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Wachturm

Sodom
Tab

This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

Wachturm

By Sodom, from the album Tapping the vein

Music by Sodom

Tabbed by Ronald Ammann

Start into the song with this:

||-----------------
||-----------------
||-----------------
||-5-------7-------
||-5-------7-------
||-3-------5-------

Riff 1

||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||-2-------2---2---2-------2---2---|-2-------2---2---5-------7-------|
||-2-------2---2---2-------2---2---|-2-------2---2---5-------7-------|
||-0---0-0-0---0---0---0-0-0---0---|-0---0-0-0---0---3-------5-------|

. . . . . .

 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
 |-2-------2---2---2-------2---2---|-2-------2---2---7-------5-------||
 |-2-------2---2---2-------2---2---|-2-------2---2---7-------5-------||
 |-0---0-0-0---0---0---0-0-0---0---|-0---0-0-0---0---5-------3-------||

. . . . . .

Riff 2 (4x)

||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|-----------------5-------7-------||
||---------------------------------|-----------------5-------7-------||
||-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-------5-------||

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Riff 3 (2x)

||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
||-7-------7---7---9-------9---9---|-2-------2---2---2-------2---2---||
||-7-------7---7---9-------9---9---|-2-------2---2---2-------2---2---||
||-5---5-5-5---5---7---7-7-7---7---|-0---0-0-0---0---0---0-0-0---0---||

. . . . . . . .

Riff 4 (2x)

||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||-9-------9---9---9-------9---9---|-9-------9---9-------------------|
||-9---9-9-9---9---9---9-9-9---9---|-9---9-9-9---9---5-------7-------|
||-7---7-7-7---7---7---7-7-7---7---|-7---7-7-7---7---5-------7-------|
||---------------------------------|-----------------3-------5-------|
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
 |-9-------9---9---9-------9---9---|-9-------9---9-------------------||
 |-9---9-9-9---9---9---9-9-9---9---|-9---9-9-9---9---7-------5-------||
 |-7---7-7-7---7---7---7-7-7---7---|-7---7-7-7---7---7-------5-------||
 |---------------------------------|-----------------5-------3-------||

Play Riff 2 (4x)

Play Riff 3 (2x)

Play Riff 4 (2x)

There's no rhythm guitar during the solo.

If you're funny enough then you can play this:

Solo Rhythm (play each line 2x)

||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
||-4-------4---4---4-------4---4---|-4-------4---4---2-------7-------|
||-4-------4---4---4-------4---4---|-4-------4---4---2-------7-------|
||-2---2-2-2---2---2---2-2-2---2---|-2---2-2-2---2---0-------5-------|

. . . . . .

 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
 |-6-------6---6---6-------6---6---|-6-------6---6---4-------9-------|
 |-6-------6---6---6-------6---6---|-6-------6---6---4-------9-------|
 |-4---4-4-4---4---4---4-4-4---4---|-4---4-4-4---4---2-------7-------|

. . . . . .

 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
 |-8-------8---8---8-------8---8---|-8-------8---8---6-------11------||
 |-8-------8---8---8-------8---8---|-8-------8---8---6-------11------||
 |-6---6-6-6---6---6---6-6-6---6---|-6---6-6-6---6---4-------9-------||

. . . . . .

Play Riff 2 (4x)

There's some palm-muting on higher notes (or whatever)

going on during Riff 2 which I couldn't catch.

Play Riff 4

Play Riff 2 (4x)

Play Riff 3 (2x)

Play Riff 4 (3x)

Coda (play first two bars 2x)

||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------|
||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|-----------------|
||-9-------9---9---9-------9---9---|-9-------9---9-------------------|-----------------|
||-9---9-9-9---9---9---9-9-9---9---|-9---9-9-9---9---5-------7-------|-5-------7-------|
||-7---7-7-7---7---7---7-7-7---7---|-7---7-7-7---7---5-------7-------|-5-------7-------|
||---------------------------------|-----------------3-------5-------|-3-------5-------|

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

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

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

|-5--- thrash on this |-5--- now hold the chord |-2---|| abrupt

|-5--- chord for a while |-5--- again for a while |-2---|| halt

|-3--- |-3--- |-0---||

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