Shedding Skin Lyrics

P A N T E R A
S H E D D I N G S K I N
FAR BEYOND DRIVEN
(c) 1994 East West Records
http://www.pantera.com/
Note that the tuning on the CD track is 50 cents lower than that outlined in
the tab's guitar tuning.
Tempo = 144 BPM
Time Signature = 4/4
PADDY MCMULLAN
stinkypoohpants@yahoo.co.uk
Version 1.0
17th November 2009
Tablature Symbols Used:
P.M.. ... - Palm Mute
h - Hammer-on
p - Pull-off
4 b 5 - Bend Up
5 r 4 - Release Bend
pb19 - Pre-bend (Bend to the note before striking it)
\ - Slide Down to/Down From
/ - Slide Up to/Up From
( / ) - Legato Slide
( ) - Ghost Note/Tied Note/Implied Note
xx\xx\ - Fret Noise & Random Slides to/from Nowhere
% - Whammy Bar (Articulation is indicated above tab, blank spaces
indicate length of articulation)
x - Muted Note/Dead Note
- Pinch/Artificial Harmonic
- Natural Harmonic
>> - Note(s) Fade in/out
REST - Rest, and sustain rest for duration of blank space
|_3_| - Triplet Note(s)
|------| - Let Notes Ring
19/// - Tremolo Picking
Section 1: Guitars 1 & 2 with Heavy Distortion (Play 4 times)
Section 2: Guitar 3 with Clean Tone (Play once)
* Let notes ring wherever possible *
Lead Fills for Section 2: Guitars 1 & 2
Guitar 1:
||--2~~---------------|--(2)--------------|--(2)--------------|
% Pre-dip 3 steps and quickly return % Dip 1 & 1/2 steps from
0, fret 5 and release bar
|--%----------------|--------------------|-------------%---------|
_ / 2 0 \ 4/5
|------------|--2~~---------------|--(2)---------|
% Pull bar up half a step (don't re-pick)
|----------------------|---------------%-----------------|
|-(2 \ 1)~~----------|--(1)-------- -------|
% Release bar and fade out (don't re-pick)
|----%----------------|
Rest for 6 bars
% Pre-dip a 1/2 step then pull bar up steadily to 1, then quickly to 3
|---%----------------||
The last bar fades in to full volume
Guitar 2:
||--5~~---------------|--(5)--------------|--(5)--------------|
|--(5)--------------|--5~~---------------|--(5)-------(3\1)---(3/5)-|
% Steadily pull bar up a 1/2 step, release and repeat
|--------------------|---%----------------|
% Same articulation as above (don't re-pick)
|---%----------------|---%----------------|
% Same articulation as above (don't re-pick)
|---%----------------|
The last 4 bars gradually fade out
Rest for 4 bars
% Pre-dip a 1/2 step then pull bar up steadily to 6
|---%-------------||
The last bar fades in to full volume
Section 3: Guitars 1 & 2 (Play 4 times)
|--R--------------------8- \--------------|
|--S--------------------9- \--------------|
|--T--------------------7- \--------------|
|_______________________________
|-R--------------------8- \----------------|---------------------------------| |
|-S--------------------9- \----------------|---------------------------------|*|
|-T--------------------7- \-0-0------------|---------------------------------| |
|----0--0--0--0--0--0-------0---(3/5)-(7b8 | r 7 b 8 r 7 b 8 r 7)--3b4--0--| |
|___________________________________
| r 7 b 8 r 7 b 8 r 7)--(5\1)--0--| |
|__________________________________
| r 7 b 8 r 7 b 8 r 7)--(5\1)----| |
Section 3 Tail: Guitars 1, 2 and 3
Guitar 1:
Whammy bar vibrato
||--3---------------3--|-(3)--4~~------------------------||
||--3---------------2--|-(2)--1~~------------------------||
||--0---------------0--|-(0)--1~~------------------------||
Guitar 2:
Whammy bar vibrato
||--6~~--------------(8/10)--11--|--R--10~~--------------||
||--4~~----------------------8---|--E--8 ~~--------------||
||-------------------------------|--S--------------------||
||-------------------------------|--T--------------------||
Guitar 3:
||--3---------------3--|--R---4--------------------||
||--0---------------0--|--S---1--------------------||
||---------------------|--T------------------------||
Guitars 1 & 2 play Section 1 four times
Guitar 3 plays Section 2 once, with the following variations:
* Let notes ring wherever possible *
Lead Fills for the Repeat of Section 2
Guitar 1:
||--2~~---------------|--(2)--------------|--(2)--------------|
|--(2)--------------|--2~~---------------|--(2)---------2--(2/5)----|
% Steadily pull bar up a 1/2 step, release and repeat
(Don't re-pick)
|---------------------|----%--------------------|
% Hold bar up a half step, release, pull up and release again
|----%-----------------|
The last 2 bars gradually fade out
Rest for 6 bars
% Pre-dip a 1/2 step then pull bar up steadily to 1, then quickly to 3
|---%----------------||
The last bar fades in to full volume
Guitar 2:
||--5~~---------------|--(5)--------------|--(5)--------------|
|--(5)--------------|--5~~---------------|--(5)---------(3\1)--(3/5 \ 4)--|
% Steadily pull bar up a 1/2 step, release and repeat
|--------------------|---%----------------|
% Same articulation as above (don't re-pick)
|---%----------------|---%----------------|
% Same articulation as above (don't re-pick)
|---%----------------|
The last 4 bars gradually fade out
Rest for 4 bars
% Pre-dip a 1/2 step then pull bar up steadily to 6
|---%-------------||
The last bar fades in to full volume
Guitars 1 & 2 repeat Section 3 four times, adding the following tail(s):
Guitar 1:
Whammy bar vibrato
||--3---------------3--|-(3)--4~~------------------------||
||--3---------------2--|-(2)--1~~------------------------||
||--0---------------0--|-(0)--1~~------------------------||
Guitar 2:
Whammy bar vibrato
||--6~~----------------11--|--R--10~~--------------||
||--4~~----------------8---|--E--8 ~~--------------||
||-------------------------|--S--------------------||
||-------------------------|--T--------------------||
Guitar 3:
||--3---------------3--|--R---4--------------------||
||--0---------------0--|--S---1--------------------||
||---------------------|--T------------------------||
This is a slight variation of the first tail, with only the second guitar having
any real difference
Guitars 1 & 2 play Section 1 four times, adding the following tail(s):
Guitar 1:
Whammy bar vibrato
||--3---------------3--|-(3)--4~~-----------------------||
||--3---------------2--|-(2)--1~~-----------------------||
||--0---------------0--|-(0)--1~~-----------------------||
Guitar 2:
Whammy bar vibrato
||--6~~----------------11--|--R--10~~-----------------||
||--4~~----------------8---|--E--8 ~~-----------------||
||-------------------------|--S----------------13 \--||
||-------------------------|--T----------------13 \--||
Guitar 3:
||--3---------------3--|--R---4--------------------||
||--0---------------0--|--S---1--------------------||
||---------------------|--T------------------------||
Section 4.1: Guitars 1 & 2 (Play 16 times)
|____________________
||-(1 h2p1)----1-----1--------| |
|_____________________________
||--(1 h2p1)----1--(1/3)--(1/3)--||
Section 4.2: Guitars 1 & 2 (Play once)
|4|--(1 h2p1)----1--------|--(2 h3p2)----2--------|--(3 h4p3)----3--------|
|--(4 h5p4)----4--------|4|--(5 h7p5)----5--------------|4|--(2 h3p2)-0--2--|
On the last bar the tempo increases to 208 BPM
Section 5: Guitars 1 & 2 (Repeats outlined below)
|--------R--------R--------||
|--------S--------S--------||
|--2--2--T--2--2--T--5/ ---||
Guitar 2 doesn't play the last note of the last bar
Guitar Solo 1: Guitar 1 (Play once)
||----------------------------------|----------12------14------12--(14b15r||
|------------------------------------------|--------------(10b12r10)---x\------|
|__3_____| |____3___|
|--15--------14-R----------------------------------|
|-----16-14-----E-(14h16)-(17p16)-(15p14)----------|
|---------------S-------------------------(17\16)--|
|---------------T----------------------------------|
|__3_____| |____3___| |___3___| |____3___|
|--(16p15)-------------------(15p14)--------------------|
|___3____|
|----------------------------------------(17b |
| 19)--14 p 12------14---------------|------------------------------------|
| 17 b19)---(19r16)----17-16-|------------------------------------|
|----------------------------|-------(16b17r16b17r16b17r16) \----|
|--(27) \--R- -||
|----------S- -||
|----------T- -||
Guitars 1 & 2 repeat Section 5
Section 6a: Guitar 1 (Play once)
|___3____| |____3____| |__3____| |____3____|
|___3___| |____3___|
|-------------R--------||
|-(8)---- \--S--------||
|-------------T--------||
Section 6b: Guitar 2 (Play once)
|__3___| |___3___| |__3__| |___3___|
|__3__| |___3___|
|--3----(3\2)---------~~------0--|--b8-----b8-----b8---|
|-(8)-b8-----b12----b9-|-(9)---9b10--(5/9)-- \----|
|-------R- -||
|--x\ --S- -||
|--x\ --T- -||
Guitar Solo 2: Guitar 4 with Heavy Distortion (Play once)
This part enters during bar 6 of Section 6
|___3____| |___3____| |___3____| |___3____|
|--11--12--15-(11 h12 h15)-12--14--16-(12 h14 h16)-|
|___3____| |___3_____| |___3____| |____3____|
|--12--14--16-(12 h14h h16)---------14--(13/14)------|
|___3____| |___3____| |___3____| |____3____|
|--13--14--17-(13 h14 h17)-13--14--17--13--14--17--|
|___3____| |____3______| |___3_______| |____3_____|
|____3______| |____3______| |____3____| |____3____|
|--13------12b13-13------12b13-(13/15)--17--13 h14--17--|
|___3____| |___3____| |___3____| |____3___|
|--13--14--17-(13 h14 h17)-13--14--17--13 h14--17--|
Hold bend for the remainder of the solo
|--(19 b 20 b 21)---|--(22)-----(21b23)-----|
|---------------///--------|-----------(21b23)-----|
|--(21b23)------------(21b23)-|-(23)-(21b23)---(21b22 b24)--|
|--(21b23)----21b23---(21b23)-|-(23)-(21b23)---(21b22 b24)--|
|-------R- -||
|--x\ --S- -||
|--x\ --T- -||
During the last bar Guitars 1 & 2 join in with the following:
||--------R--------R- -||
||--------S--------S- -||
||--2--2--T--2--2--T- -||
Outro 1.1: Guitars 1 & 2 (Play 4 times)
|__________________
| |-----------------------| |--------R--------R--| |
|/|--------------3--------|/|--------S--------S--|*|
|4|--2--2--3--3--1--------|4|--2--2--T--2--2--T--| |
|_________________________
| |--------R--------R- -||
|/|--------S--------S- -||
|4|--2--2--T--2--2--T- -||
Outro 1.2: Guitars 1 & 2 (Play 8 times)
|________________________
|________________________
||--------R--------R- -||
||--------S--------S- -||
||--2--2--T--2--2--T- -||
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Tab summary: Section 1 x 4
Section 2 x 1 (With Lead Fills)
Section 3 x 4 (With Tails)
Section 1 x 4
Section 2 x 1 (With Lead Fills)
Section 3 x 4 (With Tails)
Section 1 x 4 (With Tails)
Section 4:
Section 5 x 1 (Repeats Outlined in tab)
Guitar Solo 1 x 1
Section 5 x 1 (Repeats Outlined in tab)
Section 6 x 1
Guitar Solo 2 x 1
Outro:
END