Tabs
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Architects and Engineers - Guster
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Album: Easy Wonderful
Tabbed by: Rishesh Singh
Feel free to hit me up with questions/comments/corrections.
There's a lot going on in the studio version of this and I've yet to hear
a stripped-down version, so have some fun with the chord voicings and the
song will certainly carry its' own.
I opted for the voicings I did based on this live video I found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch v=JxvqjkFbJdY and filling it out a bit for
solo playing.
Take a listen to the song and the strumming will be pretty self-evident.
Chords Used
e|--------------------------0----7----5----4----2------------------------|
BB|--9-----4-----4-----------0----7----5----4----2------------------------|
G+G|--9-----4-----4------4----1----8----6----4----3------------------------|
D MajorD|--9-----4-----4------2----2----9----7----6----4------------------------|
A augmentedA|--7-----2-----x------2----2----9----7----6----4------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------2------0----0----7----5----4----2------------------------|
E MajorE BB F#/BF#/B E5E5 E* B* A augmentedA G#min F#F#
(stars denote to use the specified voicing…to play it the way he does live
don't bother worrying about anything starred in the tab beyond the B*)
Intro: E MajorE BB F#/BF#/B E5E5 (strum each six times, repeat twice)
E MajorE BB
I live on the second floor
F#/BF#/B E5E5
Of an old row house down in Baltimore
E MajorE BB
Watching all the colors and the shapes
F#/BF#/B E5E5
Standing tall up here
(E5E5)
My face against the window
E* BB F#/BF#/B E*
OooooooOooOoooOoo
(E*)
My face against the window
E* BB F#/BF#/B E*
OooooooOooOoooOoo
B*
E MajorE BB
These moments, they can never last
F#/BF#/B E5E5
Like a sad old man with his photographs
E MajorE BB
Keeps wishing for the things he cannot change
F#/BF#/B E5E5
Standing tall up here
(E5E5)
My face against the window
E* BB F#/BF#/B E*
OooooooOooOoooOoo
(E*)
My face against the window
E* BB F#/BF#/B E*
OooooooOooOoooOoo
B*
BB A augmentedA
So the architects and the engineers
G#min F#F#
Build their monuments, make their souvenirs
B*
We are occupants
A augmentedA
It's a trap, this town
G#min
We are burning up
F#F#
We are fading out
B* **
We are shooting stars
[that's my arrangement of how it would go chord-wise, what's really being
played during the bridge is tabbed below (strumming not shown…just follow
the progression above for guidance)]
e-------------2
B-4---4---4---2
G-4---4---4---3
D-4---4---4---4
A-2---x---x---4
E-----5---4---2
^ ^
use your thumb on the E MajorE string for these two
**This is played throughout the background of the bridge, and is most noticeable
during the 'shooting stars line. To get the riff going throughout the bridge with one
guitar just keep adding alternations between the 4th and 5th fret on BB (as shown
below) to the chords used in the transcribed version of the bridge above.
e---------------
B-4--5--4--5--4-
G-4--4--4--4--4- (etc...)
D-4--4--4--4--4-
A-2--2--2--2--2-
E---------------
E MajorE BB F#/BF#/B E*
OooooooOooOoooOoo
E MajorE BB F#/BF#/B E*
OooooooOooOoooOoo
E MajorE BB F#/BF#/B E*
OooooooOooOoooOoo