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/ The following is the author's own interpretation of the song, to be used /
/ for private use and studying /
/-------------------------------------------------------------------------/
SLAYER - CHEMICAL WARFARE
From the Album SHOW NO MERCY
Copyright 1987 METAL BLADE RECORDS
Version 1.0 - October 1998
Transcription By: Lee Metcalfe
For Questions, Comments, Newest Version, or Corrections contact
Lee at: L.Metcalfe@cm.cf.ac.uk
Lee at: scm2lm@cm.cf.ac.uk
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. - palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - bend
p - pull off Suffixes for bend
ph - pinch harmonic f - full bend h - half bend
* - see comment r - release t - tap bend
X - percussion mute ~ - vibrato bend
@ - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note
Tuning: Eb(Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb)
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... ;-)
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