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
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