band: Iced Earth
song: Melancholy (Holy Martyr)
album: Something Wicked This Way Comes
transcribed by: Spyros Soldatos
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Frontrow/8281/
notation:
^ = bend
^> = bend and release
x = fret-hand muting
. = pick-hand muting
spm.= slight palm muting
h = hammer-on
p = pull-off
~ = vibrato
t = tap-on
/ = slide up
\ = slide down
ah. = artificial harmonics
nh. = natural harmonics
(9) = ghost note
" = trem picking
Tuning: E=Eb A=Ab D=Db G=Gb B=Bb e=e
Rh.Fig.1 (I think that the highest notes are doubled by a guitar playing 1 octave lower) Em D(no5) C 2x||------7-----7-5-|-3-2------|-------2-3-0-|-------3-2----||||*---------------|----------|-------------|-----------3-*||||----------------|----------|-----0-------|-----0--------||||----5-----5-----|----------|---4---------|---2----------||||*-7-----7-------|----------|-5-----------|-3-----------*||||----------------|----------|-------------|--------------||
Verse 1 w/Rh.Fig.1 (4x)
Em D(no5) C
Make the sadness go away come back another
Em D(no5) C
day. For years I've tried to teach but their eyes are
Em D(no5) C
empty. Empty too I have become for them I must
Em D(no5) C
die. A sad and troubled race an ungrateful troubled place
Rh.Fig.2 E5 D5 4x ||----------------------------|-----------------------------||||*---------------------------|----------------------------*||||--9-----9-------------------|-7-----7---------------------||||--9-----9-------------------|-7-----7---------------------||||*-7-7-7-7-------------------|-5-5-5-5--------------------*||||----------------------------|-----------------------------|| P.M. P.M.
Chorus w/Rh.Fig.2 (4x)
E5 D5
I see the sadness in their eyes melancholy in their
E5 D5
cries. Devoid of all the passion the human spirit cannot
E5 D5
die. Look at the pain around me this is what I
E5 D5
cry for. Look at the pain around me this is what I die for
Repeat Rh.Fig.1
Verse 2 w/Rh.Fig.1 (4x)
Make the sadness go away come back another day
The things I've said and done don't matter to anyone
But still you push me to see something I can never be
Why am I their shuttered king? I don't mean anything
Chorus w/Rh.Fig.2 (4x)
Rh.Fig.3/solo E5 D5 C5 2x||-------------------------------------|-------------------------||||*------------------------------------|------------------------*||||--9-----9--9-----9--9-----9--9-----9-|-7-----7-----5-----5-----||||--9-----9--9-----9--9-----9--9-----9-|-7-----7-----5-----5-----||||*-7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7--7-7-7-7-|-5-5-5-5-----3-3-3-3----*||||-------------------------------------|-------------------------|| P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. P.M.
Chorus w/Rh.Fig.2 (till end)
