Testament

Testament - The Preacher (2001) guitar tab

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TESTAMENT - THE PREACHER 2001

From the Album FIRST STRIKE STILL DEADLY

Copyright 2001 SPITFIRE RECORDS

Full Version - OCTOBER 2002

Re-Transcribed/Edited/New Leads by: death8699

Based On Previous Transcription by: Jarle Hille Olsen

For Questions, Comments, Newest Version, or Corrections contact

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. - palm mute ph - pinched harmonic

/ - slide up to ah - artificial harmonic

- slide down to th - tap harmonic

~ - vibrato hr - natural harmonic

h - hammer on b - bend

p - pull off Suffixes for bend

t - tap with finger f - full bend h - half bend

" - tremolo picking r - release t - tap bend

X - percussion mute p - pick when bent

> - accented note Prefixes

() - ghost note, sustained note p - pre-bend w - use bar

* - see comment d - don't pick start of bend

--Transcriber's Notes--

I have spent the past 6 months on these songs trying to

get them as perfect as possible. If you think further

corrections are needed, have the updated solos, or a

better version of this song please mail me at ArchEnemies

@aol.com. I plan on tabbing this entire album, I have

been hard at work making my previous 'FSSD' tabs better.

Enjoy!

--Miscellaneous Notes--

P.M.H. - palm mute heavy

(**) - see comment(s)

(^) - pause; stacatto

() - pick-up note(s)

Gtr.1 - right channel (Eric Peterson)

Gtr.2 - left channel (Alex Skolnick)

Tune Gtr to D (D,G,C,F,A,D)

--THE PREACHER--

[Rhy.Fig.1]

||-->---------------------|->----------------------||

||-->---------------------|->----------------------||

||*-6-(6)-----------------|-6-(6)-----------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]

||*-6-(6)-----------------|-6-(6)-----------------*||

||--4-(4)-----------------|-4-(4)------------------||

||--4-(4)-0--2--3-443-220-|-4-(4)-0--2--3-443-220--||

|__|__| |_|_|_| |__|__| |_|_|_|

3 6 3 6

______________ ____________________________________

[Rhy.Fig.2] |1,3. |2.

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

||-->---->-------------->--->--->-----|->---->------------->--->--->-------|

||*-6----6--------------4---6---7/9---|-6----6-------------4---6---7-------|[Gtrs.1&2]

||*-6----6--------------4---6---7/9---|-6----6-------------4---6---7-------|

||--4-00-4-00-4_2_0-00--2-0-4-0-5/7-0-|-4-00-4-00-4_2_0-00-2-0-4-0-5-0-----|

||-------------p-p--------------sl----|------------p-p---------------------|

.. .. .. . . . .. .. .. . . .

______________________________________

|

|------------9------------------------|

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

|------7------------------------------|[Gtr.1]

|--/7---------------------------------|

|-sl-------------0--------------------|

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

| @ @ @ . |

| |

| |

|------------9------------------------|

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

|--/7---------------------------------|[Gtr.2]

|-sl----------------------------------|

|----------------0--------------------|

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

@ @ @ .

_____________________________________

|4. |

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

|-->---->------------>--->------------||

|--6----6------------4---6--->-->-->-*||[Gtrs.1&2]

|--6----6------------4---6---5--5--5-*||

|--4-00-4-00-4_2_0-0-2-0-4-0-5--5--5--||

|-------------p-p------------3--3--3--||

.. .. . . .

[Rhy.Fig.3]

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

||----------------------->------|------------------------>-----|

||*----------------------3------|------------------------2-----|[Gtrs.1&2]

||*-----2----------------3------|-----2------------------2-----|

||--2-222----------------1------|-2-222------------------0-----|

||--0-000-----------------------|-0-000------------------------|

|| . ..^ . ..^ |

|| |

|| |

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

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

||*------------9---9------------|----------------9---9---------|[Gtr.3]

||*----------9-------9---8~-----|--------------9-------9-7~----|

||------/710--------------------|---------/710-----------------|

||-----sl-----------------------|--------sl--------------------|

@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @

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

|------------------------>------|-------------------------->---||

|------------------------5------|-9----9---------------10-10--*||[Gtrs.1&2]

|-------2----------------5------|-9----9---------------10-10--*||

|--2222-2----------------3------|-7-77-7---------------8--8----||

|--0000-0----------------3------|-0-00-0---------------8--8----||

| .... ^ .. ^ ^(Hold!)||

| ||

| ||

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

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

|---------------9---9-----------|-------------9-------9-------*||[Gtr.3]

|-------------9-------9-10~-----|-----------9----------10~----*||

|--------/710-------------------|------/710--------------------||

|-------sl----------------------|-----sl-----------------------||

@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @

_____________ __________________

[Rhy.Fig.4] |1. ||2. |

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

||------------------------------------>-------||-->------->-------||

||*-----------------------------------3------*||*-3-------3-------||[Gtrs.1&2]

||*-----------------------------------1------*||*-1-------3-------||

||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1-------||--1-------1-------||

||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000-----------||------------------||

. ... . ... . ... . ... ...

___________________________

|3. |

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

|-------->------------------||

|--------5------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]

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

|--222---3------------------||

|--000---3------------------||

...

___________________________

|4. ||

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

|-------------------->------||

|--------------------3-----*||[Gtrs.1&2]

|------2-------------3-----*||

|--2-222-------------1------||

|--0-000--------------------||

| . ..^ ||

| ||

| ||

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

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

|-----------9---9----------*||[Gtr.3]

|---------9-------9--8~----*||

|----/710-------------------||

|---sl----------------------||

@ @ @ @ @ @

____________ ___________________

[Rhy.Fig.4a] |1,5. ||2,6. |

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

||------------------------------------>------||-->------->--------||

||*-----------------------------------3-----*||*-3-------3-------*||[Gtrs.1&2]

||*-----------------------------------1-----*||*-1-------3-------*||

||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1------||--1-------1--------||

||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000----------||-------------------||

. ... . ... . ... . ... ...

_______________ _______________ ________________

|3,7. ||4. ||8. |

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

||-------->------||---------------||----------------||

||--------5------||->---->---->---||---------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]

||--------5------||-5----5----5---||---------------*||

||--222---3------||-5----5----5---||----------------||

||--000---3------||-3----3----3---||-0-1-2-332-110--||

... |_|_| |_|_|_|

3 6

________________________________

[Rhy.Fig.5] |1,3. (Split) |

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

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

||*-------------->-------------->-----------------|[Gtrs.1&2]

||*------4-------3------4-------3-------7--8-----|

||-------2_0-----1------2_0-----1-------5--6~----|

||--0--1--p---0----0--1--p---0-----0--0----ph-sl--|

. . . . . . . .

_________________________________________________

|2. |

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

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

|--------------->------->-------------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]

|-------4-------3-------4-------------------------||

|-------2_0-----1-------2-------------------------||

|--0--1--p---0-----0--1----0--1--2--3-3-2--1-1-0--||

| . . . . . |__|__| |_|_| |_|_| ||

| 3 3 3 ||

|_________________________________________________||

|4. ||

|---------------------->--------------------------||

|---------------------->--------------------------||

|-------------->-------4-------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]

|------4-------3-------4-------------------------*||

|------2_0-----1-------2--------------------------||

|--0-1--p---0-----0-0--2--------------------------||

. . . . .(Hold!)

Repeat Rhy.Fig.4a [1x]

Repeat Rhy.Fig.5 [1x]

Repeat Rhy.Fig.1 [1x]

Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 [1x]

____________ ___________________

[Rhy.Fig.4b] |1,5. ||2,6. |

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

||------------------------------------>------||-->------->--------||

||*-----------------------------------3-----*||*-3-------3-------*||[Gtrs.1&2]

||*-----------------------------------1-----*||*-1-------3-------*||

||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1------||--1-------1--------||

||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000----------||-------------------||

. ... . ... . ... . ... ...

_______________ _______________ ________________

|3,7. ||4. ||8. |

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

||-------->------||---------------||----------------||

||--------5------||->---->---->---||---------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]

||--------5------||-5----5----5---||---------------*||

||--222---3------||-5----5----5---||----------------||

||--000----------||-3----3----3---||-0-1-2-332-110--||

... . . . |_|_| |_|_|_|

3 6

[Rhy.Fig.2a]

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

||-->---->------------->--->--->-----||--->---->-------------|

||*-6----6-------------4---6---7/9--||---6----6-------------|[Gtrs.1&2]

||*-6----6----4_2_0----4---6---7/9--||---6----6----4_2_0----|

||--4-44-4-44--p-p-----2---4---5/7--||---4-44-4-44--p-p-----|

||------------------00---0---0-sl-sl-||-0-----------------00-|

.. .. .. . . . .. .. ..

______________________

|1. |

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

|-->--->---------------||

|--4---6--->--->--->---||[Gtrs.1&2]

|--4---6---5---5---5---||

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

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

| . . . . . ||

| ||

|______________________||

|2. ||

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

|-->--->---------------||

|--4---6--->--->--->--*||[Gtrs.1&2]

|--4---6---5---5---5--*||

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

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

. .

[Guitar Solo] (Gtr.3)

|-12_(15)11--12_(15)11-|-12_(15)11--12_(15)11-|------------------|

|---tr---sl-----tr---sl--|---tr---sl-----tr---sl--|-15_fb17~---------|

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

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

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

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

| |

| |

| |

|------15-17_18_17_15----|-15-17_18_17_15---------|-15-17_18_17_15---|

|--/17------h--p--p--17~-|------h--p--p---17~-----|------h--p--p--17~|

|-sl-----------------h---|----------------h-------|---------------h--|

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

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

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

|--15-17_18_17_1512-----|------------------------|------------------|

|-------h--p--p--sl-1512-|-11~-----12-14-15-14-12-|-14-12-------12---|

|---------------------p--|-----/14----------------|-------14-15------|

|------------------------|----sl------------------|------------------|

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

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

| |

| |

| |

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

|------------------------|-------------10-11-10-8-|-10-8---7---------|

|--15-14-12-14-12----12--|------------------------|------9---10-9-7--|

|-----------------15-----|-15-14-12-14~-----------|------------------|

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

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

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

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

|-----7-----------9-7--------------/9~---_7--------------------------|

|--10---10-9-7--------10-7-10-9---sl-----p----9---8~---8_9_8_75-/7~-|

|--------------10---------------10----------------------h-p-p-sl-sl--|

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

| |

| |

| |

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

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

|--------_14-----------7_9_7---7---------------7_9_7---7-------------|

|--/9----t---9~---------h-p--9---9_7----7-------h-p--9---9_7----7----|

|-sl--------ph--------------------p--10---10_7------------p--10------|

|-------------------------------------------p------------------------|

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

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

|-------7_9_7---7---------------------7-------------------------12---|

|--------h-p--9---9_7-----9~--------9---9_7----7-------------12------|

|--10_7------------p--10-ph----7-10------p--10---10_7-/10-14---------|

|----p---------------------------------------------p-sl--------------|

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

|-------------------------------------------------------------14-----|

|-------------------------------14-------------------12_fb~----------|

|--14_12----12---------------14----15_12----12-----------------------|

|----p---14----14_12-/12-15---------p---15----15_12-----------------|

|----------------p--sl---------------------------p-------------------|

| |

| |

| |

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

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

|--15_12-14_b15~-r14_12-14_b15r14_12-14_b15r14_12-14_b15r14_12-------|

|----p--------------p---ph-------p---ph-----p-----ph-------p---14_12-|

|----------------------------------------------------------------p---|

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

|------------------12141514121412------12----------------------------|

|--------------/14-|_____|______|-1514--|-151412----12---------------|

|-------------sl---------7--------|__|__|-|__|_|-14--|-1412----------|

|------------------------------------3-------3----|__|_|__|-1412-----|

|--14_1210-10~--------------------------------------4------|__|-14--|

|----p--sl-----------------------------------------------------|__|--|

| (Fast!) 3 |

| |

| |

|-----------------------------121415---------------------------------|

|----------------------121415-|__|_|-121415--------------------------|

|---------12----121415-|__|_|----3---|__|_|-121415-------------------|

|--121415-|_-15-|__|_|----3-------------3---|__|_|-121415----121415--|

|--|__|_|---|_|----3---------------------------3---|__|_|-15-|__|_|--|

|-----3------2----------------------------------------3---|__|--4----|

|------------------------------121415--------------------------------|

|---------121415--------121415-|__|_|-151412-------------------------|

|--121415-|__|_|-121415-|__|_|----3---|__|_|-151412------------------|

|--|__|_|----3---|__|_|----3-------------3---|__|_|-151412----12-----|

|-----3-------------3---------------------------3---|__|_|-15-||-15--|

|------------------------------------------------------3---|__||_|---|

| 3 |

| |

| |

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

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

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

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

|--1412~-----------------------(12)~--------------------------(12)--|

|-----------------------------------------------------------------sl-|

[Rhy.Fig.3a]

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

||------------------------------------------->------|

||*------------------------------------------3------|[Gtrs.1&2]

||*------------------------------------------3------|

||--2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----1------|

||--0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-----------|

|| . ... . ... . ... . ... .... |

|| |

|| |

||------------------------15------------------------|

||-------------------17---------17------------------|

||*-------------16-------------------16-----15~-----|[Gtr.3]

||*--14----17---------------------------------------|

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

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

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

|-------------------------------------------->------|

|--------------------------------------------2------|[Gtrs.1&2]

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

|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----0------|

|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-----------|

| . ... . ... . ... . ... .... |

| |

| |

|-------------------------15------------------------|

|--------------------17---------17------------------|

|---------------16-------------------16-----14~-----|[Gtr.3]

|----14----17---------------------------------------|

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

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

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

|-------------------------------------------->------|

|--------------------------------------------5------|[Gtrs.1&2]

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

|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----3------|

|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000----3------|

| . ... . ... . ... . ... .... |

| |

| |

|-------------------------15------------------------|

|--------------------17---------17------------------|

|---------------16-------------------16-----17~-----|[Gtr.3]

|----14----17---------------------------------------|

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

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

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

|------------------------------------------>-->-->--||

|-----------------------------------------10-10-10-*||[Gtrs.1&2]

|-----------------------------------------10-10-10-*||

|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222-8--8--8---||

|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-8--8--8---||

| . ... . ... . ... . ... .... ||

| ||

| ||

|-------------------------19----15------------------||

|--------------------17----------------17-----------||

|---------------16---------------------------17~---*||[Gtr.3]

|----14----17--------------------------------------*||

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

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

Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 [1x]

[Rhy.Fig.6]

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

||------------------------->------|------------------------>-------|

||*------9---7-----9--7"-/10------|------9---7-----7----7"-8--->---|[Gtr.1]

||*-------------------7"-/10------|---------------------7"-8---8---|

||--7-7---7---7-7---7-5"-/8-------|-7-7---7---7-7---7-7-5"-6---8---|

||----------------------sl--------|----------------------------6---|

|| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |

|| |

|| |

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

||--------------------------------|------------------------>-------|

||*->-----------------------------|------------------------8--->---|[Gtr.2]

||*-2-----------------------------|------------------------8---8---|

||--2-----------------------------|------------------------6---8---|

||--0-----------------------------|----------------------------6---|

Let ring - - - ]

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

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

|------9---7-----7_9---9----7---9-|---7---7_9--7---->--->--->-----*||[Gtr.1]

|-----------------h---------------|--------h----X--5---5---5-----*||

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

|---------------------------------|--------------sl-3---3---3------||

| ||

| ||

| ||

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

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

|->-------------------------------|----------------->--->--->-----*||[Gtr.2]

|-2-(2)---------------------------|-----------------5---5---5-----*||

|-2-(2)---------------------------|-----------------5---5---5------||

|-0-(0)---------------------------|-----------------3---3---3------||

Repeat Rhy.Fig.4a [2x] (1st time, substitute below ending.)

_______________

|4. |

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

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

|-->------>----*||[Gtrs.1&2]

|--5------5----*||

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

|--3------3-----||

Repeat Rhy.Fig.5 [2x] (Last time, use below ending.)

[Outro]

|-->--------------------------|-----------------------------||

|-->--------------------------|-----------------------------||

|--4--------------------------|-(4)---------------------->-*||[Gtrs.1&2]

|--4--------------------------|-(4)----------------------2-*||

|--2--------------------------|-(2)----------------------2--||

|--2--------------------------|-(2)-0-2-3-443-332-0-0-1--0--||

|_|_| |_|_|_| |_|_|(End!)

3 6 3

--'THE PREACHER' LYRICS--

(Skolnick, Peterson, Billy)

In days of old

When the books were untold

Speak of a world crushed by sin.

"The people will mourn

of a war to be born"

Nobody would listen to him.

Think back in time

When the future you find

Is so faint that it's too hard to see.

Don't disavow his word

For the truth must be heard

Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.

In 1906

Like the future predicts

The city will crumble to the bay

Then what's in store

When the worlds go to war?

Peace will have come another day

Then came the one

In the year of '41

Warfare would light up the sky

He beckoned the call

Of the future for all

Blinded by what's in his eyes

In days of old

When the books were untold

Speak of a world crushed by sin.

"The people will mourn

of a war to be born"

Nobody would listen to him.

Think back in time

When the future you find

Is so faint that it's too hard to see.

Don't disavow his word

For the truth must be heard

Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.

Listen to these words I preach

Catastrophic lessons they shall teach

Listen to these words I preach

Catastrophic lessons they shall teach

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