Tabs
"The Rolling People" from the album _Urban Hymns_
Written by The Verve
Produced by Youth/The Verve
tabbed by Jeremy Joseph ([email protected])
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Intro:
A5A5 B5B5 (x4)
The opening chords sneak up on you and there's
wah pedal noises, etc. in the background.
Right after the last B5B5 chord:
D MajorD|--------7---9-------------| with delay pedal
A augmentedA|---7/9--------------------|
Then comes the riff:
A augmentedA BB
E MajorE|---------------------------------|
BB|---------------------------------|
G+G|--------------8------------9h7---| It's like this during the verses,
D MajorD|----7----9---(9)--9--------9-----| with slight ad-lib variations.
A augmentedA|----7----9--------9--9--9--------|
E MajorE|----5----7-----------7--7--------|
It helps a great deal if you have delay/echo effects,
since that's basically the key to sounding like them.
* Verse 1 *
(with riff)
Been shot...
I got one ...
(solo 1) - Played sort of distorted and bluesy
E MajorE|----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
BB|----------------7-----------------|-------------------7----------------|
G+G|-----------7h9--9b(11)===--9h7----|--------------7h9--9b(11)===--9h7---|
D MajorD|-------7h9----------------------7-|--------7h8h9---------------------7-|
A augmentedA|---7h9----------------------------|--7h8h9-----------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------------|------------------------------------|
Play something like this in the BB blues scale with
delay on the upward run...
* Verse 2 *
(I can hardly understand Ashcroft in this verse)
*Chorus*
BB
But here we are, the ...
A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA BB
Can't stay for long...
BB
So come alive, we're ...
A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA BB
Don't ask why, ....
* Verse 3 *
*Chorus*
BB
And here we are, ...
A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA
Don't ask why, ...
So come alive, ...
A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA BB
Don't ask why, we ...
(solo 2) - Played very clean
E MajorE|---7h5-----------------------------|--7h5------------------------|
BB|-------7h5-------------------------|------7h5--------------------|
G+G|-------------7---------------------|----------7h4----------------|
D MajorD|-----------------9---7h4-----------|--------------7h4------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------7--5-----|---------------------7-------|
E MajorE|--------------------------------7--|------------------------7----|
E MajorE|---7h5-----------------------------|--7h5------------------------|
BB|-------7h5-------------------------|------7h5--------------------|
G+G|-------------7-------------7-------|----------7h4----------------|
D MajorD|-----------------9-----7h9---------|--------------7h4------------|
A augmentedA|--------------------7h9------------|---------------------7-------|
E MajorE|-----------------------------------|------------------------7----|
Play and repeat the 2nd line a few times..
*And the rest of the lyrics*:
Only the bass is playing the riff while the guitar
plays echoey notes in the BB scale.
E MajorE|-----------------------------------|
BB|---10-10-10---9b(10)---7-----------|
G+G|--------------------------9h7------|
Back to the riff, and the song gets out of control.
The "eep" part at the end of the song:
EEP, EEP eep, eep
E MajorE|--11-------11-------|--7--------7--------|
BB|--14b(16)--14b(16)--|--10b(12)--10(12)---|
G+G|--------------------|--------------------|
Best of luck.. This song kicks so much ass I had to figure it out,
and I figured I might as well tab it so anyone else can to play it.
I'm sure there's some mistakes as always due to
laziness or typos, but if you can hear a wrong note than you
can probably figure out what it's supposed to be!
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