• Song:

    Arms Of Sorrow

  • Artist:

    Killswitch Engage

Band:  (Killswitch Engage)
Album: (As Daylight Dies)
Song:  (The Arms Of Sorrow)

  - palm mute           /  - slide up to
\  - slide down to       ~  - vibrato
h  - hammer on           b  - Bend
p  - pull off            Suffixes for bend
t  - tap                 f  - full bend    h - half bend
ph - pinched harmonic    q  - quarter bend t - tap bend
*  - see comment         ^  - Hold bend    r release bend
x  - Stuccatto           ~  - vibrato bend
,  - slight palm mute    () - ghost note, sustained note
"  - tremolo note        <> - Trill

Tuning: Dropped C
 
I Tab out just the basic riffs, any alternate endings or variations of the 
riffs I hope you can figure out for yourself do to the time and size of making 
precise tabs.
         
   1st riff (clean guitar)
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|----3---------1-------3-------3----|-------------------------------|
|--0---0-0---0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0|-------------------------------|
|-1-1-1-1-1h3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-0-0-0-0-|-------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------|
 
  2nd riff  (first and second time through)  
|------------------------------------------|------------------------|
|------------------------------------3--6--|------------------------|
|-3--3--3--3--3--3------3--3--3--3----3--3-|------------------------|
|-5--5--5--5--5--5--5-5-5--5--5--5-----5--5|------------------------|
|-------------------5/6--66-66-66-666------|------------------------|
|--55-55-55-55-55-55-----------------------|------------------------|
   .. .. .. .. .. ..     .. .. .. ...

  3rd riff
|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------|----------------|
|----6---6---6-000-0-000-0----6---6-----1-0-1/4-3-1|----------------|
|-000-000-000--000-0-000-0-000-000-0000-1-0-1/4-3-1|----------------|
  ... ... ...  ... . ... . ... ... ....   . .

4th riff(chorus)        altered 2nd riff played 3rd time through
|---------------|---------------------------------------------------|
|-3-3-3---------|---------------------------------------------------|
|-0-0-0---------|-3--3--3----3-------0--0--0----0-------------------|
|-1-3-5---------|-5--5--5----5-------1--1--1----1-------------------|
|-------5---5---|---------------------------------------------------|
|--------00---00|--55-55-55-5---------11-11-11-1--------------------|
 (strum) ..   ..   .. .. .. .         .. .. .. .



tapping guitar riff-then just use substitue these notes for the rest
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|7-0-3-0-7-0-7-0-3-0-7-0-7-0-3-0-|-10 and 7,8 and 5,7 and 3,5 and 1-|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------------|


  Chords behind tapping riff   (use same pattern as first 0)
|---------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------|---------------------------------------|
|-5----1----0----7----------|--0000000-00000-00000-(3-1)-0000000----|
|-5----1----0----7----------|--0000000-00000-00000-(3-1)-0000000----|
|-5----1----0----7----------|--0000000-00000-00000-(3-1)-0000000----|
                               ....... ..... .....  . .  ....
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