Tourniquet - The Tomb of Gilgamesh (main riff) From the album: Microscopic view of a telescopic realm. I've seen a different version of this riff using Drop-D tuning. This is however how I play it, using a guitar with all strings tuned down one whole step (dafcgD), which feels more natural to me. Not sure about the time, but I think it's in 12/8 and tempo is around 220 bpm. (Let's just say: Play it as fast as you can. If you can play it a lot faster than on the record, accurately of course, you're a pretty good guitar player. All notes are 1/8:s, so all you need to concentrate on is playing on time. PM...... PM PM PM PM PM...... PM...... D||----------------------------------|----------------------------------| A||----------------------------------|----------------------------------| F||*---------------------------------|----------------------------------| C||*---------------------------------|-------------2----------3p-2------| G||----------------------------------|-----------------------------5p-3-| D||---5-0--0--0--5-0--7-0--8-0--5-0--|--7-0--0--0----0--0--0------------| PM...... PM PM PM PM PM...... PM PM PM PM ---------------------------------|---------------------------------| ---------------------------------|---------------------------------| ---------------------------------|---------------------------------| ---------------------------------|----------------------------5-0--| --2----------2----3----5----2----|--3-0--0--0--3-0--5-0--7-0-------| ----3--3--3----3----3----3----3--|---------------------------------| PM...... PM PM PM PM PM...... PM...... PM...... ---------------------------------|-----------------------------------| ---------------------------------|-----------------------------------| ---------------------------------|-----------------------------------| --3-0--0--0--3-0--5-0--7-0--3-0--|-------------7---------------------| ---------------------------------|--7-0--0--0----0--0--0--7-0--0--0--| ---------------------------------|-----------------------------------| PM...... PM...... PM...... PM...... PM...... PM...... ------------------------------------|-----------------------------------| ------------------------------------|-----------------------------------| ------------------------------------|-----------------------------------| ------------------------------------|-----------------------------------| -----8--8--8----5--5--5----2--2--2--|----7--7--7----3--3--3-------------| --10----------7----------4----------|--8----------5----------0-5--5--5--| PM...... PM...... [Repeat from start] --------------------------------|-----------------------------|| --------------------------------|-----------------------------|| --------------------------------|----------------------------*|| --------------------------------|--------3-------3-2p-0------*|| ----5--5--5----2--2--2------2-5-|----2-5-----3-5--------3p-2--|| --7----------4----------0-4-----|--4-------5------------------|| [Bridge to Verse:] ------------|----| ------------|----| ------------|----| ------------|--2-| --2p-0------|--2-| -------3p-2-|--0-| ... Please send comments, thanks, other good metal riffs etc to me, and please don't forget give me the "cred" for this if you copy it or change it in any way. Fredrik Danielsson: morganafan@hotmail.com