Tabber: Gaz Hughes
Artist: Pink Floyd
Song: Learning to Fly
Album: A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)

Now this song is actually layer upon layer of different sounds, and very eighties sounding it is; however, strip it down and you see that it’s actually just based around basic open chords. It’s amazing what people can come up with from the same chords people use every day!

Intro/Verse

This actually excluding the riff is just G and then E minor. Once you know the rhythm, it’s fairly easy.

G
Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Emin
Stretched to the point of no turning back
G
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Emin
Standing alone my senses reeled

Riff:

E |-10s12-12-12-12s10-|
B |-12s14-14-14-14s12-|
G |-------------------|
D |-------------------|
A |-------------------|
E |-------------------|

Chorus 1
C                                       Amin
Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies
F                              C                                     D
Tongue tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Verse

Chorus 2
C                                       Amin
A soul in tension that’s learning to fly
F                                       C
Condition grounded but determined to try
C                                       Amin
Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies
F                              C                                     D
Tongue tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

I’ve not tabbed the solos yet, unfortunately, I’ll do that later.