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Trapped Under Ice Bass Tab

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Trapped Under Ice


||---------||     ||----------------||
||----R----||     ||----------------||
||---------||     ||-2-2-2-2-2--R---||
||---------||     ||----------------||

Double Time Feel
                                       (play 8 times) 
||------------------------------|--------------------||
||o-----------------------------|-------------------o||
||o-----5---7-------------------|-----5---7-5-8-8-8-o||
||--0-0---0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0---0------------||


 
bass fig.1 (play 3 times)                             end bass fig.1
||----------------------------------|-----------------------------||
||o---------------------------------|----------------------------o||
||o---------------------------------|-----------------3--2--0--2-o||
||--0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-------------||
     H               H                 H


||---------------------------------|----------------------------||
||---------------------------------|----------------------------||
||---------------------------------|-----------------2-2-2-2--3-||
||-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2------------||
    H               H                 H


1st, 2nd, 3rd verses w/ bass fig.1 (4 times)


Chorus
  Bass fig.2
||----------------|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||----------------|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||----------------|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||-4--5--0-4--5--0|-4--5--0--0-0--0|-4--5--0-4--5--0-|-4--5--0--0-5-5-0|

                                  end bass fig. 2
|---------------|----------------|---------------|-----------------|
|---------------|----------------|---------------|-----------------|
|---------------|----------------|---------------|-----------------|
|-2-3--0-2-3--0-|-2-3--0--0-3-3-0|-4--5--0-4-5--0|--5--6---5--5----|

 _________________________
|1.                        ||
|  w/ Bass fig.1 (4 times) ||
|                          ||
|                          ||


 _________________________
|2.
|--------------|-------------|-----------------||
|--------------|-------------|-----------------||
|--------------|-------------|-----------------||
|-5-6--5-6-6---|-3-3---5-5---|-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-||


Bass fig.3
||----------------------|-----------------|
||o---------------------|---------3-2-----|
||o---------------------|-3-2---------3-2-|
||--0--0-0-0--3-----3-0-|-----5-4---------|

                                     (end bass fig.3)
|--------------------|-----------------------------||
|--------------------|----------------------------o||
|-----------7-----5--|----------------------------o||
|-0--0-0-0------0----|-6--6-6-6--6-6-6--6-6-6--6-6-||

  bass fig.4                                              end bass fig.4
||-------------------|------------------|----------------|--------------||
||o------------------|------------------|----------------|-------------o||
||o-7--7--7----------|-5--5--5----------|-3--3--2--------|-------------o||
||-------------------|------------------|------------3-2-|-0------------||

Bridge w/ Bass fig.4 (2 times)

then continue w/ Bass fig.3 (4 times)

||-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
||-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
||-----------------------------|-----------------------------|
||-6--6-6-6--6-6-6--6-6-6--6-6-|-5--5-5-5--5-5-5--5-5-5--5-5-|

|-----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-5--5-5-5--5-5-5--5-5-5--5-5-|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|

|-----------------||
|---------3-2-----||
|-3-2---------3-2-||
|-----5-4---------||


Guitar solo w/ Bass fig.1 (4 times)

then continue w/ Bass fig.2

|------------------------------|---------------------------|
|------------------------------|---------------------------|
|------------------------------|---------------------------|
|-5--6----5--5--5--5-5-5-5-5-5-|-5--6----5--5--5-5-5-5-5-5-|

||------------------------------|--------------------|-----------------||
||------------------------------|--------------------|-----------------||
||------------------------------|--------------------|-----------------||
||-5--6----5--5--5--5-5-5-5-5-5-|-5--6----5--6--6----|-3--3----5--5----||

Bass fig.1 (3 times)

||---------------------------------|----------------|
||---------------------------------|----------------|
||-----------------2---2---2-------|----------------|
||-0-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-----------------|-2--------------|

Trapped Under Ice Bass Tab

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Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/m/metallica/146089.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture John Wanna Be	#1 by John at Dec 6, 1985 at 3:31 PM EST
	this song is about paranoia

No Picture Braxton Lead Player	#2 by Braxton Overby at Dec 5, 1990 at 5:11 PM EST
	It could be about someone burnt-out on drugs, at least that's what was suggested on the site I was on

No Picture Average	#3 by Another.Kind.Of.Pain at Aug 11, 2000 at 5:11 PM EST
	I feel for those goldfish puppetmaster. That would be pretty scary to be trapped under ice with no escape, ouch.

No Picture patrick Average	#4 by patrick wilson at Feb 1, 2005 at 9:31 PM EST
	LOL puppetmaster :) i thinks this is about drowning, but this could mean some inner feeling as well.

No Picture Davis Wanna Be	#5 by Davis Williams at Mar 29, 2006 at 6:08 PM EST
	My first impression was that it was about being cyrogenically frozen, but it's probably about some inner pain or something or other, kick ass song though.

No Picture Samuele Wanna Be	#6 by Samuele at Apr 9, 2006 at 5:36 PM EST
	It sounds like someone with a heroin addiction realising that his life is wasting away, hence being 'Trapped under ice'. Most of the lyrics seem to suggest this. The line "I am dying to live" seems to suggest that the person realises that they are doing immense harm to their body, possibly even killing it, inorder to get their fix. The line "Hand of doom has a tight grip on me" sounds to me like a reference to Sabbath's 'Hand of Doom', a song which itself is about heroin addiction.

No Picture Wacko Average	#7 by Wacko Jacko at Aug 5, 2006 at 12:30 PM EST
	To me it sounds like it's about being stuck in a situation you can't handle and that you want to make it better (dying to live) but you see no way out (trapped under ice). And the part about "No one knows, no one hears what I say " and "screaming, can't hear my call" appears to me as if no one cares for the person anymore, or at least it seems so to that person

No Picture DIPSY Lead Player	#8 by DIPSY (NOT THE TELETUBBIE) at Feb 28, 2007 at 9:01 PM EST
	The song is about the science of cryogenics,Metallica have said this themselves in various interviews over the years.

No Picture Cody Wanna Be	#9 by Cody Mann at Mar 20, 2007 at 5:21 PM EST
	It's about either drowning in a frozen lake or the after effects of being buried under snow after an avalanche. No metaphors here I think.

No Picture eric Average	#10 by eric i at Aug 7, 2007 at 6:38 AM EST
	All of the tracks on Ride the Lightning are about death, so I agree with some of the above posters that its about freezing...fish perhaps?