FLASHPOINT
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Artist:  Fear Factory
Song:  "Flashpoint"
Album:  Demanufacture
Label:  Roadrunner Records, copyright 1995, (The All-Blacks B.V.)

Dry Lung Vocal Martyr:  Burton C. Bell
Heavy Duty Scarifier:  Dino Cazares
Total Harmonic Distortion:  Christian Olde Wolbers
Maximum Effective Pulse Generator:  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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This is the eighth track off "Demanufacture." Although it's one of the 
less-played tracks off the album, I think it's pretty good and it'd 
probably be a lot of fun to play with a band (except the absence of all 
the keyboards might make it sound a little empty).  Dino doesn't pull 
any surprises with his sound--it's just the standard scooped sound (no 
midrange, lots of treble, lots of bass) layered with an equally tight 
distortion.  

Dropped-D tuning (D, A, D, G, B, E)

LEGEND:
        
        *    -- palm-mute 
        H    -- hit-on
        P    -- pull-off
        ~~~~ -- vibrato
        A.H. -- Artificial Harmonic
        N.H. -- Natural Harmonic

Upbeat, faster speed

Intro with studio sounds, drums, bass, and then guitar comes in doubled 
by sythnthesizers

Riff A:

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|----------6-----------6-6-----------6-----------6-6--|
|--0-0---0-6---0-0---0-6-6---0-0---0-6---0-0---0-6-6--|
   * *   *     * *   *       * *   *     * *   *

Riff B:

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|----------6-----------6-6-----------6-----------6-6--|
|--0-0---0-6-----------6-6---0-0---0-6---------0-6-6--|
   * *   *                   * *   *           *

Riff C:

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|----------------------6-6-----------------------6-6--|
|----------------------6-6-----------------------6-6--|
                       * *                       * *

Riff D:

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|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--111--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--111--|
|-1--1--1--1--1--1--1--111--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--111--|

Riff E:

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|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--000--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---1---3|
|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--000--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---1---3|

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|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--000--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---1---3|
|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--000--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---1---3|

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|--1---3---4--|
|--1---3---4--|


Riff F:

Let chords ring out

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|-6----8-5----8-4----8-3----1----6----8-10----9----(6)--(5)-|
|-6----8-5----8-4----8-3----1----6----8-10----9----(6)--(5)-|
|-6----8-5----8-4----8-3----1----6----8-10----9----(6)--(5)-|



Song Structure:

Riff A 2 times
Riff B 2 times
Riff A 2 times
Riff C 2 times
Riff A 2 times
Riff A 2 times
Riff D 2 times
Riff E 1 time
Riff A 4 times
Riff F 1 time
(bass then plays harmony in Riff F under Burton’s soaring vocals)
Riff F 1 time (doubled by another track of guitar playing the same 
harmony only set to the snare drum’s rhythm)
Riff D 2 times
Riff E 1 time
Riff A 2 times, ending on two blunt D5 chord hits

Note:  in case any of you don’t know, a D5 is just

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|--0--|
|--0--|
|--0--|

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