Die By The Sword

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/ The following is the author's own 
interpretation of the song, to be 
used  /
/ for private use and studying      
                                    
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                          From the 
Album SHOW NO MERCY

                           Version 
1.0 - October 1998

Transcription By: Mike Kimball

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.  - palm mute                  /  -
 slide up to
\  - slide down to              ~  -
 vibrato
h  - hammer on                  b  -
 bend
p  - pull off                       
 Suffixes for bend
ph - pinch harmonic                 
     f - full bend    h - half bend
*  - see comment                    
     r - release      t - tap bend
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X  - percussion mute                
     ~ - vibrato bend
@  - slight palm mute           () -
 ghost note, sustained note

Tuning: Eb(Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb)

Fig. 1
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|------------------------------3--
|--2-----2-----4-5-2-----2-----3--
|--2-----2-----4-5-2-----2-----1--
|--0-000-0-000-2-3-0-000-0-000----

||--------------------- 
||--------------------- 
||--------------------- 
||-2-----2-----4-5----- 
||-2-----2-----4-5----- 
||-0-000-0-000-2-3-0-0- 

|---------- 
|---------- 
|--3-----5- 
|--3-----5- 
|--1-----3- 
|------0--- 

End Fig. 1

Fig. 2
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|------------------------------3--
|--2-----2-----5---2-----2-----3--
|--2-----2-----5---2-----2-----1--
|--0-000-0-000-3---0-000-0-000----

||----------------- 
||----------------- 
||----------------- 
||-2-----2-----5--- 
||-2-----2-----5--- 
||-0-000-0-000-3--- 

|------------------ 
|------------------ 
|--------------5--- 
|--2-----2-----5--- 
|--2-----2-----3--- 
|--0-000-0-000----- 

        End Fig. 2

Fig. 3
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--2-----2-----8-7-2-----2-----8-
|--2-----2-----8-7-2-----2-----8-
|--0-000-0-000-6-5-0-000-0-000-6-
|--------------------------------

||------------------ 
||------------------ 
||7-2-----2-----8-7- 
||7-2-----2-----8-7- 
||5-0-000-0-000-6-5- 
||------------------ 

|-------------------- 
|-------------------- 
|------10-----9------ 
|------10-----9------ 
|--0-0-8----0-7------ 
|-------------------- 

                End Fig. 3

Fig. 4
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--------------------------------
|--3-2-------------3-2-----------
|------3-2-5-3-2-0-----3-2-5-3-2-

||------------------ 
||------------------ 
||------------------ 
||------------------ 
||--3-2------------- 
||0-----3-2-5-3-2-0- 

|---------------- 
|---------------- 
|--7---6--------- 
|--7---6---8---7- 
|--5---4---8---7- 
|----------6---5- 

                End Fig. 4

First solo
*


Fig. 5
Gtr.1
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|---------------------------------
|----8-7----------------------8-7-
|----------8-7---8-10---8-7-------
|--0-----0-----0------0-----0-----

||------------------- 
||------------------- 
||------------------- 
||------------------- 
||--8-7---8-10------- 
||0-----0------0-8-7- 


Gtr.2 (chord changes)
|----|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
|----|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
|----|-4-|-3-|---|---|---|---|---
|--2-|-4-|-3-|-3-|-4-|-3-|-5-|---
|--2-|-2-|-1-|-3-|-4-|-3-|-5-|---
|--0-|---|---|-1-|-2-|-1-|-3-|-0-

||-------------- 
||-------------- 
||-------------- 
||-------------- 
||-------------- 
||0-0-0-0-0-0-0- 

                        End Fig. 5

Second Solo
First part is the same pattern as 
Fig. 3, but with the root
on the E (6th) string.

Second part
E-G-F#-C-B

End Second Solo

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