The song's first part, on guitar, contains a lot of textural playing. There are pick scrapes, picking behind the nut, muted strumming, etc. with a lot of reverb and delay. I can't memorize the exact order or song structure, so I mostly just improvise those parts and add the melodic stuff when it feels right.

The drums and bass enter again at bar 153 and the guitar keeps playing the same part (Bb-C-Dm-F). If I'm playing fully voiced barre chords it sounds so muddy over the bass line (which is repeating just 2 notes: C and D), despite not being that harmonically exotic: Bbadd9, Cadd9, Dm7, F6. I've listened to the separated guitar stem and the voicing doesn't change from the calm part that precedes it. Substituting it for basic triads remedies it a bit, but how come the original recording doesn't sound muddy and bad?

The final part is just a wall of noise as far as the guitar goes. I can't really make out what they're playing, but I assume it's following the bass guitar and repeating the progression from the calm interlude (Bb-C-Dm-F), but with some accenting with a Fsus4 at the end.

I think this is the only Clann Zú song which features a saxophone. I've tried transcribing it, but gave up towards the end. I haven't added it to the sheet music, but if someone wants the partially transcribed version let me know in the comments. In my backing track, I use the original, separated stem.

The violin part is relatively correct, except for the final part. There's a lot of glissando use there and other articulations, which I can't really figure out (or I'm just too lazy). As with the saxophone part, if someone has a correct transcription, please share it with us.

There's also a faint keyboard part, which can be heard in the beginning. It's buried deep in the mix, but can be heard in the isolated stem. I'm somewhat sure of its correctness, but it also sounds muddy when played more prominently with the bass part.

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