Sabbath - Planet Caravan guitar tab

"PLANET CARAVAN" (Black Sabbath)

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-- comp. Black Sabbath [Tony Iommi], 1970 (from _Paranoid_)

-- rhythm guitar & bass tab/"arr." by tcg, 198?, 1994

-- 4/4 // key of Em // Slowly

-- rhythm guitar: reverb preferred (phaser or similar "wave" device

nice, too--or just face amp into blowing fan [kiddin'])

-- guitar plays 2 measures (one time thru) before bass comes in . . . .

GUITAR [repeat thruout; fade]

Em(/9) . "DM6/11" [sic: GM7/D]

||----------------0-------0====-------|------------------------------------||

||----------------0-------0====-------|---------------0============--------||

||o---------------0-------0====-------|-----------0============---0---2*--o||

||o-------2 / 4---5-------4====---2---|-------4============---4====-------o||

||------------------------------------|--/5============---5========--------||

||----0============================---|------------------------------------||

|| ||

|| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & ||

|| BASS [notes right--your guess as good as mine on actual strings] ||

||--------------------------------7---|------------------------------------||

||o---------------------------7h9-----|-------------------(7b)8 r 7---5---o||

||o---7-------%---7-------7-----------|---5-------%---5-------------------o||

||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

. : staccato (cut short--first Em chord)

* : slight bend [my own "add"?--as may be "2->4" slide in 1st measure]

% : eighth-note rest

r : "return" of bend

====: hold tone thru count (legato arpeggio)

^^^^: occasional variations at this point (see--uh, hear--recording)

________

LEAD . . . woulda taken me days--but it's a good song for improv., great

for practicing the DORIAN mode, in fact (scale: e-f#-g-a-b-c#-d-e;

actually a D major scale starting on the 2nd step [Em = ii in D]).

One characteristic "sound" of the Dorian can be achieved by

playing the *notes* of the D major chord (d-f#-a) over the Em chord

_per_se_. For instance, try playing f#-d-f#-d-f#-d(-e) over the 1st

measure (Em)--a common pattern-formula found in lots of famous leads

(e.g., "Oye Como Va").

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--:--tcg

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