Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire guitar tab
alright, this site has like no mahavishnu orchestra tabs, and thats a disgrace
ok the songs in 9/8
standard tuning
figure out the timing by listening to the song, doing that would just be a bitch i can tell you the riff below is all 16th notes though and the tempo is 61 BPN
guitar 1 distorted
E -------------0---------------0------------0-------------------0------------0------------0-----
B -------0---------------0------------0---------------------0-----------0------------0----------
G ----------5---------------5------------5----------------------7-----------7------------7-------
D ----4---------------4--------------4--------------------6------------6------------6------------
A --------------------------------------------------7------------------------------------------7
E -4---------------4--------------4-------------4h6----6------------6------------6---------6h7--
play this 4 times alone
then here the violin part arranged for guitar - play this over the riff above
E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
G ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
D -6----6----4-----6----6----4-----4---6---8----8----6----8----8----6----6---8
A --------------6--------------6-----------------------8--------------8-------
E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
heres the main lead guitar part
E -12-----12------15b(17)-12---------------12----12-----------------------------
B -15b(17)--15-12------------15-12-15b(17)----15-12-----------------------------
G --------------------------------------------------14b(15)r(14)p12----12~~~~~~-
D ------------------------------------------------------------------14----------
A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E ---------------------------------------------------------
B ------------------------10b(12)r(10)-8-------------------
G -9b(10)r(9)-7--7-9--7-9----------------9-7------7~~~~~~~~
D --------------9----------------------------7--9----------
A ---------------------------------------------------------
E ---------------------------------------------------------
ok i got a bit of it in, ill add the guitar solos and the other lead guitar and stuff later
hope someone finds some use out of this
-Sonic
