Metallica › For Whom The Bell Tolls Guitar Tab

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Send "For Whom The Bell Tolls" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

This is by far the best metallica song in the history of all Metallica. This 
is the way me and my band play it so 

regular tuning

e
B
G
D
A
E


The high intro is played on bass and the distorted guitar just goes like this:

e--------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------------------wait until the bass plays its part and
D---4-4--4-4--2------------------------------------play it over again(listen to the song 
A---4-4--4-4--2------------------------------------know how many times to play it)
E---2-2--2-2--0------------------------------------


Then play along over the bass and ever time the bass plays its one part play:

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

Then follow along with the bass and play a double part:

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--0-5-4-3---0-5-4-3---0-5-4-3---0-5-0-7----0-5-4-3---0-5-4-3---0-5-4-3---0-5-0-8----
--0-3-2-1---0-3-2-1---0-3-2-1---0-3-0-5----0-3-2-1---0-3-2-1---0-3-2-1---0-3-0-6----



end on open E 

intro solo (played over guitar that plays main verse riff


main verse riff


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--------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
-2-----5-(5)---2----5----10---7-------------------------
-2-----5-(5)---2----5----10---7-------------------------
-0-----3-(3)---0----3----8----5-------------------------


Solo played over main verse

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------------------------------------------------------------
--12-9-11----9-11-12-9-11----9-11--------------------------- Repeat this as many times 
----------12--------------12-------------------------------- necessary
------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------


Chorus

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------3-----------------------------------------3-------play 2 
--0-0-0-5--0-0-0-7--0-0-0-5--3--4---0-0-0-5--0-0-0-7--0-0-0-5-(0)-(0)--3-4-3---times
--0-0-0-5--0-0-0-7--0-0-0-5--1--4---0-0-0-5--0-0-0-7--0-0-0-5-(0)-(0)--1-4-3---
--0-0-0-3--0-0-0-5--0-0-0-3-----2---0-0-0-3--0-0-0-5--0-0-0-3-(0)-(0)----2-1---

Fill and overlap into verse 

-----------
-----------
-----------
--2--------
--2~-------
--0--------

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
---5-(5)---2---5---10--7-----2---5--(5)---2---5--10--5-----------------
---5-(5)---2---5---10--7-----2---5--(5)---2---5--10--5-----------------
---3--(3)--0---3---8---5-----0---3--(3)---0---3--8---7-----------------


Then you play the chorus again and then bust into this solo with some crazy 
backing guitar:

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---------------------------------------
--12-9-11----9-------------------------
----------12---11-12-9-11----9---------
--------------------------12---10-2----
----------------------------------0----

--------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------
--12-9-11----9------------------------------------------
----------12---11-12-9-11----9--------------------------
--------------------------12---10-5--5-5-5-5---5-5-5----
----------------------------------3--3-3-3-3---3-3-3----

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---------------------------------------
--12-9-11----9-------------------------
----------12---11-12-9-11----9-----4---
--------------------------12---10--2---
---------------------------------------


------------------------------------7-----------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--12-9-11----9--------------------------12-9-11---9-11-12-9-11----9-11--
----------12---11-12-9-11----9------------------12-------------12------4
--------------------------12---10--------------------------------------2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     
------------------------------------7------------------------------------
--------------------------------------8----------------------------------
--12-9-11----9---------------------------12-9-11---9-11-12-9-11----9-11--
----------12---11-12-9-11----9-------------------12-------------12------4
--------------------------12---10---------------------------------------2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

------------------------------------7-----------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--12-9-11----9--------------------------12-9-11---9-11-12-9-11----9-11--
----------12---11-12-9-11----9------------------12-------------12------4
--------------------------12---10--------------------------------------2
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Listen to the song to get the timing, these are all the parts to the song just 
play them to get the song pieced together. This is the outro:

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---------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------play this until the song is over
--4-4-2---4-4-5-5-2--4-4-2---4-4-5-5-2-------------------
--4-4-2---4-4-5-5-2--4-4-2---4-4-5-5-2-------------------
--2-2-0---2-2-3-3-0--2-2-0---2-2-3-3-0-------------------

I play this like this with my band and it sounds fine to us. If you play it with 
your band, there is a tab on bassmasta.net by senour dakota, my bass player, 
that should match this exact tab but in bass. :)

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