BLACK SABBATH - "hand of doom" Tablature

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Hand of Doom - Black Sabbath (Paranoid)
Transcribed & Written by Helio Yuri Araujo Leite (hleite@ibeuce.com.br)

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This is one of the bests Black Sabbath's songs, but i don't think that the
geral public likes it, 'cause i haven't seen the tab for this song anywhere!!

It's in the same "line" of Black Sabbath's songs, it consists in a lot of
little riffs, which are (In order of appearance):

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Riff 1:

The song starts with the bass guitar only, and this is what it plays:

G:-----------------------
D:----------------------- Repeat it a lot of time!!! Listen to the record
A:-3-3/5-5-5-55---------- to see how many times you have to repeat...
E:--------------3-4-5----


Here is the guitar part for the first part of the song:

E:-----------------------
B:----------------------- Stay repeating it a few times. Listen to the
G:----------------------- record to see how many times you have to repeat...
D:----------------------- Theres another "crazy notes", and i'll try to ca-
A:-3-3/5-5-5-55---------- tch them later...:)
E:--------------3-4-5----

Riff 2:

Here is where the song "really" starts!!! This is a great guitar riff, and
it's something like this:

E:---------------------------------------
B:---------------------------------------
G:-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--3--8-7- Repeat it 4 times
D:-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--3--8-7-
A:-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--1--6-5-
E:---------------------------------------

Riff 3:

The chord changes here are really fast, so you have to listen to the
record to catch the rythym...

E:--------------------
B:--------------------
G:-5-8-7-3-10-5-3-5--- Repeat it 10 times.
D:-5-8-7-3-10-5-3-5---
A:-3-6-5-1-8--3-1-3---
E:--------------------

Repeat Riff 2
Repeat Riff 3

Riff 4:

One more time, the chord changes are fast, so... you know...

E:---------------
B:---------------
G:-5-8-10-12----- Repeat it 4 times.
D:-5-8-10-12-----
A:-3-6-8--10-----
E:---------------

Riff 5:

Now you have to use palm mutting, acording with the tab below:

E:-------------------------------------
B:-------------------------------------
G:--6/5---5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---6/5---- Repeat it 10 times.
D:--6/5---5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5---6/5----
A:--4/3---3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3---4/3----
E:-------------------------------------

P.M [---------------------]

Repeat Riff 2

Guitar Solo:

I haven't catch it all yet, but it's almost done!!!
When i catch it completely, i'll tab it...Sorry!

Riff 6:

It played imediately after the end of the guitar solo.

E:----------------
B:----------------
G:-8--6--3--------
D:-8--6--3-------- Play it twice.
A:-6--4--1--------
E:----------------

Repeat Riff 1
Repeat Riff 2
Repeat Riff 1
Repeat Riff 2
Repeat Riff 1

End of Song... now i'll put the Lyrics of the song...check it out!



Sorry if it has mistakes about english, it's my first tablature and I
think that it certainly has language errors...but you can understand anyway...
Any comments, suggestions or questions, or if you wanna just talk about music,
feel free to E-MAIL me at:


hleite@ibeuce.com.br

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