The Trial chords by Pink Floyd

Chords with lyrics

Note: This file is garanteed without any influence of EMI song books, wich
   are anyway totally useless to play that tune, due to their poor quality
   adaptation & transcription (NEVER ever buy a keyboard arrangement of a
   Floyd album, they're really mocking us. Choose the guitar tab one if
   you need to and arrange it yourself!).

                THE TRIAL
               (Waters/Ezrin)
                Pink Floyd
   			  from The Wall 1979


Hi, fans!

  Here is another Floyd tune, I'd like to explain one thing or two
  (I always explain lots of things, perhaps a kind of justification?
  SomeOne must have told me I were useless or somewhat in my childood)

  1) It's stupid to try to play this tune without an orchestra! but
   I guess I'm not the only stupid guy on heart, so Ok, play it
   for example on a synth (strings are good, power strings are better).
   I sometimes play it on organs, but I play it mainly on piano,
   and that works pretty well! Some can try to play it with guitar/Bass
   /Drums, It sure can do the job. I recently started to learn accordion,
   you couldn't believe how nice it sounds on that thing!

  2) What's that thing? Well, we all saw .CRD files with just chords
    & lyrics, Ok, fine, but that's not enough here, 'cause strings are
    playing a melody wich is different from the vocal one, I believe
    that this part definitly IS the song, so I tried to indicate it here.
    How does it works? It's quite simple: there's 3 lines
    | Chords...
    | strings melody         & '|' is the bar line
    | Lyrics
    In melody:
    n means nOPE, nO note, at least with the right hand, play 1st or 5th
        with left hand instead.
    - means Let ring.
    + means play this note an octave higher (all is played between FF & E MajorE)
    L.H. means that this prt of melody is played by left hand

  3) How do I play it? It's pretty simple again (complicated things are
    bothering me (except these explanations)):
     the left hand is for the bass line:
      alternate 1st & 5th of each chord + chromatics
     the right hand is for the melody:
      indicated notes + thumb playing any note of the actual chord,
      1st mainly but it can be any.
    Let's take a closer look at the beginning:

        BB Bb majorBb BB   BB Bb majorBb BB |  BB Bb majorBb BB C majorC BB A augmentedA G+G |
Right hand: - E MajorE E MajorE   - E MajorE E MajorE  | - E MajorE E MajorE   E MajorE   E MajorE   |
-------------1-----2-----3-----4----|-1-----2-----3-----4-----|
Left hand: E MajorE   BB   E MajorE   BB  | E MajorE   BB   E MajorE   BB   |

    Well, that's a simplification but you can see what I mean.

   4) I've seen .CRDs with the tune in Fm, I've written it as Em, as it's
    the way I'm playing it and it's much more floydian (think of WYWH,
    Welcome.., Atom Heart Mother, ..Turning away,Pigs , among others).
    If that bothers you, translate, retune your synth or put a capo on
    your piano!

    [intro is the first two lines repeated]
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|E minorEm               | E minorEm                 |
|n BB  Bb majorBb BB  n  BB  Bb majorBb BB  | n BB  Bb majorBb  BB  C majorC  BB A augmentedA  G+G  |
| Good morning worm your honour,|  ...|
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|FF                 |FF                |
|n  C majorC  BB  C majorC  n   C majorC BB  BB  |n C majorC  BB   C majorC  D MajorD C majorC  D MajorD C majorC  |
|prisoner who now stands before you |  ...|
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|E minorEm              | E minorEm  (melody octave up this bar)   |
|n BB Bb majorBb BB  n BB Bb majorBb BB  | E MajorE BB+  BB  D MajorD E MajorE  -  E MajorE D MajorD     |
|feelings...     Sho-wing | ....|
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|C majorC               | B7B7      ... N.C.    L.H.  |
|C-  G+G FF G+G n G+G  FF  C majorC  | BB - A augmentedA - F#F# - ...  [Quick: BB A augmentedA G+G F#F#]|
|nature...    This will not | do!    (Call the schoolmaster!) |
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|E minorEm              | E minorEm                  |
|n BB Bb majorBb BB  n  BB  Bb majorBb  BB | n BB  Bb majorBb  BB C majorC  BB  A augmentedA G+G  ( If |
| I al-ways said he'd come to | no ....|
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|F#F#                |E minor 7Em7             L.H.  |
|n  C#C# C majorC  C#C# D MajorD  C#C# C majorC   C#C#  | D MajorD  -  C#C# - BB  -  [n E MajorE FF F#F#]|
|let me have my way I could Have | ....|
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|G+G                |G#-                 |
|n  C#C# BB   C#C#  D MajorD  C#C# BB C#C# |n  C#C#  BB   C#C# D MajorD  C#C# BB  C#C# |
|But my hands were tied   The |....|
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| D/AD/A              | D MajorD     L.H.          |
| F#F# F#F# F# F#F#  G+G F#F#  E MajorE  F#F# | [ D MajorD D#D#  E MajorE  FF F#F# G+G G#G# A augmentedA ]     |
| get a- way with murder, Let me |  ...|
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|E minorEm                | BB                |
|Bb majorBb - BB - Bb majorBb  BB C majorC  BB A augmentedA  G+G A augmentedA | Bb majorBb - BB - Bb majorBb BB C majorC  BB A augmentedA G+G F#F#   |
|Cra- zy  toys in the attic I am | cra....|
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| F# minorF#m     D MajorD             | D#-       |  half
| C#C# C# C#C# C# D MajorD   D MajorD     D MajorD   D MajorD | D#D#   D#D# D# D#D# |<- size
|        They must have taken my ....
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|E minorEm                | BB         L.H.     |
|Bb majorBb - BB - Bb majorBb  BB C majorC  BB A augmentedA  G+G A augmentedA | Bb majorBb - BB -   [ F#F# D#D# BB - ]  |
|Cra- zy  toys in the attic He is | ....|
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    (call the defendant's wife)

 (Second verse, Only bars wich are differents from 1st verse are
  indicated. Caution: Baa-aabe lines are notated one bar per line,
  while everything else is two bars/line, that's because the
  chromatics are twice as fast as any other part of the melody)

 You little shit, you're in it now, I hope they thrown away the
 key! You should have talked to me more often Than you did, but no: you
 had to go your own way. Have you broken any homes up lately?
 "Just five minutes Worm your honour, him and me alone..."
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| E minorEm                                 |
| BB  Bb majorBb A augmentedA  AbAb G+G  GbGb FF  E MajorE  Eb MajorEb D MajorD  DbDb C majorC  BB  Bb majorBb A augmentedA  AbAb   |
| Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-- |
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| E minorEm                                 |
| G+G  GbGb FF  E MajorE  Eb MajorEb D MajorD  DbDb C majorC  BB  Bb majorBb A augmentedA  AbAb G+G  GbGb FF  E MajorE    |
| --aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabe! |
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|F# minorF#m      F#F#      | B minorBm    F#F#  B minorBm      L.H.   |
|n  C#C# A augmentedA C#C#  n C#C# A#A# C#C# | BB  BB  A#A# A# B-  [ F#F#  D MajorD  F#F# ] |
|Come to mother baby let me | ...arms          |
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 (3rd verse: just 4 bars repeated ad infinitum, I give you my own
 coda, nothing interesting, it's just that you need to end at a
 time, and sometimes, you just don't have time to wait the crumbling
 of the nearest wall)

 The...
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| E minorEm               | E minorEm                |
| E MajorE B* F#F#  G+G E MajorE  F#F# -   G+G  | E MajorE B* F#F# G+G E MajorE F#F#   G+G      |
| e-vi-dence before the court is |  ....|
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| A minorAm               | A minorAm                |
| A augmentedA E*  BB  C majorC  A augmentedA BB  - C majorC   | A augmentedA E*  BB  C majorC  A augmentedA BB  - C majorC    |
| no need for the ju-ry to retire |                in |
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 -the mine coda of me that i've made myself ----------------------------
| E minorEm               | E minorEm                |
| E MajorE B* F#F#  G+G E MajorE  F#F# -   G+G  | E MajorE B* F#F# G+G E MajorE F#F#   G+G      |
| Tear down the wall!       |                  |
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| A minorAm               | A minorAm                |
| A augmentedA E*  BB  C majorC  A augmentedA BB  - C majorC   | A augmentedA  E*  BB  C majorC  A augmentedA  BB  C majorC  D MajorD  |
| Tear down the wall!       |                  |
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| E minorEm               |
| E MajorE                |
| (boom)             |
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 *: thumb played note, to hehance the melody. I do not play chords on
   this part, I just play octaved (thumb and little finger) melody
   (except those *-marked notes) with left hand, while the right one
   plays it entirely. It goes like that:

       E MajorE   F#F# G+G E MajorE F#F# - G+G | E MajorE   F#F# G+G E MajorE F#F# - G+G |
Right hand:   BB BB BB BB BB - - |  BB BB BB BB BB - - |
-------------1-----2-----3-----4----|-1-----2-----3-----4----|
Left hand: E MajorE   F#F# G+G E MajorE F#F# - G+G | E MajorE   F#F# G+G E MajorE F#F# - G+G |
       E MajorE   F#F# G+G E MajorE F#F# - G+G | E MajorE   F#F# G+G E MajorE F#F# - G+G |
-------------1-----2-----3-----4----|-1-----2-----3-----4----|
A.Left hand: E MajorE   BB   E MajorE   BB  | E MajorE   BB   E MajorE   BB  |

Alternate left hand is what I play when I've no room (ie: Synth keyboard)

A augmentedA note for mad keyboardists:
 Be as mad as you want on melody, but let your left hand be that heavy,
 that maketh the trip!

 It's a pretty simple adaptation (I arranged it after one or two years
 of self-learned piano), but it can be very powerful (I still play it
 years later).

 Transcription & adaptation by Syl Voice

 (ex sylvoice@don't_even_try.i've_no_mail.fr)
Syl Voice/[MaRDyCk]

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