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Silent Force Tab

by Altar


 "Silent Force" as performed by Altar on their album "Ego Art" Also on the 
 "Smells Like Team Spirit II" compilation


Tuning: Drop D (DEDGBe)
I use the standard notation legend
h         Hammer-On
PM |--|   Palm Mute

Altar (Dutch Death Metal) is:
 Edwin Kelder - vocals
 Marcel Verdurmen - Guitars
 Bert Huisjes - Guitars
 Nils Vos - Bass
 Marco Arends - Drums

Total time of the song: 5:25 

Very cool song. I've got it from the Displeased Records compilation "Smells
like team spirit II". There's also "World" from Altar. I'll be posting that
one later. I'm not able to figure out the solo, but you'll get along with 
"only" this. Here is "Silent Force" !!!

INTRO (w/clean electric guitar 1)  3x
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|--5---5---5---/10--6-6-6-5---------|
D|-0---0---0---0---------------------|
Third time guitar 2 joins and plays the same

4th time (guitar 1, clean)
e|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------|
A|--5---5---5--(volume swell)-----------|
D|-0---0---0-------------------1-1-1-1--|
                               PM-----|
            
(0:15)Main Riff (both guitars)     6x (3rd to 6th time w/ vocals)
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-0-----------------------------4-3-----------------------------|
A|-0-----------------------------4-3-----------------------------|
D|-0-----------------0-0-0-0-0-0-4-3--------------1-1-1-1-1-1----|
                     PM---------|                |-----------|

(0:58)Upper TAB is lead guitar (1); lower rythm (2)                      2x
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------5--3--6--5----------------------5--3--6--10--6--------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
 |                                                                        |
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-0--------------------------1-3-1-0---------------------------1-3-1-0---|
A|-0--------------------------1-3-1-0---------------------------1-3-1-0---|
D|-0--------------------------1-3-1-0---------------------------1-3-1-0---|
                                                                  PM-|
At (1:12) repeat from Main Riff, but play Main Riff 4 just times.

(1:54)gtr. 2                          8x
e|--------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------8---|
D|----------------------------------8---|
A|--3h5-----3h5-----3h5-----3h5-----6---|
D|------0-0-----0-0-----0-0-----0-0-----|
        PM-|   |---|   |---|   |---|

(2:20)A little fill-in
e|------------------------|
B|------------------------|
G|------------------------|
D|------------------------|
A|-9--8-7--6-5-4--3-4-5-6-|
D|------------------------|

                                                                 8x
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--8-7--6-7--8-7--6-7--8-7-6-7------------------------------------|
    I'm still working on these - I'm not sure if it are just notes or
    whole chords...

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|