Metallica, Some Kind Of Monster Guitar Tab:
<PRE>hwew you go a great song by the greastes band EVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
P-Pull off
H-Hammer on
-Slide down
/-Slide up
v-Vibrato
b-bend
The tuning is Drop D, tuned 1 more whole step down(CGCFAD).You'll have to listen to the song to
hear how to place everything.Timing isn't exact, but I tried getting it close.Listen to the song
to get it exact.
Intro
Play this twice a with clean tone:
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|-0-0-3-5-0------|-0-3-5-0-------|-0-3-5-0-3-5---|
PM--------- PM-------- PM----------
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|-0-0-0-3-5-0----|-0-3-5-0-------|-0-3-5-0-------|
PM----------- PM-------- PM--------------
Basically the intro only heavily distorted:
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|-0-0-3-5-0------|-0-3-5-0-------|-0-3-5-0-3-5---|
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|-0-0-0-3-5-0----|-0-3-5-0-------|-0-3-5-0-------|
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|-3-3-3-5-0------|-3-3-3-5-0-----|-3-3-3-5-0-----|
|-3-3-3-5-0------|-3-3-3-5-0-----|-3-3-3-5-0-----|
James plays this with some effect:
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|-------12-------| |-------12-12b---|
|-12-15----12----|<---6x then: |-12-15----------|
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|-3-3-3-5-0------|
|-3-3-3-5-0------|
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|-0-0-3-5-0------|-0-3-5-0-------|-0-3-5-0-3-5---|
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|-0-0-0-3-5-0----|-0-3-5-0-------|-0-3-5-0-------|
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|-------12-------| |-------12-12b---|
|-12-15----12----|<---6x then: |-12-15----------|
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Lead Verse Riff:
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|-0-0-12-0-12-12-|0--------------|---------------|
Kirk plays this under James's Lead riff for the verse
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|-2b-------------|---------------|-2b------------|
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Back to verse, then chorus 1, verse, Chorus 2 then:
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|-0-0-12-0-12-12-|0--------------|
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|-------3--------|-------3-------|<---6x
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|-0-2/3---0001---|-0-2/3---000111|
Play this when James is singing the stuff like
"This is the Cloud that swallows trust"
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|-3-5-5-3-5-5----|
I don't know what to play when the guys are chanting "Ominous I'm in us".
This is the ending riff that I think is hilarious:
|-12h17-12h17----|-1212-12h17----|-12h17-12------|
|-12h17-12h17----|-1212-12h17----|-12h17-12------|
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