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PARASITE
As recorded by Anthrax
(From the 1991 EP ATTACK OF THE KILLER B'S)
Transcribed by Mike Sheehan
Words and Music by Ace Frehley
E5
0 2 2 x x x
F#5
2 4 4 x x x
G5
3 5 5 x x x
A5
5 7 7 x x x
B5
7 9 9 x x x
D5
x 5 7 7 x x
E5VII
x 7 9 9 x x
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Scott Ian'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Dan Spitz'
Intro
Q=130
N.C.
4/4
Gtr I
S S S S S e S S S e e S S S S S S S e S S S e Q
||----------------------------|-------------------------||||o---------------------------|------------------------o||||----------------------------|-------------------------||||----------------------------|-------------------------||||o---------------------------|------------------------o||||--0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-----||
S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S e S S S e Q|---------------------------|--------------------------||---------------------------|--------------------------||---------------------------|--------------------------||---------------------------|--------------------------||---------------------------|--------------------------||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2S14\--|
S S S S S e S S S e e S S S S S S S e S S S e Q|---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2----|
PM S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S E S S S e E E|---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0-||
Verse A5 F#E5 A5 N.F#N.G5 N.C. PM--| Q E +E E E E E +E E E E H S S S S S e S S S e E S S|-------------------|----------------|---------------------------||-------------------|----------------|---------------------------||-------------------|----------------|---------------------------||-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7-|-(7)-------5----|---------------------------||-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7-|-(7)---4---5----|---------------------------||-5--5-(5)\-2-0---5-|-(5)-0-2-0-3----|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|
A5 F#E5 A5 N.F#N.G5 PM PM--| S S S S S E S S S e E E Q E +E E E E E +E E E E H|-------------------------|-------------------|----------------||-------------------------|-------------------|----------------||-------------------------|-------------------|----------------||-------------------------|-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7-|-(7)-------5----||-------------------------|-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7-|-(7)---4---5----||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0-|-5--5-(5)\-2-0---5-|-(5)-0-2-0-3----|
N.C. A5 F#E5 A5 PM S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S E S S S e E E Q E +E E E E E|---------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------||---------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------||---------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------||---------------------------|-------------------------|-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7--||---------------------------|-------------------------|-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7--||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0-|-5--5-(5)\-2-0---5--|
N.F#N.G5 N.C. PM--| +E E E E H S S S S S e S S S e e S S S S S S S e S S S e Q|----------------|---------------------------|-------------------------||----------------|---------------------------|-------------------------||----------------|---------------------------|-------------------------||-(7)-------5----|---------------------------|-------------------------||-(7)---4---5----|---------------------------|-------------------------||-(5)-0-2-0-3----|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-----|
PM S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S E S S S e E E|---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0-||
Chorus $ A5B5 E5 D5 E5D5A5 B5 E5 D5 E E E E +E Q. +Q. E E E E E E E Q H +Q. E S e S S S e|-------------------|-----------------|-------------|------------------------||-------------------|-----------------|-------------|------------------------||--------9-(9)-7----|-(7)---7-9-7-----|-------------|-----------7-7-7---7-7--||-7-/9-9-9-(9)-7----|-(7)---7-9-7-7---|-7-9-9--2----|-(2)-------7-7-7---7-7--||-7-/9-9-7-(7)-5----|-(5)---5-7-5-7---|-7-9-9--2----|-(2)---(2)S5-5-5---5-5--||-5-/7-7------------|-------------5---|-5-7-7--0----|-(0)--------------------|
To Coda A5B5 E5 D5 E5D5A5 B5 E5 D5 E E E E +E Q. +Q. E E E E E E E Q H +Q. E S e S S S E|-------------------|-----------------|-------------|------------------------|||-------------------|-----------------|-------------|------------------------|||--------9-(9)-7----|-(7)---7-9-7-----|-------------|-----------7-7-7---7-7--|||-7-/9-9-9-(9)-7----|-(7)---7-9-7-7---|-7-9-9--2----|-(2)-------7-7-7---7-7--|||-7-/9-9-7-(7)-5----|-(5)---5-7-5-7---|-7-9-9--2----|-(2)---(2)S5-5-5---5-5--|||-5-/7-7------------|-------------5---|-5-7-7--0----|-(0)--------------------||
Interlude N.C. S S S S S e S S S e e S S S S S S S e S S S e Q|---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2----|
PM S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S E S S S e E E|---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0-||
Verse A5 F#E5 A5 N.F#N.G5 N.C. PM--| Q E +E E E E E +E E E E H S S S S S e S S S e E S S|-------------------|----------------|---------------------------||-------------------|----------------|---------------------------||-------------------|----------------|---------------------------||-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7-|-(7)-------5----|---------------------------||-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7-|-(7)---4---5----|---------------------------||-5--5-(5)\-2-0---5-|-(5)-0-2-0-3----|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|
A5 F#E5 A5 N.F#N.G5 PM PM--| S S S S S E S S S e E E Q E +E E E E E +E E E E H|-------------------------|-------------------|----------------||-------------------------|-------------------|----------------||-------------------------|-------------------|----------------||-------------------------|-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7-|-(7)-------5----||-------------------------|-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7-|-(7)---4---5----||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0-|-5--5-(5)\-2-0---5-|-(5)-0-2-0-3----|
N.C. A5 F#E5 A5 PM S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S E S S S e E E Q E +E E E E E|---------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------||---------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------||---------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------||---------------------------|-------------------------|-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7--||---------------------------|-------------------------|-7--7-(7)\-4-2---7--||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0-|-5--5-(5)\-2-0---5--|
N.F#N.G5 N.C. A5 PM--| +E E E E H S S S S S e S S S e e S S S S S S S e S S S e Q|----------------|---------------------------|-------------------------||----------------|---------------------------|-------------------------||----------------|---------------------------|---------------------2---||-(7)-------5----|---------------------------|---------------------2---||-(7)---4---5----|---------------------------|-------------------------||-(5)-0-2-0-3----|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-----|
N.C. PM S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S E S S S e E E|---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||---------------------------|-------------------------|||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0-||
Chorus A5B5 E5 D5 E5D5A5 B5 E5 D5 E E E E +E Q. +Q. E E E E E E E Q H +Q. E S e S S S e|-------------------|-----------------|-------------|------------------------||-------------------|-----------------|-------------|------------------------||--------9-(9)-7----|-(7)---7-9-7-----|-------------|-----------7-7-7---7-7--||-7-/9-9-9-(9)-7----|-(7)---7-9-7-7---|-7-9-9--2----|-(2)-------7-7-7---7-7--||-7-/9-9-7-(7)-5----|-(5)---5-7-5-7---|-7-9-9--2----|-(2)---(2)S5-5-5---5-5--||-5-/7-7------------|-------------5---|-5-7-7--0----|-(0)--------------------|
A5B5 E5 D5 E5D5A5 B5 E5 2/4 4/4 E E E E +E Q. +Q. E E E E E E E Q W|-------------------|-----------------|--------|------|||-------------------|-----------------|--------|------|||--------9-(9)-7----|-(7)---7-9-7-----|--------|------|||-7-/9-9-9-(9)-7----|-(7)---7-9-7-7---|-7-9-9--|-2----|||-7-/9-9-7-(7)-5----|-(5)---5-7-5-7---|-7-9-9--|-2----|||-5-/7-7------------|-------------5---|-5-7-7--|-0----||
Interlude Gtr I +W +W +W|---------------|------------|------------||---------------|------------|------------||---------------|------------|------------||-(2)-----------|-(2)--------|-(2)--------||-(2)-----------|-(2)--------|-(2)--------||-(0)-----------|-(0)--------|-(0)--------|
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| Gtr II| H Q E E W +W|---------------|------------|------------||---------------|------------|------------||---------------|------------|------------||---------------|------------|------------||-------------2s|==7---------|-(7)--------||---------------|------------|------------|
+W +W +W +W|------------|------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|------------|--------||-(2)--------|-(2)--------|-(2)--------|-(2)----||-(2)--------|-(2)--------|-(2)--------|-(2)----||-(0)--------|-(0)--------|-(0)--------|-(0)----|
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| +W +W +W +W|------------|------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|------------|--------||-(7)--------|-(7)--------|-(7)--------|-(7)----||------------|------------|------------|--------|
N.C.
Gtr I
PM| PM| PM|
|-3-| |-3-|
H. Q E E Q E E Q E E Q S S S E S S S E|-x\------------|---------------|-------------------------||-x\------------|---------------|-------------------------||---------------|---------------|-------------------------||---------------|-----4------4--|-----4--2h4p2------------||---------------|---------------|--------------4-2h4p2-0--||---------/14\--|-2-2----2-2----|-2-2---------------------|
PM PM PM| PM| E E E E E E E E E E E E Q Q E E Q E E Q|-----------------|---------------|---------------||-----------------|---------------|---------------||-----------------|---------------|---------------||---------2-------|---------2-----|-----4------4--||-2---------------|-2-------------|---------------||---0---0---0---0-|---0---0----1--|-2-2----2-2----|
PM| PM PM
|-3-| |-3-| |-3-| |-3-| |-3-|
E E Q S S S E S S S E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q|------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------|||------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------|||------------------------|-----------------|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-------------|||-----4--2h4p2-----------|---------2-------|-------------------------------|||--------------4-2h4p2-0-|-2---------------|-------------------------------|||-2-2--------------------|---0---0---0---0-|-------------------/14\--------||
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| Gtr II
| |-3-| |-3-| |-3-| |-3--|
| W W E E E E E E E E E S S S E|------------------------|-----------------|-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9---9--7-5----|||------------------------|-----------------|----------------------------7--|||------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------|||------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------|||------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------|||------------------------|-----------------|-------------------------------||
Guitar Solo
PM| PM| PM| PM PM
|--3--| |-3--|
E E Q E E Q E E Q S S S E S S S E E E E E E E E E|----------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------||----------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------||----------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------||------4------4--|---------4---2h==4p2-------------|---------------2----------||----------------|---------------------4--2h=4p2-0-|---2----------------------||-2-2-----2-2----|-2--2----------------------------|------0----0------0----0--|
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| \1.5| E Q. E E Q E Q. +Q +Q E Q. +Q. E|----------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------||---------2-2----|---------------------------------|----------------------14--||---2-----2-2-2--|-2-[4]b6----(4)--------(4)-------|-----14------(14)---------||-4-----------4--|---------------------------------|--------------------------||----------------|---------------------------------|-/16----------------------||----------------|---------------------------------|--------------------------|
PM---| PM----|
E E E E Q Q E E Q E E Q|----------------------|------------------------------------------||----------------------|------------------------------------------||----------------------|------------------------------------------||---------------2------|------------------4--------------------4--||--2-------------------|------------------------------------------||-------0---0-------1--|--2----2------------------2------2--------|
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| ~~~~| H +H Q a +E E +E a Q.|----------------------|------------------------------------------||-17b19-------(17)-----|-17b19---17pb19r(17)----------------------||----------------------|---------------------14-(14)-16p14tr16----||----------------------|------------------------------------------||----------------------|------------------------------------------||----------------------|------------------------------------------|
PM---| |-3--| |---3---|
E E Q S S S E S S S E|---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||-----------4-------2h=4p2--------------------------||---------------------------4-------2h=4p===2--0----||--2----2-------------------------------------------|
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| Q +E E +E E +S S S S|--------------17-(17)------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||-16b18---(16)-------------16pb18r(16)p==14------14-||---------------------------------------------16----||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------|
PM PM E E E E E E E E|------------------------------------||------------------------------------||------------------------------------||---------------------2--------------||--------2---------------------------||--------------0---0-------0-------0-|
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| a a H Q +E E|------------------------------------||------------------------------------||-14h16p14tr16-------16b18r==(16)\---||------------------------------------||------------------------------------||------------------------------------|
PM| PM| E E E E Q Q E E Q E E Q|---------------------|--------------------------||---------------------|--------------------------||---------------------|--------------------------||---------------2-----|------4-----------4-------||-2-------------------|--------------------------||-----0-------0----1--|-2-2---------2-2----------|
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| TP TP TPTPTP TP TPTP
| |-3--| |-3--|
| S S S S S S e Q Q Q +E E E Q +E E E|---------------------|-5---(5)-4-2-5---(5)-4-2--||---------------------|--------------------------||-4p2p0-4p2p0---------|--------------------------||-------------2-2--4--|--------------------------||---------------------|--------------------------||---------------------|--------------------------|
PM-| PM PM
|-3--| |-3-|
E E Q S S S E S S S E E E E E E E E E|------------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------------|---------------------------||--------4----2h=4p2-----------|---------------2-----------||--------------------4-2h4p2-0-|--2------------------------||-2--2-------------------------|-------0-----0---0-----0---|
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| TP TPTPTP TP TPTP TP TP TP TPTP TPTPTPTP TP
| |--3---| |--3--|
| E. S E E +E E E E +E E E Q E E E E E|-5----4-2-5-(5)-----4-2-----5-|-(5)-4---2-5---4-2-5-4---2-||------------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------------|---------------------------|
E E E E Q Q|---------------------------------||---------------------------------||---------------------------------||-------------2-------------------||-2-------------------------------||---0-----0-------------1---------|
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| TP TPTP TP
| |--3--| |-------9:8-------|
| Q E E E S S S S S S S S S|---------------------------------||-5---3-2---0---------------------||-------------4p2p0-4p2p==0-4p2p0-||---------------------------------||---------------------------------||---------------------------------|
PM----| PM| PM--| |-3-| |-3-|
E E Q E E Q E E Q S S S E S S S E|--------------------|-------------------------------------||--------------------|-------------------------------------||--------------------|-------------------------------------||---------4-------4--|---------4-------2h4p2---------------||--------------------|-----------------------4---2h4p2-0---||-2-----2-----2-2----|-2---2-------------------------------|
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| |-3-|| S S S E E E E E Q S S S S S S S S E S S E S S|--------------------|-------------------------------------||--------------------|-------------------------------------||-4-2-0--------------|-4p2---4p2---4p2-------4p2-------4p2-||-------4-4-4-4-4-4--|-----4-----4-----4---------4---------||--------------------|-------------------------------------||--------------------|-------------------------------------|
PM PM E E E E E E E E|--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||----------------------2---------------||-2------------------------------------||------------0------0--------0----0----|
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| ~~~~~~| S +S +E +Q Q. +E|--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||-4b6r(4)b6-(4)-(4)---[4]pb6-----(4)\--||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|
E E E E Q Q|--------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------|||--------------------------2-----------------|||---2----------------------------------------|||--------0-----------0-----------------1-----||
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| S S S S S S S S E E Q|-----13-------------------------------------|||-/13------17p14----14-14-17b19-17b19-17b19r=|||----------------16--------------------------|||--------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------|||--------------------------------------------||
S S S S S e S S S e e S S|---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---0h====1h2-2---2-------2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|
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| +Q. +E E E Q|---------------------------------------||-(17)b19-----------(17)\---x-----------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||---------------------------------------|
Gtr I S S S S S e S S S e Q S S S S S e S S S e e S S|------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2----|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|
S S S S S e S S S e Q S S S S S e S S S e e S S|------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||---------------------2--|---------------------------||---------------------2--|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2----|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|
S S S S S e S S S e Q S S S S S e S S S e E S S|------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||------------------------|---------------------------||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2----|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|
D.S. al Coda PM S S S S S E S S S e E E|--------------------------|||--------------------------|||--------------------------|||--------------------------|||--------------------------|||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2---0--||
Outro & S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S e S S S e S S S S|---------------------------|-----------------------------||---------------------------|-----------------------------||---------------------------|-----------------------------||---------------------------|-----------------------------||---------------------------|-----------------------------||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-x-x-x-x-|
S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S e S S S e Q|---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|------------------------||---------------------------|---------------------2--||---------------------------|---------------------2--||---------------------------|------------------------||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2----|
N.C. S S S S S e S S S e E S S S S S S S e S S S e Q|---------------------------|------------------------*||---------------------------|------------------------*||---------------------------|------------------------*||---------------------------|------------------------*||---------------------------|------------------------*||-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2-2-x-x-|-0h1h2-2---2-2-0h1h2----*|
Duration Legend
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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff
Tablature Legend
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h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
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| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
