Title: For Whom The Bell Tolls
Artist: Metallica
Album: Ride The Lightning

Instrument: 6 String Guitar

Tabbed by: Evan Carey ([email protected])

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Legend:
    .= Hit note and mute right away by releasing pressure on your fingers.
    ~= Hold note

Entire song is heavily distorted.

This tab is for rythem guitar only, James Hetfields part...it does not include the solo, or any other of the parts that only Kirk does.

Intro
E|----------------||
B|----------------||
G|----------------||5x
D|-4-4--4-4----2~~||
A|-4-4--4-4----2~~||
E|-2-2--2-2----0~~||

E|----------------||
B|----------------||
G|----------------||
D|-2--2--2~~------||8x
A|-2--2--2~~------||
E|-4--4--0~~------||
             
       3x      Bridge 1
E|----------------|----------------||
B|----------------|----------------||
G|----------------|-------2--------||
D|-2-5-4-3--------|-2-3-2-2--------||
A|-2-5-4-3--------|-2-3-2-0--------||
E|-0-3-2-1--------|-0-5-4----------||

      3x        Bridge 2
E|----------------|----------------||
B|----------------|----------------||
G|----------------|-------4--------||
D|-2-5-4-3--------|-2-5-4-4--------||
A|-2-5-4-3--------|-2-5-4-2--------||
E|-0-3-2-1--------|-0-3-2----------||

                                 Chorus
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
D|-2~~~--5~--5.---|-2~~~-5~-10--7--|-2~~~--5~--5.---|-2~~~--5~-10--7-||
A|-2~~~--5~--5.---|-2~~~-5~-10--7--|-2~~~--5~--5.---|-2~~~--5~-10--7-||
E|-0~~~--3~--3.---|-0~~~-3~-8---5--|-0~~~--3~--3.---|-0~~~--3~-8---5-||
 
                                Verse
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|--3-------------||
D|--------5-------|--------7-------|--------5-------|--3---4---------||
A|--------5-------|--------7-------|--------5-------|--1---4---------||
E|-0-0-0--3-------|-0-0-0--5-------|-0-0-0--3-------|------2---------||

E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------||
G|----------------|----------------|----------------|-3--------------||
D|--------5-------|--------5-------|-------5--------|-3-4-3----------||
A|--------5-------|--------5-------|-------5--------|-1-4-3----------||
E|-0-0-0--3-------|-0-0-0--7-------|-0-0-0-3---0-0--|---2-1----------||

             Interlude
E|---------------------------------||
B|---------------------------------||
G|--12-9-11---9--------------------||6x
D|---------12---11-12-9-11----9----||
A|-------------------------12---10-||
E|---------------------------------||

                Outro
E|----------------|----------------||
B|----------------|----------------||
G|----------------|----------------||
D|-2~---4-4-------|-2~---4-4--5-5--||
A|-2~---4-4-------|-2~---4-4--5-5--||
E|-0~---2-2-------|-0~---2-2--3-3--||

Order:
Intro
Bridge 1
Bridge 2
Bridge 1
Bridge 2
Chorus
Verse 2x
Chorus
Interlude
Chorus
Verse
Outro (Fade Out, Do As Many Times As You Like)

I know it would seem that Kirk does the Interlude that I have posted, but what happens, is James does that, and Kirk does another higher part for the last two times.