Manowar: Mountains(The Sign of the Hammer)
Tabbed by HeXa 2.12.1999
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Heikki.Mustonen@kymp.net

Standard Tuning for Guitars
Tune Bass 1 step down DGCF (Joey Tunes his Bass 1 octave higher than normally)

There is a bass part where Joey plays Natural Harmonics with his bass.
I couldn't transcribe it but just play Natural Harmonics in that part :)


Bass Intro(This is played under some singing parts)
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-4------4--------------------------4----------------------------------------|
|-5-5----5----7-5-4h5p4--------5---5--5----7--9----4-----4-----4----4--------|
|-7---7--7--------------5-0----4-4------4--7--9----2--2-5--2-5---2-5---------|

*
|-----------------------------------------------|-----------------2----------|
|-4---4---4------2--------2---------------------|-*-Try-this--4--4-4---------|
|-5-5---5-------4---4---4---------7-4-----------|---if-that---2-2---2--------|
|-7------------5------5-----5---------5--5-7-9--|---doesn't-sound-right------|

The Main Riff
|--------------------12------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------15(17)--------------------------------------------------|
|---------9--7--9---------------9--------------------------------------------|
|---------9--7--9---------------9--7--9--10-12-------------------------------|
|-2-------7--5--7---------------7--7--9--10-12-------------------------------|
|-0---0-0---------0-0--------------5--7--8--10-------------------------------|

This is the melody. I Couldn't hear the guitar so just the play melody...
|---------------------------------------------|------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|------------------------------|
|-------------2-----------4-2---2--2----------|-7----5---9-------------------|
|-2--2-4-5-5----5-4---2-------5------5-4---2--|-7----5---9-------------------|
|-------------------5--------------------5----|-5----3---7-------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|------------------------------|

Solo(Swell up the Volume in some parts)
|-----19(bend-vib-down)------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------9(swell-volume)-|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------7(swell-volume-up)-7(bend-vib-down)-----------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

|-----------------15(bend-slowly-down)-----------------12-15-----------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------13--/15---------|
|-9(bend-down)--------------------------12(14)/\/\/\/\-----------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

|----------19\----12---------------------------------------------------------|
|-17/12--------------15-12-12------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------14-12-----------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------14---14-12------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------15-12------------------------|

|---------------------------------------------12-----------------------------|
|----12-13-15--15-13-12-12-12-13-15----13--15----12-------15--13-13----------|
|-14---------------------------------------------------14-----------12-12----|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-15-12-----------12---------------------------------------------------------|
|-------12--12-14------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
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