I have no idea what that drone thing is at the start and almost as few ideas about what
it's playing
Guitar 1 - I'd guess Russell because the rhythm is a little less straight forward than
the other guitar
Intro
E||--------------------------------------...---------------||
B||--------------------------------------...---------------||
G||--------------------------------------...---------------||
D||--------------------------------------...---------------||
A||---3-3---3-3---3---3-3---3-3---3---etc...-3-3---3-5---7-||
E||--------------------------------------...---------------||
Verse
E||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
B||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
G||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
D||---------------------------5---5---------------------------------||
A||---7-7---7-7---7---7-7---7---------3-3---3-3---3---3-3---3-5---7-||
E||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
Miss that last note off the second time through then you have some lovely chords before
the chorus
E||----------------||
B||7~~~8~~~7~~~8~5~|| I'm not 100% on that C chord at the end
G||7~~~9~~~7~~~8~5~|| but there are so many delays and things
D||7~~~9~~~7~~~7~5~|| going on that it's a nightmare trying to
A||5~~~7~~~5~~~6~3~|| pick it out. That works-ish
E||----------------||
Chorus
E||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
D||----------------9-------------------9------------------9--------------------||
A||10-10---10--12-----10-10---10-10-12----10-10---10--12-----10---10---10---10-||
E||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
Keep pedalling the 10 at the end and then finish on 7 on the A string
Middle Bit
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/bloc_party/valis_tab.html ]
E||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
D||---------------------------------------------------------------9-10-12-12-||
A||-10-10---10-10---10---10-10---10-7---7---5-5---5-5---5---5-5--------------||
E||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
Those last four notes are used over the end of the chorus preceding this middle section.
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Guitar 2 - Kele (again guessing)
Intro
E||--------------------------||
B||8-(x64)-12-(x32)-15-(x15)-||
G||--------------------------||
D||--------------------------||
A||--------------------------||
E||--------------------------||
Verse
E||------------------------------------------------------------||
B||------------------------------------------------------------||
G||7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-7-7-7-7-7-4-4-4-4-4-4-5-5-||
D||------------------------------------------------------------||
A||------------------------------------------------------------||
E||------------------------------------------------------------||
Then in the little pre-chorus bit it sounds like he plays the same chords as Russell but
with different effects.
Chorus
E||--------------------------------------------------||
B||--------------------------------------------------||
G||12-(x34)-9-(x4)-7-(x26)-17-(x6)-16-(x10)-12-(x16)-||
D||--------------------------------------------------||
A||--------------------------------------------------||
E||--------------------------------------------------||
At the end of the last chorus hold that 12 and then slid down to finish.
Middle Bit
E||----------------------------------------||
B||5---------8---------8----------12-------||
G||5-(x16)---7-(x16)---9-(x16)----12-(x16)-||
D||----------------------------------------||
A||----------------------------------------||
E||----------------------------------------||
