Metallica
Song- The Small Hours
tr I (D G C F A D) - 'James Hetfield - Clean electric'
Gtr II (D G C F A D) - 'James Hetfield - Rhythm w/dist'
Gtr III (D G C F A D) - 'Kirk Hammett - Rhythm w/dist'
Gtr IV (D G C F A D) - 'Kirk Hammett - Lead w/dist'
Intro
Q=90
4/4
Gtr I
W E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
|----------||----------------------|----------------------|
|----------||o----7----8----7----8-|----7----8----7----8--|
|----------||--10---10---10---10---|-10---10---10---10----|
|----------||----------------------|----------------------|
|----------||o---------------------|----------------------|
|----------||----------------------|----------------------|
|-Riff A
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
|-----------------|------------------||
|---6---7---6---7-|---6---7---6---7-o||
|-9---9---9---9---|-9---9---9---9----||
|-----------------|------------------||
|-----------------|-----------------o||
|-----------------|------------------||
end Riff A-|
W +W
|-^0--------|-(0)--------|
|-^6--------|-(6)--------|
|-^9--------|-(9)--------|
|-----------|------------|
|-----------|------------|
|-----------|------------|
|-Fill 1 end Fill 1-|
|
| Gtrs II, III
| <
| W +W
|-----------|------------|
|-----------|------------|
|-----------|------------|
|--2--------|-(2)--------|
|--2--------|-(2)--------|
|--0--------|-(0)--------|
Riff A x1.5
w/Riff A (last 2 bars only)
Gtr II
<
~~~~
Q Q +H +Q +Q +E +S +S S E.
|---------------------|-----------------------------------------||
|---------------------|-----------------------------------------||
|---------------------|-----------------------------------------||
|---------------------|-----------------------------------------||
|---------------------|-----------------------------------------||
|-----12---(12)-------|-(12)---(12)---(12)-(12)b13r(12)-x-12\---||
Pre-Verse
w/Riff A (last 2 bars only)
Gtr II
PM| PM| PM| PM|
E E S S S S E E Q E E S S S S E E Q
|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------------------|---------------------|
|---------------------|---------------------|
|-2-2-4s5-4s5-2-2-5---|-2-2-4s5-4s5-2-2-5---|
|-0-0-2s3-2s3-0-0-3---|-0-0-2s3-2s3-0-0-3---|
2/4
Gtrs II, III
PM| PM|
E E S S S S E E Q S S E S E.
|---------------------|------------||
|---------------------|------------||
|---------------------|------------||
|---------------------|------------||
|-2-2-4s5-4s5-2-2-5---|-5-4---4-3--||
|-0-0-2s3-2s3-0-0-3---|-3-2---2-1--||
|
| E E E E E E E E H
|---------------------|------------||
|---6-----7-----6---7-|------------||
|-9---9-------9---9---|------------||
|---------------------|------------||
|---------------------|------------||
|---------------------|------------||
4/4
PM| PM| PM| PM|
E E S S S S E E Q E E S S S S E E Q
|--------------------|--------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------|
|--------------------|--------------------|
|-2-2-4s5-4s5-2-2-5--|-2-2-4s5-4s5-2-2-5--|
|-0-0-2s3-2s3-0-0-3--|-0-0-2s3-2s3-0-0-3--|
|-Rhy Fig 1 end Rhy Fig 1-|
2/4
PM| PM|
E E S S S S E E Q S S E S E.
|--------------------|------------||
|--------------------|------------||
|--------------------|------------||
|--------------------|------------||
|-2-2-4s5-4s5-2-2-5--|-5-4---4-3--||
|-0-0-2s3-2s3-0-0-3--|-3-2---2-1--||
Verses
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4/4
||--
||o-
||-- Rhy Fig 1 x2
||--
||o-
||--
Gtrs II, III
A5 G5 F#5
W H Q Q
| | | |
/ / / x
|----------|------------|
|-Rhy Fig 2 ---|
Rhy Fig 1 x3
Rhy Fig 2
Rhy Fig 1
E E Q +E E E E +E E E E +E E E +E
|------------------|-------------------------||
|------------------|-------------------------||
|--------------4S7-|-(7)-4---4-(4)-----------||
|------------------|-------------------------||
|-x-x-2--(2)-0-2S5-|-(5)-2-0-2-(2)-0---------||
|-x-x-0--(0)-------|-----------------2b3r(2)-||
|-Rhy Fig 3 (play 1st time only)
E E Q +E E E E +E E E E E S S Q
|------------------|----------------------||
|------------------|----------------------||
|--------------4S7-|-(7)-4---9-x-9s11-9\--||
|------------------|----------------------||
|-x-x-2--(2)-0-2S5-|-(5)-2-0-7-x-7s=9-7\--||
|-x-x-0--(0)-------|----------------------||
end Rhy Fig 3-|
Chorus
Rhy Fig 3 x1.5
1.
To Coda
E S S Q +E E E E +E E E E E S S Q
|--------------------|----------------------||
|--------------------|----------------------||
|----------------4S7-|-(7)-4---9-x-9s11-9\--||
|--------------------|----------------------||
|-x-x-x-2--(2)-0-2S5-|-(5)-2-0-7-x-7s=9-7\--||
|-x-x-x-0--(0)-------|----------------------||
Rhy Fig 1
2.
2/4 4/4
PM| PM|
E E S S S S E E Q S S E S E. E E E E E S S Q
|--------------------|-------------||-----------------------||
|--------------------|------------o||-----------------------||
|--------------------|-------------||--(7)-4---9-x-9s11-9\--||
|--------------------|-------------||-----------------------||
|-2-2-4s5-4s5-2-2-5--|-5-4---4-3--o||--(5)-2-0-7-x-7s=9-7\--||
|-0-0-2s3-2s3-0-0-3--|-3-2---2-1---||-----------------------||
Gtrs II, III
E5 F5 G5 F5 E5
W H +E E +S E. W
| | | | | | |
/ / / / / / /
Gtr I
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E 4x W
||------------------|-----------------------||------||
||o---6---7---6---7-|---6---7----6-------7-o||------||
||--9---9---9---9---|-9---9----9----9-------||-0----||
||------------------|-----------------------||------||
||o-----------------|----------------------o||------||
||------------------|-----------------------||------||
Faster Q=184
Gtrs II, Gtr III enters on 3 + 4
PM----------------------------| PM--|
E S S E S S E S S E S S E S S Q E S S Q
||--------------------------|-------------------|
||o-------------------------|-------------------|
||--------------------------|-------------------|
||--------------------------|-------3--------5--|
||o-------------------------|-------1--------3--|
||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0----0-0-0----|
|-Rhy Fig 4
PM----------------------------| PM------|
E S S E S S E S S E S S E S S Q E S S E E 4x
|-------------------------|---------------------||
|-------------------------|--------------------o||
|-------------------------|---------------------||
|-------------------------|-------3-------------||
|-------------------------|-------1------------o||
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0----0-0-0-3-2--||
end Rhy Fig 4-|
Guitar Solo
w/Rhy Fig 4 x6
Gtr IV
PM------------| ~ PM----------|
E E E E E E Q E E E E E E E E
|-------------------------|---------------------|
|---------------3---5-----|-------------3---5-3-|
|---------2---4-----------|---------2-4---------|
|-2-4---5-----------------|-2-4---5-------------|
|-------------------------|---------------------|
|-------------------------|---------------------|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Q Q Q Q
|---------------------------------|
|-[5]-----[5]-----[5]-----[5]-----|
|-----------------
|