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Song

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/ The following is the author's own interpretation of the song, to be used /

/ for private use and studying /

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SLAYER - SEX, MURDER, ART

From the Album DIVINE INTERVENTION

Copyright 1995 AMERICAN RECORDS

Version 1.0 - October 1998

Transcription By: Mike Kimball

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. - palm mute / - slide up to

\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato

h - hammer on b - bend

p - pull off Suffixes for bend

ph - pinch harmonic f - full bend h - half bend

* - see comment r - release t - tap bend

X - percussion mute ~ - vibrato bend

@ - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note

Tuning: Eb(Eb,Ab,Db,Gb,Bb,Eb)

Fig. 1

|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|----------5-------7---6---5--------------------------
|--4-6-7-4---7-4-6---6---6---7-6-5--------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------

Play four times.

Fig. 2

|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|----------1-------3---2---1--------------------------
|--0-2-3-0---3-0-2---2---2---3-2-1--------------------

Play four times; on fourth time hold last note.

Fig. 3

|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------4p3-----------------

|--3-33334p3333333336p333334p33333---336p333334p33333-

|__||___||__||__||___||___||__||___||___||___||__|

I & III II

|----------------|-------    |-------
|----------------|-------    |-------
|----------------|-------    |-------
|----------------|5---4--    |6---5--
|----------------|3---4--    |6---5--
|--33334p3333333-|-------    |-------

|__||___||__|

Play sequence three times with corresponding chord

changes; then fourth sequence in full--

fourth sequence

|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------4p3-----------------

|--3-33334p3333333336p333334p33333---336p333334p33333-

|__||___||__||__||___||___||__||___||___||___||__|

|--------------------
|--------------------
|--------------------
|------6---5---5---4-
|------6---5---3---4-
|--3333--------------

End Fig. 3

Fig. 4

|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|--1-1111114p11111113p11111112p1111111----------------

|__||__||___||__||___||__||___||__|

Play twice; then twice more, a half-step up.

Note: Some of the pull-off notes sound like double-stops; use

your own judgment.

Fig. 5

|---------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------

|--3-33333333334p36p34-44444444445p47p45-5555555555-

|__||__||__||____||__||__||__||____||__||__||__|

|--------------------------
|--------------------------
|--------------------------
|--------------------------
|--------------------------
|--6p58p56-6666666---5---4-

|____||__||__|

Play twice, but last time stops on the 6th fret for a power

chord; then--

|-----------------------
|-----------------------
|-----------------------
|------5----------------
|------5----------------
|--665-3----------------

End Fig. 5

Second verse is the same as first; Fig. 3.

Second chorus is almost the same as first; Fig.4. (End is a little

different; use your ears).

Fig. 6

|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------
|------2---5-4---7-6---9-------2---5-4---8-7---10-----
|------2---5-4---7-6---9-------2---5-4---8-7---10-----
|--0-1-0-0-3-2-0-5-4-0-7---0-1-0-0-3-2-0-6-5-0-8------

This riff lasts through the rest of the song. It has one

variation, which uses more of the open E string, but the same chords.

Note: I play all the chords of Fig.6 with the root on the E

string because of the sliding of the last chord in the sequence (B in

first; C in second), especially the last chord of the song.

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