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Empty Spaces Tab

Send "Empty Spaces" Ringtone to your Cell Phone

Pink Floyd
Empty Spaces (Guitar Tabs)

Transcribed by Matt Jakubowicz
My Contact: dbz_ultimate@hotmail.com


Rule of thumb: This is more of a guideline, listen to the song and you’ll get it
easily. (You’ll know how long to hold all of the other notes better too)

Intro (listen to song for vibrato’s)

E ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
B ||-5-----7-----8-----7-----7>8-7--3--5--->3->5----->3>5-------------|
G ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
D ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
A ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ||------------------------------------------------------------------|

    It gets a bit louder here
E ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
B ||-5-----7-----5>7-8------7-----7>8--7--3>0—5-----------------------|
G ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
D ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
A ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ||------------------------------------------------------------------|

Middle

    This is the loudest part (most intense)
E ||-19~~~~-19>17-19~~~~-19-19----------------------------17-17-19~~~~|
B ||----------------------------19~~~~-17------19~~~~-19--------------|
G ||---------------------------------------18-------------------------|
D ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
A ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ||------------------------------------------------------------------|	

E ||-19>17-19~~~~-19>17-----------------------------------------------|
B ||---------------------19~~~~-17------19~~~~-17~~~~-19>20-19~~~~----|
G ||--------------------------------18--------------------------------|
D ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
A ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ||------------------------------------------------------------------|

E ||---------17~~~~-17>19-19~~~~~~~~-17>19-19~~~~~~~~-----------------|
B ||-20~~~~-----------------------------------------------------------|
G ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
D ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
A ||------------------------------------------------------------------|
E ||------------------------------------------------------------------|

End

This part is really easy, and on high distortion (try power chords if you want too)

    Play riff 3x
E ||--------------------------------|
B ||--------------------------------|
G ||--------------------------------|
D ||--------------------------------|
A ||--------------------------------|
E ||-0-----2-----3-----2-----2>3-2--|

    On the 4th and last time, play this
E ||---------------------------------|
B ||---------------------------------|
G ||---------------------------------|
D ||---------------------------------|
A ||---------------------------------|
E ||-0-----2-----3-----2-------------|

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Roger Waters
David Gilmour
Rick Wright
Nick Mason

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Empty Spaces Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Musical Genius	#1 by oh.... THAT guy at Apr 3, 1979 at 8:54 AM EST
	Also alot of good audio editing software allows you to play songs backwards. MUCH safer than turning your old vinyl backwards on your turntable, if it even can go backwards.

No Picture Bobby Wanna Be	#2 by Bobby Warneke at Apr 29, 1979 at 1:46 AM EST
	Actually, I own the album that goes with The Wall and you are actually saying to songs. Empty spaces AND What shall we do?. What shall we do? starts off at "shall we buy a new guitar". In the movie and the album it sounds like its one song but its really two.

No Picture Brad Lead Player	#3 by Brad Vincent at Mar 22, 1982 at 1:20 AM EST
	woa teis is weird you guys musn't read...theres like 3 people before it who have wrote"Congratulations,, you have just discovered the secret message, please send your answer to old pink, care of the funny farm, Chalfont."...everybody must know this by heart know...

No Picture Green Day rocks Average	#4 by Green Day rocks!!!! at Jan 1, 1986 at 6:30 PM EST
	i Like the movie version better that goes on to say Shall we buy a new guitar shall we drive a more powerful car shall we work straight through the night shall we get into fights leave the lights on drop bombs do tours of the east contract diseases Burry bones break up homes send flowers by phone go to shrinks give up meat rarely sleep keep people as pets train dogs race rats fill that attic with cash burried treasure stole our lesure but never relax at all with our backs to the wall

No Picture Bloody Mess All Musical Thunder	#5 by Bloody Mess All Over My Clothes at Dec 8, 1989 at 2:10 PM EST
	I always heard "Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Please send your answer to old Pink, care of the funny farm, channel 14."

No Picture Damien Wanna Be	#6 by Damien Pritchard at Sep 10, 2001 at 8:05 PM EST
	I personally like the alternate version of the lyrics that is taken off of "The Wall" movie. What shall we use to fill the empty spaces where waves of hunger roam. Shall we set out across this sea of faces in search of more and more applause?

No Picture Jake Average	#7 by Jake Staley at May 4, 2005 at 12:47 PM EST
	Some verses are missing. There are written somewhere..

No Picture duncan_player Wanna Be	#8 by duncan_player at Sep 27, 2007 at 10:24 PM EST
	Momentarily in the present, Pink has discovered his wife is cheating on him and becomes sullen (although this outcome is not a total shock when seeing that Pink hardly ever paid attention to his wife). In this song, Pink asks his wife, in his mind, what they shall do now. The most important line in the short song is the last one: "How should I complete the wall?" This shows us that Pink's wall is on the verge of being finished, and once it is complete, Pink will be totally separated from the real world. The empty spaces referred to in the song are not only the space between he and his wife but also the few remaining holes in Pink's wall yet to be filled in. Originally, "Empty Spaces" was supposed to appear before "Another Brick In The Wall part III". In this position, "Spaces"'s meaning is reinforced because Pink is asking what he should use to fill the remaining gaps, and then ABITW3 kicks in, answering Pink's question. The answer is that everyone can be used: "All in all it was all just bricks in the wall/ All in all you were all just bricks in the wall." If you play "Empty Spaces" backwards, you're in for a surprise. You will here Roger Waters say "Congratulations. You have just discovered the secret message. Send your answer to Old Pink in care of the funny farm." And then a second person says: "Roger, Carolyn is on the phone." A little Waters humor or more symbolism? You guessed it, more symbolism. "Empty Spaces" is a transitional song. It marks one of the times in which Pink loses touch with reality and his sanity. According to the backwards message, Old Pink is now at an insane asylum (within his mind) which means that the new Pink is taking over. The Carolyn that is mentioned in the background is Roger's wife. Roger has often said that if it had not been for Carolyn, he would have ended up insane like Pink.

No Picture Jesus Professional	#9 by Jesus at Sep 27, 2007 at 10:29 PM EST
	mostly to some it up what to do for pink to fill the spaces between him and his wife but it does tend to travel off the subject especialy in the movie

No Picture Christina Average	#10 by Christina Anderson at Sep 28, 2007 at 8:09 AM EST
	(Spoken backwards) "Congratulations! You have just discovered our secret message! Please send your answers to 'Old Pink' in care of the funny farm, Chalfont..." "Roger, Carolyn's on the phone!"

No Picture Phillip Wanna Be	#11 by Phillip Doucette at Sep 29, 2007 at 9:53 PM EST
	Amadeus II is one such software, which I own.

No Picture James Average	#12 by James Newsome at Oct 4, 2007 at 12:21 PM EST
	And the part that is backmasked is definitely hard to hear. Just before the REAL Lyrics begin you can hear him saying "If you are listening, this message is secret, this message is secret, this message is secret" but again it is barely audible. I never could catch the last part backwards. Only the "congratulations you have discovered the secret message please send your answer to.... never knew what the rest was. Thanks guys

No Picture sean Wanna Be	#13 by sean bradly at Oct 9, 2007 at 10:52 PM EST
	If you visit the above site where you can here it backwards, it tells you how. Here is the site again: http://www3.telus.net/jefmil/stairwaybackwards.htm It will direct you to a site with a link. Take the link (it should be green, I think), and you can here the song backwards. It also tells you how this guy did it, without the record.

No Picture Snap! Crackle! Average	#14 by Snap! Crackle! Josh!! waldenmaier at Oct 12, 2007 at 1:01 AM EST
	what shall we use to fill the empty spaces where waves of hungar roar shall we set out across this sea of faces in search of more and more and more applause shall we buy a new guitar, shall we buy a more powerful car, shall we work straight though the night, shall we get into fights, leave the lights on, drop bombs,do tours of the east,contract disease,bury bones ,breakup homes,send flowers by phone,go to shrinks,give up meat,rarely sleep,keep people as pets,race dogs, train rats,fill the attic with cash,bury treasure,store up leasure,but never relax at all with our backs to the wall thats the entire empty spaces on the wall what it means to me is that all people do is buy more and more,or make stupid choices,to fillup there problems,like pink,his wife just cheated on him so whats he do now kick the guys ass,buy new shit,whatever it does it still does not solve his problem or makes any happy never relax at all with our backs to the wall cause hes got his back to the problem