Television - Marquee Moon Chords & Tabs

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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 11:38:51 -0500
From: verkuilen john v 
Subject: TAB:  Marquee Moon by Television

As an incentive, here's the song mostly TABbed out.  I still need the 
lyrics....  Thanks to whomever first sent me the TAB, since that's where
I learned much of the parts (also from my guitar teacher).  As is usual 
with TV's stuff, you gotta listen closely to catch the rhythms--they're
not at all straightforward.    

Marquee Moon, from the album Marquee Moon
Written by Tom Verlaine
Recorded by Television
TAbbed by Jay Verkuilen (who got it from some other people--if I knew who you
were, I wouldn't have to post this again :)

Key:  D mixolydian (D E F# G A B C).  

Riff:
                            Bm
Tom:                ---7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7-------
                    ---7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7-------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------

 
Richard:            -------------------------------------------
                    ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-----------
                    ---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4-----------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------


                           D7
                    -------------------------------------------
                    ---7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7-------
Tom:                ---7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7 p 5 h 7-------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------

 
Richard:            -------------------------------------------
                    ---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3-----------
                    ---2---2---2---2---2---2---2---2-----------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------


I don't think I've got the timing right above, so you'll have to listen 
real closely.  Richard's part goes for a beat or a part of a beat before
Tom's.  Most of the song is this riff.  The second solo (jam) is over 
that.  



Little scale part:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/television/marquee_moon_tab.html ]
                        Play 3x                  last time 
Tom:                --------------10-8-7------|-----10-8-7-------------
                    ------7-8-10-7------10-8-7|-7-8--------10-8-7------
                    --sl/9--------------------|--------------------9-7-
                    --------------------------|------------------------
                    --------------------------|------------------------
                    --------------------------|------------------------
Richard:              Em      C     Am                   Am


I misremember the chords under this scale, so check them.  


Then the Life in the hive... part (listen to vocal):

|D    C|, with someone playing notes from the D mixolydian scale (Tom?),  

ended with Gmaj7 chord and the following riff (Tom?):

Tom:                ------------8-p-7--------------------------
                    ------------------7------------------------
                    --------------------7----------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------

The first solo (Tom) is a set of three scales with pauses in between, played
with alone, each in D mixolydian.  The first starts on 15th fret D on the 
B string and ends on 9th fret F# on the A string.  It covers all notes in 
between.  The second starts on 10th fret A on the B string and goes to 
5th fret D on the A string (then slides to 9th fret F#).  Listen closely to 
the song to catch the repeats.  I don't have a guitar here, so I can't 
check it to be sure and can't exactly remember what to do here.  :(  

The third part is:

                                                                    v 
Tom:                -----19-19-19-19-17-15-17-19-17-15-17-19-17-15-17---22----
                    ----------------------------------------------------------
                    ----------------------------------------------------------
                    ----------------------------------------------------------
                    ----------------------------------------------------------
                    ----------------------------------------------------------

("v" indicates staccato with pause)

Tom:                ------------8-p-7--------------------------
                    ------------------7------------------------
                    --------------------7----------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------
                    -------------------------------------------


Second verse..., same as the first.  


Second solo is over the main riff and is in D mixolydian.  It starts slowly
and builds to a massive climax.  The solo is one massive improv--Tom goes 
pretty crazy through this part.  Afterwards there are some chords, but I 
can't remember what they are--nothing complicated, however.