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Fade To Black  Bass Tab by Metallica

Fade To Black bass tab by Metallica (Ver. 2)

Bass Tab

Tuning: Standard tuning

Difficulty: intermediate


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🏷Legend :
 w   - whole note     W - whole rest
 h   - half note      H - half rest
 q   - quarter note    Q - quarter rest
 e   - eigth note     E - eigth rest
 s   - sixteenth note   S - sixteenth rest
 t   - thirty-second note T - thirty-second rest
 +   - sustain into next note
 .   - multiply note/rest length by 1.5 ie. e. = e + s
 {3}  - a triplet
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Accuracy Rating: - Votes: -
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          F A D E  T O  B L A C K - Metallica
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Transscribed by Wilbert Pol


synth. 116 bpm
------|---|---|---|-------|---|---|---|-------|---|---|---|-------|---|
------|---|---|---|-------|---|---|---|-------|---|---|---|-------|---|
------|---|---|---|-----4-|-2-|---|---|-----4-|-2-|---|---|-----4-|-2-|
------|---|---|---|-------|---|---|---|-------|---|---|---|-------|---|
    W  W  W  Q.. e  w  W  W  Q.. e  w  W  W  Q.. e  w
            very softly-------------------------------------

|---|---|-------|---|---|---|---------|-----------|--------||
|---|---|-------|---|---|---|---------|-----------|--------||
|---|---|-----4-|-2-|---|---|---------|-----------|------7-||
|---|---|-------|---|---|---|-----(0)-|-1--0-4--0-|-7--7---||
 W  W  Q.. e  w  W  W  Q.. e  q. e q. e  q. e h
-------------------------------------|

|---|---|---|-----------|---|---|---|-----------|---------|-----------|
|---|---|---|-----------|---|---|---|-----------|---------|-----------|
|-0-|---|---|---7---7---|-0-|---|---|-----------|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|
|---|---|---|---0---0---|---|---|---|---0---0---|---------|-----------|
 w  W  W  H e E e E  w  W  W  H e E e E  h q e e  h q s s e

|---------|----------|---------|-----------|---------|--------||
|---------|----------|---------|-----------|---------|--------||
|-----5-3-|-------7-|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|---------|---7---||
|-3-3-----|-0-0------|---------|-----------|-3-3-5-3-|-0----0-||
 h q e e  h e E q  h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e  h q q

verse 1
|---------|-----------|---------|---------|---------|-----------|---------|
|---------|-----------|---------|---------|---------|-----------|---------|
|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|-----5-3-|---7-7-|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|---------|
|---------|-----------|-3-3-----|-0-------|---------|-----------|-3-3-5-3-|
 h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e  h q q  h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e

|-----------|---------|-----------|---------|-----------|---------|
|-----------|---------|-----------|---------|-----------|---------|
|---7---7---|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|-----5-3-|---7---7---|-0-0-0-2-|
|-0---------|---------|-----------|-3-3-----|-0---------|---------|
 h e E e E  h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e  h e E e E  h q e e

|---------------|--------------|-----------------||------------------|
|-----------7-7-|-9---7--------|-----------------||-o----------------|
|-3-3/-7h10-----|-------7h10-7-|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-||-o--------------5-|
|---------------|--------------|-----------------||---5--5-5-0-0-3---|
 h q s s s s  h+e e s s e  e e e e e e e e   q. e e s s e e

|----------------|--------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|--------------|----------------|----------------|
|-3--3-3-------5-|----------5---|-7--7-7-----3-2-|--------------5-|
|--------0-0-3---|-5--5-5-------|--------0-0-----|-5--5-5-0-0-3---|
 q. e e s s e e  q. e e E e E  q. e e s s e e  q. e e s s e e

                 2x interlude I
|----------------|------------|-----||---------|-----------|---------|
|----------------|------------|---o-||---------|-----------|---------|
|-3--3-3-------5-|------------|---o-||-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|-----5-3-|
|--------0-0-3---|-5--5-5-3-2-|-0---||---------|-----------|-3-3-----|
 q. e e s s e e  q. e q e e  w   h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e

|----------|---------|-----------|---------|-----------||
|----------|---------|-----------|---------|-----------||
|-------7-|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|---------|---7-------||
|-0-0------|---------|-----------|-3-3-5-3-|-0-----0---||
 h e E q  h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e  h e E e E

verse 2
|---------|-----------|---------|----------|---------|-----------|---------|
|---------|-----------|---------|----------|---------|-----------|---------|
|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|-----5-3-|-------7/-|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|---------|
|---------|-----------|-3-3-----|-0-0------|---------|-----------|-3-3-5-3-|
 h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e  h e E q  h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e

|-----------|---------|-----------|---------|-------|---------|
|-----------|---------|-----------|---------|-------|---------|
|---7---7---|-0-0-0-2-|-3-3-3h5-3-|-----5-3-|-----7-|-0-0-0-2-|
|-0---------|---------|-----------|-3-3-----|-0-7---|---------|
 h e E e E  h q e e  h q s s e  h q e e  h q q  h q e e

|---------------|---------|-----------------||----------------|
|-----------7-7-|-9--(9)-|-----------------||----------------|
|-3-3/-7h10-----|---------|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-||--------------5-|
|---------------|---------|-----------------||-5--5-5-0-0-3---|
 h q s s s s  h. q   e e e e e e e e  q. e e s s e e

|----------------|--------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|--------------|----------------|----------------|
|-3--3-3-------5-|----------5---|-7--7-7-----3-2-|--------------5-|
|--------0-0-3---|-5--5-5-------|--------0-0-----|-5--5-5-0-0-3---|
 q. e e s s e e  q. e e E e E  q. e e s s e e  q. e e s s e e

|----------------|------------|---|----------------|----------------|
|----------------|------------|---|----------------|----------------|
|-3--3-3-------5-|------------|---|--------------5-|-3--3-3-------5-|
|--------0-0-3---|-5--5-5-3-2-|-0-|-5--5-5-0-0-3---|--------0-0-3---|
 q. e e s s e e  q. e q e e  w  q. e e s s e e  q. e e s s e e

|--------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|--------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
|----------5---|-7--7-7-----3-2-|--------------5-|-3--3-3-------5-|
|-5--5-5-------|--------0-0-----|-5--5-5-0-0-3---|--------0-0-3---|
 q. e e E e E  q. e e s s e e  q. e e s s e e  q. e e s s e e

        144 bpm
|------------||---|-----|-----|-----|---|-----|-----------|
|------------||-9-|-(9)-|-(9)-|-(9)-|-9-|-(9)-|-(9)---9-9-|
|------------||-7-|-(7)-|-(7)-|-(7)-|-7-|-(7)-|-(7)-------|
|-5--5-5-3-2-||-0-|-(0)-|-(0)-|-(0)-|-0-|-(0)-|-(0)-------|
 q. e q e e  w  (w)  (w)  (w)  w  (w)  (h..) s s

             bridge 1, interlude 2, bridge 2
|-----------------------||-----------|-----------|----------------|
|-9-7-7-7-5-5-5-4-4-4-5-||-o---------|-------5-4-|-(4)--------9-9-|
|-----------------------||-o-5-7-7-7-|-5-7-7-----|-----5-5-5------|
|-----------------------||-----------|-----------|----------------|
 e s s e s s e s s e e   e q e h  e q e e q. (e) q e q. s s

             6x
|--------------------------|||----------------|--------------|
|-9-7-7-7-5-5-5-4-4-4-5--o-|||-o--------------|--------------|
|------------------------o-|||-o---------7--7-|--------------|
|--------------------------|||---0-0-0-0------|-0-0-0-0-3-2--|
 e s s e s s e s s e e     e e e e q. e  e e e e e q.

                      2x
|----------------|--------------------------||
|------------9-9-|-9-7-7-7-5-5-5-4-4-4-5--o-||
|---------5------|------------------------o-||
|-0-0-0-0--------|--------------------------||
 e e e e q. s s  e s s e s s e s s e e

  [B]             [A]
||-----------|----------------|---------|----------------|
||-o---------|----------------|---------|----------------|
||-o----9--7-|-(7)-5--3-2-0---|----9--7-|-(7)-5--3-2-0---|
||---7-------|--------------2-|-5-------|--------------2-|
   q. q. q  (e) q. e e e e  q. q. q  (e) q. e e e e

 [G]            [A]           8x and fade
|---------|----------------|---------|------------------||
|---------|----------------|---------|----------------o-||
|----9--7-|-(7)-5--3-2-0---|----9--7-|-(7)-5--3-2-0---o-||
|-3-------|--------------2-|-5-------|--------------2---||
 q. q. q  (e) q. e e e e  q. q. q  (e) q. e e e e

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