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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 (Riff E just takes a lot of practice in the tuning), 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, F#, B)

LEGEND:
        
        *    -- palm-mute 
        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

|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|----------------------------|
|-5----6--------5----6----7--|
|-3--4-4--5-2---3--4-4--5-5--|
|----2----3-0------2----3----|

Riff B

Let the first chord ring out depress the whammy bar just 
slightly, and then slam on the second and slide quickly 
down the neck.

|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|
|-(2)------------------------------------------9-\---|
|--2-------------------------------------------7-\---|
|--0-------------------------------------------------|

Riff C

During the verses, where there is only Burton singing and 
the drums, there is a bit of keyboard noise that makes it's 
way in.  Transposed onto the guitar, it looks like..

|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-(14)-----(13)-----(12)-----(11)--|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|

Riff D

|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|---------------------------|
|-5--6-6-------5--6-6----7--|
|-3--4-4--5-2--3--4-4--7-5--|
|---------3-0----------5----|

Riff E

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.

|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------|
|--33333333444444------33333333444444---555555--|
|----------------333300--------------555--------|
   *******************************************

Riff F

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

|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------|
|-3--3--3--2------3--3--3--2------3--3--3--2--|
|-3--3--3--2------3--3--3--2------3--3--3--2--|
|-1--1--1--0------1--1--1--0------1--1--1--0--|
  *  *  *  *      *  *  *  *      *  *  *  *

Riff G

|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--2-----1--3--3--3--2--2-----0--3--3--3--2--|
|-----0-----3--3--3--2-----0-----3--3--3--2--|
|-----------1--1--1--0-----------1--1--1--0--|
            *  *  *  *           *  *  *  *

Riff H

|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|
|--2-----5--3--3--3--2--2-----4--3--3--3--2--|
|-----0--6--3--3--3--2-----0--5--3--3--3--2--|
|-----------1--1--1--0-----------1--1--1--0--|
            *  *  *  *           *  *  *  *

Riff I

Again, in each of the two spaces, Raymond hits the 
hi-hat while Burton sings "Suffer...bastard..." 

|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|------3--3--3--2------3--3--3--2--|
|------3--3--3--2------3--3--3--2--|
|------1--1--1--0------1--1--1--0--|
       *  *  *  *      *  *  *  *

Riff J

the bass guitar fills in spaces between the chords.
All chords are played staccato.

                       <--depress whammy slow-->
|-------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------------------|
|--5------5------5--------------------------------|
|--5------5------5--------------------------------|
|--3------3------3------333333444444555555444444--|
|-------------------------------------------------|

Riff K

|--------------|
|--------------|
|--------------|
|-5----6-------|
|-3--4-4--5-2--|
|----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 1 time
Riff D 4 times
Riff E 4 times
Riff D 4 times
Riff E 4 times
Riff F 1 time 
Riff G 3 times
Riff H 2 times
Riff I 2 times
Riff G 3 times
Riff H 2 times
Riff A 2 times
Riff B 1 time

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

Riff C 1 time
Riff D 4 times
Riff E 4 times
Riff J 1 time
Riff E 4 times
Riff K 1 time and end abruptly.