TAB by Song : 37006
Tab List Area
1 Pages 1 Results
Old by Machine Head
Old
Tuning:
1 - E
2 - B
3 - G
4 - C# <---- *Notice* I know it's weird but trust me, this is it.
5 - A
6 - D
In addition, tune all strings a 1/4 of a step lower to match the album.
(Bar Dive + Pick Scrapes) (Lower and then raise bar) (Tap bar)
|-------------------------------------/~~~~~~~~--------------------------|
|--------------------------------nh--/-----------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------/------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------4-/----------------------7----/-/---|
|-------------------------------------------------------------/-- /---|
|---------------------------------------------------------6--------------|
actual pitch: F
This isen't written exactly but it should give you a good idea
of how to play the beginning.
right before intro riff
|------------------------------------|
|-----bar-dive-----------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|-7-------/------nh-----------------|
|--------/--------------------------|
|-6---------------2.9-%-%-%-%-%-%-%--| ( % means repeat the 2.9)
1 2 3 4
intro riff
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-------------------------5/7-75-|-5/8---7-------------------5/7-75--|
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-6---0-------1-------0---3/5-53-|-3/6---5-------6-------0---3/5-53--|
||-6---0---0-0-1---0-0-0-----------|-----------0-0-6---0-0-0------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
|---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|-------------------------5/7-75-|-5/8---7----------------------------||
|---------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|-6---0-------1-------0---3/5-53-|-3/6---5-------6--------------------||
|-6---0---0-0-1---0-0-0-----------|-----------0-0-6---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
3rd time play this as the last measure
(aproximate harmonics)
|---------------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------nh--nh---nh---nh---nh---nh---nh---nh--||
|-5/8---7-------------------------------------------------||
|-------------------1.7-2.0--2.4--2.9--3.1--3.6--4.0--4.5-||
|-3/6---5-------6-----------------------------------------||
|-----------0-0-6-----------------------------------------||
1 2 3 4
verse riff
||---------------------------------|-------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|-------------------------------||
||---------------------------------|-------------------------------||
||--p--------6---9-----------------|--p--------6---9---------------||
||-6^3---6---3---6-----------------|-6^3---6---3---6---------------||
||-----0-6-0---0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-----0-6-0---0---0-3~~~-0-3~~~-||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
Chorus
play 3 times 4th time
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||-------------------------4--------||
||-0---1---4-1---0---1---4-1---0----||-0---1---4-1---0-------3---5-4-3--||
||-0---1---4-1---0---1---4-1---0----||-0---1---4-1---0---3-6------------||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
play 3 times again 4th time
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||-0---1---4-1---0---1---4-1---0----||-0---1---4-1---0-3----------------||
||-0---1---4-1---0---1---4-1---0----||-0---1---4-1---0-3----------------||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
play intro riff 2 times
- 2nd time with harmonics at end.
verse riff.
Chours.
Bridge
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||-2--------------------------------|-(2)------------------------------|
||-2--------------------------------|-(2)------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
|----------------------x-7-7/9-97--|-7/10--9-------3--------------------|
|----------------------x------------|------------------------------------|
|-(2)------------------x-5-5/7-75--|-5/8---7-------1--------------------|
|-(2)-------------------------------|------------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
2x
||-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||---------nh-----------nh------nh---|---------nh-----------nh----------|
||-----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
||---------4------------4-------4----|---------4------------4--------4--|
||-2---2-------2-2---2------2-2------|-2---2-------2-2---2-----2-2-2-1--|
||-2---2-------2-2---2------2-2------|-2---2-------2-2---2-----2-2-2----|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
|-----------------------------------|------------------------------------||
|---------nh-----------nh-----------|------------------------------------||
|--------------------------7/9-97--|-7/10--9-------3--------------------||
|---------4------------4------------|------------------------------------||
|-2---2-------2-2---2------5/7-75--|-5/8---7-------1--------------------||
|-2---2-------2-2---2---------------|------------------------------------||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
4x
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||------------------------------||
||-0-----------0-2---1----------||
||-0-----------0-2---1----------||
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
gtr1 plays this 8x
gtr2 plays this 2x gtr2: 3rd and 4th time
||------------------------------| |------------------------------|
||------------------------------| |------------------------------|
||------------------------------| |-------------------------ah---|
||------------------------------| |------------------------------|
||------------------------------| |-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1~~~-|
||-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1~~~-| |------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
gtr2 5th time 6th time
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
||------tremolo-pick------------|--------tremolo-pick----------|
||-9---/---/---/---/---/--------|-10--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||-----/---/---/---/---/--------|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||-7---/---/---/---/---/--------|-8---/---/---/---/---/---/----|
||------------------------------|------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
gtr2 7th time 8th time
|------------------------------|------------------------------|
|------tremolo-pick------------|--------tremolo-pick----------|
|-11--/---/---/---/---/---/----|-15--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|-----/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|-9---/---/---/---/---/---/----|-13--/---/---/---/---/---/----|
|------------------------------|------------------------------|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
both guitars 8x
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1----|
|-0---2---1---0-2---1---0-1----|
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
(pause)
play 3 times 4th time
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||----------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||-------------------------6--------||
||-2---3---6-3---2---3---6-3---2----||-2---3---6-3---2-------5---7-6-5--||
||-2---3---6-3---2---3---6-3---2----||-2---3---6-3---2---5-8------------||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
play 3 times again 4th time
||----------------------------------||------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------||-----------------nh-----------------||
||-2---3---6-3---2---3---6-3---2----||-0---1---4-1---0--------------------||
||-2---3---6-3---2---3---6-3---2----||-0---1---4-1---0-2.3-%-%-%-%-%-%-%--||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
intro riff again
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-------------------------5/7-75-|-5/8---7-------------------5/7-75--|
||---------------------------------|------------------------------------|
||-6---0-------1-------0---3/5-53-|-3/6---5-------6-------0---3/5-53--|
||-6---0---0-0-1---0-0-0-----------|-----------0-0-6---0-0-0------------|
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
|---------------------------------|------------------------------|-------||
|---------------------------------|------------------------------|-------||
|-------------------------5/7-75-|-5/8---7----------------------|-------||
|---------------------------------|-----------%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%-|-------||
|-6---0-------1-------0---3/5-53-|-3/6---5---^-nh-slide-thing---|-6---0-||
|-6---0---0-0-1---0-0-0-----------|------------------------------|-6---0-||
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1
The nh (natural harmonic) slide thing starts at about 1.5 on the
fretboard.
These notes are played as sixtuplets. These means in one beat there are
six notes played.
I am the man that defends all things profane
6000 years is the time that I shall reign
And with a grin drank the blood of holy swine
Impurity made the blood turn into wine
Old man, dead hand
If only their insanity
The lie feeds off their greed
Jesus wept
I am the pain that feeds off your weakness
A sickening born of hate, not of the blessed
And with the time I will crush all things you prey
Destroying all from the known to the arcane
Old man, dead hand
If only their insanity
The lie feeds off their greed
Jesus wept
Burn my eyes and try to blind me
Bury me so they wont find me
Try to suck my power empty
Got no crown of thorns on me
So burn my eyes and try to blind me
Bury me so they wont find
Try to suck my power dry
You got no crown of thorns on me
Old man, dead hand
If only their insanity
The lie feeds off their greed
Jesus wept
--------------------