15-14-13-14-15-16-------------o||
|-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------------||o-------------------------------------------------o||
|-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-16-15-14-13-12-13-14-15-14-13-12-11-10-11-12-13----|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|


                                               (1:26)
                              D.S. al Coda      &
   S  S  S S S S  S  S S  S  S  S S  S  S  S     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-12-11-10-9-8-9-10-11-----------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------9-10-11-12------------||-------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------9-10-11-12-||-13-14-15-16-17-16-15-14-13-14-15-16-17-16-15-14-|
|--------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-------------16-14-15-14----------------------------|
|-13-14-15-16-------------17-16-15-14-13-12-11-12----|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|


 3/4
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------------------||
|-------------16-15-14-13-------------||
|-13-14-13-12-------------15-14-13-12-||
|-------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------||


 2/4
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------|-15-14-13-12-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------16-15-14-13-|
|-13-14-13-12-13-14-13-12-|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||
|-------------------------|-16-15-14-13-------------|-------------------------||
|-16-15-14-12-13-14-13-12-|-------------16-15-14-12-|-13-14-13-12-13-14-13-12-||
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------||


     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
||--19-18-17-16-------------|
||o-------------20-19-18-17-|
||--------------------------|
||--------------------------|
||o-------------------------|
||--------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------|-15-14-13-12-------------|
|-------------------------|-------------16-15-14-13-|
|-20-19-18-16-17-18-17-16-|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|--------------------------||
|-13-14-13-12-13-14-13-12-o||
|--------------------------||
|--------------------------||
|-------------------------o||
|--------------------------||


 3/4                                    2/4
   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S     S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-23-22-21-20-------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------24-23-22-21-------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------24-23-22-20-||-21-22-21-22-21-22-21-22-|
|-------------------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------------------||-------------------------|
|-------------------------------------||-------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-22-23-22-21-22-23-22-21-|-18-19-18-17-18-19-18-17-|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-19-20-19-18-19-20-19-18-|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|


   S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S    S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-15-16-15-14-15-16-15-14-|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-16-17-16-15-16-17-16-15-|-12-13-12-11-12-13-12-11-|


                    4/4
  S S S S S S S S    S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S  S
|-----------------||----------------------------------|
|-----------------||----------------------------------|
|-----------------||----------------------------------|
|-----------------||----------------------------------|
|-----------------||---------3-4-5-6-9-8-7-6-7-8-9-10-|
|-8-9-8-7-8-9-8-7-||-4-5-6-7--------------------------|


  S S S S S S S S  S  S S S S  S  S  S
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|---------5-6-7-8-11-10-9-8-9-10-11-12---|
|-6-7-8-9--------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|


  S  S  S  S S S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S  S
|------------8-9-10-11-14-13-12-11-12-13-14-15-|
|-9-10-11-12-----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------|


                            2/4
   ~~          ~~              ~~~~
   Q  E  S  S  Q  E  S  S     +Q    +Q
|-16----------------------||---------------*|
|-------16-16-16----------||---------------*|
|-----x-----------x-13-13-||-(13)--(13)\---*|
|-------------------------||---------------*|
|-------------------------||---------------*|
|-------------------------||---------------*|


Duration Legend
---------------
W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for.  Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests.  Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for.  Low
melody durations appear below the staff

Tablature Legend
----------------
 h   - hammer-on
 p   - pull-off
 b   - bend
 pb  - pre-bend
 r   - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
 /\  - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
 s   - legato slide
 S   - shift slide
  - natural harmonic
[n]  - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
 ~   - vibrato
 tr  - trill
 T   - tap
 TP  - trem. picking
 PM  - palm muting
\n/  - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
 \n  - tremolo bar down
 n/  - tremolo bar up
/n\  - tremolo bar inverted dip
 =   - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
 <>  - volume swell (louder/softer)
 x   - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
 o   - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc Legend
-----------
 |  - bar
||  - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*|  - double bar (ending)
 :  - bar (freetime)
 $  - Segno
 &  - Coda
Tempo markers -  = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
            
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