Metallica - Hit The Lights Chords & Tabs

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Date: Sat, 31 Dec 1994 16:41:50 -0600
From: gregh@tcs.itis.com (Greg and or Paul Halvorson)
Subject: TAB: Hit The Lights by Metallica

                              HIT THE LIGHTS
                               by Metallica
                             from Kill 'em All

    Here's the main riff.

                 Repeat a whole bunch of times
||---------------------|---------------------||
||---------------------|---------------------||
||*--------5--7--5--7--|--------------------*||
||*--------5--7--5--7--|--------5h7p5-------*||
||---0--0--------------|--0--0---------7--6--||
||---------------------|---------------------||
                                                                               



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==                           TABLATURE EXPLANATION                           ==
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----------                            ----------
----5h8--- Hammeron                   ----(8)--- Ghost Note
----------                            ----------
----5p8--- Pulloff                    ----------

----------                            ----------
----5/8--- Slide Up                   -----x---- Dead Note
----------                            ----------
----5\8--- Slide Down                 ----------

----------                            ||------|| Repeat Start & End
----5~~~-- Vibrato                    ||*----*||
----------                            ||*----*||
----------                            ||------||

Rhythm:
  w = whole note            W = dotted whole
  h = half note             H = dotted half
  q = quarter note          Q = dotted quarter
  e = eighth note           E = dotted eighth
  s = sixteenth note        S = dotted sixteenth
  ^ = triplet

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==                  tablature creation software for Windows                  ==
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Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:01:11 -0500
From: Richard Miller 


Hit the lights from Kill 'Em All
Metallica
tabbed by Rick Miller

I seen this on Olga, it really sucked, so here's my version done by memory,
i'm fairly sure that it's pretty accurate (I haven't done the solo, even if
I did I couldn't play it.)


Fade in

|--tremolo-----|-------------------------------|
|--/--pick-----|-------------------------------|
|--/-----------|-------------------------------|
|--2-----------|-------------------------------|
|--2-----------|--2---2---2---2-----2-------2--|
|--0-----------|--0---0---0---0-----0-------0--|


|--tremelo-----|-------------------------------|-----------------|
|--/--pick-----|-------------------------------|-----------------|
|--/-----------|-------------------------------|-----------------|
|--4-----------|-------------------------------|--pick slide-----|
|--4-----------|--4---4---4---4-----4-------4--|--x\\\\\\\\\\\\--|
|--2-----------|--2---2---2---2-----2-------2--|--x\\\\\\\\\\\\--|


fig 1                                                            End fig 1
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------5---7---0---0h5--|-----------------------------------|
|-5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-------------------7p5---5------|
|-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7--|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|


|--------------------------------------|------------------------------full-|
|--------------------------------------|------------------------------)----|
|---------------------5---7---0---0h5--|----------------------------7/-----|
|-5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-----------------------5--------|
|-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6h7----------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|


play fig 1 (? times)

[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/metallica/hit_the_lights_tab.html ]
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--7---7---x---x-------------------7---7---x---x---5---4-------|
|--5---5---x---x---5---5---x---x---5---5---x---x---3---2---5---|
|------------------3---3---x---x---------------------------3---|
           No life till leather            Gonna kick some ass 


|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------5---7---0---0h5--|-----------------------------------|
|-5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-------------------7p5---5------|
|-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7--|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
 tonight



|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
|---------------------5---7---0---0h5--|-----------------------------------|
|-5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-------------------7p5---5------|
|-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----7---6-7--|
|--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|


|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
|--7---7---x---x-------------------7---7---x---x---5---4-------|
|--5---5---x---x---5---5---x---x---5---5---x---x---3---2---5---|
|------------------3---3---x---x---------------------------3---|
           Got the metal maddness          When our fans start screamin' its


|---------------------------------------|------------------------------full-|
|---------------------------------------|------------------------------)----|
|----------------------5---7---0---0h5--|----------------------------7/-----|
|--5-------------------5---7---0---0h5--|--5-----------------------5--------|
|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------------------|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-6h7----------|
|---------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
 right                            Well alright yeah


|------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------|----------------------------|
|-------------------------------------5---4------|--2---2---2---2---2---2-----|
|--2---2------------------5---3---5---3---2---5--|--0---0---0---0---0---0-----|
|--0---0------------------3---1---3-----------3--|---------3-------3----------|
 When we start to rock we never       Will stop     Again


                               3x
|---------------------------------|
|---------------------------------| Then comes a lead thing and verse 2,
|*-------------------------------*| then another lead thing and verse 3,
|*-5-------2---2---2---2---2---2-*| then the interlude:
|--3---5---0---0---0---0---0---0--|
|------3----------3-------3-------|
   Hit the lights


 Interlude
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|*---------------5--|----------------7--|----------------5--|--------------*|
|*-7---7---7---7-5--|--7---7---7---7-7--|--7---7---7---7-5--|--7-5---------*|
|--0---0---0---0----|--0---0---0---0----|--0---0---0---0----|------7-6-5----|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------8--|


this is played under the solo
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|---------------|
|--4---4---4---4-7--|--4---4---4---4-9--|--4---4---4---4-7--|--9-7----------|
|--2---2---2---2-5--|--2---2---2---2-7--|--2---2---2---2-5--|------9-8-7----|
|-------------------|-------------------|-------------------|------------10-|



Lyrics:

No life till leather 
We are gonna kick some ass tonight 
We got the metal madness 
When our fans start screaming 
It's right well alright 
When we start to rock 
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights 
Hit the lights 
Hit the lights 

You know our fans are insane 
We are gonna blow this place away
with volume higher 
Than anything today the only way 
When we start to rock 
We never want to stop again 

Hit the lights 
Hit the lights 
Hit the lights 

With all our screaming 
We are gonna rip right through your brain 
We got the lethal power 
It is causing you sweet pain Oh sweet pain 
When we start to rock 
We never want to stop again 

Hit the lights 
Hit the lights 
Hit the lights