That Was Just Your Life Tab

Metallica
That was just your life
Death Magnetic
 
Tabs by: Farzyness
 
E Standard tuning
 
Figure 1 (clean)
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Figure 2 (Distortion)
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Figure 3
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Figure 4
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Figure 5
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Figure 5.1
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Figure 6
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(Back to figure 5, then second time go on to figure 7)
 
Figure 7
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Figure 8
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Figure 9
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(Back to Figure 5, then go on to figure 10 after everything is done)
 
Figure 10
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Figure 11
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(then go on to Figure 9, only that the tail end of each section is strummed just like
rest of the chorus, so there are no stops whatsoever. Whole chorus will be strummed)
 
(After solo section, move on to Figure 5, then onto Figure 10, then onto Figure 11, then
Figure 6, only repeating that main riff 3 times. Then go onto Figure 12)
 
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(the tail end of the riff is some kind of melody that's based on the E pentatonic)
 
Then go on to riff Figure 10, then Figure 5 with the whole chorus being strum. Then back
to Figure 5
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