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/ Jethro Tull / Aqualung (1971) / Wind Up guitar tab

Here's a quick sketch of the acoustic bits of Wind-Up.  It seems to 
have only one place where Andersonianism occurs, so there's not much 
point in tabbing the whole shebang (at least, not from the acoustic 
guitar point of view). 
  

Wind-Up 
------- 
Ian Anderson 
(transcribed by Paul Tarvydas) 

Open, standard tuning (i.e. no capo!). 

Single notes are shown as S/F, where S is the string and F is the fret. 

The Andersonianism occurs on the last word of each (extended) line of 
the verse.  He comes off the D chord straight into an Asus4, with the 
pinky holding down the 2/3 suspended note, in front of the 3rd finger 
on the 2nd fret.  He strums down once, then lifts both the pinky and 
the 3rd finger off of the 2nd string and strums up, then replaces the 
3rd finger on the 2nd fret and strums down-up.  He then slides to his 
Em7 fingering, pinning the 3rd finger on 2/3 ready for the D chord, 
plays the little riff by lifting and placing the first finger.  The 
last note of the riff is the open 4th string - during this he sets up 
the D fingering and then down-strums it. 

V=downpick, ^=uppick, /=downstrum, \=upstrum 

 chord  frets     fingering 
 D     xx0232     xx-132 
 Em7   x20030     x1--3- 
 F#    xx4322     xx3211 
 G     xx0003     xx---3 
 A     xx2220     xx123- 
 Asus4 xx2240     xx12(3,4)-    both, 3rd and 4th finger on 2nd string 
 Asus2 xx2200     xx12-- 
 Bm    xx4432     xx3421 
 E     022100     -231-- 
  

 D            Em7             D                 F# 
 /             /              /                 / 
   When I was young, and they packed me off for school 

            G             D               Asus4 Asus2 A A 
            /             /                 /     \   / \ 
   and they taught me how not to play the game. 
  

 Em7              D 
  V   ^   V   ^   / 
 5/0 5/2 4/0 4/2 

  -   -   -   -   2 
  3   3   3   3   3 
  -   -   -   -   2 
  -   -   -   1   - 
  -   1   -   -   - 
  -   -   -   -   - 

 ... 

            G      A             D      Bm     G 
 They can excommunicate me on my way to Sunday school 

          G               A               Bm 
 And have all the bishops harmonize these lines. 

 Bm D E 
 Bm D E 

 Bm 
 How dare to tell me that I'm my father's son 

      G                D           F# 
 When that was just an accident of birth? 

 ... 
  

[eof]


Jethro Tull albums
1999 J-Tull.Com
1995 Roots to Branches
1994 Nightcap: The Unreleased Masters 1973-1991
1991 Catfish Rising
1989 Rock Island
1988 20 Years of Jethro Tull: Highlights
1987 Crest of a Knave
1984 Under Wraps
1982 Broadsword and the Beast
1980 A
1979 Stormwatch
1978 Heavy Horses
1977 Songs From the Wood
1976 Too Old to Rock 'N' Roll: Too Young to Die!
1975 Minstrel in the Gallery
1974 War Child
1973 A Passion Play
1972 Living in the Past
1972 Thick As a Brick
1971 Aqualung
1970 Benefit
1969 Stand Up
1968 This Was
Aqualung tabs
01Aqualung tabbass tab
02Cross-Eyed Mary tabbass tab
03Cheap Day Return tabbass tab
04Mother Goose tabbass tab
05Wond'ring Aloud tabbass tab
06Up to Me tabbass tab
07My God tabbass tab
08Hymn 43 tabbass tab
09Slipstream tabbass tab
10Locomotive Breath tabbass tab
11Wind Up tabbass tab

 

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