Metallica

Metallica - Hit The Lights bass tab

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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

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

HIT THE LIGHTS

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intro 144 bpm

4/4 2/4 4/4

|---|---------|-----|--------|-----|

|---|---------|-----|--------|-----|

|-7-|-7-7-7-7-|-7-7-|-7------|-----|

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

l q q q q q q l l

/ /

/ /

|---------------------------------------------|-------||

|---------------------------------------------|-------||

|-2-0-2-0---2-0-2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-4-2-0-0-------|---R---||

|---------2-----------------------------2-----|-------||

t t t t s t t t t t t t t t t t t t t l

160 bpm fig.1

| 4 |------|------|------|------|-------------------------|

|-----|---R--|---R--|---R--|---R--|-------------------------|

|-----|-0----|-0----|-0----|-0----|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-0-5-0-3-|

| |------|------|------|------|-------------------------|

e h.. e h.. e h.. e h.. e s s s s s s e s e s e

|---------------------------|-------------------------|

|---------------7-5---5-----|-------------------------|

|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-0-5-0-3-|

|---------------------------|-------------------------|

e s s s s s s s s s e s e e s s s s s s e s e s e

Verse 1

end fig.1 fig.2 end fig.2

|---------------------------||-----------------|---------------|

|---------------------------||-----------------|---------------|

|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-2-3-3-4-||-5-5-7-----------|-5-5-5-3--2----|

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

e s s s s s s s s s e s e e q e e s e s e e q e e. e. e

play fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1

Chorus

fig.3 7/8 end fig.3

|---------------------|-------------||---------------|---------------|

|---------------------|-------------||---------------|---------------|

|---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|-------3-2---||---R-------R---|-----R---3-----|

|-0-------------------|-3-2-3-----3-||-5---5-3-5---5-|-3-5---5----3--|

e e s s e e s e s e q q q q q q e e q s s e q s s e q e. e.

[ 3 ] [ 3 ]

play fig.3 two times more

4/4

|---------------|---||

|---------------|---||

|---R-------R---|-R-||

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

e e q s s q e w

Interlude : play fig.1

Verse 2 : play fig.2, fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1

|---------------------|-------------||

|---------------------|-------------||

|---7-7-7-7-----------|-------3-2---||

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

e e s s e e s e s e q q q q q q

[ 3 ] [ 3 ]

Chorus 2 : play fig.3 3 times

|---------------|---||

|---------------|---||

|---R-------R---|-R-||

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

e e q s s q e w

Interlude 2 : play fig.1

Verse 3 : play fig.2, fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1

|---------------------|-------------||

|---------------------|-------------||

|---7-7-7-7-----------|-------3-2---||

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

e e s s e e s e s e q q q q q q

[ 3 ] [ 3 ]

Chorus 3 : play fig.3 4 times

4/4 7/8 4 times

|-----||-------|---|---|-----------------||

|-----||-o-----|---|---|-7--5----------o-||

|-----||-o---R-|-R-|-R-|-------7-6-5---o-||

|-5-3-||---5---|---|---|-------------8---||

h h e h.. w w e. e. e e e e

Guitar solo

4/4

||-------------------------|---------------------|-----------------------|

||-o-----------------------|---------------------|-----------------------|

||-o---R---R---R-----------|---R---R---R-----7-7-|---R---R---R-----------|

||---7---7---7---7-7-10-10-|-7---7---7---7-7-----|-7---7---7---7-7-10-10-|

e s e s e s s e e e e s e s e s s e e e e s e s e s s e e e

7/8 8 times

|------------------||

|-9--7-----------o-||

|-------9-8-7----o-||

|-------------10---||

e. e. e e e e

4/4

||-----------------------|---------------------|---------------------|

||-o---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|

||-o---R---R---R---------|---R---R---R-----5-5-|---R---R---R---------|

||---5---5---5---5-5-8-8-|-5---5---5---5-5-----|-5---5---5---5-5-8-8-|

e s e s e s s e e e e s e s e s s e e e e s e s e s s e e e

7/8 2 times

|-----------------||---------------|---------------|

|-7--5----------o-||-7--5----------|-7--5----------|

|-------7-6-5---o-||-------7-6-5---|-------7-6-5---|

|-------------8---||-------------8-|-------------8-|

e. e. e e e e e. e. e e e e e. e. e e e e

|-----|------|-----|-----|-------||

|-----|------|-----|-----|-------||

|-----|------|-----|-----|-----R-||

|-5---|-(5)--|-(5)-|-(5)-|-5-5---||

w w w l q q h

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