Song: Ice Age
Artist: How to Destroy Angels
Album: The Omen EP
Tuning: Drop Bb and/or Drop D
NOTES (READ BEFOREHAND):
I tabbed this in two tunings for this piece. Drop Bb (Bb, F, Bb, Eb, G, C) and a Drop D
(DADGBE) for those people who donÂ’t want to tune down.
And itÂ’s basically all palm-muted (and most likely finger picked) unless said otherwise.
This is in two parts. The lowest Bb (or D) string is the rhythm, while the rest are the
melody. Also, thereÂ’s a lot going more going on in this song, so this is just the
skeleton. I plan to edit this some more and flesh it out later.
DROP Bb VERSION
Main Riff|------------------------------------------------------------------||-------11------11------14------12------12------11-----------------||-----11------11------11------11------11------11-------------------||-----------------------------------------------------11----1312---||------------------------------------------------------------------||-4-------4-------4-------4-------4-------4-------4-------4--------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------||-------11------11------14------12------12------11-----------------||-----11------11------11------11------11------11--9-------9---9----||-----------------------------------------------------11-----------||---------------------------------------------------------------12-||-4-------4-------4-------4-------4-------4------------------------|
Refrain|-----21------21------21------21------21------21------21------21---| These|------------------------------------------------------------------| are|---------18------18------18------18------18------18------18-------| muted.|------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------||-2-------2-------2-------2-------0-------0-------0-------0--------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------5-------5-----------------5---------4-------4---12---||-----------------------6-------------4---4------------------------||-4---6-------------4-----7-----------------7----------------------||---------9--------------------------------------------------------||-4---6-----------4-----------------4---------------4-4------------|
|-----21------21------21------21------21------21------21------21---| These|------------------------------------------------------------------| are|---------18------18------18------18------18------18------18-------| muted.|------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------||-2-------2-------2-------2-------0-------0-------0-------0--------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------10-------||---------------------8---6----------------------------------------||-------------------7-------7-------------------------------7------||-----------------------------------------------------9-------7----||-4-------4-------4---------------4-------4-------4----------------|
Main Riff at 2:45|---------------------------------------------------------16--14---||-------11------11------14------12------12------11-----------------||-----11------11------11------11------11------11-------------------||-----------------------------------------------------11----1312---||------------------------------------------------------------------||-4-------4-------4-------4-------4-------4-------4-------4--------|
|-12---------------------------------------------------------------||-------11------11------14------12------12------11-----------------||-----11------11------11------11------11------11--9-------9---9----||-----------------------------------------------------11-----------||---------------------------------------------------------------12-||-4-------4-------4-------4-------4-------4------------------------|
Every once and a while a guitar strikes|------------||------------||-11~--------||-11~--------||------------||------------|
and|--------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------||-4~-----------------------------------------------------------------||-4~-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Ending6:16 6:36|---------------------------------14---------10-12-8~----||------------------------------14------------------------||---11~--------------------------------------------------||---11~------------11--11--------------------------------||------------------9---9---------------------------------||-4------------------------------------------------------|
Another part repeats this|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----11------11------11------11----||-----9-------9-------9-------9-----||-4-------4-------4-------4---------|
And then it fades out
DROP D VERSION
(one can take the low D string and tune it down to a Bb if you want to have the correct octaves)
Main Riff|------------------------------------------------------------------||-------7-------7-------10------8-------8-------7------------------||-----7-------7-------7-------7-------7-------7--------------------||-----------------------------------------------------7-----9-8----||------------------------------------------------------------------||-0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0--------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------||-------7-------7-------10------8-------8-------7------------------||-----7-------7-------7-------7-------7-------7---5-------5---5----||-----------------------------------------------------7------------||---------------------------------------------------------------8--||-0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0------------------------|
Refrain|-----17------17------17------17------17------17------17------17---| These|------------------------------------------------------------------| are|---------14------14------14------14------14------14------14-------| muted.|------------------------------------------------------------------||-3-------3-------3-------3-------1-------1-------1-------1--------||------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------1-------1-----------------1---------0-------0---8----||-----------------------2-------------0---0------------------------||-0---2-------------0-----3-----------------3----------------------||---------5--------------------------------------------------------||-0---2-----------0-----------------0---------------0-0------------|
|-----17------17------17------17------17------17------17------17---| These|------------------------------------------------------------------| are|---------14------14------14------14------14------14------14-------| muted.|------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------||-2-------2-------2-------2-------0-------0-------0-------0--------|
|------------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------6--------||---------------------4---2----------------------------------------||-------------------3-------3-------------------------------3------||-----------------------------------------------------5-------3----||-0-------0-------0---------------0-------0-------0----------------|
Main Riff at 2:45|---------------------------------------------------------12--10---||-------7-------7-------10------8-------8-------7------------------||-----7-------7-------7-------7-------7-------7--------------------||-----------------------------------------------------7-----9-8----||------------------------------------------------------------------||-0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0--------|
|-8----------------------------------------------------------------||-------7-------7-------10------8-------8-------7------------------||-----7-------7-------7-------7-------7-------7---5-------5---5----||-----------------------------------------------------7------------||---------------------------------------------------------------8--||-0-------0-------0-------0-------0-------0------------------------|
Every once and a while a guitar strikes|-----------||-----------||-7~--------||-7~--------||-----------||-----------|
and|--------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------||-0~-----------------------------------------------------------------||-0~-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Ending6:16 6:36|---------------------------------10---------6-8-4~----||------------------------------10----------------------||---7~-------------------------------------------------||---7~-------------7---7-------------------------------||------------------5---5-------------------------------||-0----------------------------------------------------|
Another part repeats this|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----7------7-------7-------7------||-----5------5-------5-------5------||-0-------0-------0-------0---------|
