GH:M Advice on Hitting Difficult Phrases and Sections

**BrianBAM19** · Last edited by BrianBAM19 on Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:30 pm; edited 4 times in total

Lately, I've had a lot of success getting the right pitches to extremely hard parts of songs, and I've been able to FC them with these pitches. This thread is to help anyone who also has difficulty hitting these parts by listing the correct pitches for these sections. For help on determining what pitch is what, use this keyboard.

NOTE:When I have a part listed like this: "gun" C -> Bb, that signals a slide where the pitch changes in the same word.

Sections:
Stone Cold Crazy's Final Verse From Hell
"Walking down the street shoot-" - F
"-ing" - D
"people that I meet" - F

"With" - F
"my" - D
"rubber" - G
"tommy" - F
"water" - D
"gun" C -> Bb

"Here" - C -> D
"come the" - D
"dep-" - C
"-uty he's" - D
"gon-" - C
"-na come and" - D
"get-" - C
"-ta me" - D

"I" - D
"gotta" - G
"get me" - F
"get" - C
"up and" - D
"run" - C -> Bb

"They" - G
"got" - Bb
"the" - G
"sirens" D -> C -> Bb
"loose" - G

"I" - G
"ran" - Bb
"right" - G
"out-" - D -> C
"-ta" - Bb
"juice" - D

"They" - C
"-'re gon-" - D
"-na put me in" - F
"a" - D
"cell if" - F
"I" - D
"can't go" - F
"to" - D
"heaven" - F

"Will" - F
"they" - D
"let" - G
"me" - F
"go" - D
"to" - Bb
"hell" - C -> D

"Cra-" D -> E
"-zy" D -> C

Fight Fire with Fire's choruses and ending
1st chorus:
"Fight" - talky
"Fire" - E
"with fi-" - B
"-re" - Bb

2nd and 3rd choruses:
"Fight" - talky
"Fi-" - G
"-re" - E
"with fi-" - B
"-re" - Bb

Ending(or rather, how it goes, not how I recommend you sing it):
"Fight" - E
"Fi-" - G
"-re" - E
"with fi-" - B
"-re" - Bb

What I suggest for the ending is that you skip the ""-re" - E" entirely, because it's so small that it won't really benefit you at all, in fact, going for that pitch will probably hurt you. So really, sing it like this:

"Fight" - E
"Fire" - G
"with fi-" - B
"-re" - Bb

If this still doesn't help, and you need to hear it by ear, then use this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83EeQZNJFGM&feature=channel_page

The Black River
I only have advice for one phrase so far, but this phrase is a huge combo breaker, because it's so small, and the required precision is so huge. Credit to GuitarHailz for this phrase.

"Together you cross":
"Togeth-" - E
"-er you" - C#
"cross" - C# -> B

Hit the Lights (the stupid phrase)(Credit to GuitarHailz)
"Wanna" - G
"stop" - B
"again" - G=>A (You can get away with singing just A)

Hell Bent For Leather(Credit to bh0ukk)
Yet no one knows from where he comes
| Bb | C | D | G | D | E |

War Ensemble
This is the only phrase that ever gave me a ton of trouble on the song, and I've heard plenty of others who have sang this song cite this phrase as the biggest FC breaker, probably because it's hard to detect the F# in "descend" by ear.
"Des-" - F#
"-cend" - E
"onto my sights" - D# -> talky
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

You are god.

Hit the Lights (the stupid phrase)
"Wanna" - G
"stop" - B
"again" - G=>A (You can get away with singing just A)
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**matt1592** · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 51

This actually helps a ton. I've done it on "AND YOU break your crown" on King Nothing and I think I may have done it on some GHWT song. I personally think that its a difficult thing to do. But everyone has come across that one phrase that you just can't figure out. However, I don't like the idea that people can do a song word by word and FC it......
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**BrianBAM19** · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:22 am Post subject:

For SCC, I went into practice mode and figured out the pitch of every word in every phrase in the final verse. I didn't bother trying to FC it. :P I doubt I could FC it anyway, to be honest. Hopefully someone finds this helpful, though.
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**GuitarHailz** · Joined: 11 Jun 2007 Posts: 4910 Location: Austin, Texas

LOL. You'd have to have some mad skills to FC SCC by singing it word for word with a reference pitch. You'd still have to know all the pitches anyway, I don't see what the problem is to use a keyboard to help.

Surely you're not suggesting people would pause after every word and find the next pitch. I don't think that's possible at all on SCC. And on other songs we can't exactly stop people from figuring out the pitches and doing that. We just go by the honor system.
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**bh0ukk** · Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 20

very useful!!
thanks

i did the same with Lvia Lviaquez mmms.

**tidus** · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 11:23 am Post subject:

You are made of pure, unadulterated win.

Now I can FC Hit the Lights, break 100k on SCC (maybe...), etc. I was finding some method for those stupid "Wanna stop again" phrases. I mean, I know the "Wanna" is the same as "again", but I needed some consistency in go down.

Thanks a lot!

Looking forward to see more helpful stuff here!

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But yeah, lol @ the fact that you can say "she" in this thread and not be sure which person is being talked about. Now we know whose milkshake brings all the girls to the yard.

<3 this.

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Other good ones to do:
"I'll get ya, I'll get ya" - One Way Or Another
"Crazy", "Maybe" - Crazy Train
I can't figure out those pitches right now, but I'll do this in a little bit if noone else does.

Edit: I guess those are World Tour ones, but we could expand the scope of this thread or make a new one for GHWT.
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**bh0ukk** · Joined: 10 Jun 2006 Posts: 20

Hell Bent For Lethah

Yet no one knows from where he comes
| Bb | C | D | G | D | E |

The from is really short, maybe it's better to skip it....
He actually sing the G one octave higher than the rest of the phrase.

His singing sounds pretty funny IMO.

**BrianBAM19** · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject:

I think it's a better idea to just have separate threads for both World Tour and Metallica. If someone else wants to start the World Tour thread, be my guest.

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