War Pigs

by Black Sabbath

🔥 Metal
Difficulty ★★★☆☆
Tuning Standard
Capo None

Tony Iommi's grinding main riff from Paranoid (1970). The sinister descending power chord pattern with that signature tritone interval. The original doom metal riff.

e|---------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------|
D|--5-5-------5-5--4-4--2-2--0-0---------------------|
A|--3-3-------3-3--2-2--0-0-----------3--2--0--------|
E|----------------------------------3---------3--0---|

e|---------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------|
D|--5-5-------5-5--4-4--2-2--0-0-----5--4--2--------|
A|--3-3-------3-3--2-2--0-0-----------3--2--0--------|
E|---------------------------------------------------|