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Humdrum – Peter Gabriel
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Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard
Peter Gabriel
Humdrum (1977)
(Peter Gabriel)
From: "Peter Gabriel [I / Car]"
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SPECIAL VOICINGS
E-A-D-G-B-E
C7sus4 x-3-3-3-1-1
C#6add9 x-4-3-3-4(4)
Bb/D x-5-3-3-3-x
Ebsus2 x-x-1-3-4-1 or
x-6-8-8-6-6
[ch]Gsus4/D[/ch] x-x-0-0-1-3 or
x-5-5-5-3-3
Fsus4 (t)1-3-3-0-1-1
C/E 0(3)2-0-1-0
Bbsus2 x-1-3-3-1-1
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Capo 1st fret
The tab sounds good, I think, but only represents the basic pattern of
course. The Rhodes on the original recording adds variations here and there
which are difficult to reproduce exactly on a guitar. Suggestions are
highly welcome!
VERSE
C7 (C7sus4) C7 (C7sus4)
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|0-----0-----0---|----1-----------|0-----0-----0---|----1-----------|
B|1-----1-----1---|--------1-------|1-----1-----1---|--------1-------|
G|3-----3-----3---|------------3---|3-----3-----3---|------------3---|
D|2---------------|----------------|2---------------|----------------|
A|3---------------|----------------|3---------------|----------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
CHORUS 1
Bb F Dm Asus4 Am Bb F
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|------------1---|0-------|----------------|
B|3-----1-----3---|3---1---|3-----1---------|
G|3-----2-----2---|2-------|3-----2---------|
D|3-----3-----0---|2-------|3-----3---------|
A|1-----3---------|0-------|1-----3---------|
E|------1---------|--------|------1---0-1---|
CHORUS 2
Bb F Dm Am Bb F
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|------------1---|0-------|----------------|
B|3-----1-----3---|1-------|3-----1---------|
G|3-----2-----2---|2-------|3-----2---------|
D|3-----3-----0---|2-------|3-----3---------|
A|1-----3---------|0-------|1-----3---------|
E|------1---------|--------|------1---0-1---|
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/p/peter_gabriel/humdrum_crd_ver_2.html ]
INTERLUDE (flute)
Cm7 C#6add9
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|----------------|6-------6--4--3-|----------------|----------------|
B|4---------4-----|--------4-------|4-----------4h6-|6---------------|
G|------3---------|------3-3-------|------3---3-----|------3---3-----|
D|----5-------5---|----5-----------|----3-----------|----3-------3---|
A|3---------------|3-------3-------|4-------4-------|4-------4-------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
[triplet]
Cm7 C#6add9
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|----------------|6-------6--4--3-|----------------|--------3-4-3---|
B|4---------4-----|--------4-------|4-----------4h6-|--------------6-|
G|------3---------|------3-3-------|------3---3-----|3---------------|
D|----5-------5---|----5-----------|----3-----------|3---------------|
A|3---------------|3-------3-------|4-------4-------|4---------------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|
[triplet]
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Capo 1st fret
VERSE + CHORUS 1 (see above)
C7 (C7sus4)
I saw the man at J.F.K.
C7 (C7sus4)
He took your ticket yesterday
Bb F Dm Asus4 Am
In the humdrum
Bb F (single notes: E F)
In the humdrum
VERSE + CHORUS 1 (see above)
C7 (C7sus4)
I ride tandem with a random
C7 (C7sus4)
Things don't run the way I planned them
Bb F Dm Asus4 Am
In the humdrum
Bb F (single notes: E F)
In the humdrum
VERSE + CHORUS 1 (see above)
C7 (C7sus4)
Hey Valentina, do you want me to beg?
C7 (C7sus4)
You got me cooking I'm a hard-boiled egg
Bb F Dm Asus4 Am
In the humdrum
Bb F (single notes: E F)
In the humdrum
MIDDLE 8
Dm Am Dm Am E E7 Fmaj7
Empty my mind -- I find it hard to cope
Dm Am Dm Am E E7 A
Li-sten to my heart -- don't need no stethoscope
VERSE (see above) – instrumental
| C7 | C7sus4 | C7 | C7sus4 |
INTERLUDE (flute) - see above
| Cm7 | % | C#6add9 | % |
| Cm7 | % | C#6add9 | % |
VERSE + CHORUS 2 (see above)
C7 (C7sus4)
Seem to me that television
C7 (C7sus4)
She come to cut me a deep incision
Bb F Dm Am
In the humdrum
Bb F (single notes: E F)
In the humdrum
MIDDLE 8
Dm Am Dm Am E E7 Fmaj7
Empty my mind -- I find it hard to cope
Dm Am Dm Am E E7 A
Li-sten to my heart -- don't need no stethoscope
CODA
| Bb/D | % | Ebsus2 | % |
| Bb/D | % | Ebsus2 | % |
| [ch]Gsus4/D[/ch] | Fsus2 | C/E | % |
Bb/D
Out of woman come the man
Ebsus2
Spend the rest of his life getting back where he can
Bb/D
As a bow, so a dove
Ebsus2
As below, so above
[ch]Gsus4/D[/ch]
From the black hole
Fsus2
Come the tadpole
C/E
With the dark soul, in coal she burn
Bb/D
She burn as I drove into the sun
Ebsus2
Didn't dare look where I had begun
Bb/D
Lost among echoes of things not there
Ebsus2
Watching the sound forming shapes in the air
[ch]Gsus4/D[/ch]
From the white star
Fsus2
Come the bright car
C/E F#
Our amoeba my little liebe schön
| Bbsus2 | % | % | Bb
