Tabs
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:BB
E MajorE You say you want a ...
F#F# We all want to ...
C# minorC#m
A augmentedA
G#G#
F#7F#7 Don't you know ...
Guitar Details During Verses:
Guitar 1 plays a standard rock & roll shuffle:
BB
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----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 ...
E MajorE
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----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 ...
.. and so on, while Guitar 2 plays something along these lines:
BB
-|-------------------------------------------------------
-|-------------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 ...
E MajorE
-|-------------------------------------------------------
-|-----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 ...
Guitar 2 plays this figure during the "chorus":
BB E MajorE
-|-------------------------------------------------------11--------------
-|-------------------4----4---------------------------9--12--12-----12---
-|-------------------4----4------------------9--9h11---------11h13--11---
-|-------------------4h6--4---------9--9h11------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
... it's gonna ...
.. repeated a few times, and then the following turnaround:
F#7F#7
-|-----------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------
-|-----------------------------------------------------------
-|-------------2----------4----------2-----------------------
-|--------2h4--------2h4--------2h4-------------2------------
-|--2--2----------2----------2----------2--2h4---------------
Now, over the A augmentedA BB G#G# chords in the last verse, the lead guitar
plays a screaming figure based on this:
-|-----------14----
-|--14b(16)--------
-|-----------------
-|-----------------
-|-----------------
-|-----------------
And over the BB & E MajorE 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
[email protected]
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Tab Special Notations:
----0---- play the open string ('fret zero')
----5---- play fret five
----5~--- play fret five with vibrato
---5/7--- play fret five, slide up to fret seven
---7\5--- play fret seven, slide down to fret five
--8b(9)-- play fret eight, bend the string (at fret eight) to reach
the pitch of fret nine
--b(9)8-- play fret eight already bent to the pitch of fret nine,
unbending until it reaches the normal pitch of fret eight
----h7--- hammer-on to fret seven
----p5--- pull-off to fret five
---/7---- slide up to fret 7 (the starting fret of the slide is
undefined, judge by ear)
---15\--- play fret 15, slide down (the ending fret of the slide is
undefined, judge by ear)
---0h3--- play the open string and immediately hammer-on to fret
three
---7p5--- play fret seven and immediately pull-off to fret five
[me again!]
well, no-one seems to have done this, so I'll give it a shot... it's pretty
hard to describe exactly what's going on with the rhythm here... and it's also
hard to play along with (if I remember correctly, the distorted (single)
version is tuned to somewhere between 2 and 3 half-steps up (yeah, it's just
"randomly somewhere in between" - try it!), and I think the acoustic
version on the White Album is maybe 1 or 2 half-steps up... at any rate,
I'll tab it in A augmentedA because it's easiest (only possible ?) to play that way.
(also, I really never figured out the lead part... if someone would
care to chip in [or maybe I'll get around to it someday])
Intro is something like
(keep sliding up to this A augmentedA chord for awhile)
E------ .... ------
B--\9-- .... --12^-
G--\10= .... ------
my best approximation of how the rhythm goes is something like this... you'll
have to play around hitting those notes on the 4th fret and then letting the
whole chord ring out:
A augmentedA (ring) 
D MajorD A augmentedA (ring)
----------- ------------------------------- -------------------
----------- ---------2-----------2-3-3-3--- ---------2-------2-
----------- ... ---------2-----------2-2-2-2h4- ... ---------2-------2- ...
-2-2-2h4-2- -2-2-2h4-2-----2-2h4---0-0-0--- -2-2-2h4-2-2-2h4---
-0-0-0---0- -0-0-0---------0-0------------- -0-0-0-----0-0-----
----------- ------------------------------- -------------------
anyways, it eventually makes it to E MajorE with the same kind of pattern... most
of the funny business is stuff with the A augmentedA where you do the 2(hammer)4 on
other strings [a few right in a row], and a 0h4 on the open string, usually
ending with a strum of the A augmentedA chord... so...
A augmentedA D MajorD
You say you want a ...
A augmentedA
We all want to ...
D MajorD
You tell me that ...
E(7?)
We all want to ...
B minorBm E MajorE
but when you ...
B minorBm 
G+G A augmentedA F#F# E MajorE
don't you know that ...
(much more funny business with the notes on the 4th fret in this part:)
A augmentedA D MajorD A...
don't you know it's ...
and...
D---------0---------2-
A-----0h2-----2-2h4--- (x2)...
E-0-0-----------------
anyone else is free to help out with this one!
todd ([email protected])
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Other versions of Revolution
Alternative guitar chords and tabs for Revolution 1 (Ver. 2) by The Beatles
| Version | Type |
|---|---|
| Revolution | Chords |
| Revolution (Ver. 2) | Chords |
| Revolution 1 | Chords |
| Revolution #1 | Chords |
| Revolution 1 (Ver. 2) | Chords |
