"Hit the Lights"

Hit the Lights

written by Hetfield 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

|-----|

|-----|





intro 144 bpm



4/4             2/4   4/4

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

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

|-7-|-7-7-7-7-|-7-7-|-7------|-----|

|-0-|-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-|-0------|-2---|

  l   q q q q   q q   l        l

  /                            /

  /                            /



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

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

|-2-0-2-0---2-0-2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-4-2-0-0-------|---R---||

|---------2-----------------------------2-----|-------||

  t t t t s t t t t t t t t t t t t t t l



160 bpm                            fig.1

|  4  |------|------|------|------|-------------------------|

|-----|---R--|---R--|---R--|---R--|-------------------------|

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

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

        e h..  e h..  e h..  e h..  e s s s s s s e s e s e



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

|---------------7-5---5-----|-------------------------|

|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-0-5-0-3-|

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

  e s s s s s s s s s e s e   e s s s s s s e s e s e



                            Verse 1

                   end fig.1  fig.2                   end fig.2

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

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

|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-2-3-3-4-||-5-5-7-----------|-5-5-5-3--2----|

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

  e s s s s s s s s s e s e    e q e e s e s e   e q e e. e. e



play fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1



                                      Chorus

                                      fig.3          7/8    end fig.3

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

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

|---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|-------3-2---||---R-------R---|-----R---3-----|

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

  e e s s e e s e s e   q q q q q q    e e q s s e q   s s e q e. e.

                        [ 3 ] [ 3 ]



play fig.3 two times more



4/4

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

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

|---R-------R---|-R-||

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

  e e q s s q e   w



Interlude : play fig.1



Verse 2 : play fig.2, fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1



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

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

|---7-7-7-7-----------|-------3-2---||

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

  e e s s e e s e s e   q q q q q q

                        [ 3 ] [ 3 ]



Chorus 2 : play fig.3 3 times



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

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

|---R-------R---|-R-||

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

  e e q s s q e   w



Interlude 2 : play fig.1



Verse 3 : play fig.2, fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1



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

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

|---7-7-7-7-----------|-------3-2---||

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

  e e s s e e s e s e   q q q q q q

                        [ 3 ] [ 3 ]



Chorus 3 : play fig.3 4 times



        4/4            7/8          4 times

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

|-----||-o-----|---|---|-7--5----------o-||

|-----||-o---R-|-R-|-R-|-------7-6-5---o-||

|-5-3-||---5---|---|---|-------------8---||

  h h      e h.. w   w   e. e. e e e e



Guitar solo

4/4

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

||-o-----------------------|---------------------|-----------------------|

||-o---R---R---R-----------|---R---R---R-----7-7-|---R---R---R-----------|

||---7---7---7---7-7-10-10-|-7---7---7---7-7-----|-7---7---7---7-7-10-10-|

     e s e s e s s e e  e    e s e s e s s e e e   e s e s e s s e e  e



7/8            8 times

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

|-9--7-----------o-||

|-------9-8-7----o-||

|-------------10---||

  e. e. e e e e



 4/4

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

||-o---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|

||-o---R---R---R---------|---R---R---R-----5-5-|---R---R---R---------|

||---5---5---5---5-5-8-8-|-5---5---5---5-5-----|-5---5---5---5-5-8-8-|

     e s e s e s s e e e   e s e s e s s e e e   e s e s e s s e e e



7/8            2 times

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

|-7--5----------o-||-7--5----------|-7--5----------|

|-------7-6-5---o-||-------7-6-5---|-------7-6-5---|

|-------------8---||-------------8-|-------------8-|

  e. e. e e e e      e. e. e e e e   e. e. e e e e



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

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

|-----|------|-----|-----|-----R-||

|-5---|-(5)--|-(5)-|-(5)-|-5-5---||

  w      w      w     l    q q h

  /      /

  /      /