Tabs for

"Hit the Lights"

Hit the Lights
written by Hetfield and Ulrich
as performed on Kill 'Em All
tab by Steve Gorenberg


I've put all note lengths below the measures, they are :
w - whole note
h - half note
q - quarter note
e - eigth note
s - sixteenth note
t - thirty-second note
l - long note ('fermate' sign)
x+y - play note with length x+y

/ - a couple of these mean you have to fill the length with
1. eight notes (1 slash) or
2. sixteenth notes (2 slashes) or
3. thirty-second notes (3 slashes)

R - in the tab denotes a rest.
x - an undefined or muted note.
[ 3 ] - a triplet

/ - slide up
/(X) - slide up to fret X, but don't pick X
\ - slide down
\(X) - slide down to fret X, but don't pick X
T - tap note
Harm - harmonic
A.H. - Artificial harmonic

inside bar :
p - pull off
h - hammer on
bx - bend string x notes up
bx r - bend string x notes up and release string

a note without a length indication, means a 'ghost' note (The little notes
that occur in sheet music sometimes).

cresc. - crescendo (Play louder and louder, 'fade in')

||-- --||
||-o o-|| - a repeat
||-o o-||
||-- --||

| X |
|-----| - X bar rest
|-----|
| |

|-----|
| % | - repeat previous bar
|-----|
|-----|


intro 144 bpm

4/4 2/4 4/4
|---|---------|-----|--------|-----|
|---|---------|-----|--------|-----|
|-7-|-7-7-7-7-|-7-7-|-7------|-----|
|-0-|-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-|-0------|-2---|
l q q q q q q l l
/ /
/ /

|---------------------------------------------|-------||
|---------------------------------------------|-------||
|-2-0-2-0---2-0-2-4-4-4-2-4-4-4-4-2-0-0-------|---R---||
|---------2-----------------------------2-----|-------||
t t t t s t t t t t t t t t t t t t t l

160 bpm fig.1
| 4 |------|------|------|------|-------------------------|
|-----|---R--|---R--|---R--|---R--|-------------------------|
|-----|-0----|-0----|-0----|-0----|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-0-5-0-3-|
| |------|------|------|------|-------------------------|
e h.. e h.. e h.. e h.. e s s s s s s e s e s e

|---------------------------|-------------------------|
|---------------7-5---5-----|-------------------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-0-5-0-3-|
|---------------------------|-------------------------|
e s s s s s s s s s e s e e s s s s s s e s e s e

Verse 1
end fig.1 fig.2 end fig.2
|---------------------------||-----------------|---------------|
|---------------------------||-----------------|---------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-1-2-3-3-4-||-5-5-7-----------|-5-5-5-3--2----|
|---------------------------||-------3-3-3-3-0-|-------------2-|
e s s s s s s s s s e s e e q e e s e s e e q e e. e. e

play fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1

Chorus
fig.3 7/8 end fig.3
|---------------------|-------------||---------------|---------------|
|---------------------|-------------||---------------|---------------|
|---7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-|-------3-2---||---R-------R---|-----R---3-----|
|-0-------------------|-3-2-3-----3-||-5---5-3-5---5-|-3-5---5----3--|
e e s s e e s e s e q q q q q q e e q s s e q s s e q e. e.
[ 3 ] [ 3 ]

play fig.3 two times more

4/4
|---------------|---||
|---------------|---||
|---R-------R---|-R-||
|-5---5-3-5---5-|---||
e e q s s q e w

Interlude : play fig.1

Verse 2 : play fig.2, fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1

|---------------------|-------------||
|---------------------|-------------||
|---7-7-7-7-----------|-------3-2---||
|-0---------0-0-0-0-0-|-3-2-3-----3-||
e e s s e e s e s e q q q q q q
[ 3 ] [ 3 ]

Chorus 2 : play fig.3 3 times

|---------------|---||
|---------------|---||
|---R-------R---|-R-||
|-5---5-3-5---5-|---||
e e q s s q e w

Interlude 2 : play fig.1

Verse 3 : play fig.2, fig.1, fig.2, first two bars of fig.1

|---------------------|-------------||
|---------------------|-------------||
|---7-7-7-7-----------|-------3-2---||
|-0---------0-0-0-0-0-|-3-2-3-----3-||
e e s s e e s e s e q q q q q q
[ 3 ] [ 3 ]

Chorus 3 : play fig.3 4 times

4/4 7/8 4 times
|-----||-------|---|---|-----------------||
|-----||-o-----|---|---|-7--5----------o-||
|-----||-o---R-|-R-|-R-|-------7-6-5---o-||
|-5-3-||---5---|---|---|-------------8---||
h h e h.. w w e. e. e e e e

Guitar solo
4/4
||-------------------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
||-o-----------------------|---------------------|-----------------------|
||-o---R---R---R-----------|---R---R---R-----7-7-|---R---R---R-----------|
||---7---7---7---7-7-10-10-|-7---7---7---7-7-----|-7---7---7---7-7-10-10-|
e s e s e s s e e e e s e s e s s e e e e s e s e s s e e e

7/8 8 times
|------------------||
|-9--7-----------o-||
|-------9-8-7----o-||
|-------------10---||
e. e. e e e e

4/4
||-----------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
||-o---------------------|---------------------|---------------------|
||-o---R---R---R---------|---R---R---R-----5-5-|---R---R---R---------|
||---5---5---5---5-5-8-8-|-5---5---5---5-5-----|-5---5---5---5-5-8-8-|
e s e s e s s e e e e s e s e s s e e e e s e s e s s e e e

7/8 2 times
|-----------------||---------------|---------------|
|-7--5----------o-||-7--5----------|-7--5----------|
|-------7-6-5---o-||-------7-6-5---|-------7-6-5---|
|-------------8---||-------------8-|-------------8-|
e. e. e e e e e. e. e e e e e. e. e e e e

|-----|------|-----|-----|-------||
|-----|------|-----|-----|-------||
|-----|------|-----|-----|-----R-||
|-5---|-(5)--|-(5)-|-(5)-|-5-5---||
w w w l q q h
/ /
/ /