artist: killswitch engage
 song: life to lifeless
 album: alive or just breathing
 transcribed by: brad manz (dystopia@mchsi.com)

 as always, tuning is dropped C style (C-G-C-F-A-D).

 this is by far the simplest song KSE plays. the only part that may
 get some beginners is the trill-like part.

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 do a pick scrape/slide, then this
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 verse, how easy is this?!
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 god, i can't keep up!
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 not gonna bother tabbing this right, it's just open chords
 guitar 2 is in the background playing the same thing at about half speed
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 back to the verse
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|--5--0--0--0--6--0--0--0--5-------------------------------------------------|
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 and here's the chorus, notice the mutes
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|--5/7--5--5--3---5-5-0-0-5-5-5---5/7--5--5--3--0----------------------------|
|--3/5--3--5--3---3-3-0-0-3-3-3---3/5--3--5--3--0----------------------------|
|----------5--3---3-3-0-0-3-3-3-----------5--3--0----------------------------|
           m  m                           m  m

 finally, something worth playing
 reminds me of a cannibal corpse riff or something
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|--------------------3-6-----------------------------------------------------|
|--5h8p5p0-----------3-6-----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------3h6p3p0--3-6-----------------------------------------------------|

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|--------------------0-0-0-0-------------------------------------------------|
|--5h8p5p0-----------0-0-0-0-------------------------------------------------|
|-----------3h6p3p0--0-0-0-0-------------------------------------------------|

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|--5h8p5p0-----------3-8-----------------------------------------------------|
|-----------3h6p3p0--3-8-----------------------------------------------------|

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|--5--6--0-------------------------------------------------------------------|
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|--5--0--0--0--6--0--0--0--7-------------------------------------------------|
|--5--0--0--0--6--0--0--0--5-------------------------------------------------|
|--5--0--0--0--6--0--0--0----------------------------------------------------|

 and so on..