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Siberian Khatru Guitar Tablature
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Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 18:31:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Carl Christensen 
Subject: TAB:  Siberian Khatru by Yes

                                Siberian Khatru
                          (guitar parts by Steve Howe)
                         transcribed by [email protected]

The parts may look disjointed, but it should all make sense once you
get the different riffs down.  Of course, following along with the 
record is a good idea.  I just cranked out a quick 'fake' for the
harpsichord stuff because in the band I'm in now I have to do something
since all the keyboard stuff is done via my MIDI guitar.

                       brush & mute strings

0h0--0--0---------------------------|----------------------------------|--------
3-5--3--3---------------------------|--1----1--1--------3----3---------|--------
-----------4p0h2p0------------------|--0h2--0--0--------2h4--2---------|--------
--------------------2---x--x--x--x--|-------------2-------------4p2h4--|--------
------------------------------------|----------------------------------|--------
------------------------------------|----------------------------------|--------





0h0--0--0------------------------|----------------------------------------------
3-5--3--3------------------------|----------------------------------------------
-----------4p0h2p0---------------|----------------------------------------------
--------------------2h0----------|----------------------------------------------
-------------------------2h0-----|----------------------------------------------
------------------------------0--|----------------------------------------------





----------------------------------------------|--17--14------12-14--------------
13--------13----------------15----------------|--19--15--14--14/15--------------
12h14-----12-----12---------14h16--14---------|----------14---------------------
------------------------14-------------16-----|---------------------------------
----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------
----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------



     keyboard approx

||----------------------10--9--5------------||----------------------------------
||----0-----2--3--5--7--10--7--5--5--7------||----------------------------------
||*---2-----4--4--7--9--12--9--7--7--9-----*||----------------------------------
||*---2-----4--5--7--9------------7--9-----*||----------------------------------
||------------------------------------------||----------------------------------
||------------------------------------------||----------------------------------



     guitar over prev chords

||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------
||-------------------5---------------------||-----------------------------------
||*---6--4-----4-----------6--4-----4-----*||-----------------------------------
||*---------7--------------------7--------*||-----------------------------------
||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------
||-----------------------------------------||-----------------------------------





||----------------------12-------------------------||---------------------------
||---14--12--10--12------------14--12--10--12------||---------------------------
||*-----------------------------------------------*||---------------------------
||*-----------------------------------------------*||---------------------------
||-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------
||-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------





||---21--19--17--19------------21--19--17--19------||---------------------------
||----------------------17-------------------------||---------------------------
||*-----------------------------------------------*||---------------------------
||*-----------------------------------------------*||---------------------------
||-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------
||-------------------------------------------------||---------------------------



        kick-ass main riff!  :-)

||---r--------------------------------------------------------------------------
||---e------------------------------------------------------------3-------------
||*--s---------------------------------------------4--2--0--2-----------4--2----
||*--t------------5--------3----------------------------------------------------
||-------3--4--5--------5--------5--4--3----------------------------------------
||----------------------------------------5--3----------------------------------



                Even Siberia goes.(note funky Hendrix style riffs)

------5----||---||---------------------------------------------||--------------
------------||---||---------------------------------------------||--------------
0--2-------*||---||*-----------------------------7----7--9--7--*||--------------
-----------*||---||*-----------5-----5--7--5-----7h9--------7--*||--------------
------------||---||------------5-h7-----------7-----------------||--------------
------------||---||---3-----------------------------------------||--------------



Hold down the window...River running...

----5--------12--|------r-----------|-------------------------------------------
----5--------12--|------e-----------|-------------------------------------------
----5--------12--|------s-----------|-------------------------------------------
----7--------14--|------t-----------|-------------------------------------------
----0------------|------------------|-------------------------------------------
-----------------|--3---------------|-------------------------------------------



                                              back to main riff
||-------------------------------------||---------------------------------------
||------------------5------------------||---------------------------------------
||*--6--4-----4-----------6--4-----4--*||---------------------------------------
||*--------7--------------------7-----*||---------------------------------------
||-------------------------------------||---------------------------------------
||-------------------------------------||---------------------------------------



     Outboard... (in Hendrix riff sDah dah dit dah...

||----7-----------4---------||---------------------|----------------------------
||----7-----------4---------||---------------------|----------------------------
||*---7-----------4--------*||---------------------|----------------------------
||*---9-----------6--------*||---------------------|----------------------------
||--------------------------||---------------------|----------------------------
||--------------------------||------3--------------|----------------------------



Electric sitar

-------------7-----------|------------------------------------------------------
-5--7--8-----8--8--7--5--|------------------------------------------------------
-6--7--9--------9--7--6--|------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------





----------9--10-----12--12--10--------------------------------------------------
7-----10------------------------12-----12--10-----------------9--10-------------
-----------------------------------------------11----------9---------11---------
---------------------------------------------------12--11----------------12-----
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------





--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---11---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



     Harpsichord part (fake :-)

||------------------------------------------14----------------------------------
||--------------------------------14p13h14------14------------------------------
||*---------------13--14--13--16--------------------14-----13--14-----13--------
||*---16--15--16----------------------------------------------------------16----
||------------------------------------------------------------------------------
||------------------------------------------------------------------------------





-------------------------------------|------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------|------------------------------------------
---14--------------------------------|------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------|------------------------------------------
-------16--17--16--14----------------|------------------------------------------
-----------------------17--14--------|------------------------------------------





-------------------------------------------------------14-----------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------14-------------------
----------------------------------------14--16--18-------------14-----13--14----
------------------------12--14--16--18------------------------------------------
------------12--14--16----------------------------------------------------------
12--14--16----------------------------------------------------------------------



                                               Slide guitar    ()=2nd
slide gtr                 
-------------------------------------------||------9/14-----12--1210--|/9------
-------------------------------------------||--------------------------|--------
---13---------14--------------------------*||--------------------------|--------
-------16---------------------------------*||--------------------------|--------
------------------16--17--16--14-----------||--------------------------|--------
----------------------------------17--14---||--------------------------|--------





/9--(14)-----7-----73--|/5--(9)--42-----|--4/74-----7/9-----9/21--|----------
------------------------|-----------------|--------------------------|----------
------------------------|-----------------|--------------------------|----------
------------------------|-----------------|--------------------------|----------
------------------------|-----------------|--------------------------|----------
------------------------|-----------------|--------------------------|----------



               Guitar solo

------9/14--|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------
------------|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------
------------|---11--9---------------------------|-------------------------------
------------|----------11--10--9----------------|-------------------------------
------------|---------------------12-----9------|-------------------------------
------------|-------------------------------12--|-------------------------------





--------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------
-----------------------------------10--10---------|-----------------------------
-------------11--9------9--10--11----------11-----|-----------------------------
--------------------11----------------------------|-----------------------------
--------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------
9--8--10------------------------------------------|-----------------------------





12--12--14--9----------------12--12--14--|-----9---------7-----9-----|----------
------------------10---------------------|--------10-----5-----7-----|----------
----------------------11-----------------|---------------------------|----------
-----------------------------------------|---------------------------|----------
-----------------------------------------|---------------------------|----------
-----------------------------------------|---------------------------|----------





101410--9--7--|--9--------12-----16--|----------------------------------------
8--12-8---7--5--|--7--------14-----17--|----------------------------------------
----------------|----------------------|----------------------------------------
----------------|----------------------|----------------------------------------
----------------|----------------------|----------------------------------------
----------------|----------------------|----------------------------------------





---17--19--17------------------------------|------------------------------------
---------------19--17----------------------|------------------------------------
-----------------------18--16--14----------|------------------------------------
-----------------------------------16--14--|------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------|------------------------------------





---------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
---------------------------------------------|----------------------------------
16--14---------------------------------------|----------------------------------
--------16--14---------------------------14--|----------------------------------
----------------16--14--12--------14/16------|----------------------------------
---------------------------------------------|----------------------------------





----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------
----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------
--------------14-----14-----|---------------------------------------------------
14-----14/16----------------|---------------------------------------------------
----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------
----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------





----------------------------------------------------------------|---------------
------------17----------17----------17----------17----------17--|---------------
14--17--18------17--18------17--18------17--18------17--18------|---------------
----------------------------------------------------------------|---------------
----------------------------------------------------------------|---------------
----------------------------------------------------------------|---------------





--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------
--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------
--------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------
2h4--2-----2--------------------------|-----------------------------------------
-----------------2p0--2p0--2p0--------|-----------------------------------------
--------------------------------2-----|-----------------------------------------





------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------
3-------3------------5----5---------|-------------------------------------------
2h4-----2------------4h6--4---------|-------------------------------------------
-----------4p2h4-------------6p4h6--|-------------------------------------------
------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------
------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------





---------0h2--0--0-----------------------|--------------------------------------
--------------------2--------------------|--------------------------------------
-----------------------2h4---------------|--------------------------------------
----------------------------4p2----------|--------------------------------------
---------------------------------4p2-----|--------------------------------------
--------------------------------------2--|--------------------------------------





----------------------------------------------|--17--14------12-14--------|-----
15--------15--15---------17-----17------------|--19--15--14--14/15--------|-----
14h16-----14--14---------16h18--16------------|----------14---------------|-----
------------------16----------------16p14h16--|---------------------------|-----
----------------------------------------------|---------------------------|-----
----------------------------------------------|---------------------------|-----



Hold down the windo

-5------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-7------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-7------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-0------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------



     Main Riff style near the end

||------------------------------------------------------------------------------
||------------------------------------------------------------------------------
||*---------------------------------------------4--2--0--2----------------------
||*------------5--------3--------------------------------------5-----4--3-------
||----3--4--5--------5--------5--4--3--------------------------------------5----
||-------------------------------------5--3-------------------------------------



                 that's it, just re-use the above licks!

-------------||---------------------------------|-------------------------------
-------------||---------------------------------|-------------------------------
------------*||---------------------------------|-------------------------------
------5-----*||---------------------------------|-------------------------------
4--3---------||---------------------------------|-------------------------------
-------------||---------------------------------|-------------------------------



improvised guitar solo at end -- G -- Bm (see keyboard chords above)
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