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“WELCOME HOME (SANITARIUM)”

Metallica

track features great clean electric guitar parts, in addition to their trademark punchy, down-picked power chord riffs, ripping yet melodic guitar solos and pummelling double-time thrash grooves. The hauntingly beautiful clean intro, performed by James Hetfield, while not difficult to play, demands classical-like precision in execution, meaning steady timing, clean note articulation and no unwanted sounds from unused strings. The recurring arpeggiated main riff beginning at section B, bar 9, and labeled , involves shifting two-finger shapes up and down the fretboard as seamlessly as possible while letting the picked open G, D

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