Pink Floyd - 1987 - Momentary Lapse - Learning To Fly guitar tab

Tabber: Gaz Hughes

Artist: Pink Floyd

Song: Learning to Fly

Album: A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)

Now this song is actually layer upon layer of different sounds, and very eighties sounding

it is; however, strip it down and you see that it’s actually just based around basic

open chords. It’s amazing what people can come up with from the same chords people

use every day!

Intro/Verse

This actually excluding the riff is just G and then E minor. Once you know the rhythm,

it’s fairly easy.

G

Into the distance, a ribbon of black

Emin

Stretched to the point of no turning back

G

A flight of fancy on a windswept field

Emin

Standing alone my senses reeled

Riff:

E |-10s12-12-12-12s10-|

B |-12s14-14-14-14s12-|

G |-------------------|

D |-------------------|

A |-------------------|

E |-------------------|

Chorus 1

C Amin

Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies

F C D

Tongue tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Verse

Chorus 2

C Amin

A soul in tension that’s learning to fly

F C

Condition grounded but determined to try

C Amin

Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies

F C D

Tongue tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

I’ve not tabbed the solos yet, unfortunately, I’ll do that later.