Artist: Slayer
                                      Song: Season in the Abyss (Live)
                                      Album:The Best of Slayer


                                     THIS SONG IS TABBED BY AMORPHIS


STANDARD TUNING! . palm mute
x pick slide
/ slide
 slide
_ hammer-on or pull-o
 
intro:                              low harmony part
    E5                       F5    
||-----0---------------------------||---------------------------------|
||-----0---------------------------||---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------||---------------------------------|
||--2--------2---------------3--3--||--------------------2------------|
||--2-----2-----1>----<1-----3--3--||-------3--2~~~---2-----1>---<1---|
||--0------------------------1--1--||-0--1----------------------------|
            bend up & down                              bend up & down

high harmony part
||------------------------------------||
||---------------------17-------------||
||----14-17-16~~~---16----15>---<15---|| 
||-15---------------------------------||
||------------------------------------||
||------------------------------------||
                        bend up & down

acoustic intro riff:
    E5*
||-----------0-----------------------0----------------|
||--------0-----0-----------------0-----0-------------|
||-----3-----------3-----3-----3-----------3-----3----|
||--2-----------------2-----2-----------------2-------|
||----------------------------------------------------|
||----------------------------------------------------|

   F5*                     C5*         B5*
|-----------0-----------------------0-----------0----||
|--------0-----0-----------------0-----------0-------||
|-----3-----------3-----3-----3-----------3----------||
|--3-----------------3-------------------------------||
|--------------------------3-----------2-------------||
|----------------------------------------------------||

power chords w/ * are the rythym guitar that comes in behind the acoustic
riff after the first four times or so.

E5  022---     F5  133---     C5  3355--     B5  2244--

a second rythym guitar comes in later playing the same chords in different
positions.

E5  -799--     F5  -81010--     C5  3355--     B5  2244--

the E5 and F5 are strummed in 16th notes.


main thrash riff: 
                                     E5       Eb5
||--------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------||
||-----------------------------------2--------1-----||
||-----------------------------------2--------1-----||
||--0--2--3--0--2--3--5--0--2--3--0-----3--0-----2--||

verse riff:
  E5       Eb5             E5       F5?             E5       Eb5
||----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
||----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
||----------------------|-----------------------|-----------------------|
||-2-----2--1-----------|--2-----2--------------|--2-----2--1-----------|
||-2-----2--1-----------|--2-----2--2-----------|--2-----2--1-----------|
||-0-00--0------0--0--0-|--0-00--0--1---0--0--0-|--0-00--0------0--0--0-|


1/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^         2/^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
   E5           C5 Eb5      E5            G#5 G5  
|------------------------||-------------------------|    
|------------------------||-------------------------|    
|------------------------||-------------------------|    
|--2-----2----------1----||--2-----2-------6---5----|    
|--2-----2-------3--1----||--2-----2-------6---5----|
|--0-00--0--0----3-------||--0-00--0--0----4---3----|

CHORUS:

E5                    G5                         F#5
close your eyes, look deep in ,....

                          G5 F#5
     and let yourself ... 

E5           F5         G#5      G5 F#5
   as you go insane....


1ST SOLO RYTHYM:  variation on Verse Riff played 1 step (2 frets) higher; no
1st and 2nd ending w/ power chords - instead continue riff for a 4th measure.

2ND SOLO RYTHYM:  Chorus chords.

thanks for reading my tabs
if there are some mistakes contact me at this e-mail address
jehangir_malik@hotmail.com
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