A Planetary Discipline Guitar Tabs by Psycroptic

Band:  Psycroptic
Album: The Scepter of the Ancients
Song:  A Planetary Discipline

Copyright (c)  Unique Leader (2003)
Version 5.0 - June 11, 2004

tabbed by general maxx

.  - palm mute           /  - slide up to
\  - slide down to       ~  - vibrato
h  - hammer on           b  - Bend  e.g.: 10b(12) = bend 1 tone
p  - pull off            pb - pre-Bend
t  - tap                 dv - dive (tremolo bar)
p.h. pinched harmonic
*  - commentary          r - release bend
x  - Stuccatto           ~  - vibrato bend
,  - slight palm mute    () - ghost note, sustained note
"  - tremolo note        <> - Trill



Tuning D A D G B E (dropped D)

RIFF 1 (play 2x all the boxes)
T =120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
    4/4
E||--------------------------------|
B||--------------------------------|
G||--------------------------------|
D||--------------------------------|
A||--------888855555555------------|
D||00006666------------666666660000|

 ________________________________________
|1.3.
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------| This run is in 16th triplets.
|----------------------------------2-3-5-|
|----555522222222------2-3-5-2-3-5-------|
|3333------------3-5-6-------------------|
                 . . . . . . . . . . . .

 ________________________________
|2.
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------666666666-------3-------|
|----8888--------6-------3-------|
|9999------------6-------3-------|

 ________________________________
|4.
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------||
|--------666666666---------------||
|----8888--------6-------4-------||
|9999------------6-------6-------||


BRIDGE (play once)
T=160
Guitar 1 :
  4/4
||------------------------||
||------------------------||
||------------------------|| *NOTE : 8ths triplets.
||------------9p6---------||
||----------------8p5-----||
||0-3-6-0-3-6---------7-6-||
    . .   . .

GUITAR 2 :
  4/4
||------------------------||
||------------------------||
||------------10p7--------|| *NOTE : 8ths triplets.
||----------------9p6-----||
||--------------------8-5-||
||0-3-6-0-3-6-------------||
    . .   . .


RIFF 2 (play 2x all the boxes)(these are all 8ths triplets)
T=160
Guitars 1 & 2 :             ________________________
  4/4                     |1.
||------------------------|------------------------|
||------------------------|------------------------|
||------------------------|------------------------|
||------3-----4-----------|------------------------|
||----------------5-------|------5-----3-----2/3\2-|
||0h3h6---7-6---0---7-6-9-|0h3h6---5-4---4-3-2/3\2-|
          . .   .   . . .          . .   . .
 ________________________
|2.
|----------------------||
|----------------------||
|----------------------||
|------0-3-6/9p6-0-----||
|------------------2~--||
|0h3h6-----------------||
       . .


BRIDGE (play once)
T=160
Guitar 1 :
  4/4
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||9p6-0-12p9----------||
||-----------11-0-----||
||--------------0-----||
      .      .

Guitar 2 :
  4/4
||------------------||
||------------------||
||7p4---10p7--------||
||----6-----9-------||
||------------0-----||
||------------0-----||
      .     .


RIFF 3 (play 2x) (these are now normal 16ths)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
  4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||------------------3\2-----------|------------------------2-------|
||------4-0h1-------3\2---4-0-1-1p|0-----------------------0-2-3-3-|
||0-0-0-4-0h1-1-1-1-----1-4-0-1-1p|0-0-0-1p0-0-0-0-0h1-4-4---0-1-1-|
||0-0-0-------1-1-1-----1---------|--0-0-1p0-0-0-0-0h1-4-4---------|
  . . .       . . .     .     .    . . .     . . .       .

|--------------------------------|------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|------------------------------||
|------------------3\2-----------|*-----------------------------||
|------4-0h1-------3\2-----2-----|0-----------------------------||
|0-0-0-4-0h1-1-1-1-----2-4-0-0-1p|0-----1p0-0-0-----0-1-4-1-4~--||
|0-0-0-------1-1-1-----2-4---0-1p|0-----1p0-0-0-0h4-------------||
 . . .       . . .     .     . .            . .
*Guitar 2 plays a pinched harmonic somewhere on the fretboard (duh)


BRIDGE (play once)(triplets 16ths)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
  2/4
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||----0-1-3-4------------||
||0-4---------0----------||
  . . . . . . .


RIFF 4 (play 2x)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
  4/4
||--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||117-8-8-------------------------|117-8-8-7h8p7-------7-------------|
||9-5-6-6-------------------------|9-5-6-6-------9-9-----9-9-6\------|
||--------000011110000444400000000|----------------------------------|
                                                 .       . .

|----------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|----------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|117-8-8---------------------------|------------------------*-------||
|9-5-6-6-----------------4/5-4-1-4-|--------1-2-0-1-----------------||
|--------00001111000044444/5-4-1-4-|--1-3-4---------4-5-1-3-00000000||
                               .      . . . .   .   .   . .

*NOTE : the seconde time you play the riff, stop at the (*)


RIFF 5 (play 4x)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
  4/4
||--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||7/8-x-5---7-------5\4-x---------|---------------------------------||
||5/6-x-3---5-0-0-0-3\2-x-6\5-0---|4/5\4-1-4--------1-2-0-1---------||
||7/8-x-5---7-0-0-0-------6\5-0-4-|4/5\4-1-4--0-3-4---------4-5-1-3-||
              . . .           .          .    . .   .   .   .   .

BRIDGE (play once)
T=120
Guitar 1 :
  4/4
||--------------------------------|---------------/16ths-triplets\----||
||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|----7---4--------------------------||
||--------8---5\--------------0---|1---5---2-----------0-1-3-4--------||
||0--/7---------------6\------0---|1---------------0-4---------0------||
                              .    .               . . . . . . .

Guitar 2 (not sure at all about the second bar):
  4/4
||--------------------------------|---------------/16ths-triplets\----||
||--------------------------------|-----------------------------------||
||--------5-----------------------|-----------------------------------||
||------------7\------------------|----7---4-------------3-5-6--------||
||0--/5---------------5\------0---|1---5---2-------0-4-7-------0------||
||----------------------------0---|1----------------------------------||
                              .    .               . . . . . . .


Then play RIFF 1 with the second box
Then play it with the first box
Then play it with the fourth box


RIFF 6 (play 2x) (it's all in triplets !)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
  4/4
||----------------------------------------|*one of the gtrs plays a p.h.
||----------------------------------------|
||------------------------*---------------|NOTE : It's hard to hear the
||------------4---------------------------|       chords here, so it's
||0---2---3---2---4---3---5~--0---3---4---|       probably not 100% accurate.
||0---2---3-------4---3-------0---3---4---|
  .   .   .       .   .       .   .   .

|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------3-----------------------------------||
|2---2---2---1---1---0---5p4p0h3p2---------------||
|2---0---0-------1---0-------------5-0-0-2-2-5-5-||
 .   .   .       .   .


RIFF 7 (play 2x) (again, all in triplets)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
  4/4
||--------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------|
||------------4\--3-------3-2---------5~------|
||1-1-3-3-3-3-4\--3-3-3-3-----5-3-2-0---------|
  . . . . . .       . . . . . . . . .

|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------------||
|------------2\--1-------5-4-0-3-2---------------||
|0-0-1-1-1-1-2\--1-1-1-1-----------5-0-0-2-2-5-5-||
 . . . . . .       . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


BRIDGE
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
  2/4
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||3-----------1-------||
||3-------6---1-------||
          .


RIFF 8 (play 1x) (not in triplets anymore)
T=120
Guitar 1 :
  4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||------------------------------5-|--------------------------------||
||--------7777----88888\7---------|7-------8-7---8-5---------------||
||----5555----8888----6\5---5-8---|5-------6-5---6-3-------6p3-----||
||5555--------------------8-------|----------------------------6-3-||
                          . . .              .     .           . .

Guitar 2:
  4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|7-------8-7---8-5---------------||
||5-------------------------------|5-------6-5---6-3-------6p3-----||
||5-------------------------------|----------------------------6-3-||
  .                                          .     .           . .

RIFF 8a (play 1x all the boxes)
T=120
Guitar 1 & 2 :
  4/4
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------7777--------88888888----|--------------------------------|
||----5555----88888888--------8765|6p3333335p3333336-----5-----4---|
||5555----------------------------|----------------6-----5-----4---|
                                     ......  ......            .

  _________________________________________________________________
 |1.
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||------------------------------5-|--------------------------------|
||--------7777----88888\7---------|--------------------------------|
||----5555----8888----6\5---5-8---|555555556p5555556p3333336p3-----|
||5555--------------------8-------|----------------------------6-3-|
                          . . .    ........  ......  ......    . .
  ________________
 |2.  (2/4)
|----------------||
|----------------||
|----------------||
|----------------||
|5\------1-------||
|5\------1-------||


RIFF 9 (play once all the boxes)
T=120
Guitars 1 & 2 :
  4/4
||--------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------0-|
||2222222222--22222222223~------0-2-3---|
  ..........  ..........          . . .

 ________________________________ _________________________________
|1.3.5.                          |2.6.
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|0-------------------------------|
|22223333777733337p3-------------|0-------4-------4h5p4~--4---1---|
|--------------------6-0-5-0-3p1-|0-------6---------------4---1---|
 ................  . . .   .                              .   .

 ________________________________________________
|4. (6/4)
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|
|0-----------------------------------------------|
|0-------4-------4h5p4~-------8---7~-------------|
|0-------6---------------------------------------|

 ________________________________________
|continuation of box 4. (these are 10's, not 1-0-1-0...)
|4/4
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------||
|------------------------7-6-----6\------||
|101010109999666610101010----109-----6\--||
                             . .

Then play RIFF 2 (2x)
Then play the following BRIDGE once
Then play RIFF 4 (2x)
Then play RIFF 5 (4x)

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