"Metal Militia"

Metal Militia
written by Hetfield, Mustaine and Ulrich
as performed on Kill 'Em All
tab by Steve Gorenberg


I've put all note lengths below the measures, they are :
w - whole note
h - half note
q - quarter note
e - eigth note
s - sixteenth note
t - thirty-second note
l - long note ('fermate' sign)
x+y - play note with length x+y

/ - a couple of these mean you have to fill the length with
    1. eight notes         (1 slash)   or
    2. sixteenth notes     (2 slashes) or
    3. thirty-second notes (3 slashes)

R - in the tab denotes a rest.
x - an undefined or muted note.
[ 3 ] - a triplet

/ - slide up
/(X) - slide up to fret X, but don't pick X
 - slide down
(X) - slide down to fret X, but don't pick X
T - tap note
Harm - harmonic
A.H. - Artificial harmonic

inside bar :
p - pull off
h - hammer on
bx - bend string x notes up
bx r - bend string x notes up and release string

a note without a length indication, means a 'ghost' note (The little notes
that occur in sheet music sometimes).

cresc. - crescendo  (Play louder and louder, 'fade in')

||--  --||
||-o  o-||  - a repeat
||-o  o-||
||--  --||

|  X  |
|-----|  - X bar rest
|-----|
|     |

|-----|
|  %  |  - repeat previous bar
|-----|
|-----|


168 bpm

|---||  3  |---------|------|---|---|---------||
|---||-----|---------|------|---|---|---------||
|-R-||-----|-R-------|---R--|-R-|-R-|-R-------||
|---||     |---6-5-3-|-0----|---|---|---6-5-3-||
  l          h q q q   q h.   w   w   h q q q
               [ 3 ]                    [ 3 ]

||------------------------------|----------------------------|
||-o----------------------------|----------------------------|
||-o----------------------------|----------------------------|
||---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3--5-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6--5-|
     s s s s s s s s s s s e. e   s s s s s s s s s s s e. e

                             |1,2,3.                    |4. 2/4
|----------------------------|-------------------------||-----------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------o-||-----------------|
|----------------------------|-----------------------o-||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3--5-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6-5-3---||-----------------|
  s s s s s s s s s s s e. e   s s s s s s s s q q q      s s s s s s s s
                                               [ 3 ]
4/4
|-------------|---||  4  |------|-----|-----|---------------||
|-------------|---||-----|---R--|  %  |  %  |---------------||
|-------------|-0-||-----|-0----|-----|-----|-6---3---------||
|-6-5-3-6-5-3-|---||     |------|-----|-----|---6-----3-5-6-||
  q q q q q q   w          q h.           q q q+e e e e
  [ 3 ] [ 3 ]                             [ 3 ]

||----------------------|-----|-----|-----------------||
||-o---7---5------------|  %  |  %  |---------------o-||
||-o-0---0---0-7-0-6--5-|-----|-----|-6---3---------o-||
||----------------------|-----|-----|---6-----3-5-6---||
     e e s e s e s e. e               q q q+e e e e
                                      [ 3 ]

Verse 1
|---------------------------------|-----|-----|---------------|
|---------------------------------|  %  |  %  |---------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-----|-----|-6---3---------|
|---------------------------------|-----|-----|---6-----3-5-6-|
  s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s               q q q+e e e e
                                                [ 3 ]

 fig.1                                           end fig.1  3 times
||----------------------------|-----|-----|-----------------||
||-o--------------------------|  %  |  %  |---------------o-||
||-o-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-7-0-6--5-|-----|-----|-6---3---------o-||
||----------------------------|-----|-----|---6-----3-5-6---||
     s s s s s s s s e s e. e               q q q+e e e e
                                            [ 3 ]

Pre-chorus
|---------------------|-----------------|---------------------|
|---------------------|-----------------|---------------------|
|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-3-2-0-0-|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|
|---------------------|-----------------|---------------------|
  e e s s e e e s s e   e e s s e q e e   e e s s e e e s s e

                  Chorus
|----------------||------------------------------|
|----------------||-o----------------------------|
|-3-3-3-3-3-2-3/-||-o-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3--5-|
|----------------||------------------------------|
  e e s s e q h       s s s s s s s s s s s e. e
            [3]

|----------------------------|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|----------------------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6--5-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3--5-|
|----------------------------|----------------------------|
  s s s s s s s s s s s e. e   s s s s s s s s s s s e. e

|1,2,3.                    |4. 2/4           4/4
|-------------------------||-----------------|-------------|---|
|-----------------------o-||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|-------------|---|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6-5-3-o-||-----------------|-6-5-3-6-5-3-|-5-|
|-------------------------||-----------------|-------------|---|
  s s s s s s s s q q q      s s s s s s s s   q q q q q q   w
                  [ 3 ]                        [ 3 ] [ 3 ]

|---------------------------------|-----|-----|---------------|
|---------------------------------|  %  |  %  |---------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-----|-----|-6---3---------|
|---------------------------------|-----|-----|---6-----3-5-6-|
  s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s               q q q+e e e e
                                                [ 3 ]

|---------------------------------|-----|-------------------------------|
|---------------------------------|  %  |---7---7---7---7---7---7---7---|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-----|-0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|
|---------------------------------|-----|-------------------------------|
  s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s         e s s s s s s s s s s s s s s

                 Verse 2                 Pre-chorus
|---------------||                      ||---------------------|
|---------------||  play fig.1  4 times ||---------------------|
|-6---3---------||                      ||-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|
|---6-----3-5-6-||                      ||---------------------|
  q q q+e e e e                            e e s s e e e s s e
  [ 3 ]

|-----------------|---------------------|----------------||
|-----------------|---------------------|----------------||
|-3-3-3-3-3-2-0-0-|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|-3-3-3-3-3-2-3/-||
|-----------------|---------------------|----------------||
  e e s s e q e e   e e s s e e e s s e   e e s s e q h
                                                    [3]

Chorus
||------------------------------|----------------------------|
||-o----------------------------|----------------------------|
||-o-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3--5-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6--5-|
||------------------------------|----------------------------|
     s s s s s s s s s s s e. e   s s s s s s s s s s s e. e

                             |1,2,3.
|----------------------------|-------------------------||
|----------------------------|-----------------------o-||
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3--5-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6-5-3-o-||
|----------------------------|-------------------------||
  s s s s s s s s s s s e. e   s s s s s s s s q q q
                                               [ 3 ]

|4. 2/4           4/4                3/4
|-----------------|-------------|---||----||------------------------------|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|-------------|---||-R--||-o----------------------------|
|-----------------|-6-5-3-6-5-3-|-5-||----||-o-----------------------5--7-|
|-----------------|-------------|---||----||---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7------|
  s s s s s s s s   q q q q q q   w    h.      s s s s s s s s s s s e. e
                    [ 3 ] [ 3 ]

|----------------------------|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|----------------------------|
|-----------------------8--7-|-----------------------5--7-|
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7------|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7------|
  s s s s s s s s s s s e. e   s s s s s s s s s s s e. e

|1,2,3.                    |4. 2/4           4/4
|-------------------------||-----------------|-------------|---||
|-----------------------o-||-----------------|-------------|---||
|-----------------8-7-5-o-||-----------------|-8-7-5-8-7-5-|-7-||
|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7---------||-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|-------------|---||
  s s s s s s s s q q q      s s s s s s s s   q q q q q q   w
                  [ 3 ]                        [ 3 ] [ 3 ]

160 bpm
|-------------------------|-----|-----|---------------------|
|-7-----7-----7-----7-----|  %  |  %  |-7-----7-----7-----7-|
|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0-|-----|-----|---0-0---0-0---0-0---|
|-------------------------|-----|-----|---------------------|
  e s s e s s e s s e s s               e s s e s s e s s q

                     4 times                 4 times               2 times
||----------------------|||----------------------|||----------------------||
||-o------------------o-|||-o------------------o-|||-o------------------o-||
||-o-6-----3----------o-|||-o-8-----5----------o-|||-o-9-----6----------o-||
||------6-----3-3-5-1---|||------8-----5-5-7-3---|||------9-----6-6-8-4---||
     e. e. e. s e e e         e. e. e. s e e e         e. e. e. s e e e

                    2 times
||----------------------||-----------------------|-----------------------|
||-o------------------o-||-----------------------|-----------------------|
||-o-10----7----------o-||-7-7-5-5---------------|-----------------------|
||------10----7-7-9-5---||---------8-8-7-7-5-7-8-|-8-8-7-7-5-5-3-3-2-3-5-|
     e. e. e. s e e e      s e s e s e s e s s e   s e s e s e s e s s e

     Tempo I
|---||-----------------------------------|-----|-----|
|---||-o---------------------------------|  %  |  %  |
|---||-o-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-----|-----|
|-0-||-----------------------------------|-----|-----|
  w      s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s

             2 times  Verse 3            Pre-chorus
|-----------------||                     ||---------------------|
|---------------o-|| play fig.1  4 times ||---------------------|
|-6---3---------o-||                     ||-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-|
|---6-----3-5-6---||                     ||---------------------|
  q q q+e e e e                             e e s s e e e s s e
  [ 3 ]

                       let ring
|-----------------|-----------7-|----------------||
|-----------------|-----7-------|----------------||
|-3-3-3-3-3-2-0-0-|-5-5---5-5---|-3-3-3-3-3-2-3/-||
|-----------------|-------------|----------------||
  e e s s e q e e   e e s s e h   e e s s e q h
                                            [3]

Chorus
||------------------------------|----------------------------|
||-o----------------------------|----------------------------|
||-o-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3--5-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6--5-|
||------------------------------|----------------------------|
     s s s s s s s s s s s e. e   s s s s s s s s s s s e. e

                                                   repeat & fade
|----------------------------|-------------------------||
|----------------------------|-----------------------o-||
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3--5-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6-5-3-o-||
|----------------------------|-------------------------||
  s s s s s s s s s s s e. e   s s s s s s s s q q q
                                               [ 3 ]