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RATAMAHATTA
As recorded by Sepultura
(From the 1996 Album ROOTS)
Transcribed by Jeff Jacobson, Kerry O'Brien, Paul Pappas, and Steve Gorenberg
Music by Sepultura and Carlinhos Brown
Gtr I (B E A D F# B) - 'Untitled'
Gtr II (B E A D F# B) - 'Untitled'
Gtr III (B E A D F# B) - 'Sitar'
Intro
Moderately Q=104 Faster Q=116
N.C.
4/4
Gtr I
Wx7 W Wx4
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N.C. C5 D5 C5 D5 Gtr I Q E E +E E E E 4x Q E E +E E E E 7x Q E E +E E E E||----------------------||-||--------------------||-------------------||||o--------------------o||-||o------------------o||-------------------||||----------------------||-||--------------------||-------------------||||----------------------||-||--------------------||-------------------||||o--------------------o||-||o----3-------5---5-o||----3-------5---5--||||--0--1-0-(0)--3-0--3--||-||--0--1-0-(0)-3-0-3--||-0--1-0-(0)-3-0-3--||
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| Gtr II| Q E E +E E E E 4x Q E E +E E E E 7x Q E E +E E E E||----------------------||-||--------------------||-------------------||||o--------------------o||-||o------------------o||-------------------||||----------------------||-||--------------------||-------------------||||----------------------||-||--------------------||-------------------||||o-7--8-7-(7)-10-7-10-o||-||o----3-------5---5-o||----3-------5---5--||||----------------------||-||--0--1-0-(0)-3-0-3--||-0--1-0-(0)-3-0-3--||
Verse 1 N.C. Gtrs I, II W +W +W +W|----------|------------|------------|--------||----------|------------|------------|--------||----------|------------|------------|--------||----------|------------|------------|--------||----------|------------|------------|--------||-0--------|-(0)--------|-(0)--------|-(0)----|
C5 D5 Gtr I Wx4 Q E E +E E E E 4x Q E E +E E E E 8x|------------||----------------------||-||--------------------|||------------||o--------------------o||-||o------------------o|||------------||----------------------||-||--------------------|||------------||----------------------||-||--------------------|||------------||o--------------------o||-||o----3-------5---5-o|||------------||--0--1-0-(0)--3-0--3--||-||--0--1-0-(0)-3-0-3--||
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| Gtr II| Wx4 Q E E +E E E E 4x Q E E +E E E E 8x|------------||----------------------||-||--------------------|||------------||o--------------------o||-||o------------------o|||------------||----------------------||-||--------------------|||------------||----------------------||-||--------------------|||------------||o-7--8-7-(7)-10-7-10-o||-||o----3-------5---5-o|||------------||----------------------||-||--0--1-0-(0)-3-0-3--||
Verse 2 N.C. Gtrs I, II W +W +W +W|----------|------------|------------|--------||----------|------------|------------|--------||----------|------------|------------|--------||----------|------------|------------|--------||----------|------------|------------|--------||-0--------|-(0)--------|-(0)--------|-(0)----|
Chorus C5 D5 N.C. Wx4 Q E E +E E E E 6x Wx3|------------||--------------------||--------||------------||o------------------o||--------||------------||--------------------||--------||------------||--------------------||--------||------------||o----3-------5---5-o||--------||------------||--0--1-0-(0)-3-0-3--||--------|
C5 D5
PM----------------|
H Q E. S H.. S S 8x Wx4 Q E E +E E E E 4x|--------------||-----------------||------------||--------------------|||--------------||o---------------o||------------||o------------------o|||--------------||-----------------||------------||--------------------|||--------------||-----------------||------------||--------------------|||--------------||o---------------o||------------||o----3-------5---5-o|||------------0-||--0---------0-0--||------------||--0--1-0-(0)-3-0-3--||
C5 D5 C5 D5 Gtr I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Q E E +E E Q Q E E +E E Q|-12-----12----12-----(12)--12----12------|-12-----12----12-----(12)--12----12------||-15b17--15b17-15b17==(15)r-15b17-15b17---|-15b17--15b17-15b17==(15)r-15b17-15b17---||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
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| Gtr II| Q E E +E E E E Q E E +E E E E|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------||---------3------------------5----------5-|---------3------------------5----------5-||--0------1-----0------(0)---3-----0----3-|--0------1-----0------(0)---3-----0----3-|
C5 D5 C5 D5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Q E E +E E Q Q E E +E E +S +E S|-12-----12----12-----(12)--12----12------|-12-----12----12-----(12)--12----------------------||-15b17--15b17-15b17==(15)r-15b17-15b17---|-15b17--15b17-15b17==(15)r-15b17==(15)r(15)---12---||-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
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| Q E E +E E E E Q E E +E E E E|-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------||---------3------------------5----------5-|---------3------------------5---------------5------||--0------1-----0------(0)---3-----0----3-|--0------1-----0------(0)---3-------0-------3------|
N.C. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ E +Q. +H +W +W +W|----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||-14b16r(14)---(14)----|-(14)--------|-(14)--------|-(14)----|||----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------||
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| W +W +W +W|----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||----------------------|-------------|-------------|---------|||--0-------------------|--(0)--------|--(0)--------|--(0)----||
Gtr II +W +W Wx5|------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|--------||------------|------------|--------||-(0)--------|-(0)--------|--------|
Gtr I PM------------------| PM| H Q E S S H.. S S 4x H.. S S 4x|---------------||-----------------||-||-----------------|||---------------||o---------------o||-||o---------------o|||---------------||-----------------||-||-----------------|||---------------||-----------------||-||-----------------|||---------------||o---------------o||-||o---------------o|||-----------0-0-||--0---------0-0--||-||--0---------0-0--||
Gtrs I, II PM| PM| H.. S S H.. S S||----------------------|---------------------|||o---------------------|---------------------|||----------------------|---------------------|||----------------------|---------------------|||o---------------------|---------------------|||--0---------------0-0-|-0---------------0-0-|
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| Gtr III| Q E. S +H Q E. S +H||----------------------|---------------------|||o---------7-(7)-------|---------7-(7)-------|||-------7--------------|------7--------------|||----------------------|---------------------|||o---------------------|---------------------|||----------------------|---------------------|
PM| PM| H.. S S H.. S S|---------------------|-----------------------|||---------------------|----------------------o|||---------------------|-----------------------|||---------------------|-----------------------|||---------------------|----------------------o|||-0---------------0-0-|-0---------------0-0---||
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| Q E. S +H Q E. S +H|---------------------|-----------------------|||---------7-(7)-------|---------7-(7)--------o|||------7--------------|------7----------------|||---------------------|-----------------------|||---------------------|----------------------o|||---------------------|-----------------------||
5/4 W +H H W|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:|-0-----------:-(0)-----------:--------------------------------------:
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| |-3-| |-3-| |-3-| |-3-|
| H Q E E H. E E +Q. S S S E S S S E S S S E S S S|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:|-------------:-----------7---:--------------------------------------:|---------9-7-:--9----------9-:-(9)---7h9p7-6-6h7p6-4-4h6p4-2-2h4p2--:|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:|-------------:---------------:--------------------------------------:
4/4 Gtr III Gtr I ~~ Q H. W Q Q Q Q H +Q Q W|--------------:----------:-------------:-----------------:------*||--------------:----------:----------7s=:=21----(21)\-----:------*||-1h=2tr1------:----------:-------------:-----------------:------*||--------------:----------:-------------:-----------------:------*||--------------:----------:-xs=xs=x-----:-----------------:------*||--------------:----------:-xs=xs=x-----:-----------------:------*|
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
