MEGADETH - "Reckoning Day" Tablature

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From: L.Metcalfe@cm.cf.ac.uk (L Metcalfe)

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Reckoning Day.
Megadeth
Youthansia.

Tabbed By: Mat. 18th December '94.

Note: Acoustic bit?... What acoustic bit? ;)

Notation: h = Hammer; p = Pull; . = Palmute
\ = Slide down; / = Slide up; b = bend to note
x = Palmute whilst muffling strings with left hand.
tr= Trill.

Tempo approx. 120 4/4.

Intro:
------
Play 4x
eb---|(Guitars1&2)---------------------|--------------------------------||
Bb---||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
Gb---||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
Db---||--------7-----------6-------5---|--------------------------------||
Ab---||--------7-----------6-------5---|--------------------------------||
Eb---||0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-----|----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Verse 1:
--------
Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------7-----------6-------5---|--------------------------------||
||--------7-----------6-------5---|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-----|----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------4-----------3-------2---|--------------------------------||
||--------4-----------3-------2---|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-----2-2-----|----------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------5-----------7-------4---|--------------------------------||
||--------5-----------7-------4---|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-----|----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bridge :
--------
Play 3x
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||2-------------------------------||2-------------------------------|
||2-------------------2-------2---||2-------------------2-----------|
||0-----------0-0-3-------2-------||0-----------0-0-3-------2---7---|
. . . .
Chorus :
--------
Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|7-------------------------------||
||7---------------10--------------|7-------------------------------||
||7-----------5h7-10----------5h7-|5-----------5h7-8-------7-------||
||5---------------8---------------|----------------8-------7-------||


Interlude :
-----------
Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------7-----------6-------5---|--------------------------------||
||--------7-----------6-------5---|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-----|----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Verse 2:
--------
Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------4-----------3-------2---|--------------------------------||
||--------4-----------3-------2---|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-----2-2-----|----------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------5-----------7-------4---|--------------------------------||
||--------5-----------7-------4---|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-----|----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Bridge :
--------
Play 3x
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------||--------------------------------|
||2-------------------------------||2-------------------------------|
||2-------------------2-------2---||2-------------------2-----------|
||0-----------0-0-3-------2-------||0-----------0-0-3-------2---7---|
. . . .

Chorus :
--------
Play 3
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|7-------------------------------||
||7---------------10--------------|7-------------------------------||
||7-----------5h7-10----------5h7-|5-----------5h7-8-------7-------||
||5---------------8---------------|----------------8-------7-------||

(Guitar1)------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|7-------------------------------|
|7---------------10--------------|7-------------------------------|
|7-----------5h7-10----------5h7-|5-----------5h7-8-------7-------|
|5---------------8---------------|----------------8-------7-------|
| | |
(Guitar2)------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------5---3---2---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

What Acoustic Bit? :
--------------------

Wobbly bar effects throughout.

(Guitar1)------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|------------------------------9\|7------------5---4--------------|
|7-------------9-10--------------|--------------------------------|
|------------------------------7\|5------------3---2--------------|
|5-------------7-8---------------|--------------------------------|
| | |
(Guitar2)------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|7-----------5---4---------------|10---------------9--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|5-----------3---2---------------|8----------------7--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| | |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------10--9---7---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|----------------------------9-\-|7------------5---4--------------|
|7-------------9-10--------------|--------------------------------|
|----------------------------7-\-|5------------3---2--------------|
|5-------------7-8---------------|--------------------------------|
| | |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|----------------------------9--/|7---------5-7p5-4---------------|
|7-----------9-9/10--------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|7-----------5---4---------------|10---------------9--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|5-----------3---2---------------|8----------------7--------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
| | |
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|7---------5-7p5-4---------------|8b10----8b10----11b13---11b13---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Chorus :
--------
Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|7-------------------------------||
||7---------------10--------------|7-------------------------------||
||7-----------5h7-10----------5h7-|5-----------5h7-8-------7-------||
||5---------------8---------------|----------------8-------7-------||


Outro :
-------

Fade till end.
Play 8x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------7-----------6-------5---|--------------------------------||
||--------7-----------6-------5---|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-----|----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Play 16x
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||--------7-----------6-------5---||
||--------7-----------6-------5---||
||0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-----0-0-----||
. . . . . . . . . .

End.

Ok so maybe I have a rough idea of the acoustic bit.

Let Ring.
|--------8-5-------------8-5-----|--------8-7-5-----------8-7-----|
|------------5---------------5---|------5-------5-------------9-5-|
|------5-------5-------5-------5-|----7-----------------7---------|
|----7---------------5-----------|--7---------------6-9-----------|
|--7---------------7-------------|5---------------7---------------|
|5---------------8---------------|--------------------------------|

Don't know any more though ;{.

End.

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| University of Wales, College of Cardiff | Irc: Bud3 /
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