METALLICA - "hit the lights" Tablature

Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 16:41:50 -0600
From: gregh@tcs.itis.com (Greg and or Paul Halvorson)
Subject: TAB: Hit The Lights by Metallica

HIT THE LIGHTS
by Metallica
from Kill 'em All

Here's the main riff.

Repeat a whole bunch of times
||---------------------|---------------------||
||---------------------|---------------------||
||*--------5--7--5--7--|--------------------*||
||*--------5--7--5--7--|--------5h7p5-------*||
||---0--0--------------|--0--0---------7--6--||
||---------------------|---------------------||




===============================================================================
== TABLATURE EXPLANATION ==
===============================================================================

---------- ----------
----5h8--- Hammeron ----(8)--- Ghost Note
---------- ----------
----5p8--- Pulloff ----------

---------- ----------
----5/8--- Slide Up -----x---- Dead Note
---------- ----------
----5\8--- Slide Down ----------

---------- ||------|| Repeat Start & End
----5~~~-- Vibrato ||*----*||
---------- ||*----*||
---------- ||------||

Rhythm:
w = whole note W = dotted whole
h = half note H = dotted half
q = quarter note Q = dotted quarter
e = eighth note E = dotted eighth
s = sixteenth note S = dotted sixteenth
^ = triplet

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== tablature creation software for Windows ==
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== email: gse@ocsystems.com ==
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:01:11 -0500
From: Richard Miller <rmiller@gr8brdg.net>


Hit the lights from Kill 'Em All
Metallica
tabbed by Rick Miller

I seen this on Olga, it really sucked, so here's my version done by memory,
i'm fairly sure that it's pretty accurate (I haven't done the solo, even if
I did I couldn't play it.)


Fade in

|--tremolo-----|-------------------------------|
|--/--pick-----|-------------------------------|
|--/-----------|-------------------------------|
|--2-----------|-------------------------------|
|--2-----------|--2---2---2---2-----2-------2--|
|--0-----------|--0---0---0---0-----0-------0--|


|--tremelo-----|-------------------------------|-----------------|
|--/--pick-----|-------------------------------|-----------------|
|--/-----------|-------------------------------|-----------------|
|--4-----------|-------------------------------|--pick slide-----|
|--4-----------|--4---4---4---4-----4-------4--|--x\\\\\\\\\\\\--|
|--2-----------|--2---2---2---2-----2-------2--|--x\\\\\\\\\\\\--|


fig 1 End fig 1
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------5---7---0---0h5--|-----------------------------------|
|-5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-------------------7p5---5------|
|-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7--|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|


|--------------------------------------|------------------------------full-|
|--------------------------------------|------------------------------)----|
|---------------------5---7---0---0h5--|----------------------------7/-----|
|-5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-----------------------5--------|
|-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6h7----------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|


play fig 1 (? times)


|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--7---7---x---x-------------------7---7---x---x---5---4-------|
|--5---5---x---x---5---5---x---x---5---5---x---x---3---2---5---|
|------------------3---3---x---x---------------------------3---|
No life till ...


|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------5---7---0---0h5--|-----------------------------------|
|-5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-------------------7p5---5------|
|-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7--|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
tonight



|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------5---7---0---0h5--|-----------------------------------|
|-5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-------------------7p5---5------|
|-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7--|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|


|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--7---7---x---x-------------------7---7---x---x---5---4-------|
|--5---5---x---x---5---5---x---x---5---5---x---x---3---2---5---|
|------------------3---3---x---x---------------------------3---|
Got the metal maddness ...


|---------------------------------------|------------------------------full-|
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------)----|
|----------------------5---7---0---0h5--|----------------------------7/-----|
|--5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-----------------------5--------|
|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6h7----------|
|---------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
right Well ...


|------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|-------------------------------------5---4------|--2---2---2---2---2---2-----|
|--2---2------------------5---3---5---3---2---5--|--0---0---0---0---0---0-----|
|--0---0------------------3---1---3-----------3--|---------3-------3----------|
When we start to rock we ...


3x
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------| Then comes a lead thing and verse 2,
|*-------------------------------*| then another lead thing and verse 3,
|*-5-------2---2---2---2---2---2-*| then the interlude:
|--3---5---0---0---0---0---0---0--|
|------3----------3-------3-------|
Hit the li...


Interlude
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|*---------------5--|----------------7--|----------------5--|--------------*|
|*-7---7---7---7-5--|--7---7---7---7-7--|--7---7---7---7-5--|--7-5---------*|
|--0---0---0---0----|--0---0---0---0----|--0---0---0---0----|------7-6-5----|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------8--|


this is played under the solo
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|--4---4---4---4-7--|--4---4---4---4-9--|--4---4---4---4-7--|--9-7----------|
|--2---2---2---2-5--|--2---2---2---2-7--|--2---2---2---2-5--|------9-8-7----|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------10-|