Aerosmith - Avant Garden Chords & Tabs

Avant Garden, Aerosmith
Awesome.  One of their more complex songs.
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v-vibrato
c-bend
u-pre-bend
d-release
CUD!


Starts out Electric
Acoustic plays a C chord at the beginning of each measure

Notes in parentheses played after riff
Fig. 1               Fig. 1 x1    1st ending:
e|-3--3--3-3----|    ------------|-3--3------------
B|-5c-5u-5-3----|    ------------|-5c-5-3-------3--
G|--------------|x2  ---------(5)|--------5-3-5---5
D|--------------|    ------------|-----------------   x2 w/ 2nd Ending
A|--------------|    ------------|-----------------
E|--------------|    ------------|-----------------

2nd Ending           Acoustic:
e|-3--3------------|-6p3------6---------------------------------------------|
B|-5c-5-3----------|------6p3-----------------------------------------------|
G|--------5c7dc7d--|----3----3----------------------------------------------|
D|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------|--------------------------------------------------------|

Meanwhile:
Starts in aforementioned 2nd time:
e|--------|------5|5s3------------------------------------------------------|
B|--5--5b6|5u6d5u6|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------|-------|---------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------|-------|---------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------|-------|---------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------|-------|---------------------------------------------------------|

Acoustic:

Bb                          Ab    Eb
I had a friend who spoke of fate & he

Bb                          Ab    Eb
knew of another place in space in time

Bb                     Ab Eb                             F
he told of how me & my lady could look but we would never find

Fill 1
Electric

e|----1---------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---2----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--3-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-3------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chords now played by electric and acoustic:

Bb                 Ab        Eb
said if you please I beg your pardon

Fill 2:
Electric

e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----4---------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----3---------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-3s5-5s3------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Bb                               Ab       Eb
sometimes the things you see they just aint so

Fill 3:
Electric

e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|1h3c4dc3------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Bb                Ab     Eb
you life can be an avant garden

Eb                                 F
cause loves what makes your garden grow (Fill 1)+Fill 1A

Fill 1A
Electric

e|-1------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---2----------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----3---------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


c                        Am
the sun leads the way the moon lights the sky
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/a/aerosmith/avant_garden_tab_ver_4.html ]
F             c           C7
I see you & I lying in my Avant Garden

Fill 4: (Twice)
Electric

e|1-3------------1-3---------3s5------5s3-----------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
  Sun/Dream    Moon/Our    See/won't    Lying/Here

c                          Am
I dream of the day when our worlds collide

F                 c              C7
we wont be denied here inside our Avant Garden

(Same chords as first verse:) -Not a smiley face.

Sometimes my life aint what it seeming (Fill 2)
Right from the start its what your hearts believing

Fill 5
Electric

e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--5p3h5-------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-------6p5-6-5------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


could all this just be lucid dreaming

Fill 6
Not Guitar, but kinda sounds like it

e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|11------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|10b12r10------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

but dreams aint just enough for me (Fill 1 + 1A)

Same fills as last chorus:

Chorus:
the sun leads the way the moon lights the sky
I see you & I lying in my Avant Garden
I dream of the day when our worlds collide
we wont be denied here inside our Avant Garden

you know its just aint right
to deal with other shite
no one should ever be so broken hearted
dont ever be afraid cause when you got it made
yeah you dont even have to try

SOLO!
Parentheses played by different guitar.
e|---------------------------------15------15-------------------------------|
B|---------------13-15-15-13-12c13----12c13--------13c15dv------------------|
G|-------14c15v------------------------------------------------10-----------|
D|--12c14------------------------------------12c14---------7s8----7---------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------7s8----8---------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------(8)(10)-|

e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----12------10-----10-----------------9-----------9--------9-----11---13--|
G|-------12b14--12b14---9-12-9------------------8-10--10--------------------|
D|----------------------------12-10--s10---9s10----------9s10-10s11--s13----|
A|-(7)----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|

e|---16--14u16d-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|s18-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|


Bb                        Ab   Eb
so i'll be waiting in your garden

Eb                        F
watching all your flowers grow


Same chords as first chorus

the sun leads the way the moon lights the sky
I see you & I lying in my Avant Garden
I dream of the day when our worlds collide
you'll know we're arrived here inside our Avant Garden

the sun brings the rain the moon needs the sky
i see you & I lying in my Avant Garden
beware of the lies a word to the wise
there's sweet cherry pies
and truth inside our Avant Garden



...

d                   A-9

You could spent your whole lifetime

d                    A-9 (A add flat ninth)

You could be never more mine