The Last Straw

Marillion

Composição de: Steve Rothery / Ian Mosley / Mark Kelly / Pete Trewavas
Tom:
Afinação:
Intro and Verse - Clean guitar with Chorus and Delay

E|-----------------------------------------------| 
B|-----1--3--1h3p1p0-----0-h-1--0----------------| 
G|-----2--------------2------------2--2-p-0--0---| 
D|-----2-----------------------------------------| 
A|--0--0-----------------------------------------| 
E|-----------------------------------------------| 

E|--------------------------------2--| 
B|-----1--3--1h3p1p0-----1--------3--| 
G|-----2--------------2-----0-----2--| 
D|-----2-----------------------3--0--| 
A|--0--0-----------------------------| 
E|-----------------------------------| 

There are slight fills at the end of this, which are different
for the two verses. They are

E|---0h2--|--3-2---| 
B|--------|--------| 
G|--------|--------| 
D|--------|--------| 
A|--------|--------| 
E|--------|--------| 

The bits between verses are just Eb and F chords played as
follows

    Eb    F


E|---6---------| 
B|---8----10---| 
G|---8----10---| 
D|---8----10---| 
A|---6----8----| 
E|-------------| 

It goes Eb - F - Eb - F - Eb - F -Eb - F - F - F.
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SR arpeggiates the chords second time around.

After the second 'chorus' he whips on a capo at the third fret
and plays an arpeggiated Cm7 as follows.

E|------------------6--| 
B|-----------4p3h4-----| 
G|--------5------------| 
D|-----5---------------| 
A|--3------------------| 
E|---------------------| 

He plays this repeadedly until the solo (There are various odd
bits of guitar under it but I haven't bothered to work them out)

Solo - a cracker. It's simple and very effective and I think I read
somewhere that he improvised it!!

E|--------------------------------------------------------| 
B|--(16)b18~---11--9--11--(11)b13~------------------------| 
G|--------------------------------------------------------| 
D|---------------------------------------3--6--3--8/10\8--| 
A|--------------------------------------------------------| 
E|--------------------------------------------------------| 

             dive with bar
E|----------------------------------------------------13--| 
B|-----------------------16-p-13--16~--16p13--(16)b18-----| 
G|--------------------------------------------------------| 
D|--8p6p3--3--6q\----/------------------------------------| 
A|---------------\--/-------------------------------------| 
E|----------------\/--------------------------------------| 

E|-------| rpt x 8                                          
E|--(15)b16~-16--(15)b16--16--18--(18)b20~------16p13-----| 
B|-------------------------------------------13-----------| 
G|--------------------------------------------------------| 
D|--------------------------------------------------------| 
A|--------------------------------------------------------| 
E|--------------------------------------------------------| 

E|----------------------------------------------------------| 
B|--(16)b18-------------------------------------------------| 
G|-----------13--13~--13h15p13--13~\------------------------| 
D|------------------------------------6~-3--6h8-6-8/10--10~-| 
A|----------------------------------------------------------| 
E|----------------------------------------------------------| 
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E|----------------------------------------------16-18-(18)b20~| 
B|-----------------------------------16-(16)b18---------------| 
G|--10\-------------------------------------------------------| 
D|-------6~-8--6--8/10--8~--10-6p5p3--------------------------| 
A|------------------------------------------------------------| 
E|------------------------------------------------------------| 

Then this bit which is great fun - still distorted.

E|-----3---------------------3--3-----------------| 
B|-----4--3------------------4-----4-----6--------| 
G|-----5-----3-----5---------5--------3--5--------| 
D|-----5--------3--6---------5-----------3--------| 
A|--3--3-----------6------3--3--------------------| 
E|-----------------4------------------------------| 

This chord sequence is used until the end. Steve solos over it
after a while, using the same melodic ideas as the solo, but
now in Cm as opposed to Fm.
  • Eb
    3
  • F
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