Marillion - Easter (First Version) Chords and Tabs

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EASTER (solo) by Marillion (an interpretation)

Here's the way I play it on my six-string, standard tuning, no capo.
Lots of bends, vibrato, and harmonics - fierce emotion.  Arguably
Steve's most powerful solo (it's my favorite anyway).

~ - vibrato (finger or whammy -whatever fits)
p - pull off
h - hammer on
r - release bend
s - slide    /s - slide from infinity
b(n) - bend to pitch of fret (n)

Guitar Solo - beginning at about 2:29

|--------------------------------------------------------------14-15~-
|-12~-10~-10s12------------------------------------------17~-17-------
|--------------11~-11s12-11-----7s9~-11p9--12p9--/s16~p14-------------
|--------------------------12~-9--------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------------
|---------------------------------------------------------------------


---14-15-15b(17)~--14-15-17b(19)~-------------14h15p14h15p14--------
-17-------------------------------15~--15s17~----------------15-----
-------------------------------------16-----------------------------


------------------------------------------------15-15b(17)~-15b(17)~
-14s12s11-12~-11--------(11)s12~-11~-------16-14--------------------
----------------12-9-12-------------12~--14-------------------------


-19b(20)-19~-------------19b(20)-19~--------------------20----------
-------------19-16h19p16------------19-16-19b(20)~--19~----19b(20)~-


-14h15p14---------14h15p14h15p14------17b(19)~--17b(19)~--17~-------
---------15---------------------15----------------------------------
-----------14s16~-----------------14--------------------------------


-14h15p14h15p14--------------14h15p14h15p14----17b(19)~-17b(19)~-17~
---------------15--------------------------15-----------------------
-----------------14s16h19p16~----------------14---------------------

3:41
----------------------------------------------------------?---------
---------------------------------------------------------?-?--------
-(11)s12~-11--12--9--7--7~--5--4--4h5p4h5p4--2--4~------?---?-------
-------------------------------------------------------?-----?------
------------------------------------------------------?-------?-----
-----------------------------------------------------?---------?----

--------17~--15-----15--------17--15--------------------------------|
-12~s16---------14~---16~--16--------14~--12~-----------------------|

Could somebody PLEASE decode the 'mystery' lick at 3:41?  It sounds
like sweep picking.  I've tried listening at half speed, but I just
can't figure it out. This has eluded me for years...

Nebraska?

P.S.  Please permit me to include the following response that I received
after I first
posted this tab...

~Subject: Re: TAB: EASTER (solo)
~Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 10:07:05 GMT

This is what I play (well, try to play, and fail!).  It's not quite
right but it's a start...  Maybe someone else can improve on it...

-----------------12h14h15p14p12----------------------------------
---------12h13h15--------------15p13p12--------------------------
----12---------------------------------12------------------------
------------------------------------------14---------------------

(You can see it on the Easter video, on the 6 of 1... compilation.)

By the way, I think Steve starts the solo on the 7th fret of the top E
string and works up from there.  I'm sure you've got the notes right,
but it might make a difference to the tone.  Also, at the end, it
sounds to me like he somehow takes that final note up an octave as it
fades.  I can only guess he uses a harmonic...

(I play:)
(touch for harmonic)
(top E)  --12---10---5------3-------(15)---

... but then again it sounds like it happens too gradually to be a
harmonic like that.  Any ideas?

Dan
--

Thanks Dan!

Nebraska?