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Television - Marquee Moon guitar tab

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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:38:51 -0500

From: verkuilen john v

Subject: TAB: Marquee Moon by Television

As an incentive, here's the song mostly TABbed out. I still need the

lyrics.... Thanks to whomever first sent me the TAB, since that's where

I learned much of the parts (also from my guitar teacher). As is usual

with TV's stuff, you gotta listen closely to catch the rhythms--they're

not at all straightforward.

Marquee Moon, from the album Marquee Moon

Written by Tom Verlaine

Recorded by Television

TAbbed by Jay Verkuilen (who got it from some other people--if I knew who you

were, I wouldn't have to post this again :)

Key: D mixolydian (D E F# G A B C).

Riff:

Bm

Tom: ---7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7-------

---7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7-------

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Richard: -------------------------------------------

---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-----------

---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4-----------

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D7

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---7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7-------

Tom: ---7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7-------

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Richard: -------------------------------------------

---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-----------

---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----------

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I don't think I've got the timing right above, so you'll have to listen

real closely. Richard's part goes for a beat or a part of a beat before

Tom's. Most of the song is this riff. The second solo (jam) is over

that.

Little scale part:

Play 3x last time

Tom: --------------10-8-7------|-----10-8-7-------------

------7-8-10-7------10-8-7|-7-8--------10-8-7------

--sl/9--------------------|--------------------9-7-

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Richard: Em C Am Am

I misremember the chords under this scale, so check them.

Then the Life in the hive... part (listen to vocal):

|D C|, with someone playing notes from the D mixolydian scale (Tom?),

ended with Gmaj7 chord and the following riff (Tom?):

Tom: ------------8-p-7--------------------------

------------------7------------------------

--------------------7----------------------

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The first solo (Tom) is a set of three scales with pauses in between, played

with alone, each in D mixolydian. The first starts on 15th fret D on the

B string and ends on 9th fret F# on the A string. It covers all notes in

between. The second starts on 10th fret A on the B string and goes to

5th fret D on the A string (then slides to 9th fret F#). Listen closely to

the song to catch the repeats. I don't have a guitar here, so I can't

check it to be sure and can't exactly remember what to do here. :(

The third part is:

v

Tom: -----19-19-19-19-17-15-17-19-17-15-17-19-17-15-17---22----

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("v" indicates staccato with pause)

Tom: ------------8-p-7--------------------------

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Second verse..., same as the first.

Second solo is over the main riff and is in D mixolydian. It starts slowly

and builds to a massive climax. The solo is one massive improv--Tom goes

pretty crazy through this part. Afterwards there are some chords, but I

can't remember what they are--nothing complicated, however.

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