Playing Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' Intro

This is a short and easy intro followed by a guitar trick that's quite hard to pull off (I haven't really got it down yet). Enter Sandman is a great song that's very popular (and a bit overplayed!). Here it is incase you're a complete phillistine.
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The tab for the intro is:

e|------------------|
B|------0-----------|
G|------------------|
D|----7-------------|
A|--------------7---|
E|--0-----6--5------|

Easy enough. =) Here's the difficult part (for me at least:

e|------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------|
A|-2/7----------------2/7-------------------|
E|-----0-0-0-0-0-0-0------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-----|

You may not have seen a forward-slash in tab before - what this means is that you slide from the first fret written to the second. So in this case you start with your finger on the second fret, pluck the string and then slide your finger down to the 7th fret really fast. It's easy to do, but hard to make it sound right. After that it's just a case of plucking the top string.

Here's a good video that shows you how to play both these parts (and the entire song), it actually includes the tab at the bottom right of the video too so you can see what parts he's playing. The actual instructions start at about 1:10 into the video, after he's finished a short demonstration.



Good luck with that, the first part is good easy practice and the second should push you a bit.