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"Elephant Talk" from the King Crimson album "Discipline"
Fripp Guitar Part
Transcribed by Reginald Hunt
This transcription is set in standard tuning. I find it works pretty well.
The arpeggios should be played staccato.
The "(__)" in the solo is meant to be a tie, indicating in this case
that the 2nd note is hammered.
After Tony Levin's Stick intro, the Fripp part begins as:
(E minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-4---------------4---------------| repeated 8 times then
-------7---5---------7---5-------|
---7-----7---7-----7---7---7---7-|
-----7---------7-------------7---|
distorted chords during "A" verse vocals:
1 2 3 4
-0---0-----------------------|
-7---7-----------------------|
-7---5-----------------------| repeated 4 times then
-0---0-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
(A minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-5-----4---2-----5---4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---2-----2---2-----2---2---2---2-|
-----3---------3-------------3---|
---------------------------------|
same distorted chords during "B" verse vocals:
1 2 3 4
-0---0-----------------------|
-7---7-----------------------|
-7---5-----------------------| repeated 4 times then
-0---0-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
(F# minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
-2---------------2---------------|
-------4---2---------4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---4-----4---4-----4---4---4---4-|
-----4---------4-------------4---|
---------------------------------|
(A minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-5-----4---2-----5---4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---2-----2---2-----2---2---2---2-|
-----3---------3-------------3---|
---------------------------------|
same distorted chords during "C" verse vocals:
1 2 3 4
-0---0-----------------------|
-7---7-----------------------|
-7---5-----------------------| repeated 4 times then
-0---0-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
(F# minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
-2---------------2---------------|
-------4---2---------4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---4-----4---4-----4---4---4---4-|
-----4---------4-------------4---|
---------------------------------|
The Roland Guitar Synth solo:
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
||--11----------9---------|------------9-----|------------------------|-----------------9-|
||--9---------9-----------|----------9-----9-|-12-9------9--12--------|---------------9---|
||*-9-------9-------------|--------9---------|---------9--------------|-------------9-----|
||*-----------------------|------------------|------------------------|-------------------|
||------------------------|------------------|------------------------|-------------------|
||------------------------|------------------|------------------------|-------------------|
[1. ]
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------|------------||
------9--12-----------9-|------------4----------------|------------------7-----|-5----------||
---9---------------8----|---------4-----------------4-|-6--------------4-------|-----------*||
-----------------9------|------6------------------6-(___)------------6---------|-----------*||
------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------|------------||
------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------|------------||
[2. ]
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
---------------------|-----9--------------------||
---5--7---------9----|---9-------9--------------||
-6-------------------|-9-------9----------------|| (end of solo) then
_)-------------------|-------9------------------||
---------------------|--------------------------||
---------------------|--------------------------||
(A minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-5-----4---2-----5---4---2-------| repeated 8 times with the "D" verse then
---2-----2---2-----2---2---2---2-|
-----3---------3-------------3---|
---------------------------------|
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------| repeated 16 times under Belew's solo
-----4-------4-------------------| (Fripp does add slight embellishments) then
---4---4---4---4-----------------|
-2-------2-------0---------------|
(A minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-5-----4---2-----5---4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---2-----2---2-----2---2---2---2-|
-----3---------3-------------3---|
---------------------------------|
same distorted chords during "E" verse vocals:
1 2 3 4
-0---0-----------------------|
-7---7-----------------------|
-7---5-----------------------| repeated 4 times then
-0---0-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
(F# minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
-2---------------2---------------|
-------4---2---------4---2-------| repeated 3 times then
---4-----4---4-----4---4---4---4-|
-----4---------4-------------4---|
---------------------------------|
(F# minor Arpeggio)
1 2
-----------------||
-2---------------||
-------4---2-----||
---4-----4---4---||
-----4-----------||
-----------------||
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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can Wanna Be |
#1 by can sahin at Jan 4, 1974 at 4:23 AM EST |
| Love that Belew guitar, he can make it sound like anything! (I actually bought his video and with a flanger learned how to do the rhino, elephant and seagulls). Love the lyrics, too. | |
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Ben Rhythm Player |
#2 by Ben at Jun 6, 1977 at 3:53 PM EST |
| And yes, the guitar is cool, but Pink Floyd's is better in their song Echoes, where they get whale song. | |
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MelissA Average |
#3 by MelissA at Aug 30, 1984 at 6:50 AM EST |
| ... half of my vocabulary's in there :) | |
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sebastian Wanna Be |
#4 by sebastian Shamburg at Aug 2, 1994 at 2:58 PM EST |
| Fictions, follies, forethoughts, formalities, fillers, fillers, fillers! Fallacies, fuming, freakouts, flourishes! It's ooooonly TALK! Gab, gossip, gags...(SOMEBODY STOP ME! IT'S INFECTIOUS! SAVE YOURSELVES!!!!) | |
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Mike Average |
#5 by Mike Murphy at Mar 7, 2000 at 3:18 AM EST |
| The lyrics couldn't be more accurate. It's all just worthless drivel. If only more people understood that... | |
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tom Average |
#6 by tom jenkins at May 12, 2000 at 3:30 PM EST |
| No one else seems to have noticed the progression from using only as to only bs to only cs to only ds to only es (leading to elephant talk). | |
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Caitlin Rhythm Player |
#7 by Caitlin Carlisle at Mar 2, 2006 at 1:29 AM EST |
| no offense inpraiseoffolly, but it's not exactly something hard to see, especially due to the line "These are words with a D this time" | |
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