Spirit of the night
Secret of Mana
Composed by Hiroki Kikuta
Transcribed by Maximilian Gruber ([email protected])

notes in brackets are artificial harmonics, you can check the manual
at the end of the tab if you don't know how to play them. Of course,
you can also just play them as normal notes, it will still sound good.. ;) 

 

|---------|0|-|0|---------|0|-|0|--------------------------------------------|
||1|-|1|----------|0|-|0|-----------------------------|1|--------------------|
|---------------------------------|2|-|2|-|0|-|0|-|2|-----|2|-|0|------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|3|-|2|----|
|-0--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------3---------------1-----------------------0-----------------|


|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------|1|-|1|-------------------------------------------------------------|
||2|-|2|-----------------|0|-|0|---------------------------------------------|
|----------------|3|-|3|----------|2|-|0|-|2|--------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------|2|---------------|
|-1---------------1----------------0-----------|0|-|2|-|3|-------------------|


|---------|0|-|0|---------|0|-|0|--------------------------------------------|
||1|-|1|----------|0|-|0|-----------------------------|1|--------------------|
|---------------------------------|2|-|2|-|0|-|0|-|2|-----|2|-|0|------|0|---|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------|3|--------|
|-0--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------3---------------1-----------------------0-----------------|


|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------|3|-|1|-----|3|-|0|-|2|---------------------------------|
|--------|0|-|0|-|2|---------|2|---------------------------------------------|
||3|-|3|--------------------------0------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------2---4----------------------------------|
|-1---------------3----------------------------------------------------------|


 
|-5--3--5--8--7--5--0---5---10--7--5---3--1---------------2--3--2--3--2--0---|
|--------------------------------------------5---3--3h5---------------------3|
|-2-----------------0---2----------2---------0------0--------0---------------|
|-3-----------------2---3----------3---------2------2--------2---------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|



|-5--3--5--8--7--5--0---5---10--7--5--8-10--12--10-12----10-----10--8-7------|
|--------------------------------------------------------8---8---8-----------|
|-2-----------------0---2----------2--5-7---12-----12----7-------7-----------|
|-3-----------------2---3----------3--------10-----10----0-------0-----------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|



|-5--7--10--7--9-------------|
|-----------------|8|-|10|---|
|-6------------6-------------|  
|-7------------7-------------|       repeat once
|-0------------0-------------|
|----------------------------|



Manual for the artificial harmonics:

An artificial harmonic is a tone produced by doing the following:
your left hand holds down a fret, for example fret 2. Your right hand does 2 
things at the same time while you hold the fret: You shortly tip the place
of the string above the rod of the fret thats located 12 frets above 2 = 14 
with your index finger and pluck the string with another finger of your right 
hand (you don't have to hit a specific area with your plucking finger). 
The middle finger is used very often for this and is good for starting with 
this technique, but i recommend using your little finger for a very bright 
and soft tone. the tone we just played would be written as |2| in this tab. 
you always do the same right hand procedure for every tone right above the 
rod of the fret 12 frets above the one you hold down with your left hand.
In this tab there are a lot of passages where you play an artificial harmonic
and a bass note at the same time. Just place your right hand at the place 
where the artificial harmonic is played and hit the bass string at the same
place, the bass string doesn't need to be played at a specific area.
I know it seems pretty hard at the beginning, but its a very beautiful and
rewarding technique that allows you to play tones a lot higher than you
have frets! Have fun!