------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ------------------------------------------------------------- "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.