TESTAMENT - "demonic refusal" Tablature

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:15:11 EST
From: Battery 81 <Battery81@aol.com>
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: TAB: Demonic Refusal by Testament

Here it is



Testament
"Demonic Refusal"
from "Demonic (11107-2)" track 1 and "Signs of Chaos: The Best of Testament
(11120-2)" track 6
Music by Eric Peterson
Words by Chuck Billy
Published by Burnt Offerings/Fierce/Mayhem
Tabbed by Kevin Burnes
Typed up by Adam de Angeli
email:battery81@aol.com
Tuning: DADGBE

Wherever you see a double line the riff might split up somewhere
(depending on where in the song you are). Not all repeats are shown, but
this tab should make it pretty damn easy to learn the song. For palm mutes,
start at the note above for the next note above the "P" and stop and either
the "|" if given or the "M". The counting is shown above the staff for
convienience. The the count is "* & a" there are some triplets in there.
Any questions or comments email me. Effects are just distortion, as far as
I can tell.

Copyrights of song: Testament
Copyrights of transcription: Kevin's

during intro, lead guitar plays artificial harmonics on G string at
3rd and 5th frets with whammy bar every other measure. listen to
the song to figure it out.

A.
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
||---------------------------------|--------------------------------
||---------------------------------|--------------------------------
||:--------------------------------|--------------------------------
||:0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---
||-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---
||-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|6---6---6---6---6---6---6---6---


1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
--------------------------------|5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---:||
0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---:||
0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3----||
0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|---------------------------------||

B
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---|5---------------8---8---8---8---|
5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---|5---------------8---8---8---8---|
3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---|3---------------6---6---6---6---|
--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

C. verse

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
||---------------------------------|--------------------------------
||---------------------------------|--------------------------------
||:--------------------------------|--------------------------------
||:0-------------------------------|3-----------4-------0-------0---
||-0-------------------------------|3-----------4-------0-------0---
||-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|----0---0-------0-0-----0-0-----

PM..........................| PM...| PMPM PMPM

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
--------------------------------|---------------------------------||
--------------------------------|--------------------------------:||
0-------------------------------|3-----------4-------4---3---1---:||
0-------------------------------|3-----------4-------4---3---1----||
0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---|----0---0-------0---4---3---1----||

PM..............................| PM...|

D. Other verse: x's here might be palmed 0's, pretty sure they're x's though
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & ||
||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||
||:--------------------------------:||
||:x-x-0---x-x-0---0---4---3---1---:||
||-x-x-0---x-x-0---0---4---3---1----||
||-x-x-0---x-x-0---0---4---3---1----||

PM| PM| PM

E. Prechorus

1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & || 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||:--------------------------------:||:5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---:||
||:4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---:||:5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5---:||
||-4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4----||-3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3----||
||-4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4----||----------------------------------||

F. Chorus: Time for this part is hard to figure out. Dotted eighth-sixteenth
patterns are slightly too irregular, triplets are too regular. listen and
just play it like Testament does.


||--------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------|--------------------------------||
||:-6---------------6-------|--6----------------------------:||
||:-6---5---3---5---6---5---|--6---5---3---5---x---x-x-x----:||
||--4---5---3---5---4---5---|--4---5---3---5---x---x-x-x-----||
||------5---3---5-------5---|------5---3---5---x---x-x-x-----||

G. more sure of the time here...

1 & 2 & 3 & a || 1 & 2 & 3 & a 3x
||---------------------------------||---------------------------------||
||---------------------------------||---------------------------------||
||-6--------------------6----------||:6---------------6--------------:||
||-6----5-----3----5----6-----5----||:6---------------6----5----5----:||
||-4----5-----3----5----4-----5----||-4---------------4----5----5-----||
||------5-----3----5----------5----||----------------------5----5-----||


1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & ||
||--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------||
||6---------------8---8---8---8---||
||6---------------8---8---8---8---||
||4---------------6---6---6---6---||
||--------------------------------||

H. later....

1 & a 2 & a 3 & 4 & |1 & a 2 & a 3 & 4 &
||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||
||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||
||:----------------------------|----------------------------:||
||:------------6---5---3---5---|------------6---5---6---5---:||
||-------------6---5---3---5---|------------6---5---6---5----||
||-6665556665--6---5---3---5---|6665556665--6---5---6---5----||

PM.......| PM.......|


guitar 1 on bottom, guitar 2 on top for trills.
trills are not quite as written (same notes, slightly different rhythm)
chords after trills are played by both guitars and accented

I.
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & |1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
||------------------------5---4---|------------------------5---4---||
||------------------------5---4---|45454---34343---23232---5---4---||
||56565---45454---34343---3---2---|56565---45454---34343---3---2---||
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------||
tr. tr. tr. tr. tr. tr.

J
1 & a 2 & 3 & 4 & ||1 & a 2 & 3 & 4 &
||------------------------------||--------------------------------||
||------------------------------||--------------------------------||
||------------------------------||--------------------------------||
||----------4---3---1---3---4---||----------4---3---1---3---------||
||------------------------------||--------------------------------||
||0000000---4---3---1---3---4---||0000000---4---3---1---3---------||

PM....| PM....|

back to verse.

Lyrics
A.
You take my hand and ....

B.
I.... can not be taken ....

C.
She has ways ....

D.
A strong will is my ....

E.
I... feel what I ....

F.
Yeah he feeds on inn....

G.
The tarot cards on the ....
H.
I... am a prisoner ....

I.
In through out death ....

Riff pattern: ABCDDCCDDCCDDEFFFGCCCDDEFFFGHI(first bar 1x,second bar
3x),JJJJJJJJJJJJCCCDDEFFFFFFFGAB(first bar 2x, second bar 1x)

Lyric pattern: ABCBDEFBGEHABDEIIII