The Last Straw - Lyrics by Fish, music by Marillion.
Transcribed by James Osgood - jco100@tower.york.ac.uk
Legend
10b12 means bend from the tenth fret to the twelfth.
(10)b12 means pre-bend
20r18 means release bend
~ indicates vibrato.
/ means slide
\/ means dive with whammy bar.
p indicates pull off, and
h indicates hammer on
q indicates quarter tone bend.
Intro and Verse - Clean guitar with Chorus and Delay
There are slight fills at the end of this, which are different
for the two verses. They are
[1] [2]
The bits between verses are just Eb and F chords played as
follows
[Eb] [F]
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.
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!!
dive with bar
Then this bit which is great fun - still distorted.
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.
Transcribed by James Osgood - jco100@tower.york.ac.uk
Legend
10b12 means bend from the tenth fret to the twelfth.
(10)b12 means pre-bend
20r18 means release bend
~ indicates vibrato.
/ means slide
\/ means dive with whammy bar.
p indicates pull off, and
h indicates hammer on
q indicates quarter tone bend.
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
[1] [2]
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.
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----------------\/--------------------------------------
------- 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----------------------------------------------------------
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.
