Learn and Play Music: Revolution guitar tab - Beatles tabs

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                Revolution
            (Lennon/McCartney)
  
  
  Intro :
  -|-5/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----5/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----
  -|-5/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----5/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  
  -|-5/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7--------------------------12-----
  -|-5/7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7----/10------10--12b(14)---------
  -|-----------------------------------11----------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  
  
  
  Verse/Chorus Form:
  
       B                                    E
  You say you want a revolution   well you know
  
                              B
  We all want to change the world
  
       B                                     E
  You tell me that it's evolution  well you know
  
                             F#
  We all want to change the world
  
  C#m                        F#
  But when you talk about destruction
  
  C#m                           A   B  G#   F#
  Don't you know that you can count me out (in?)
  
                            B       E
  Don't you know it's gonna be   Alright
  
                            B       E
  Don't you know it's gonna be   Alright
  
                            B       E     F#7
  Don't you know it's gonna be   Alright
  
  
  Guitar Details During Verses:
  Guitar 1 plays a standard rock & roll shuffle:
  
         B-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----9----9---9h11--9--9-----9h11--9--9--9h11--9--9--9h11--9--9--
  -|-----7----7---7-----7--7-----7-----7--7--7-----7--7--7-----7--7--
     You say you want   a  rev   o     lu    ti  on      well     you
  
         E-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----9----9---9h11--9--9-----9h11--9--9--9h11--9--9--9h11--9--9--
  -|-----7----7---7-----7--7-----7-----7--7--7-----7--7--7-----7--7--
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------------
        know                                 we  all want to change the...
  
  .. and so on, while Guitar 2 plays something along these lines:
         B-|-------------------------------------------------------
  -|-------------4----4------4----4---4----4---4----4------
  -|-------------4----4------4----4---4----4---4----4------
  -|-------------4h6--4------4h6--4---4h6--4---4h6--4------
  -|-------------------------------------------------------
  -|-------------------------------------------------------
     You say you want a rev o lu     tion      well you
  
         E-|-------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----9-----9---9-----9---9-----9-------9-----9---------
  -|-----9-----9---9-----9---9-----9-------9-----9---------
  -|-----9h11--9---9h11--9---9h11--9-------9h11--9---------
  -|-------------------------------------------------------
  -|-------------------------------------------------------
     know                  we all want to change the...
  
  
  Guitar 2 plays this figure during the "chorus":
  
                   B             E
  -|-------------------------------------------------------11--------------
  -|-------------------4----4---------------------------9--12--12-----12---
  -|-------------------4----4------------------9--9h11---------11h13--11---
  -|-------------------4h6--4---------9--9h11------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
    ... it's gonna be         alright
  
  .. repeated a few times, and then the following turnaround:
  
      F#7
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  -|-----------------------------------------------------------
  -|-------------2----------4----------2-----------------------
  -|--------2h4--------2h4--------2h4-------------2------------
  -|--2--2----------2----------2----------2--2h4---------------
  
  
  Now, over the A B G# chords in the last verse, the lead guitar
  plays a screaming figure based on this:
  
  -|-----------14----
  -|--14b(16)--------
  -|-----------------
  -|-----------------
  -|-----------------
  -|-----------------
  
  And over the B & E chords the final time around, the lead guitar
  is rapidly picking in rhythm with the words:
  
  -|--9--------------
  -|--12b(14)--------
  -|-----------------
  -|-----------------
  -|-----------------
  -|-----------------
  
  .. up until the climactic end.
  
  -|-------------10--9---
  -|--b(10)9--7--10--9---
  -|-------------11--10--
  -|-------------12--11--
  -|-------------12--11--
  -|-------------10--9---
  
  
  	Beatles Tab by Marc Hertzberg
  	Digital Equipment Corporation
  	hertzberg@netcad.enet.dec.com

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