METALLICA
SONG: THE CALL OF KTULU
ALBUM: RIDE THE LIGHTNING
TABBED BY: GUITAR_PLAYER_DIMEBAG
I was getting really sick of people tabbing this song either wrong, or not tabbing the whole thing. If you don’t know the whole song, don’t tab it. Anyways if you need to contact me, send any messages to [email protected].
This tab is in standard tuning.
Rhy Fig 1
||----5---------5---|---5---------5---|---6---------6---|---6---------6---|
||--------6---5---6-|-------6---5---6-|-------6-------6-|-------6-------6-|
||*-----7-----------|-----7-----------|-----7-----7-----|-----7-----7-----|
||*-0-------7-------|-0-------7-------|-0-------8-------|-0-------8-------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
__________________
|1. |
end Rhy Fig 1
|---8----------8---|---8----------8---|---5---------5---|---5---------5----||
|-------8--------8-|-------8--------8-|-------6-------6-|-------6-------6--||
|-----9------9-----|-----9------9-----|-----7-----7-----|-----7-----7-----*||
|-0-------10-------|-0-------10-------|-0-------7-------|-0-------7-------*||
|------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||
|------------------|------------------|-----------------|------------------||
Rhy Fig 2 end Rhy Fig 2
4 times
|-------------||----------0------|---------0--------||
|--0----------||--------0---0----|-------0---0------||
|-------------||*-----5------5---|-----5-------5---*||
|--0----------||*---7------------|---7-----------7-*||
|-------------||--0------------7-|-6----------------||
|-------------||-----------------|------------------||
Rhy Fig 3 end Rhy Fig 3
4 times
||--------1-|-------1-|-------1-|-------5--||
||------3---|-----3---|-----3---|-----3----||
||*---2-----|---3-----|---4-----|---5-----*||
||*-0-------|-0-------|-0-------|-0-------*||
||----------|---------|---------|----------||
||----------|---------|---------|----------||
||--------------|------------------||
||--------------|------------------||
||--------------|-9-8-8-8-8-9-9/11-||
||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7|-7-6-6-6-6-7-7/9--||
||-5-5-5-5-5-5-5|------------------||
||--------------|------------------||
rhythm figure 4(distorted)
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||--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------||
||--------------|--------------|--------------|-----------7----||
||7--7-9-10-9--7|---7-9-10-9--7|---7-9-10-9--7|----7-9-10----10||
||--------------|8-------------|9-------------|10--------------||
||--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------||
|| ||
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||E5 F5 F#5 G5 ||
||--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------||
||--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------||
||--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------||
||--------------|--------------|--------------|----------------||
||-2-------0-2-3|-3-------0-2-3|-4-------0-2-3|-5-------3-2----||
||-0-0-0-0------|-1-1-1-1------|-2-2-2-2------|-3-3-3-3-----3--||
rhythm figure 5(distorted)
Repeat this pattern with 12 on the G string as the start, and of
course the final note will be 13 on the B.
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|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
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|G5 F#5 |
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
|-5--4-4-4----5-|---------------------------------------------------------|
|-5--4-4-4----5-|---------------------------------------------------------|
|-3--2-2-2----3-|---------------------------------------------------------|
post solo(6:55) distorted
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|-----------------------|
|--7--5--7--3--7--10--7-|
|--5--3--5--1--5--8---5-|
|-----------------------|
after clean intro and the kettle drums
All the bends are bent up a whole step (2 frets)
[ Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/metallica/the_call_of_ktulu_tab.html ]
|------------------------------|21^21^21^21^21^21^21^21^21^17--21^17-|
|-17-21^21^21^21^21^21^21^21^17|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-21-17--17-21-17--------------|-------------------------------------|
|------20--------20-17--17-2017|-------------------------------------|
|---------------------20-------|-20-17--17-20-17---------------------|
|------------------------------|------20--------20-17--17-20-17------|
|------------------------------|---------------------21--------21-17-|
|-12-10-9--10-9-----9----------|-------------------------------------|
|--------12----12-10-12-10-9-12|10-9---------------------------------|
|------------------------------|----11-9-13-11-9--11-9-----9---------|
|------------------------------|----------------12----12-11-12-11-9--|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-12-11-9----11-9-------11-----|-------------------------------------|
|---------12------12-11---12-11|--9-12-11-9----11-9-------9----------|
|------------------------------|------------12------12-10---12-10-9--|
P T PT PT P
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|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|-------------------------4-5-7|----5-7-14-715-717-7-----------------|
|-------------------4-5-7------|-5-7---------------------------------|
|-12-10-9\4-0-5-7------------|-------------------------------------|
Play this a few times.
(use strict sweep picking throughout)
T T T T
|----10-20-16---------10-20-16-----|----10-20-16-------10-20-16------|
|--10--------17----10----------17--|--10--------17---10---------17---|
|10-------------10-----------------|10-------------10----------------|
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