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Metallica: Dirty window1

Here is the Guitar tabs for "Dirty window1" by Metallica. To get the complete songlist of this band please visit the index for Metallica tabs, bass tabs, chords and CD reviews.

Artist: Metallica
Album: St. Anger
Track: 04, Dirty Window
Tablature Author: Brad Thomas

The tuning is unique. I believe it's in D, but I play it in C, because it is not only
very close, but the majority of the songs off this album are also in C.

This is absolutely my first attempt at tabbing anything at all, so if there is any
questions, comments, or corrections, feel free to e-mail me at Lepersmessiah@aol.com.
This is just my way of playing it. Hope this helps someone.

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Scraping to the rhythm of the snare drum for the intro. Played as a chord, later.

                                                   |Fifth Ending
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)------------------------------------7-------------|-------------------------------
)------0--3--5---0--3--5---0--3--5------6--5-------|---3---3--3/5--5--5--5---------
Here is the main riff played behind the vocals, five times, then the tail, then again!

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)------0--3--5---0--3--5---0--3--5------6--5---------------------------------------
Palm mute this and use a generous amount of dinamics with a halftime feel. Play twice.

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)------0--3--5--X--X-X--X---0--3--5--6-B&R-----------------------------------------
Play, pause and tap with the snare, play again, and bend and release. Repeat.


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)------0--3--5--X--X-X--X---0--3--5--6-B&R-------|---0--3--5---0--3--5-------------
Same exact riff as before, just played higher.    "...Slam my gavel down"

                                                   |Fifth Ending
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)--------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------
)------------------------------------7-------------|-------------------------------
)------0--3--5---0--3--5---0--3--5------6--5-------|---3---3--3/5--5--5--5---------
Here's the main riff again. Same thing as before, just re-written to organize.


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)-------2------2--0------------------------------------7---------------------------
)-----------3--------2----0--3--5---0--3--5---0--3--5-----6--5---------------------
Here is the wrong way to play the clean part. Repeat again.

                                |First Ending       |Second Ending
)-------------------------------|-------------------|-------------------------------------
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)-------------------------------|-------------------|-------------------------------------
)-------------------------------|----------7--------|------------7-----------------7------
)----0--3--5--0----0--3--5--0---|-0--3--5----6--5---|---0--3--5-----6--5---0--3--5----6--5
This riff goes along with James yelling "...Rejector". Played with a lot of dinamics.

This list of riffs are repeated four times. The second time the first riff is played only
twice, the third and four times it is played several times to a vocal line. The last two
times, they skip right from the second riff to the clean riff and contiue on like that.
Have fun with this. Metal up your ass!


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