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Slayer - "Raining Blood" Guitar Tab

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Rated: 4.08 out of 5 (132 votes)
Updated: 2001-06-02 08:30:24


#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------#
#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
#Unless specified otherwise, this is NOT an official tab from the band members.#
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------#

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From: jamesj@svpal.org

Slayer-Raining Blood


Tune Down 1/2 step         +=Artificial Harmonic
6=Eb  3=Gb                 P.M.=Palm Mute
5=Ab  2=Bb                 %=Repeat Previous
4=Db  1=Eb                 h=Hammer-On
                           p= Pull-Off


Intro  Drums w/Thunder and Rain effects
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||

Fast Rock
Riff A (guitars 1&2)-------------------
P.M====|                                  Play 2 times
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||----------8-9-8------8-7-------7-6-----------------------||
||-------7----------9---------8----------------------------||
||0-0-0----------------------------------------------------||

W/Riff A (2 times)
GTR II
P.M.===|        +      +
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||----------8-9-8------8-7-----7-6-------------------------||
||-------7----------9--------8-----------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||0-0-0----------------------------------------------------||

Both Guitars
P.M.=======================================================
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||O--------------------------------------------------------||
||O--------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000-000---------||

P.M.=======|                            (play 4 times)
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------------------O||
||----------------3---2-----------------------------------O||
||------------4-----------3---2----------------------------||
||-0--2---4------------------------------------------------||


(1)
P.M.==============================
||--------------------------------|------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------%-----------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------||
||--------------------------------|------------------------||
||5-3-2-0-6-4-3-0-5-3-2-0-6-4-3-0-|------------------------||

Double Time Feel                                      (cont)..
PM=========================================================
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||5-3-2-0-6-4-3-0-5-3-2-0-6-4-3-0-5-3-2-0-6-4-3-0-5-3-2-0-6||

..
P.M ===========|   P.M.================================(cont)...
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------3-----------------------------------------||
||---------------1-----------------------------------------||
||4-3-0-5-3-2-0----0-3-5-3-2-0-6-4-3-0-5-3-2-0-6-4-3-0-----||

P.M.=============|         (Play 2 times)
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------5------------8-----------------------||
||5-3-2-0-6-4-3-0-----3------------6-----------------------||

-(1)-

(2)
Not sure on this next part, goes something like this

  (Trapped in purgatory.........)
P.M.===================|             P.M.=====| (Play 8 times)
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||------------------------------9---8--------------7--------||
||-----------------------7------9---8----------7---7--------||
||-----------------------7------7---6----------7---5--------||
||000000000000000000000--5------------00000000-5------------||

-(2)-

(play 4 times, 3rd time with lyrics (pierced from below)
 P.M.====|           +P.M.==|
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------888888888888--------||
||----------------------------------8-7-888888888888--7--7--||
||--------7h10 p 8-7-8-------7---10-----666666666666--7--7--||
||0-0-0-0--------------0-0-0--------------------------5--5--||


With Riff A (4 times, 3rd with Lyrics (awaiting........)
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||--------10-11-10------10-9-----9-8------------------------||
||------9------------11--------10---------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||0-0-0-----------------------------------------------------||

Rhythm Fig 1  (Play 2 times, 2nd with drums)
||--------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------||
||2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2--2-2||
||0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0--0-0||                                        With Pick Slide (2nd)
                                     With Pick Slide (2nd)

With Rhy Fig 1 (12 Times)
  PM           PM         PM            PM
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||-----------9----------8------------7----------------------||
||----7--10-------7--10--------7--10--------7-10-9----------||
||-0------------0-----------0------------0------------------||

(3)
With Lyrics (Raining Blood...) (Play 4 times)
 P.M.=|       ====|       ====|      ====|
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||------5---9-------5---8-------5--7-------5-4||
||-0--0-3---7--0--0-3---6--0--0-3--5--0--0-3-2||

-(3)-

||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000||


(4)
With Wild soloing........ =)
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||0000000077777777776666666666333333444444444477777777778888||

-(4)-

Modifications by: rek666@juno.com


The original author had a pretty good idea of how this song is, But some
of the parts are WAY off. So I have modified in what I think is correct.
I have marked in the new riffs with numbers, so you can substitue these
instead if you like.

Slayer-Raining Blood



Tune Down 1/2 step         +=Artificial Harmonic
6=Eb  3=Gb                 P.M.=Palm Mute
5=Ab  2=Bb                 %=Repeat Previous
4=Db  1=Eb                 h=Hammer-On
                           p= Pull-Off

(1)
                                                      (cont)..
P.M.=======================================================
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||2-2-2-5-4-2-2-2-5-4-2-2-2-2-5-4-2-2-2-5-4-2-2-2-5-4-2-2-2||

Double Time Feel                                      (cont)..
P.M.================        P.M.========    P.M.===========
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------5/8----------------||
||5-4-2-2-2-2-5-4-2-3-2-0-6-2-2-2-5-3-2-3/6-2-2-2-5-4-2-2-2||

..
P.M=================        P.M.=======================(cont)..
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||5-4-2-2-2-2-5-4-2-3-2-0-6-2-2-2-5-4-2-2-2-5-4-2-2-2-2-5-4||

..
P.M.                       (Play 2 times)
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||---------------------------------------------------------||
||--5/8----------------------------------------------------||
||2-3/6----------------------------------------------------||


(2)
                 +
  (Trapped in purgatory.........)
P.M.===================|         P.M.===|       (Play 8 times)
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------2-1------------------------------------------||
||-----------3-----------4/8--------------------------------||
||00000000-2-------00000-2/5--------------------------------||


(3)
With Lyrics (Raining Blood...) (Play 4 times)
 P.M.=|       ====|       ====|      ====|
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------------------------------------------||
||--------2--------1---------------5-2--------||
||-0--0-3---0--0-3---0--0-3-5-0--0-3-4--------||


(4)
Riff B (With Noise)                            (Play 4 Times)
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||0000000011111111777777776666666633333333------------------||


||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------||
||44444444888888777777773333444444447777777788888877777777--||

(you better be thrashing, play Riff B a few more times gradually
changing to a faster tempo)

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