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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)
[GHOST] RIDERS IN THE SKY
-- Stan Jones, 1949
-- "rock" guitar arrangement: tcg, c.1983 (re-arranged, transcribed 7/94)
--2/4 // Key of Am // Allegro (pretty quick)
--heavy reverb preferred; heavy "fuzz" neat, too
--Right-hand muffle thruout optional (required for "glisses" [see next])--
--notation for descending (and ascending) "picked-muffled glissandos"
approximate (it's that Surfari/"Pipeline" thing)
--note durations: s=sixteenth note; e=eighth; e.=dotted eighth; q=quarter;
q3=triplet quarter notes; [q]=quarter rest; [e]=eighth rest
VERSE {embellished melody}--
(Am) (C)
|---||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
|---||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
|---||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
|---||o-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|
|---||---0--0---0---2---|--(2)h3-3--3--0--|-----------------|---------------|
|-0-||------------------|-----------------|--3---3--3---0---|----3----------|
e e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e q [q]
(Am)
|------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
|------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
|------------------------|--------------|----------------|------------------|
|------------------------|--------------|----------------|---------------0--|
|------------------------|--------------|--0---0--0---2--|--(2)h3--3--3-----|
|--12-12-11-11-10-10-9-9-|-8-8-7-7-6\-0-|----------------|------------------|
s s s s s s s s s s s s e e e. s e e e. s e e
{ r i g h t - h a n d m u f f l e}
(C)
|------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
|------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
|------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
|-(0)h2--2-2p0-----|---2----------|-14-14-13-13-12-12-11-11|--10-10-9-9-8\-2|
|---------------3--|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
|------------------|--------------|------------------------|----------------|
e. s s s e q [q] s s s s s s s s s s s s e e
{ r i g h t - h a n d m u f f l e}
(Am)
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|-------2--2---2---|---2--------------|------------------|------------------|
|---2--------------|-------2--2---2---|---2---2p0--------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|--------------3---|---0-----------0--|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e q [e] e
(F)
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|---3---3---3------|------------------|------------------|
|---1---1--1---1---|------------------|--1-1-2-2-3-3-4-4-|-5-5-6-6-7-7---8--|
e. s e e e. s q s s s s s s s s s s s s s s e
{ right - hand m u f f l e }
(Am) . . .
|---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
|---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
|---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
|---------------|--------------|--------------|--------------|-------------||
|---------------|-----7--7--7--|--7--7--7--7--|--7--7--7--7--|--7---7---7--||
|--8---5-5--3---|--5--5--5--0--|--5--5--5--0--|--5--5--5--0--|--5---5---5--||
e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e q3 q3 q3
Yip- pi- yi-
CHORUS {"power" chords}--
(C) . . .
||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
||---5---5---5---5--|--5---5---5---5---|---5---5---5---5---|---5---5---5----|
||---3---3---3---0--|--3---3---3---0---|---3---3---3---0---|---3---3---3----|
||------------------|------------------|-------------------|----------------|
e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e q3 q3 q3
-ay-------------------------------------------- Yip- pi- yi-
(Am)
|------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|------------------|-------------------|------------------|-----------------|
|--2---2--2--------|--2---2--2---------|--2---2--2--------|--2---2--2-------|
|--0---0--0--------|--0---0--0---------|--0---0--0--------|--0---0--0-------|
|-------------3(b)-|------------3(b)---|-------------3(b)-|------------3(b)-|
e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e
-oh------------------------------------------
(F)
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
|---3---3---3------|--3---3---3-------|---3---3---3------|--3---3---3-------|
|---1---1---1---0--|--1---1---1---0---|---1---1---1---0--|--1---1---1---0---|
e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e
G h o s t Rid - ers i n the
(Am)
|-----------------|------------------|------------------|------------------||
|-----------------|------------------|------------------|------------------||
|-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------o||
|-----------------|------------------|------------------|-----------------o||
|--7---7---7---7--|--7---7---7---7---|--7---7---7---7---|--7---7---7-------||
|--5---5---5---0--|--5---5---5---0---|--5---5---5---0---|--5---5---5---0---||
e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e e. s e e
Sky--------------------------------------------------------
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* tgannon@charlie.usd.edu *= is no progression." =* { /===}
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