Creeping Death

                          As 
performed by Metallica
                          From "Ride
 the Lightning"

  Words & Music By : James Hetfield,
 Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton, & Kirk 
Hammett

By Metallica Fan: CONOR HAMILL


Tempo = Fast Rock = 184 bpm

       Intro
        (Ryth Fig 1)                
 (end Ryth Fig 1)

 
&-#---||----------------|---|-----------------|----||
 
&-----||----------------|---|-----------------|----||
 
&---4-||o-----------%---|---|-----------%-----|---o||
 
&---4-||o-----------%-9-|-9-|-----------%-9-7-|-7-o||
 
&-----||--------------9-|-9-|-------------9-7-|-7--||
 
&-----||--0-0-0-0-0---7-|-7-|-0-0-0-0-0---7-5-|-5--||
                       ~~~~~        
         ~~~~~


  w/Ryth Fig 1 (once)

||-------------------|-----------|------------------|----------||---------|
||-------------------|-----------|------------------|----------||---------|
||o-------------%----|-------%-}-|------------------|-----%-}-o||-}-------|
||o-------------%-9--|-9--9--%-}-|-----------%-9--7-|-7-7-%-}-o||-}-------|
||----------------10-|-10-10-----|-----------%-10-9-|-9-9------||---7-5-5-|
||--0-0-0-0-0-0------|-----------|-0-0-0-0-0--------|----------||---5-3-2-|
                  ~~~~~~~           
              ~~~~~


 (Ryth Fig 3)                (end 
Ryt Fig 3)(Ryth Fig 4)      (end 
Ryth Fig 4)
                                    
     x8                             
   x4
||------------------|----------------------||-------------|------------------||
||------------------|----------------------||-------------|------------------||
||o-----------------|---------------------o||o------------|-----------------o||
||o-----2-----2---2-|-----2---------------o||o------------|-----------------o||
||------2-----2---2-|-----2---2-3-2-3-2-0--||-----5-----5-|------------------||
||--0-0---0-0---0---|-0-0---0--------------||-0-0-3-0-0-3-|-0-0-2-2-2-2-2-2--||
                                    
H P P

  You then play Ryth Fig 3 four 
times, and then continue.
 |---|---|---|---------|      
 |---|---|---|---------|  The 
 |---|---|---|---4-6---|  unti
 |-2-|-2-|-2-|-2-4-6-4-|  star
 |-2-|-2-|-2-|-2-2-4-4-|      
 |-0-|-0-|-0-|-0-----2-|      
   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~              

 |  
 |si
 |l 
 |t 
 |  
 |  
  

 |                                  
 |nging starts. Keep playing Ryth Fi
 |the singing stops (16 bars later) 
 |playing Ryth Fig 4 four times.    
 |                                  
 |                                  
                                  

     
g 3  
then 
     
     
     
     


 Chorus

    E5         C5 D5        F5  

                       G5          

         @

 
||---|-------------|---|------|---|-------------|---------|---|-------------|
Continúa después del anuncio
 
||---|-------------|---|------|---|-------------|---------|---|-------------|
 
||-9-|-9-------5-7-|-7-|-7/10-|-9-|-9-------5-7-|-/10-12\-|-7-|-7-------5-7-|
 
||-9-|-9-------5-7-|-7-|-7/10-|-9-|-9-------5-7-|-/10-12\-|-7-|-7-------5-7-|
 
||-7-|-7-------3-5-|-5-|-5/8--|-7-|-7-------3-5-|-/8--10\-|-5-|-9-------3-5-|
 
||---|---0-0-0-----|---|------|---|---0-0-0-----|---------|---|---0-0-0-----|
    ~~~~~         ~~~~~~~~~      
~~~~~         ~~~~~    ~~~~~~~~~~   
      ~~~

                                    
         w/Ryth Fig 3 (twice)
 ---|------|---|-----------
 ---|------|---|-----------
 -7-|-7/10-|-9-|-9-------5-
 -7-|-7/10-|-9-|-9-------5-
 -5-|-5/8--|-7-|-7-------3-
 ---|------|---|---0-0-0---
 ~~~~~~      ~~~~~         

 |--|---|---------|---||             
 |--|---|---------|---|| Go back up t
 |7-|-7-|-7-4-6-4-|-4-|| the singing 
 |7-|-7-|-7-4-6-4-|-4-||             
 |5-|-5-|-5-2-4-2-|-2-||             
 |--|---|---------|---||             
~~~~~~~~~     ~~~~~                

                 
o the part where 
starts           
                 
                 
                 
                 


  Lotsa solo stuff. Damned fast, but
 not hard. Usual pentatonic minor 
soloing.

People, this is the end of the solo.
 I think it's the kewlest sounding 
part, so thats
I bothered to figure out.
Listen to the CD, and this is 
exactly how it sounds. I'd say this 
is the last 30 seconds
the solo.  Right when
James is going into the routine 
chorus progression.

(End of solo)        (bend and release)
|--------------------------------
|---------------10---------------
|--9----9-11-12----12--11^12^11--
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------

||---------------------------12--12-
||--------------10--12-13-15--------
||------9-11-12---------------------
||12--------------------------------
||----------------------------------
||----------------------------------

14-15-17-| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 

|--15-14-12--17---17-19--20---19--
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------

||17--15--15r14r12-15r14r12-
||--------------------------
||--------------------------
||--------------------------
||--------------------------
||--------------------------

||15r14r12-15r14r12| 
||-----------------| 
||-----------------| 
||-----------------| 
||-----------------| 
||-----------------| 

|15r14r12-15r14r12-15r14r12-
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------

||15r14r12-17r15r14-17r15r14-17r15r14-
||------------------------------------
||------------------------------------
||------------------------------------
||------------------------------------
||------------------------------------

17r15r14-| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 

|17r15r14-17r15r14-17r15r14-
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------

||17r15r14-19r17r15-19r17r15-19r17r15-
||------------------------------------
||------------------------------------
||------------------------------------
||------------------------------------
||------------------------------------

19r17r15-| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 
---------| 


(bend and hold)
|20r17r15-20r17r15-20r17r15-
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------
|---------------------------

||20r17r15--22^24---24---24---| 
||----------------------------| 
||----------------------------| 
||----------------------------| 
||----------------------------| 
||----------------------------| 

If you're like me, and don't have 24
 frets on your guitar, then you'll 
have
an awful lot of hard bending to do 
from the 21st. I play a 
Stratocaster. I have no idea
Kirk plays this with.

Bridge
 (Half Time Feel)

 (This is the "Die, by my hands..." 
part)

 Each chord is a half note, except 
the E which is 4 quarter notes using
 only
the bottom string. The progression 
is like this:

 E5 E E E E F5 D5 E5 E E E E G5 F5 
(x3)

 Then it's Ryth Fig 3 for 6 bars. On
 the sixth bar, another gutair plays
 the
following:
  |-----------|                  
  |-----------|  Go back to where
  |-[~3~]-7\--|  through with the
  |-2-3-5-7\\-|  go to this next 
  |-2-3-5-5\\-|                  
  |-0-1-3---\-|                  

 |                                 
 | the singing originally started. 
 | third verse, and when you hit th
 |part.                            
 |                                 
 |                                 

          
Play it   
e @ sign, 
          
          
          


 Ryth Fig 9
 -----------------|-------|-------
 -----------------|-------|-------
 -----------------|-------|-------
 -----2-----2---2-|-2-2-2-|-----2-
 -----2-----2---2-|-2-2-2-|-----2-
 -0-0---0-0---0---|-------|-0-0---
                ~~~~~             

 |------------|-------|| 
 |------------|-------|| 
 |------------|-------|| 
 |----2-----3-|-3-0-0-|| 
 |----2-----3-|-3-0-0-|| 
 |0-0---0-0---|-------|| 
          ~~~~~        

  (Following Can be played by 2 
guitars, one high, one low, but one 
can do it)


  w/Ryth Fig 9

       /\                           
           x3
 
||---/--\--------|----|------/\---------|------||
 
||--15--15-13-12-|-12-|-12-12--12----13-|-13---||
 
||o-14--14-12-11-|-11-|-11-11--11-14-12-|-12--o||
 
||o--------------|----|-----------14----|-----o||
 
||---------------|----|-----------------|------||
 
||---------------|----|-----------------|------||
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~           
~~~~~~~

                                                                     x3
 --------------|---|---------
 --------------|---|---------
 -----9--7-5-4-|-4-|-4-5-4---
 -----9--7-5-4-|-4-|-4-5-4---
 -----7--5-3-2-|-2-|-2-3-2-0-
 -0-0----------|---|---------
             ~~~~~~~~~       

 |--|-
 |--|-
 |5-|-
 |5-|-
 |3-|-
 |--|-
~~~~

 |--||------------|---|---------
 |--||------------|---|---------
 |5-||o-5-9-5-7-4-|-4-|-4-5-4---
 |5-||o-5-9-5-7-4-|-4-|-4-5-4---
 |3-||--3-7-3-5-2-|-2-|-2-3-2-0-
 |--||------------|---|---------
~~~~~~~     ~~~~~~~~~         

--|-
--|-
4-|-
4-|-
2-|-
--|-
~~~~

u|---|| 
u|---|| 
u|4-o|| 
u|4-o|| 
u|2--|| 
u|---|| 
~     

           Something for 4 bars... 
Probably one of the above riffs.

  Ryth Fig 2 (twice) Then it's free 
time.

  Then it's 4 chords, with a slight 
retard:
  -----|-----|---| 
  -----|-----|---| 
  -*---|-----|---| 
  -*---|-----|-2-| 
  ---7-|-5-5-|-2-| 
  ---5-|-3-2-|-0-| 

              Trill

  Now, in the Exact same bar where 
the E5 Trill starts, this scale 
starts, with
 two guitars.
   |-------------|-------------|-
   |-------------|-------16-17-|-
   |----------14-|-16-17--8--9-|-
   |-14-16-17--7-|--9-10-------|-
   |--7--9-10----|-------------|-
   |-------------|-------------|-

 |14-15--14----|-------------|-
 |-7--8---7-17-|-16----------|-
 |-----------9-|--8-17-16-14-|-
 |-------------|----10--9--7-|-
 |-------------|-------------|-
 |-------------|-------------|-
~~~~~                ~~~~~   

---------|----| 
---------|----| 
---------|----| 
17-16-14-|-14-| 
10--9--7-|--7-| 
---------|----| 
~~~~~~~~~~~~    

                                    
 H                    H       P  P

  And of course, it ends with 2 hard
 E5 chords, and a slide to nothing.

 % = Quarter Rest      O = Whole 
Note   / = Quarter Note    \ = 
Thirty-Second
 } = Full Rest         o = Half Note
    | = Sixteenth

 -||--    --||-                     
          ---|---|
 -||--    --||-   This is the repeat
          ---|---| A tied note. You 
only
 -||o-    -o||-   loop. It is 
repeated        ---|---| play it 
once, and hold
 -||o-    -o||-   1 time (x1) unless
          -2-|-2-| it.
 -||--    --||-   otherwise marked 
at         -2-|-2-|
 -||--    --||-   the top.          
          -0-|-0-|
  begin    end                      
           ~~~~~

 ---              ---        ---  
 ---              ---        ---  

 |       ---         ---/\---      
 |       ---         --/--\-- Bend 

 |   
 |up 

 -%- Quarter      -}- Full   -*- 1 
Beat  -*- 2 Beat  -12--12- a full 
note
 -%- Rest         -}- Rest   ---  
Rest   -*-  Rest   --------
 ---              ---        ---  
 ---              ---        ---  

 |       ---         -------- 
 |       ---         -------- 

 --------|             
 ---/\---| Bend up     
 -12--12-| a half note 
 --------|             
 --------|             
 --------|             

WELL ENJOY AND HOPE YOU LIKE THIS IS
 ALL OF IT INCLUDING SOLO SO ROCK 
ON!!!