Band: Dark Tranquillity
Album: Character
Song: Lost to Apathy
Copyright (c) Century Media Records 2005
Version 2.0 - October 24, 2006
Transcribed By: hate_thy_neighbor
Email: negative12002@aol.com
. - palm mute / - slide up to
\ - slide down to ~ - vibrato
h - hammer on b - Bend
p - pull off Suffixes for bend
t - tap f - full bend h - half bend
ph - pinched harmonic q - quarter bend t - tap bend
* - see comment ^ - Hold bend r release bend
x - Stuccatto ~ - vibrato bend
, - slight palm mute () - ghost note, sustained note
" - tremolo pick <> - Trill
Tuning: Down 1 1/2 step (Db Gb B E Ab Db)
Riff 1 |------------------------------|-------------------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------------------||o----------------------------o|-5----5-5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5----2---4h5-4~~~-||o-2----2-2-2-2-2----2-2-2-2--o|-5----5-5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5-5---------------||--2----2-2-2-2-2----2-2-2-2---|-3----3-3-3-3-3----3-3-3-3-----------------||--0----0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0---|-------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------|-------------------------------------------||------------------------------|-------------------------------------------||o----------------------------o|-5----5-5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5-5--7--5--4------||o-2----2-2-2-2-2----2-2-2-2--o|-5----5-5-5-5-5----5-5-5-5-5--7--5--4------||--2----2-2-2-2-2----2-2-2-2---|-3----3-3-3-3-3----3-3-3-3-3--5--3--2------||--0----0-0-0-0-0----0-0-0-0---|-------------------------------------------|
Riff 2|-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------4-----------||-----5---7---9-----5---------5---7---9-----5-----4-4-5-4-7-4---4-4-5-4-4-||-7-7---7---7---7-7---7-7-7-7---7---7---7-7---7-7-------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
|--------------------------||--------------------------||--------------------------||-4-4-5-4-7-4-5-7-5-5-4-4--||--------------------------||--------------------------| . . . . . . . . .
Riff 3|-----------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------||-------5-5-5-4----------------5---------5-5-5-4--------------ph--||-------------4----------7-7-7-5---------------4--------4-----5~~~||-----------------------------------------------------------------||-0---0-------------0--0-----------0---0------------0-----0-0-----| . .
next, play riff 2, except substitute this at the end:|--------------------------||--------------------------||-----7----7----7----------||-----7----7----7----------||-5-5-5----5----5----------||--------------------------| . . x x x
Riff 4|----------0--------------0-----------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------0-----------------------||----------------------5-----5-----------------------------4--4/5\4-||-------2-----------5-----------5--------5-----5--------4-----x-x-x-||----2-----------3--------------------5-----------5--2--------2/3\2-||-0--------------------------------3--------------------------------|let ring throughout
|----------0--------------0-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------0-------------------------||----------------------5-----5----------------------------------------||-------2-----------5-----------5--------5-----5-----4--4--5--7--5--4-||----2-----------3--------------------5-----------5-------------------||-0--------------------------------3----------------------------------|
x x x x x xduring 2nd half of Riff 4, guitar 2 plays:|---------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------9-----------------------------||--9--9--10--9--7--9--10--10--12-----12--10--9--9--10--9--7-----||------------------------------------------------------------10-||---------------------------------------------------------------|stuccatto and palm muted throughout, gradually release palm mute.
|--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||-----------7--------||-9--9--10-----10--9-||--------------------|
Riff 5Guitar 1:|--------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------||-----------5------------------4----4--5--4--||-2---------5--------5---------4----4--5--4--||-2---------3--------5---------2----2--3--2--||-0------------------3-----------------------|
Guitar 2:|-7p0-7p0-8p0-7p0-5p0-7p0-8p0-8p0-10p0-12p0-10p0-8p0-||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------|
Guitar 2(cont.):|-7p0-7p0-8p0-7p0-5p0-3p0-2p0-2p0-3p0-5p0-3p0-2p0-||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------|
before Riff 6, play this at end of Riff 1:|-----------||-----------||-----------||-5--5------||-5--5------||-3--3------|
Riff 6:|----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||--2-2---------2-2----2-2---------2-2----2-2---------||--2-2---------2-2----2-2---------2-2----2-2---------||--0-0---------0-0----0-0---------0-0----0-0---------| . . . . . . . . . .
|----------------------------||----------------------------||----------5--5--5--4--4--ph-||--2-2-2-2-5--5--5--4--4--4~~||--2-2-2-2-3--3--3--2--2-----||--0-0-0-0-------------------| . . . .
Riff 7:Guitar 1 plays variation of Riff 6.Guitar 2:|------------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------4-----2-----------4-----2-----------4-----2----5--5--5--4--4--4-||-----2-----------2-----2-----------2-----2----------2--5--5--5--4--4--4-||-------------------------------------------------------3--3--3--2--2--2-||--0--------0--------0--------0--------0--------0------------------------| . . . . . . . . .
Riff 8:|------------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------4-----2-----------4-----2-----------4-----2-----------4--------0-||----2-----------2-----2-----------2-----2-----------2-----5--------4----||-------------------------------------------------------3--------2-------||-0--------0--------0--------0--------3--------3-------------------------|
variation:|------------------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------4-----2-----------4-----2-----------4-----2--------5--------4----||----2-----------2-----2-----------2-----2-----------2--------5--------4-||-------------------------------------------------------3--------2-------||-0--------0--------0--------0--------3--------3-------------------------|
Solo (with Riff 8 and variations thereof):|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------10-12-12~~~12---------------------------12-10----10-12||--9-11-(11)/12-11-9-11---------------9-11-(11)/12-11-9---9-11-12----11-14----||9------------------------------------------------------12--------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------10-12-12~~~12--------------------------------------||--9-11-(11)/12-11-9-11---------------9-11-(11)/12-11-9---12-11-9----------||9------------------------------------------------------12-------12-10-9~~~||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------12-10-12-------12-10-12---12-10-12~~~---10-12-10-12-10--10-----------||------9----------9---9-----------------------/12--------------12--12-11-9-11-||-9-12--------------9---------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------10----------------------------14-14bf^r-12~~~~~~||-/12-------10-------8-------13-12-10-12-10-12~~~12/17~~~------------------||-/12-------11-------9-----------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Riff 9 (with effects):|---------------||---------------||---------------||-9---9-9-9-9-9-||-7---7-7-7-7-7-||---------------|
Variation of riff 1 at end of song:|-----------------------||-----------------------||-5--7--5--4------------||-5--7--5--4--5--5--2-2-||-3--5--3--2--5--5--2-2-||-------------3--3--0-0-| . . . .
Song structure:
Riff 1--1x
Riff 2--2x
Riff 3--2x
Riff 2--2x (with variation at end)
Riff 4--1x
Riff 1--1x
Riff 5--2x
Riff 2--2x
Riff 3--2x
Riff 1--1x (with variation at end)
Riff 6--2x
Riff 7--2x (with variation of Riff 6)
Solo with Riff 8 and variations
Riff 5--2x
Riff 2--2.25x
Riff 4--1x
Keyboard interlude w/Riff 9
Riff 1--1x
Riff 1--1x with palm muted variation
