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Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 18:57:09 -0800
From: dmsika@shiny.com
Subject: m/mckennitt_loreena/skellig.tab
Information :
Title : Skellig
Album : Book of secrets
Author : Loreena McKennitt
Transcription by : David Msika (dmsika@shiny.com)
Information
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Title : Skellig
Artist : Loreena McKennitt
Album : Book of secrets
Transcription : David Msika (dmsika@shiny.com)
Notation :
Ce is the Cello line. It is a sustained single note, but you can play
it as a chord (this is the reason why the C is minor in the Ce notation,
instead of a regular C note)
~ : slide
p : pull-off
h : hammer
(10) : transition note
Chords
E A D G B E
Cm 8 10 10 8 8 8
Bb 6 8 8 7 6 6
G# 4 6 6 5 4 4
G 3 5 5 4 3 3
D 10 12 12 11 10 10
Intro (Violin)- With vibrato.
Ce : Cm Bb Cm D Cm Db Cm Bb
E ---8-8--8h10p8-6------8--10--6--8-----11--11--11---10p8--6------
B ----------------------------------------------------------------
Ch : Cm Cm Bb G Cm Bb Cm Bb G
E ---8---8h10p8--6---8-------8--10--(10)h11-(11)p10--8---6--------
B -----------------------8------------------------------------8---
Ch : Cm Cm Bb Cm Cm Bb Cm
E ---8-8-6-8-8---10--11---13--15------8-8---8h10p8-6---10---8-----
B ----------------------------------------------------------------
Intro 2 (Guitar arpeggios over the pan flute) Disk time : 00:44 mn
Those arpeggios are play through the whole song. You can either
play them as indicated, with minor variations in the sequences,
or just slam the chords down
Cm Bb G# Bb Cm
E ---------------------------------|------------------------------
B ---------------------------------|------------------------------
G -----------8------------------7--|-------5-------7--------7-----
D -------10-----------------8------|------6-------8-------10------
A ----10----------------8----------|-----6-------8------10--------
E -8----------------6--------------|----4-------6------8----------
(Violin part - Overlapping the arpeggios)Disk Time : 01:00
Listen to the song to figure out measure's length.
E ----------------------------------------3-----------------------
B -------6------------3--------------3-4----6-4-3-4-6---3-4-------
G -5-7-8---8-7--5-3-5----3-5---5-3-5------------------------5-3-5-
D ----------------------------------------------------------------
A ----------------------------------------------------------------
E ----------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------- THE SONG ------------------------------
Chords and Lyrics. Disk time : 01:20 mn
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/mckennitt_loreena/skellig_tab.html ]
Cm Bb G# Bb Cm
E -------------------------------|---------------------------------
B --------------------8----6-----|----3--4---6----4--3-------------
G ------5-------7--8-------------|----------------------3---5------
D -5-----------------------------|---------------------------------
A -------------------------------|---------------------------------
E -------------------------------|---------------------------------
O light the candle John, the daylight is almost gone
Cm Bb G# Bb Cm
E -------------------------------|-----------3-------------------
B ----------------------8-----6--|--3---4---------6--3-----------
G -------5----7----8-------------|------------------------5------
D --5----------------------------|-------------------------------
A -------------------------------|-------------------------------
E -------------------------------|-------------------------------
The birds have sung their last, the bells call all to mass
G# Bb Am G# Bb Am
E -----------------------------|---------------------6---4---3---
B --------13----11--10---------|---------------8--6--------------
G --12-------------------12----|--5--7---8-----------------------
D -----------------------------|---------------------------------
A -----------------------------|---------------------------------
E -----------------------------|---------------------------------
Sit here by my side, for the night is ve----ry long
G# Bb Am G# Bb Am
E --------------------------------|------------------------------
B --------------------------------|----------8----6--------------
G ---------------13--11--10-------|--7---8-------------7----5----
D ---12-----12----------------12--|------------------------------
A --------------------------------|------------------------------
E --------------------------------|------------------------------
There's something I must tell, before I pass a--long
(Repeat the same chords over the rest of the song)
I joined the brotherhood, my books were all to me
I scribed the words of God and much of history
Many a year was I perched out upon the sea
the waves would wash my tears, the wind my memory
I'd hear the ocean breathe, exhale upon the shore
I knew the tempest blood, its wrath I would endure
And so the years went by within my rocky cell
With only a mouse or bird, my friends I loved them well
And so it came to pass, I'd come here to Romani
And many a year it took, till I arrived here with thee
On dusty roads I walked, and over mountains high
Through rivers running deep, beneath the endless sky
Long bridge (Violin part)Disk Time 03:47 mn
It's very easy to pick the cello and pan flute notes played
over that bridge, so I didn't bother writing them.
E -------------------------------------------------------------
B ---6-8--8-9-8-6-----------------------------6-8--9-8-6-------
G -8----------------8-7-8-7-5---8-5---7-8-7-8------------------
E -------------------------------------------------------6-5---
B --------------------6--8~~~(13)-13-11-10-------6-8-8-6-----8-
G --8-7-8-5---3-5---8----------------------12--8---------------
E -------------------------------------------------------------
B ----6-8~~(13)-13--11-10-------6-8--6-------------------------
G --8---------------------12--8--------7-5---------------------
(Disk Time : 04:24 mn)
Beneath these jasmine flowers, amidst these cypress trees
I give you now my booksm and all their mysteries
Now take the hourglass and turn it on its head
For when the sands are still, 'tis when you'll find me dead
O light the candle John, the daylight is almost gone
the birds have sung their last, the bells call all to mass.
Sorry, no outro ;-)
