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TESTAMENT - THE PREACHER 2001
From the Album FIRST STRIKE STILL DEADLY
Copyright 2001 SPITFIRE RECORDS
Full Version - OCTOBER 2002
Re-Transcribed/Edited/New Leads by: death8699
Based On Previous Transcription by: Jarle Hille Olsen
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. - palm mute ph - pinched harmonic
/ - slide up to ah - artificial harmonic
\ - slide down to th - tap harmonic
~ - vibrato hr - natural harmonic
h - hammer on b - bend
p - pull off Suffixes for bend
t - tap with finger f - full bend h - half bend
" - tremolo picking r - release t - tap bend
X - percussion mute p - pick when bent
> - accented note Prefixes
() - ghost note, sustained note p - pre-bend w - use bar
* - see comment d - don't pick start of bend
--Transcriber's Notes--
I have spent the past 6 months on these songs trying to
get them as perfect as possible. If you think further
corrections are needed, have the updated solos, or a
better version of this song please mail me at ArchEnemies
@aol.com. I plan on tabbing this entire album, I have
been hard at work making my previous 'FSSD' tabs better.
Enjoy!
--Miscellaneous Notes--
P.M.H. - palm mute heavy
(**) - see comment(s)
(^) - pause; stacatto
(<>) - pick-up note(s)
Gtr.1 - right channel (Eric Peterson)
Gtr.2 - left channel (Alex Skolnick)
Tune Gtr to D (D,G,C,F,A,D)
--THE PREACHER--
[Rhy.Fig.1]
||-->---------------------|->----------------------||
||-->---------------------|->----------------------||
||*-6-(6)-----------------|-6-(6)-----------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-6-(6)-----------------|-6-(6)-----------------*||
||--4-(4)-----------------|-4-(4)------------------||
||--4-(4)-0--2--3-443-220-|-4-(4)-0--2--3-443-220--||
|__|__| |_|_|_| |__|__| |_|_|_|
3 6 3 6
______________ ____________________________________
[Rhy.Fig.2] |1,3. |2.
||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-->---->-------------->--->--->-----|->---->------------->--->--->-------|
||*-6----6--------------4---6---7/9---|-6----6-------------4---6---7-------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-6----6--------------4---6---7/9---|-6----6-------------4---6---7-------|
||--4-00-4-00-4_2_0-00--2-0-4-0-5/7-0-|-4-00-4-00-4_2_0-00-2-0-4-0-5-0-----|
||-------------p-p--------------sl----|------------p-p---------------------|
.. .. .. . . . .. .. .. . . .
______________________________________
|
|------------9------------------------|
|---------7---------------------------|
|------7------------------------------|[Gtr.1]
|--/7---------------------------------|
|-sl-------------0--------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
| @ @ @ . |
| |
| |
|------------9------------------------|
|------7--10--------------------------|
|--/7---------------------------------|[Gtr.2]
|-sl----------------------------------|
|----------------0--------------------|
|-------------------------------------|
@ @ @ .
_____________________________________
|4. |
|-------------------------------------||
|-->---->------------>--->------------||
|--6----6------------4---6--->-->-->-*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--6----6------------4---6---5--5--5-*||
|--4-00-4-00-4_2_0-0-2-0-4-0-5--5--5--||
|-------------p-p------------3--3--3--||
.. .. . . .
[Rhy.Fig.3]
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||----------------------->------|------------------------>-----|
||*----------------------3------|------------------------2-----|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-----2----------------3------|-----2------------------2-----|
||--2-222----------------1------|-2-222------------------0-----|
||--0-000-----------------------|-0-000------------------------|
|| . ..^ . ..^ |
|| |
|| |
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||---------------8--------------|------------------8-----------|
||*------------9---9------------|----------------9---9---------|[Gtr.3]
||*----------9-------9---8~-----|--------------9-------9-7~----|
||------/710--------------------|---------/710-----------------|
||-----sl-----------------------|--------sl--------------------|
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @
|-------------------------------|------------------------------||
|------------------------>------|-------------------------->---||
|------------------------5------|-9----9---------------10-10--*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|-------2----------------5------|-9----9---------------10-10--*||
|--2222-2----------------3------|-7-77-7---------------8--8----||
|--0000-0----------------3------|-0-00-0---------------8--8----||
| .... ^ .. ^ ^(Hold!)||
| ||
| ||
|-------------------------------|-----------------7------------||
|-----------------8-------------|---------------8---8----------||
|---------------9---9-----------|-------------9-------9-------*||[Gtr.3]
|-------------9-------9-10~-----|-----------9----------10~----*||
|--------/710-------------------|------/710--------------------||
|-------sl----------------------|-----sl-----------------------||
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @
_____________ __________________
[Rhy.Fig.4] |1. ||2. |
||--------------------------------------------||------------------||
||------------------------------------>-------||-->------->-------||
||*-----------------------------------3------*||*-3-------3-------||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-----------------------------------1------*||*-1-------3-------||
||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1-------||--1-------1-------||
||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000-----------||------------------||
. ... . ... . ... . ... ...
___________________________
|3. |
|---------------------------||
|-------->------------------||
|--------5------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------5------------------||
|--222---3------------------||
|--000---3------------------||
...
___________________________
|4. ||
|---------------------------||
|-------------------->------||
|--------------------3-----*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|------2-------------3-----*||
|--2-222-------------1------||
|--0-000--------------------||
| . ..^ ||
| ||
| ||
|---------------------------||
|-------------8-------------||
|-----------9---9----------*||[Gtr.3]
|---------9-------9--8~----*||
|----/710-------------------||
|---sl----------------------||
@ @ @ @ @ @
____________ ___________________
[Rhy.Fig.4a] |1,5. ||2,6. |
||-------------------------------------------||-------------------||
||------------------------------------>------||-->------->--------||
||*-----------------------------------3-----*||*-3-------3-------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-----------------------------------1-----*||*-1-------3-------*||
||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1------||--1-------1--------||
||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000----------||-------------------||
. ... . ... . ... . ... ...
_______________ _______________ ________________
|3,7. ||4. ||8. |
||---------------||---------------||----------------||
||-------->------||---------------||----------------||
||--------5------||->---->---->---||---------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--------5------||-5----5----5---||---------------*||
||--222---3------||-5----5----5---||----------------||
||--000---3------||-3----3----3---||-0-1-2-332-110--||
... |_|_| |_|_|_|
3 6
________________________________
[Rhy.Fig.5] |1,3. (Split) |
||------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------------|
||*-------------->-------------->-----------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*------4-------3------4-------3-------7--8--\---|
||-------2_0-----1------2_0-----1-------5--6~-\---|
||--0--1--p---0----0--1--p---0-----0--0----ph-sl--|
. . . . . . . .
_________________________________________________
|2. |
|-------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------------------------------------||
|--------------->------->-------------------------||[Gtrs.1&2]
|-------4-------3-------4-------------------------||
|-------2_0-----1-------2-------------------------||
|--0--1--p---0-----0--1----0--1--2--3-3-2--1-1-0--||
| . . . . . |__|__| |_|_| |_|_| ||
| 3 3 3 ||
|_________________________________________________||
|4. ||
|---------------------->--------------------------||
|---------------------->--------------------------||
|-------------->-------4-------------------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|------4-------3-------4-------------------------*||
|------2_0-----1-------2--------------------------||
|--0-1--p---0-----0-0--2--------------------------||
. . . . .(Hold!)
Repeat Rhy.Fig.4a [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.5 [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.1 [1x]
Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 [1x]
____________ ___________________
[Rhy.Fig.4b] |1,5. ||2,6. |
||-------------------------------------------||-------------------||
||------------------------------------>------||-->------->--------||
||*-----------------------------------3-----*||*-3-------3-------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-----------------------------------1-----*||*-1-------3-------*||
||--2-222--2-222--2-222--2-222--222---1------||--1-------1--------||
||--0-000--0-000--0-000--0-000--000----------||-------------------||
. ... . ... . ... . ... ...
_______________ _______________ ________________
|3,7. ||4. ||8. |
||---------------||---------------||----------------||
||-------->------||---------------||----------------||
||--------5------||->---->---->---||---------------*||[Gtrs.1&2]
||--------5------||-5----5----5---||---------------*||
||--222---3------||-5----5----5---||----------------||
||--000----------||-3----3----3---||-0-1-2-332-110--||
... . . . |_|_| |_|_|_|
3 6
[Rhy.Fig.2a]
||-----------------------------------||----------------------|
||-->---->------------->--->--->-----||--->---->-------------|
||*-6----6-------------4---6---7/9\--||---6----6-------------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*-6----6----4_2_0----4---6---7/9\--||---6----6----4_2_0----|
||--4-44-4-44--p-p-----2---4---5/7\--||---4-44-4-44--p-p-----|
||------------------00---0---0-sl-sl-||-0-----------------00-|
.. .. .. . . . .. .. ..
______________________
|1. |
|----------------------||
|-->--->---------------||
|--4---6--->--->--->---||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--4---6---5---5---5---||
|--2---4---5---5---5---||
|----0---0-3---3---3---||
| . . . . . ||
| ||
|______________________||
|2. ||
|----------------------||
|-->--->---------------||
|--4---6--->--->--->--*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--4---6---5---5---5--*||
|--2---4---5---5---5---||
|----0---0-3---3---3---||
. .
[Guitar Solo] (Gtr.3)
|-12_(15)\11--12_(15)\11-|-12_(15)\11--12_(15)\11-|------------------|
|---tr---sl-----tr---sl--|---tr---sl-----tr---sl--|-15_fb17~---------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
| |
| |
| |
|------15-17_18_17_15----|-15-17_18_17_15---------|-15-17_18_17_15---|
|--/17------h--p--p--17~-|------h--p--p---17~-----|------h--p--p--17~|
|-sl-----------------h---|----------------h-------|---------------h--|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|--15-17_18_17_15\12-----|------------------------|------------------|
|-------h--p--p--sl-1512-|-11~-----12-14-15-14-12-|-14-12-------12---|
|---------------------p--|-----/14----------------|-------14-15------|
|------------------------|----sl------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
| |
| |
| |
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|-------------10-11-10-8-|-10-8---7---------|
|--15-14-12-14-12----12--|------------------------|------9---10-9-7--|
|-----------------15-----|-15-14-12-14~-----------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|------------------------|------------------------|------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----7-----------9-7--------------/9~---_7--------------------------|
|--10---10-9-7--------10-7-10-9---sl-----p----9---8~---8_9_8_7\5-/7~-|
|--------------10---------------10----------------------h-p-p-sl-sl--|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
| |
| |
| |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------_14-----------7_9_7---7---------------7_9_7---7-------------|
|--/9----t---9~---------h-p--9---9_7----7-------h-p--9---9_7----7----|
|-sl--------ph--------------------p--10---10_7------------p--10------|
|-------------------------------------------p------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------7_9_7---7---------------------7-------------------------12---|
|--------h-p--9---9_7-----9~--------9---9_7----7-------------12------|
|--10_7------------p--10-ph----7-10------p--10---10_7-/10-14---------|
|----p---------------------------------------------p-sl--------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------------------14-----|
|-------------------------------14-------------------12_fb~----------|
|--14_12----12---------------14----15_12----12-----------------------|
|----p---14----14_12\-/12-15---------p---15----15_12-----------------|
|----------------p--sl---------------------------p-------------------|
| |
| |
| |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--15_12-14_b15~-r14_12-14_b15r14_12-14_b15r14_12-14_b15r14_12-------|
|----p--------------p---ph-------p---ph-----p-----ph-------p---14_12-|
|----------------------------------------------------------------p---|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------12141514121412------12----------------------------|
|--------------/14-|_____|______|-1514--|-151412----12---------------|
|-------------sl---------7--------|__|__|-|__|_|-14--|-1412----------|
|------------------------------------3-------3----|__|_|__|-1412-----|
|--14_12\10-10~--------------------------------------4------|__|-14--|
|----p--sl-----------------------------------------------------|__|--|
| (Fast!) 3 |
| |
| |
|-----------------------------121415---------------------------------|
|----------------------121415-|__|_|-121415--------------------------|
|---------12----121415-|__|_|----3---|__|_|-121415-------------------|
|--121415-|_-15-|__|_|----3-------------3---|__|_|-121415----121415--|
|--|__|_|---|_|----3---------------------------3---|__|_|-15-|__|_|--|
|-----3------2----------------------------------------3---|__|--4----|
|------------------------------121415--------------------------------|
|---------121415--------121415-|__|_|-151412-------------------------|
|--121415-|__|_|-121415-|__|_|----3---|__|_|-151412------------------|
|--|__|_|----3---|__|_|----3-------------3---|__|_|-151412----12-----|
|-----3-------------3---------------------------3---|__|_|-15-||-15--|
|------------------------------------------------------3---|__||_|---|
| 3 |
| |
| |
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--1412~-----------------------(12)~--------------------------(12)\--|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------sl-|
[Rhy.Fig.3a]
||--------------------------------------------------|
||------------------------------------------->------|
||*------------------------------------------3------|[Gtrs.1&2]
||*------------------------------------------3------|
||--2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----1------|
||--0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-----------|
|| . ... . ... . ... . ... .... |
|| |
|| |
||------------------------15------------------------|
||-------------------17---------17------------------|
||*-------------16-------------------16-----15~-----|[Gtr.3]
||*--14----17---------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|
||--------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------->------|
|--------------------------------------------2------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------------------------------------------2------|
|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----0------|
|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-----------|
| . ... . ... . ... . ... .... |
| |
| |
|-------------------------15------------------------|
|--------------------17---------17------------------|
|---------------16-------------------16-----14~-----|[Gtr.3]
|----14----17---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------->------|
|--------------------------------------------5------|[Gtrs.1&2]
|--------------------------------------------5------|
|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222----3------|
|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000----3------|
| . ... . ... . ... . ... .... |
| |
| |
|-------------------------15------------------------|
|--------------------17---------17------------------|
|---------------16-------------------16-----17~-----|[Gtr.3]
|----14----17---------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------||
|------------------------------------------>-->-->--||
|-----------------------------------------10-10-10-*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|-----------------------------------------10-10-10-*||
|---2-222---2-222---2--222---2-222---2222-8--8--8---||
|---0-000---0-000---0--000---0-000---0000-8--8--8---||
| . ... . ... . ... . ... .... ||
| ||
| ||
|-------------------------19----15------------------||
|--------------------17----------------17-----------||
|---------------16---------------------------17~---*||[Gtr.3]
|----14----17--------------------------------------*||
|---------------------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------------------------||
Repeat Rhy.Fig.2 [1x]
[Rhy.Fig.6]
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||------------------------->------|------------------------>-------|
||*------9---7-----9--7"-/10------|------9---7-----7----7"-8--->---|[Gtr.1]
||*-------------------7"-/10------|---------------------7"-8---8---|
||--7-7---7---7-7---7-5"-/8-------|-7-7---7---7-7---7-7-5"-6---8---|
||----------------------sl--------|----------------------------6---|
|| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
|| |
|| |
||--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
||--------------------------------|------------------------>-------|
||*->-----------------------------|------------------------8--->---|[Gtr.2]
||*-2-----------------------------|------------------------8---8---|
||--2-----------------------------|------------------------6---8---|
||--0-----------------------------|----------------------------6---|
Let ring - - - ]
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|------9---7-----7_9---9----7---9-|---7---7_9--7---->--->--->-----*||[Gtr.1]
|-----------------h---------------|--------h----X\--5---5---5-----*||
|-7-7---7---7-7-----7---7---7-7---|-7--7----7---X\--5---5---5------||
|---------------------------------|--------------sl-3---3---3------||
| ||
| ||
| ||
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|--------------------------------||
|->-------------------------------|----------------->--->--->-----*||[Gtr.2]
|-2-(2)---------------------------|-----------------5---5---5-----*||
|-2-(2)---------------------------|-----------------5---5---5------||
|-0-(0)---------------------------|-----------------3---3---3------||
Repeat Rhy.Fig.4a [2x] (1st time, substitute below ending.)
_______________
|4. |
|---------------||
|---------------||
|-->------>----*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--5------5----*||
|--5------5-----||
|--3------3-----||
Repeat Rhy.Fig.5 [2x] (Last time, use below ending.)
[Outro]
|-->--------------------------|-----------------------------||
|-->--------------------------|-----------------------------||
|--4--------------------------|-(4)---------------------->-*||[Gtrs.1&2]
|--4--------------------------|-(4)----------------------2-*||
|--2--------------------------|-(2)----------------------2--||
|--2--------------------------|-(2)-0-2-3-443-332-0-0-1--0--||
|_|_| |_|_|_| |_|_|(End!)
3 6 3
--'THE PREACHER' LYRICS--
(Skolnick, Peterson, Billy)
In days of old
When the books were untold
Speak of a world crushed by sin.
"The people will mourn
of a war to be born"
Nobody would listen to him.
Think back in time
When the future you find
Is so faint that it's too hard to see.
Don't disavow his word
For the truth must be heard
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.
In 1906
Like the future predicts
The city will crumble to the bay
Then what's in store
When the worlds go to war?
Peace will have come another day
Then came the one
In the year of '41
Warfare would light up the sky
He beckoned the call
Of the future for all
Blinded by what's in his eyes
In days of old
When the books were untold
Speak of a world crushed by sin.
"The people will mourn
of a war to be born"
Nobody would listen to him.
Think back in time
When the future you find
Is so faint that it's too hard to see.
Don't disavow his word
For the truth must be heard
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.
Listen to these words I preach
Catastrophic lessons they shall teach
Listen to these words I preach
Catastrophic lessons they shall teach
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