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"Bloody Tears Tabs -- Complete Guitar Lesson From Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest"

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Bloody Tears tabs is a complete lesson for this awesome theme from Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. You will have to execute lots of finger tapping and use unusual chord shapes to duplicate this theme.

Video game guitar tabs

Tabs for video game themes are fun to learn. They bring back memories while providing a challenge to us guitarists. The hard part sometimes is trying to figure out ways that old school video game sounds can be made on the guitar, without leaving out any cool parts.

Castlevania tabs

Bloody Tears tabs, and other themes from the Castlevania series, are some of the most challenging and fun to learn on guitar. Many Castlevania songs sound like a MIDI organ, making difficult finger positions common!

You have to find unorthodox ways to duplicate organ sounds. Since they are completely different instruments, it's going to take some practice. Unusual finger positions can be tricky at first.

At the same time, Castlevania themes make perfect neoclassical shred solos for guitar. You can implement finger tapping and other shred guitar techniques to make it sound pretty authentic.

Bloody Tears guitar lesson video

Bloody Tears tabs

Bloody Tears (if you don't recognize the title, I'm sure you will recognize the song when you hear it!) only has three parts, so structurally, it's simple. Performing the piece up to speed is the hard part.

Section 1 of this song requires that you hold frets 1 on the first string and 6 on the second string simultaneously. We could have changed the key of the song and used open strings, but what fun would that be?

The melodic part of this section is played only with right-hand tapping. Learn the melody by itself without tapping, then incorporate the tapping. If you're going to finesse it, you will have to practice a lot!

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Section 2 in our Bloody Tears tabs is the more recognizable melodious theme in the song. It just makes you feel like you are whipping bad guys on the way to defeat Dracula all over again!

This is the part that uses unusual chords, unfamiliar to most guitarists. I tabbed it this way to imitate the sound of the game, though, so it's correct.

This section is actually two parts in one. You could play it without the palm muted parts if you wanted to, and it would still sound good.

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Section 3 uses more weird chord shapes and fast octave chord movements. Playing this part clean and then using distortion will reveal any mistakes.

At the very end of this section, there is a trade off between playing normally with your left hand and reverting back to using your tapping finger to get into Section 1 smoothly.

To do this flawlessly, you have to simultaneously reset your left hand to the starting position back in Section 1 (fretting 1 on the first string and 6 on the second string) and slide from 13-14 with your tap finger. This will make it where you can go back to playing section 1 smoothly.

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