Band: (Killswitch Engage)
Album: (As Daylight Dies)
Song: (The Arms Of Sorrow)
- palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - Bend
p - pull off Suffixes for bend
t - tap f - full bend h - half bend
ph - pinched harmonic q - quarter bend t - tap bend
* - see comment ^ - Hold bend r release bend
x - Stuccatto ~ - vibrato bend
, - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note
" - tremolo note <> - Trill
Tuning: Dropped C
I Tab out just the basic riffs, any alternate endings or variations of the
riffs I hope you can figure out for yourself do to the time and size of making
precise tabs.
1st riff (clean guitar)
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|----3---------1-------3-------3----|-------------------------------|
|--0---0-0---0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0|-------------------------------|
|-1-1-1-1-1h3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-0-0-0-0-|-------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------|
2nd riff (first and second time through)
|------------------------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------------------3--6--|------------------------|
|-3--3--3--3--3--3------3--3--3--3----3--3-|------------------------|
|-5--5--5--5--5--5--5-5-5--5--5--5-----5--5|------------------------|
|-------------------5/6--66-66-66-666------|------------------------|
|--55-55-55-55-55-55-----------------------|------------------------|
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...
[ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/k/killswitch-engage/272856.html ]
3rd riff
|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|----6---6---6-000-0-000-0----6---6-----1-0-1/4-3-1|----------------|
|-000-000-000--000-0-000-0-000-000-0000-1-0-1/4-3-1|----------------|
... ... ... ... . ... . ... ... .... . .
4th riff(chorus) altered 2nd riff played 3rd time through
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|-3-3-3---------|---------------------------------------------------|
|-0-0-0---------|-3--3--3----3-------0--0--0----0-------------------|
|-1-3-5---------|-5--5--5----5-------1--1--1----1-------------------|
|-------5---5---|---------------------------------------------------|
|--------00---00|--55-55-55-5---------11-11-11-1--------------------|
(strum) .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .
tapping guitar riff-then just use substitue these notes for the rest
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|7-0-3-0-7-0-7-0-3-0-7-0-7-0-3-0-|-10 and 7,8 and 5,7 and 3,5 and 1-|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
Chords behind tapping riff (use same pattern as first 0)
|---------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|-5----1----0----7----------|--0000000-00000-00000-(3-1)-0000000----|
|-5----1----0----7----------|--0000000-00000-00000-(3-1)-0000000----|
|-5----1----0----7----------|--0000000-00000-00000-(3-1)-0000000----|
....... ..... ..... . . ....
