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Master of Puppets
Metallica
/ E5 - - - / D5 Db5 C5 - / - - - - /
Intro Riff x4
Interlude Riff x1½, Slide Riff x1
Interlude Riff x1½, Slide Riff x1
Interlude Riff x3½, Slide Riff x1
Interlude Riff x3½, Slide Riff x2
/ E5 - - - / - - - - /
Verse Riff x2
w/ Verse Riff x4
End of passion play, crumbling away, I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear, leading on your death's construction
w/ Verse Riff in F# x2
Taste me you will see, more is all you need, dedicated to, how I'm killing you
/ B5 - - - /
w/ Chorus Riff x4
Come crawling faster (faster)
Obey your master (master)
Your life burns faster (faster)
E5 F5
Obey your master, master!
E5 F#5 (½) G5 (2)
Master of puppets, I'm pulling your strings
C5 B5 (½) A5 (2)
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
D5 C5 (½) B5
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
E5 D5 (½) C5 (1½) E5 F5
Just call my name 'cause I'll hear you scream, master, master
E5 D5 (½) C5 (2) E5 F5
Just call my name 'cause I'll hear you scream, master, master
Interlude Riff x3½, Slide Riff x2
w/ Verse Riff x4
Needlework the way, never you betray, life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery, chop your breakfast on a mirror
w/ Verse Riff in F# x2
Taste me you will see, more is all you need, dedicated to, how I'm killing you
/ B5 - - - /
w/ Chorus Riff x4
Come crawling faster (faster)
Obey your master (master)
Your life burns faster (faster)
E5 F5
Obey your master, master!
E5 F#5 (½) G5 (2)
Master of puppets, I'm pulling your strings
C5 B5 (½) A5 (2)
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
D5 C5 (½) B5
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
E5 D5 (½) C5 (1½) E5 F5
Just call my name 'cause I'll hear you scream, master, master
E5 D5 (½) C5 (2) E5 F5
Just call my name 'cause I'll hear you scream, master, master (mastar, mastarr)
HALF TIME
Clean Gtr: / Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
Drum Hits: / Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
Harm Gtrs: / Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
/ Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
Gtr Solo: / Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
/ Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
Harm Gtrs: / Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
/ Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
Heavy: / Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - /
/ Em - D - / - - C - / - - Am - / B - B/D# - / E5 - - - / - - - - /
/ F#5 - - - / - - - - / - - - - / - - - - /
F#5 (8)
Master, master, where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries
STANDARD TIME
/ G5 - - - / - - - - / F#5 - - - / E5 - - - /
Fix me!
Gtr Solo: Verse Riff x4
Verse Riff in F# x2
/ B5 - - - /
Bridge Riff x4
/ E5 - - - /
/ Em - - - / - C - - / - - - - / Em - - - /
/ Em - - - / - C - - / - - - - / Em - - - /
/ Em - - - / - C - - / - - - - / Em - - - /
/ Em - - - / - C - - / - - - - / Em - - - / C - - - /
Interlude Riff x1½, Slide Riff x1
Interlude Riff x1½, Slide Riff x2
w/ Verse Riff x4
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat, just a rhyme without a reason
Never-ending maze, drift on numbered days, now your life is out of season
w/ Verse Riff in F# x2
I will occupy, I will help you die, I will run through you, now I rule you too
/ B5 - - - /
w/ Chorus Riff x4
Come crawling faster (faster)
Obey your master (master)
Your life burns faster (faster)
E5 F5
Obey your master, master!
E5 F#5 (½) G5 (2)
Master of puppets, I'm pulling your strings
C5 B5 (½) A5 (2)
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
D5 C5 (½) B5
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
E5 D5 (½) C5 (1½) E5 F5
Just call my name 'cause I'll hear you scream, master, master
E5 D5 (½) C5 (2) E5 F5
Just call my name 'cause I'll hear you scream, master, master
Verse Riff x4
/ N.C. - - - /
Ha ha ha ha
Slide Riff x1
End on E5
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