No Leaf Clover Bass Tab

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Music X Tabs
SONG: No Leaf Clover
ARTIST: Metallica
ALBUM: S&M
BASSIST: Jason Newsted
TABBED BY: Al (Prymdirective@msn.com)
NOTE: The Other "No Leaf Clover" tabs really helped me get this one, So if you think my 
tab is good, theirs is probably just as good if not better.
LEGEND: B with a * beside it means that the riff thats under it is a grace fill thats played 
in the transition to the second time the verse played.

Main Riff
G|-------------------------|------------------------|
D|-------------------------|------------------------|
A|---2----3-2--------------|---2---3-2--------------|
E|-0---0-------0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0---0------0-0-0-0-0-0-|

G|-----------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|---2---3-2-----------------2---3-2-----------------2---3-2-|
E|-0---0------0-0-0-0-0-0--0---0------2-2-2-2-2-2--0---0-----|

Verse:                                                                  B*
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------|------------|
A|-0--2----2--3-2---3--2----2---3-2---0--2-----3--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|----2---3-2-|
E|-------0--0-------------0---0-------------3-------------------------|--0---0-----|
**Two Times For Each Verse**

Chorus:
**No Bass at the Beginning of the Chorus. Bass comes in with drums.
G|-------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------0--0--0--0--0--0--2-2-2-2-2--0--0--0--0--0--|
E|-0-0-0-0-0---------------------------------------------|

Chorus Part 2: "It's Coming your way"
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-3-3-3-3-3--2-2-2-2-2-----------3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5--2--2--2--2--2-|
E|----------------------0-0-0-0-0------------------------------------|

The Breakdown:
G|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------2---------------------------------|
E|-0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-3-0--0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-3----0-0-0--0-0-0--0-0-3-0--3-0-3-0-|

Bassline Under the Solo
G|-------------------------|------------------------|
D|-------------------------|------------------------|
A|---2----3-2--------------|---2---3-2--------------|
E|-0---0-------0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0---0------0-0-0-0-0-0-|

G|-----------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|---2---3-2-----------------2---3-2-----------------2---3-2-|
E|-0---0------0-0-0-0-0-0--0---0------2-2-2-2-2-2--0---0-----|

Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/m/metallica/117654.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Ricky Wanna Be	#1 by Ricky at Dec 27, 1978 at 4:08 AM EST
	Screwation. If that's a word, that's what it's about. It's about getting your hopes up for something and not thinking about something else. Then that something ends up putting you in a trance until you're screwed over and you "crash and burn"

No Picture jay Wanna Be	#2 by jay short at May 1, 1981 at 9:29 AM EST
	The symphonic intro reminds me of a race, or maybe something fast, moving in. Something large, powerful, could be symbolic of the "freight train" coming. Also if you listen before the lyrics...you can hear what sounds like train whistles. And just before the chorus comes in the music speeds up, and then halts suddenly...again signifying a quick end to something. An abrupt end. I interpret the song to be how everything is going right in your life...but instead of stopping to see the signs of trouble, you just go right along and let the beauty of life take hold of you. Then you do something to try and get ahead ("sucker for that quick reward") and you pay for it. But there's a light at the end of the tunnel...it won't be bad forever. But uh oh...that light was just a "train"...an even bigger problem then what you had before. You are royally fucked, and have very bad luck. Hence the name "No Leaf Clover" as opposed to a four leaf clover, which is supposed to symbolize good luck.

No Picture Chris (a.k.a. " Wanna Be	#3 by Chris (a.k.a. "Spikes") Muhler at Jun 19, 1989 at 3:21 PM EST
	do not always think that the light means good. maybe it is coming to defeat you.

No Picture Anthony Average	#4 by Anthony Chattha at Jul 4, 1991 at 7:20 AM EST
	I love the "Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way" That's basically what the whole song is about

No Picture ben Average	#5 by ben bell at Jan 12, 1993 at 9:06 PM EST
	This song= the way my life has been since I came to college >_<

No Picture xour distancex Average	#6 by xour distancex at Mar 23, 1997 at 7:19 AM EST
	i feel that this song means that he is unable to face reality and all he does is stay off in dreamland.... then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel is just a freight train coming your way that's when he comes back to reality and realizes that it's not all peaches and creame (and i can relate to it too)

No Picture Tim Rhythm Player	#7 by Tim Sears at Jun 21, 1997 at 6:46 AM EST
	I think that this song is, as allready said, about good luck and the change of it because of others and your blindness. In the first part, the person is lucky, he lifes in dangerous, but he has fun (crash cours) He doesn't see the thinks that are coming (pay no mind to the distant thunder) The second part is about the life, he sais that the life this way is worth to live. Thr refrain is the opposite to this. When you say, that there's a light at the end of a tunnel, you mean that it's getting better, that the dark times are ending. But the light that he sees isn't a good light, it's the light of a freight train that is comming, he will be killed. In the 2nd verse, he is still lucky, but you allready see that this will end, because others don't like that

No Picture Jaakko Wanna Be	#8 by Jaakko Nyman at Jul 5, 2004 at 1:45 AM EST
	to me...it seems like someone who has been down on their luck for some time, they've been traveling through a dark tunnel in their life so to speak. this kid finally gets a break and things start to look up for him, everything is falling into place after all his pain and suffering. he finally sees the light at the end of the tunnel. so excited is he that he "pay no mind to the distant thunder". the thunder ultimatley being the sound of the frieght train coming at him. by the time he realizes he is getting screwed again it is to late...the break he thought he had was his ruin. this is my favorite song as it perfeclty describes my life. every time i think i see something good about to happen i crash and burn...