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Flapjacks From The Sky by Gandalf Murphy And The Slambovian Circus Of Dreams
Flapjacks From The Sky
Tuning: (D G C F A D)
Intro Part: Artificial harmonics, best played with pinched harmonics method.
Look this up online for instructions on how to do it.
This is the the part that your right hand plays:
Intro (repeats twice):
D|---------------------------------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------------------------------||
F|--*7-------*9---------*7-----*7-------*9-----------------||
C|-----*7-------*10--*7----------*7--------*10(let ring)---||
G|--------*8------------------------*8---------------------||
C|-0------------------------0------------------------------||
^ ^
| |
Note: NO harmonics on base note (C)---let these ring.
This is the part that your left hand frets:
Intro (repeats twice):
D|--------------------------------------------------------||
A|--------------------------------------------------------||
F|--0----------2---------0-----0--------2-----------------||
C|-----0----------3----0---------0--------3 (let ring)----||
G|--------1-------------------------1---------------------||
C|-0-----------------------0------------------------------||
Riff in between verses x2:
D|---------------------------------||
A|---------------------------------||
F|-----7--10p7-9p7-----------------||
C|---7-------------10p7-9p7--5/3---||
G|---------------------------------||
C|-0-------------------------------||
Verse Riff 1 (repeat
"Look in the sky over there see that light..."
D|----------------||
A|----------------||
F|------3---------||
C|----2---2-------||
G|----------------||
C|--0-------------||
Veres Riff 2:
"What could it be, it right over here.."
D|----------------||
A|------8---------||
F|----7---7-------||
C|----------------||
G|----------------||
C|-/5-------------||
Verse Riff 3:
"Bathed in blue light... ..do you think it's from God?"
D|---------------------------------------------||
A|--------10---------10--------8--------8------||
F|-----10----10---10----10---7---8----7---7----||
C|---------------------------------------------||
G|---------------------------------------------||
C|--/7----------7----------5--------5----------||
Chorus Part:
"The heavenly mother put love in the batter for you...doobedoo."
D|-------------------------||
A|-------------------------||
F|-------------------------||
C|-------------------------||
G|-7--6--5--3--777-6--3-0--||
C|-7--6--5--3--777-6--3-0--|| <--mute last note.
That is all of the basic guitar parts anyway.
The rest of the song is pretty well covered in
effects / orchestration.
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version 2
Tuning:
Standard Tuning: E A D G B e
Flapjacks Tuning*:C G Eb G C E
This open C minor tuning. The high e string can stay at e because you don’t really
play it
When you tune make sure to tune the strings that go up first, and then tune the strings
go down because you'll less likely to break a string.
Intro
*All Harmonics
D#|--------------------------------------------------||
C||---12*-----------------12*-----12*----------------||
G||------12*----7*-----12*------------12*------7*----|| x2
D#|---------12*----7*----------------------12*----7*-||
G||--------------------------------------------------||
C||-0----------------------------0-------------------||
D#|----------------------------------------||
C||-----0--3p0-2p0-------------------------||
G||---0------------3p0-2p0-----------------|| x4
D#|------------------------2p0-------------||
G||----------------------------------------||
C||--0-------------------------------------||
Verse:
| repeat this twice |
D#|-------------------------------|-------------------------||
C||----0------0-------0-------0---|---0-3p0-2p0-------------||
G||--0--0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|-0-----------3p0-2p0-----||
D#|-------------------------------|---------------------2p0-||
G||-------------------------------|-------------------------||
C||-0-----0-------0-------0-------|0------------------------||
| repeat this twice |
D#|-------------------------------|-------------------------||
C||----0------0-------0-------0---|---0-3p0-2p0-------------||
G||--0--0---0---0---0---0---0---0-|-0-----------3p0-2p0-----||
D#|-------------------------------|---------------------2p0-||
G||-------------------------------|-------------------------||
C||-0-----0-------0-------0-------|0------------------------||
repeat this twice
D#|----------------------------------|-------------------------||
C||------5-------5-------5-------5---|---0-3p0-2p0-------------||
G||----5---5---5---5---5---5---5---5-|-0-----------3p0-2p0-----||
D#|----------------------------------|---------------------2p0-||
G||----------------------------------|-------------------------||
C||-/5-------5-------5-------5-------|0------------------------||
repeat this twice
D#|----------------------------------|-------------------------||
C||------7-------7-------5-------5---|---0-3p0-2p0-------------||
G||----7---7---7---7---5---5---5---5-|-0-----------3p0-2p0-----||
D#|----------------------------------|---------------------2p0-||
G||----------------------------------|-------------------------||
C||-/7-------7-------5-------5-------|0------------------------||
Chorus:
D#|------------------------------||
C||------------------------------||
G||------------------------------|| x4
D#|------------------------------||
G||--7-6-5-3--7-7-6-5-3--0-------||
C||--7-6-5-3--7-7-6-5-3--0-0/7---||
After Chorus Riff:
You can add lots of bends here to make it sound cool
D#|-------------------------------------------------------------||
C||-------------------------------------------------------------||
G||-------------------------------------------------------------||
D#|-------------------------------------------------------------||
G||--5-7—7b—5h7-8--5-7-8-12-8-7-5---5-7-7b-5h7-8---5-7-8-12---8-||
C||-------------------------------------------------------------||
Later in the song there's the intro harmonics w/ just each note played twice
except for the last two
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