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Cities on flame   Blue Oyster Cult








Cities on Flame ( With Rock and Roll )

Key of A so F# Blues type runs work great. Try the CBA + GF#E type triplets
in the leads. Also choose small three note riffs from the Blues scales and
try little with the arpeggio of open A.

R = rest
*** = triplet

Main Riff

    F#m
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------4--2--2------------------4--2--2-------------------------------
-------------O34-34-34-32O------------O34-34-34-32O----------------------------
----252--R--2-------------2O-252--R--2-------------2O--REPEAT------------------

                       ***                      ***


Lead played during second pass of above intro riff

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------Oh2pO-OO-2---------------Oh2pO-OO-------------------------------------
--------------2--2---------------------2--2------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------4-----------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------



   F#m                                  Em
My heart is Black and my lips are cold. Cities on Flame with rock and roll.


      F#m                                        Em
Three thousand guitars they seem to cry.      My ears will melt and then


               D                          A              Bm
my eyes.  So,  let the girl let that girl rock and roll. Cities on Flame
               (play D full and emphasis F# and E-first string with chord)

                        F#m
now,      with rock and roll.





Single Notes:



   F#       A  F#     C#         F#
My heart is    black      and my lips  etc.


E      G  E      B       E        G  E     B        F#
Cities on Flame     with rock and    roll.    Three thousand



Try these small riffs. (play lower frets if preferred)

---875-875---------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------875-875-------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------542-542-----------------------------------------------------
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And this riff

-------------------------O-2-O-------------------------------------------------
-1hO--1hO--1hO--1hO--1-2------2p1pO--------------------------------------------
----2----2----2----2---------------2-2-2-2-2-4-4-------------------------------
-------------------------------------2-2-2-2-4-4-------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------



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guitarist 4 (report)

you cannot have 1 hammer on onto 0. it has to be pulled off