Marquee Moon Guitar Tabs by Television

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


Richard:            -------------------------------------------|
                    ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-----------|
                    ---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4-----------|
                    -------------------------------------------|
                    -------------------------------------------|
                    -------------------------------------------|


                           D7
                    -------------------------------------------|
                    ---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-------|
                    -------------------------------------------|
                    -------------------------------------------|
                    -------------------------------------------|


Richard:            -------------------------------------------|
                    ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-----------|
                    ---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----------|
                    -------------------------------------------|
                    -------------------------------------------|
                    -------------------------------------------|


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

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

("v" indicates staccato with pause)

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


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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