Martyr

Song

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Artist: Fear Factory

Song: "Martyr"

Album: "Soul of A New Machine"

Label: Roadrunner Records, copyright 1992, (The All-Blacks B.V.)

Dry Lung Vocal Martyr: Burton C. Bell

All Discordant Guitars & Bass, Hardware, Utilities: Dino Cazares

Dicordant Bass: Andrew Shives

Variable Percussive Wrecking: Raymond Herrera

Thanks a lot to Yani and Ray for giving me the opportunity to do this.

My name is Dimitrije Kostic and any questions about this tab or any

others in the Fear Factory Tablature Archive can be emailed to me at

martyr@fearfactory.com

I will gladly investigate any possible errors in any tablature on this site.

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"Martyr" is the hard-hitting opening song on Soul of A New Machine and

it (for me) sets the tone of the rest of the album. It is my favorite

song on this album.

For the most part, the song is not extremely difficult. It has it's

tricky parts but for the most part, a decent sense of rhythm should

navigate you through the song. Enjoy!

Tune all strings down a perfect fourth (B, E, A, D)

LEGEND:

H -- hit-on

P -- pull-off

~~~~ -- vibrato

A.H. -- Artificial Harmonic

N.H. -- Natural Harmonic

/ -- slide up

\ -- slide down

moderate speed

Intro: Song kicks right in...

Riff A

|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|-3----4--------3----4----5--|
|----2----3-0------2----3----|

Riff B

|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------7-\---|
|--0-------------------------------------------------|

Riff C

|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|-3--4-4-------3--4-4----5--|
|---------3-0----------5----|

Riff D

Note: the number of pick strokes here is sort of

arbitrary, but I made my best guess as to how

many there are actually there; just pick each

note for an appropriate length of time.

|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|--3-3-3-3-4-4-4-------3-3-3-3-4-4-4-----5-5-5--|
|----------------3-3-0---------------5-5--------|

Riff E

In each of the two spaces, Raymond hits the hi-hat

three times

|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-1--1--1--0------1--1--1--0------1--1--1--0--|

Riff F

|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|-----------1--1--1--0-----------1--1--1--0--|

Riff G

Again, in each of the two spaces, Raymond hits the

hi-hat while Burton sings "Suffer...bastard..."

|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|------1--1--1--0------1--1--1--0--|

Riff H

|---------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------------|
|--3---------3---------3---------3-3-3-4-4-4-5-5-5-4-4-4--|
|----1-1-0-0---1-1-0-0---1-1-0-0--------------------------|

Riff I

|--------------|
|--------------|
|-3----4-------|
|----2----3-0--|

Song Structure

Riff A 2 times

Riff B 1 time

Then, silence while Burton does the first four lines of the verse

Riff C 4 times

Riff D 4 times

Riff C 4 times

Riff D 4 times

Riff E 1 time

Riff F 5 times

Riff G 2 times

Riff F 5 times

Riff A 2 times

Riff B 1 time

Then, silence while Burton does the first four lines of the verse

Riff C 4 times

Riff D 4 times

Riff H 1 time

Riff D 4 times

Riff I 1 time and end abruptly.