Tabs
Song: Immortality
Artist: Pearl Jam
Album: Vitalogy
Transcription by: Brad Campbell
INTRO:
Cadd9Cadd9
e:---------0-----------|
B:------------3--------|
G:------0--------0-----|
D:---2-----------------|
A:3--------------------|
E:------------------0--|
This intro is played four times. I've found that if you run an acoustic
guitar through an amp and use some mild distortion, it recreates the sound
on the album pretty well.
VERSE: The verse is basically just a cycle of 
E minorEm and 
D MajorD (--0230). There
is a two-note plucking pattern before the strumming cycle, though, that
goes like this:
E minorEm D MajorD
e:------0--0--|
B:------0--3--|
G:------0--2--|
D:---2--2--0--|
A:------------|
E:0-----------|
Each of these cycles is one bar [in 4/4 time] and the pick-up is played in
every cycle. I know this might sound confusing, but listen to the song,
and you can hear the two-note plucking. (Note that the D MajorD is not a true
D...I just don't know the real name for that chord). Also, when strumming
the D, try to use upstrokes as much as possible because it seems to sound
better that way.
CHORUS:
Pretty simple:
C majorC E minorEm C majorC E minorEm
A augmentedA truant finds home. ....
C majorC E minorEm A augmentedA 
Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA A* A augmentedA
But there's a trapdoor in ....
(that little interlude between "sun" and "immortality" is a
little confusing. Here's what the tab looks like):
C majorC C majorC C majorC E minorEm A augmentedA A augmentedA Asus4Asus4 A augmentedA A* A augmentedA
e:---0---0----0--0---x---0--|0------0--0--0|------------|
B:---1---1----1--0---x---2--|3------2--0--2|------------|
G:---0---0----0--0---2---2--|2------2--2--2|------------|
D:---2---2----2--2---2---2--|2------2--2--2|------------|
A:---3---3----3--2---0---0--|0------0--0--0|------------|
E:---------------0----------|--------------|------------|
...trapdoor in the sun immortality
DURING THE SOLOS:
During the short solo, you just repeat the verse pattern.
During the long solo, you repeat the verse pattern, but toward
the end, you double the cycle (i.e.-instead of playing 
Em/DEm/D [two chords]
in one bar, you play Em/D/Em/D [four chords] in one bar). The end of the
long solo section ends on an A.
That's about it. Sorry it seems so confusing.
If you need any clarification, have any comments, flames, etc.
send them to:
Brad Campbell ([email protected])
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Immortality
by Pearl Jam
from the Vitalogy cd
transcribed by kevin gardner
[email protected]
intro riff
-------0----------------
-----1---3-1------------
---0--------------------
------------------------
-3----------------------
---------------0--------
verse strum these chords
-0--0--
-0--3--
-0--2--
-2--0--
-2-----
-0-----
chorus chords
C majorC E minorEm
C majorC E minorEm
C majorC E minorEm A augmentedA
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