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ST. ANGER
As recorded by Metallica
(From the 2003 Album ST. ANGER)


Transcribed by K. Hart (godsmacker23@yahoo.com)

 Words and Music by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, and Bob Rock

 

TUNING: (C G C F A D)

NOTE: The Aug 2003 issue of Guitar World had a lesson with Kirk Hammett, and he showed how to play the main riff, but to me, it doesn't seem right. So, I included the way I learned how to play the main riff when I first got the CD. You can play it either way. My way is slightly easier and sounds fairly close to the way they play it on the CD. Also, Kirk says to play the Main Riff using only downstrokes!!!

SPECIAL NOTE: The DVD that came with the CD was extremely helpful in tabbing out this song.


  Intro/Main Riff - The Real Way      Main Riff w/rest of band
  S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S     S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
|----------------------------------||----------------------------------||-|
|---------------------------------o||---------------------------------o||-|
|----------------------------------||----------------------------------||-|
|----------------------------------||---------------------------3-3-3--||-|
|---------------------------3-3-3-o||-0-1-2-2-1-2-1-0-2-1-0-1-1-3-3-3-o||-|
|-0-1-2-2-1-2-1-0-2-1-0-1-1--------||-0-1-2-2-1-2-1-0-2-1-0-1-1--------||-|

  Intro/Main Riff - My Way          Main Riff w/rest of band
  S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S     S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S
|--------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-|
|-------------------------------o||----------------------------------o||-|
|--------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-|
|--------------------------------||-------------------------3-3-3-----||-|
|-------------------------3-3-3-o||-0-1-2-0-2-0-1-2-0-0-1-2-3-3-3----o||-|
|-0-1-2-0-2-0-1-2-0-0-1-2--------||-0-1-2-0-2-0-1-2-0-0-1-2-----------||-|

  Verse (hard to hear
  because there are two
  guitars playing here)   "You flush it out" part
  S S S S S S S S S S     S S S S  S S S S  S S S S  Q  Q   4x
|----------------------||-----------------------------------||----|
|-----1-3---3---3---3-o||----------------------------------o||----|
|---2------------------||-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--5-5-5-5--3--2---||----|
|-0--------------------||----------------------------2--2---||----|
|---------3---1---1---o||-5-5-5-5--5-5-5-5--3-3-3-3--1--0--o||----|
|----------------------||-----------------------------------||----|

  Fill/Break                 Chorus: "F**k it all and no regrets"
     PM----|
  Q  E E E E  Q  E E         W          H    Q  Q   8x
|---------------------||-||-----------|-------------||----|
|--------------------o||-||o----------|------------o||----|
|-7-----------5--3-2--||-||--7--------|-5----3--2---||----|
|-7-----------5--2-2--||-||--7--------|-5----2--2---||----|
|-5--0-0-0-0--3--1-0-o||-||o-5--------|-3----1--0--o||----|
|----0-0-0-0----------||-||-----------|-------------||----|

For the "I need my anger to healthy..." part play the Main Riff. Listen to CD for # of repeats.

That's about all! If you have questions, comments, etc. feel free to email me at godsmacker23@yahoo.com.


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Duration Legend
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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted

Tablature Legend
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 h   - hammer-on
 p   - pull-off
 b   - bend
 pb  - pre-bend
 r   - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
 /\  - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
 s   - legato slide
 S   - shift slide
<n> - natural harmonic
[n]  - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
 ~   - vibrato
 tr  - trill
 T   - tap
 TP  - trem. picking
 PM  - palm muting
\n/  - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
 \n  - tremolo bar down
 n/  - tremolo bar up
/n\  - tremolo bar inverted dip
 =   - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
 <> - volume swell (louder/softer)
 x   - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
 o   - on rhythm slash represents single note slash

Misc Legend
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 |  - bar
||  - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*|  - double bar (ending)
 :  - bar (freetime)
 $  - Segno
 &  - Coda
Tempo markers - <E/E./Q/Q./H/H.> = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths