------------------------------------------------------------- Artist: Fear Factory Song: "Pisschrist" 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. ------------------------------------------------------------- This is a lot of people's favorite off of Demanufacture and I've had a few requests for it, I believe. On a side note, "Pisschrist" was inspired by a photograph of the same name by Andres Serrano. The photograph depicts Christ on the cross immersed in a bowl of Serrano's urine. Serrano has long been known as an extreme artist, and has worked with a few other metal bands (he mixed his blood and semen to produce the front cover of Metallica's "Load" and he also directed the video for Godflesh's "Crush My Soul" in which singer/guitarist Justin Broadrick has several gallons of real goat's blood poured onto him). Anyway, on to the song. It would be very prudent to stretch out your right wrist before attempting this song because there are a lot of triplets in the rhythm, which is not only confusing but also tiring. Master this song riff by riff; play each riff individually until you get a good feel for it and then move on to the next. Once you feel secure with all the riffs, try the song as a whole. Rhythmically, this incorporates a lot of Dino's trademark rhythms. There is a lot of speed-picking in here, which he uses on several songs (e.g. Demanufacture, Self Bias Resistor, etc.), a little slow, atmosphere-creating harmony (e.g. Zero Signal, A Therapy For Pain), and a few more tricks you'll run into. Have fun! 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: 5 or 6 seconds of atmospheric studio noise (sampled from the movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day if I'm not mistaken) Riff A Played over the backdrop of the eerie noise from Terminator 2 |-------------| |-------------| |-------------| |-------------| |-------------| |--444444444--| ********* Riff B |---------------------------------| |---------------------------------| |---------------------------------| |---------------------------------| |----5-------5-------5------------| |--4---444-4---444-4---444444444--| * *** * *** * ********* |----------------------------------| |----------------------------------| |----------------------------------| |----------------------------------| |----5-------5-------5-------------| |--4---444-4---444-4---444-444-444-| * *** * *** * *** *** *** Riff C |----------------------------------| |----------------------------------| |----------------------------------| |----------------------------------| |------(3)------(3)------(3)--7-9--| |--222------222------222------5-7--| *** *** *** |-------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------| |-------------------------------------| |------(3)------(3)------(3)--222222--| |--222------222------222--------------| *** *** *** ****** Riff D Played over "So we lie.." |-----------------------------------| |-----------------------------------| |-----------------------------------| |-----------------------------------| |--------5-------5-------5-----7-9--| |--444-4---444-4---444-4---(4)-5-7--| *** * *** * *** * * Riff E Also played over "So we lie.." Let all notes ring loudly and clearly |------------------------------| |------------------------------| |------------------------------| |-(7)----(11)----(5)----(9)----| |--5------9-------3------7-----| |------------------------------| Riff F The tremolo-picked notes must be picked pretty fast |--------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------| |--------------------------------------------------------------| |-------------999999999999------------------999999999999-------| |-777777777777-------------9757-777777777777-------------9757--| ************************ **** ************************ **** |-----------------------------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------| |-12-----12-----11-----11-----9-----9-----------------| |-10-----10-----9------9------7-----7-----9-----------| |----0-0----0-0----0-0----0-0---0-0---0-0-7-0-0-9757--| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * **** Riff G |-----------------------------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------| |-12-----12-----11-----11-----9-----9-----------------| |-10-----10-----9------9------7-----7-----9-----------| |----0-0----0-0----0-0----0-0---0-0---0-0-7-0-0-9757--| * * * * * * * * * * * * * * **** Riff H This chord is played at the very end of the song, and Burton's singing closes the song. It is very staccato (does not ring for very long). |-------| |-------| |-------| |-(12)--| |-(10)--| |-------| Song Structure Riff A 5 times Riff B 8 times Riff C 2 times Riff B 4 times Riff C 2 times Riff D 4 times Riff E 3 times Riff A 1 time Riff B 6 times Riff C 2 times Riff D 4 times Riff E 3 times Riff F 4 times Riff G 8 times Riff H 1 time
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