Silent Hill 3 - Hometown Intro Tab

Link to my video lesson: https://youtu.be/-9HEkT0kKpY
 
OST: https://youtu.be/Qs57T8jMTzc?si=KPKuWvl-NChq-SZz
 
Hometown was composed by Akira Yamaoka for Silent Hill 3 on the Playstation 2 in 2003. Playing in the
end credits of the game, it also was released as track no. 1 on the accompanying CD release Silent Hill 3
Original Soundtrack(s) that same year.
 
This line was taken from the main theme and intro music of the first Silent Hill game. The mandolin was not
even re-recorded or re-sampled and just copypasted into this song. As explained in my full transcript of
that theme, it was actually created with a patch [Sound library: mando trem in Spectrasonics Hans Zimmer
Guitars Vol. 2] and not played physically. My reasoning for transcribing all the notes on one course came
from the sample's choppiness, as well as Yamaoka's 2014/15 tours for which Todd Jordan and Diego Reynoso
were instructed to play the main theme in this positioning. But in Hometown, the mando only plays during
the intro.
 
The rest of the track then remains a re-imagination of said main theme as well, with different
instrumentation. The song will have completely faded out by the 5 minute mark, but all OST prints then
feature an additional minute of silence, resulting  in the track running to 6 minutes and 4 seconds.
This seems to have been an intentional choice. The lyrics and vocals were both provided by Joe Romersa,
who shared singing duties with Mary Elizsabeth McGlynn on this OST. Mandolin transcript in GDae
standard tuning.
 
 
 
 [0:01 - mandolin w/ sust. tremolo]                        [0:10 vocals join]
e|----------------------------|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
a|-7-----6-----5-----6-----0~-|-7-----6-----5-----6-----0~-|-8-----10----5----3---5---7-----6~-----.-|
D|----------------------------|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------|----------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
 
 
 
[0:21 - no mandolin. vox, sound FX, electric lead & acoustic rhythm guitars, keys, drums]
[5:00 faded out / 6:04 fin]
 
 
 
Lyrics:
 
He spoke of tortured souls
 
So outrageous the toll
You can lose all you have
He refused to give in to the town that takes all
Survive, you must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want all the time
Then he shouts at the moon
 
She's gone, and fear has overcome
He was walking the mile, he was walking alone
 
So outrageous the toll
You can lose all you have
He refused to give in to the town that takes all
Survive, you must have the will
This movie doesn't end the way we want all the time
Then he shouts at the moon
 
She's gone, and fear has overcome
He was walking the mile, he was walking alone
 
Four and twenty dead-birds, they bleed upon the nest
There was no time for reason, they had no sign of a threat
 
Now it's too late, too late for me
This town will eventually take me
Too late, too late for me
This town will win
 
Through this fog they came along
Dark creatures singing a terrible song
The rest of the bar laughed at him
Only I felt my hope grow dim
They found him dead the very next day
"No more stories from him," I heard them say
We blamed bad luck for his fate
Only I felt terror so great
 
She and he will know
That someday all things will end
That misty night
That dismal moon
The dead search for their kin
While angels sing, in endless dark
The dead seek out sin
 
 
 
Tab legend:
 
tremolo               rapid, alternating down & up picking
.                     stopped note
~                     sustained note
X