Intro Acoustic Bit
E|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------10---------------------------|
D|-----------------10/12------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------|
D|10/12-0-3-0~~~~0~~~~~~~~~~10/12-0-3-0~~~~0-------0--|
This changes slightly in the second half of this section "Ain't got time to prove..." onwards.
E|----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------10---------------------------|
D|-----------------10/12------------------------------|
A|----------------------------------------------------|
D|10/12-0-3-0~~~~0~~~~~~~~~~10/12-0-5-0~~~~0-------0--|
At the same time as this changes a second guitar comes in playing some little two finger
line as a bit of a call and response.
E|---------------------------------------------------|
B|--------10-----11-10-----------10--------10--------|
G|-----10-10-----12-10-----10/12-----------10-10-----|
D|-----12---------------------------12--------12-----|
A|---------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------|
And then it turns out that the empire never ended and all hell breaks loose.
Heavy Heavy Riff
E||-------------------|---------------|---------------||
B||-------------------|---------------|---------------||
G||-------------------|---------------|---------------||
D||-------------------|---------------|---------------||
A||-------------------|---------------|---------------||
D||0-3-0-6-5-2-3-(x3)-|--0-3-0-6-6-0--|6-5-2-3-6-5-0--||
| First Time | Second Time |
This Only applies for the first time through, for the repeats it changes to this
E||-------------------|--------------------|---------------||
B||-------------------|--------------------|---------------||
G||-------------------|--------------------|---------------||
D||-------------------|--------------------|---------------||
A||-------------------|--------------------|---------------||
D||0-3-0-6-5-2-3-(x3)-|--0-3-0-6-6-0---0-3-|6-5-2-3-6-5-0--||
| First Time | Second Time |
|(Last two notes run |
|into the main first |
| of the riff) |
And Then Another Section (Leading to all of the things that pain is)
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bloc_party/coliseum_tab.html ]
E||----------------------------------------||
B||----------------------------------------||
G||----------------------------------------||
D||12---------8-8---3-3---8-8---3-3--3--5--|| Twice
A||12--(x16)--8-8---3-3---8-8---3-3--3--5--||
D||12---------8-8---3-3---8-8---3-3--3--5--||
E||-----------------------------||
B||-----------------------------||
G||-----------------------------|| Twice
D||0---------8----3----8----3---|| Then repeat the last two chords
A||0--(x16)--8----3----8----3---|| for the "Pain is" bit
D||0---------8----3----8----3---||
During all off this power chord excitement Russell seems to be playing much the same as
Kele but
with a different distortion and such. Different octave too possibly. Something like this anyway
E||--------------------------------||
B||--------------------------------||
G||5--------10--5---10--5---5---7--||
D||7--(x16)-8---3---8--------------|| Four times
A||--------------------------------||
D||--------------------------------||
On the third time through of that instead of hammering away on the E and C he throws in this
E||----------------||
B||6-6-5-5---------||
G||--------5-5-----||
D||------------7-7-||
A||----------------||
D||----------------||
And then for the actual "pain is" bit
E||---------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||---------------------------------------------------------------------||
G||7~~~5~~~7~~~10~~~7~~~5~~~7~~~10~~~15~~~14~~~15~~~17~~~15~~~14~~~17b19||
D||---------------------------------------------------------------------||
A||---------------------------------------------------------------------||
D||---------------------------------------------------------------------||
And then back to the heavy heavy angry Bloc Party riff for a bit before...
AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH Someone ate all of Kele's Bran Flakes and now he's really mad.
Kele
E||--------------------------------------------||
B||--------------------------------------------||
G||--------------------------------------------||
D||--------------------------------------------||
A||--------------------------------------------||
D||0-10-12-0-10-12-0-10-12-0-10-12-10-12-10-12-||
Russell
E||-----------------------------||
B||3-----6------9-------10------|| Don't worry about getting the unison
G||5b7---8b10---11b13---12b14---|| bends spot on in tune. Just try to hit
D||-----------------------------|| guitar like you hate it and it stole
A||-----------------------------|| your girlfriend.
D||-----------------------------||
