Brian Wilson - Heroes and villains

By Darren Price - priced80'at'hotmail.com I couldnt find a good guitar interpretation of this song as the sound of the song and the haunting melody mainly comes from the piano and is difficult to play note for note on the guitar, so i decided to do this myself and change it around a little to fit the guitar. Ive tried to make it simple, all the notes are flat bar chords but if you want to play the song in open chords that fine you just have to take the b off all the notes so Eb becomes E, then you get a whole new sound. Perhaps you could get a friend to strum the open chords while you fingerpick the bar chords and follow my tab, just move all the poitions up one fret if you decide to do that. I dont know why brian wilson used all flat chords, perhaps it was something to do with the way it ties in with plymouth rock. Also i find it really annoying when people dont bother to put the chords in the right place so here when you see the chord Db above the 'been' that means that is where you play the chord, on the 'been'. This text should be veiwed in the correct font which is Lucida Console (or a font which evenly spaces out all its characters). NOT ARIAL OR TIMES NEW ROMAN Db x 4 6 6 6 4 Eb x 6 8 8 8 6 Ab 4 6 6 5 4 4 Fbm X 8 10109 8 Ebm x 6 8 8 7 6 Abm 4 6 6 4 4 4 From the Spanish and Indian home In this part it changes to the piano riff, you wont be able to play the notes exactly as they are on a piano as it would require you to have fingers the size of bananas. Here is a way to play it a guitar by fingerpicking the chords that go with it. The timing is like patting you head and bubbing your stomach but keep trying... Timing 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & (X2) ---------------------------------------| -----7-------7-------7-------7---------| -----8-------8-------8-------8---------| ---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8-------| -6-------6---5---6---------------------| -------------------------6-------------| heroes and villans.... Just see what you've done 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & (X2) -----4-------4-------4-------4---------| -----4-------4-------4-------4---------| ---4---4---4---4---4---4---4---4-------| -6-------6---5---6---------------------| -------------------------6-------------| ---------------------------------------| 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & ---------------------------------------| -----7-------7-------7-------7---------| -----8-------8-------8-------8---------| ---8---8---8---8---8---8---8---8-------| -6-------6---5---6---------------------| -------------------------6-------------| Play slowly and possibly finger pick these notes randomly. I didnt bother tabing this bit cos there not really any certain way to play it. Just hold the chord positions and pick. or you can just strum if you want. This isnt in all versions of the song and the piano chords are quite difficult to decifer. Try fingerpicking these chords. You're under arrest! Brush the chords of this next part with your thumb, By the heroes and... >>>Back to fingerpicking the tabbed part at the start quite loudly to give a powerful >>>darker sound. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah This last part is an instrumental of different melodies and doesnt really sound like you could play it on your own on a guitar while keeping the volume so just play something like this. However your free to imporovise with this part Db Ab Db Eb Then perhaps work your way up to the F on the 9th fret like this (you can change the chords around but just make sure you end on a Ab then a Db slowly... For example... Fbm 2 beats F 2 beats Fbm 2 beats Ebm 2 beats Ab 2 beats Db slowly Thats it then, not so easy after all, but there should be anough to keep you busy for a while it took me ages to tab so please excuse any mistakes, and sometimes Abm is actually Ab Mayjor i know but its just easier to fingerpick that way and you cant really tell unless your being an ass. Any comments please send them to priced80@hotmail.com