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Metallica - Whiplash 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

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

WHIPLASH

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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

Lyrics :

1. Late at night, all systems go, you've come to see the show

We do our best, yuo're the rest, you make it real you know

There's a feeling deep inside that drives you fuckin' mad

A feeling of a hammerhead, you need it oh so bad

Chorus :

Adrenaline starts to flow

You're thrashing all around

Acting like a maniac

Whiplash !

2. Bang your head against the stage like you never did before

Make it ring, make it bleed, make it really sore

In a frenzied madness with your leather and your spikes

Heads are bobbing around, it's hot as hell tonight

Chorus

3. Here on stage the Marshall noise is piercing thruogh your ears

It kicks your ass, kicks your face, exploding feeling nears

Now's the time to let it rip, to let it fuckin' loose

We're gathered here to maim and kill 'cause this is waht we choose

Chorus

4. Show it through, the metal's gone, it's time to hit the road

Another town, another gig, again we will explode

Hotel rooms and motorways, life out here is raw

But we'll never stop, we'll never quit 'cause we're Metallica

Chorus

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