Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Intro

by Metallica

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

The clean arpeggio intro from Master of Puppets (1986). This Em-based picking pattern with open strings creates an eerie, institutionalized atmosphere before the heavy riff kicks in.

  Em
e|--0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0---|
B|----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-|
G|------0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----0-----|
D|------2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-----0-----|
A|--2-----2-----------0-----0-----2-----2---------|
E|------------------------------------------------|

  Am                           Em
e|--0-----0-----0-----0------|--0-----0-----0-----0---|
B|----1-----1-----1-----1----|----0-----0-----0-----0-|
G|------2-----2-----2-----2--|------0-----0-----0-----|
D|------2-----2-----2-----2--|------2-----2-----2-----|
A|--0-----0-----0-----0------|--2-----2-----2-----2---|
E|---------------------------|------------------------|