SLAYER - "Chemical Warfare" Tablature

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

Chemical Warfare.
Slayer
Show No Mercy (bonus track on cd).



Tabbed By: Lee Metcalfe (scm2lm@cm.cf.ac.uk)

Note: Work in progress... :-)
BTW I'm useless at identifying pick slides/scrapes...

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: Well, it's pretty quick, go listen to the cd! :8-)


Intro:
------
Play 2x
eb---||(Guitar1)-----------------------|--------------------------------||
Bb---||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
Gb---||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
Db---||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
Ab---||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
Eb---||0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|0-0-0---0---0-0-0---0---0-0-0---||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Play 6x
||(Guitars1&2)--------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|0-0-0---0---0-0-0---0---0-0-0---||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|15\-----------------------------|
|13\-----------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
* Long pick slide... Maybe? :-)


Pre-verse:
----------

Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------------2-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1---||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


Verse 1:
--------

Play 8x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------------2-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1---||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


Chorus:
-------


||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||3-------------------------------|--------------------2---3---2---|
||1-------------------------------|--------------------0---1---0---|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------------------2-------|
|4-------------------------------|------------------------0-------|
|2-------------------------------|--------------------------------|


|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|3-------------------------------|--------2---3---2---2---3---2---|
|1-------------------------------|--------0---1---0---0---1---0---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Play 2x
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|------------------------2-------||
|4-------------------------------|------------------------0-------||
|2-------------------------------|--------------------------------||


|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|\-------------------------------|
|\-(Long pick slide)-------------|


Pre-verse:
----------
Play 3x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------------2-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1---||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|5---------------3---------------|
|0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|3---------------1---------------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


Verse 2:
--------
Play 8x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------------2-||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1---||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


Chorus:
-------

||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||3-------------------------------|--------------------2---3---2---|
||1-------------------------------|--------------------0---1---0---|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|------------------------2-------|
|4-------------------------------|------------------------0-------|
|2-------------------------------|--------------------------------|

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|3-------------------------------|--------2---3---2---2---3---2---|
|1-------------------------------|--------0---1---0---0---1---0---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Play 2x
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|------------------------2-------||
|4-------------------------------|------------------------0-------||
|2-------------------------------|--------------------------------||

|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|\-------------------------------|
|\-(Long pick slide)-------------|


Interlude:
----------

Half-time feel. (Hell, I dunno, it seems slower ok!) :-)


||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------10\-9----------------------------------10-------|
||----------------8-\-7----------------------------------8--------|
||0---0---0---0----------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0------------|
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Play 4x
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------10\-9-------------------------------------------||
|----------------8-\-7-------------------------------------------||
|0---0---0---0-----------0---0---0---0---7---8---11--10--9---8---||
|. . . . . . . .


||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------8-\-7----------------------------------8--------|
||0---0---0---0---6-\-5--0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---6--------|
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Play 2x
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------8-\-7-------------------------------------------||
|0---0---0---0---6-\-5---0---0---0---0---0---1---4---3---2---1---||
|. . . . . . . .


||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------------------|
||----------------7-\-6----------------------------------7--------|
||----------------5-\-4----------------------------------5--------|
||0---0---0---0----------0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0------------|
. . . . . . . . . . . .
Play 2x
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------------------------------------------------------||
|----------------7-\-6-------------------------------------------||
|----------------5-\-4-------------------------------------------||
|0---0---0---0-----------0---0---0---0---4---5---8---7---6---5---||
|. . . . . . . .


Play 2x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------7\6-----------------7---|--------7\6---------------------||
||--------5\4-----------------5---|--------5\4---------------------||
||0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----|0-0-0-0-----0-0-0-0-4-5-8-7-6-5-||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


(Back to normal-time feel)



|(Guitar1)-----------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|0-0-0---0---0-0-0---0---0-0-0---|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Play 6x
||(Guitars1&2)--------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|0-0-0---0---0-0-0---0---0-0-0---||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .




||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|----------------7---------------|
||--------------------------------|----------------5-----7-----9---|
||4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-------5-----7---|
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------7---------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------5-----7-----9---|
|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-------5-----7---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|


|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------7---------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------5-----7-----9---|
|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-------5-----7---|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

Play 2x
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|--------------------------------|7-----6-----5-------------------||
|--------------------------------|5-----4-----3---7-----8-----7---||
|4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-|----------------5-----6-----5---||
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------||


|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

Sorry it isn't finished but I'm really busy these days - I'll try to finish
it soon if I can... :-/

However, here's the end part for you - this is the riff that they used as the
intro to ghost of war in case you didn't notice... :-)

Play 4x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|3-----------2-------------------||
||5---------------4---------------|------------------------3-------||
||----2-2-2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-2-2-|----2-2-2-2-----2-2-2-2-----2---||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(Not too sure about this part...) Play 3x
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------1---2---||
||--------3---2-----------0---2---|--------3---2-------------------||
||4-4-4-4---------4-4-4-4---------|4-4-4-4---------3-3-3-3---------||
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------3---2-----------0---2---|--------3---2-------------------|
|4-4-4-4---------4-4-4-4---------|4-4-4-4---------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------2---------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------2---------------|
|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-0---------------|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

With lots of crazy pick scrapes to finish off... ;-)

End.

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+---------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Lee Metcalfe | E-Mail: scm2lm@cm.cf.ac.uk |
| University of Wales, College of Cardiff | Irc: Bud3 /
| Tied to machines that make me be -Metallica | XPilot: Bud3 /
+---------------------------------------------+-------------------------':)

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