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Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.bass
Subject: BTAB: Metallica - Kill 'em all
From: wfpol@cs.ruu.nl (Wilbert Pol)


The people who transcribed it :

Jeff Jacobson - Anesthesia - Pulling Teeth
Andy Aledort - Jump in the Fire
Steve Gorenberg - the rest

The only thing I've done is converting them to ascii.

I've put all note lengths below the measures, they are :
w - whole note
h - half note
q - quarter note
e - eigth note
s - sixteenth note
t - thirty-second note
l - long note ('fermate' sign)
x+y - play note with length x+y

/ - a couple of these mean you have to fill the length with
    1. eight notes         (1 slash)   or
    2. sixteenth notes     (2 slashes) or
    3. thirty-second notes (3 slashes)

R - in the tab denotes a rest.
x - an undefined or muted note.
[ 3 ] - a triplet

/ - slide up
/(X) - slide up to fret X, but don't pick X
 - slide down
(X) - slide down to fret X, but don't pick X
T - tap note
Harm - harmonic
A.H. - Artificial harmonic

inside bar :
p - pull off
h - hammer on
bx - bend string x notes up
bx r - bend string x notes up and release string

a note without a length indication, means a 'ghost' note (The little notes
that occur in sheet music sometimes).

cresc. - crescendo  (Play louder and louder, 'fade in')

||--  --||
||-o  o-||  - a repeat
||-o  o-||
||--  --||

|  X  |
|-----|  - X bar rest
|-----|
|     |

|-----|
|  %  |  - repeat previous bar
|-----|
|-----|

                                                   Have fun,
                                                   Wilbert Pol

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

                                 WHIPLASH
                                 --------

Intro

168 bpm         3 times 3/4   4/4 160 bpm                        23 times
-------||---------------||-----||-------------------------------------||
-------||-o---R-------o-||---R-||-o---------------------------------o-||
-7-7-7-||-o-7---7-7-7-o-||-7---||-o-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-o-||
-------||---------------||-----||-------------------------------------||
 e e e      q h e e e      q h      s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s
 [ 3 ]          [ 3 ]

                           fig.1
|-------------------------||-----------------------------------|
|-------------------------||-o---------------------------------|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---------||-o---------------------------------|
|-----------------5--4--3-||---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
  s s s s s s s s e. e. e      s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s

              end fig.1  4 times  fig.2
|---------------------------|||-----------------------------------|
|-------------------------o-|||-o---------------------------------|
|-------------------------o-|||-o---------------------------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-5--4--3---|||---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
  s s s s s s s s e. e. e         s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s

                      end fig.2  4 times
|---------------------------------||
|-------------------------------o-||
|-------------------------------o-||
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3---||
  s s s s s s s s s s s s s s e

Verse 1,2,3

||--                           ||
||-o  play fig.2   4 times     ||
||-o                           ||
||--                           ||

Chorus
  fig.3                            end fig.3  3 times
||-------------------|-------------------------||
||-o-----------------|-----------------------o-||
||-o-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-0-|-----------------------o-||
||-------------------|-0h2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0---||
     e e s s e q q q   s s s s e s s e s s q
               [ 3 ]

|1,2.                          |
|---||                       --||
|---||  play fig.1  4 times  o-||
|-R-||                       o-||
|---||                       --||
  w

|3.                   Interlude & Guitar solo                     12 times
|---|---|-------------||-----------------------|-----------------------||
|---|---|-------------||-o---------------------|---------------------o-||
|-R-|-R-|-5-4-3-------||-o-7p5---5---5---------|-7p5---5---5---------o-||
|---|---|-------5-4-3-||-------7---7---0-0-0-0-|-----7---7---0-0-0-0---||
  w   w   q q q q q q      s s s e s e e e e e   s s s e s e e e e e
          [ 3 ] [ 3 ]

    7/8     4/4
|---|-------|                      ||
|---|-------| play fig.1  4 times  ||
|---|----R--|                      ||
|-0-|-0-----|                      ||
  w   q  h+e

Verse 4 : play fig.2  4 times, play fig.3  3 times

|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|-----------------|-------------------|-------------------|
|-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-0-|-----------------R-|-----------------R-|
|-----------------|-0-2-2-2-2-0-2-0---|-0-2-2-2-2-0-2-0---|
  e e s s e q q q   e s s s s e e e q   e s s s s e e e q
            [ 3 ]

|-------------------|-------------------|--------|-----------------||
|-------------------|-------------------|--------|-----------------||
|-----------------R-|-------------------|--------|---------------R-||
|-0-2-2-2-2-0-2-0---|-0-2-2-2-2-0-2-0---|-(0)----|-0-2-2-2-0-2-2---||
  e s s s s e e e q   e s s s s e e q.    (l)      e s s e e e e q



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