Red (Tab)
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Date Submitted: 4-Oct-92
By: Mark Andrew Hawling (chuck at cs dot unsw dot oz dot au)
Thought somebody might have a use for this...
"Red" by Robert Fripp as heard on the album RED
This is an arrangement of RED. It is arranged here for
guitar and bass. On the album there is considerable
doubling of various lines to thicken it up.
This is the opening guitar melody.
---------------------------------15-17-19-------
--------------------13-15-17--19----------------
----------13-14--16-----------------------------
-13-15-16---------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------15-17-19-------
-----------------12-13-15-16--18----------------
-------12-14-15---------------------------------
-14-16------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------15-17-18-------
--------------------13-15-17--19----------------
----------13-14--16-----------------------------
-13-15-16---------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
The bass for the opening is:
-8--11-10---8---12---11-12-14-16-16----
-9--12-10---10--14---------------14----
-9--12-12---11--15---------------------
---------------------------------0-0---
-7--7--10---9---7----7---11------------
-9--8--11---9---9----8---12------------
-10-8--11---7---10---8---12------------
---------------------------------------
-8--11-10---8---12---11-12-14-15-15----
-9--12-10---10--14---------------------
-9--12-12---11--15---------------------
---------------------------------0--0--
Main Verse Riff:
----------------------------------
-3-1-3-1-3-1-3--1--3b(4)r3--1-----
-3-1-3-1-3-1-3--1--3b(4)r3--1-----
------------------------------2---
----------------------------------
--------------------------------0-
This gets transposed to positions 1 step up and 1 1/2 steps up.
Fripp also plays at the end of the riff sometimes a "sick" sounding note
which is:
(i) and (ii)
s
-0---------0-------------------
-3/5-------5b(6)---------------
-------------------------------
-------------------------------
-------------------------------
-------------------------------
So the 1st verse is played if we call the main riff E , the transposed
riffs of 1 and 1 1/2 steps F# and G respectively and including the "sick"
notes (i) and (ii) we get the sequence...
E E F# E (i) G G E (i) then 1st chorus
2nd time through it is....
E E (i) F# (ii) E (i) then 2nd chorus
The bass drones these notes as roots for this section playing octaves
for accents.
Chorus:
This is played twice:
guitar
free rhythm
-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---!-0--------------------------
-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0---!-0--------------------------
-13-12-13-12-13-12-13-12--!-1--------------------------
-14-13-14-13-14-13-14-13--!-2--------------------------
--------------------------!----------------------------
--------------------------!-0--------------------------
bass
s s s s
--------------------------!-----------------7/(8)\(7)--
--------------------------!---6/(7)\(6)----------------
-7--6--7--6--7--6--7--6---!----------------------------
-0------------------------!-0-----------0-0------------
then
for the 1st chorus play these chords (free rhythm)
-0---!--0---!--10---!--10---------
-0---!--0---!--10---!--10---------
-4---!--4---!--12---!--12---------
-4---!--4---!--12---!--12---------
-----!------!-------!-------------
-----!------!-------!-------------
bass
-----!------!-------!-------------
-----!------!-------!-------------
-2---!-5----!-5-----!--5-4-3--3---
-----!------!-------!-------------
note that these are just the position for fingers. the rhythms
are up to you. The last bar has that little descending riff
to the C which is played for that bar.
For the second chorus
-0---!--0---!--0----!--0----------
-0---!--0---!--0----!--0----------
-4---!--4---!--9----!--9----------
-4---!--4---!--9----!--9----------
-----!------!-------!-------------
-----!------!-------!-------------
bass
-----!------!-------!-------------
-----!------!--4----!-4-2--2------
-2---!--0---!-------!-------------
-----!------!-------!-------------
The sort of Bridge section after this.
------------------!-----------------!-------------------
------------------!-----------------!-------------------
------------------!-3-2-3-2-3-2-3-2-!-6-4-6-4-6-4-6-4-6-
--2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-!-----------------!-------------------
------------------!-----------------!-------------------
------------------!-----------------!-------------------
bass
------------------!-----------------!-------------------
------------------!-----------------!-7-----------------
-0----------------!-6---------------!-------------------
------------------!-----------------!-------------------
Middle Break
The chords for the middle break are:
Hit each as many times as indicated...
20X 32X 3X 5X 24X 16X 1X 1X
----!------!-----!------!-----!------!------!-0----
-3--!--3---!--2--!--2---!--5--!--3---!--3---!-3----
-3--!--3---!--0--!--1---!--4--!--4---!--4---!-4----
----!------!-----!------!-----!------!------!------
----!------!-----!------!-----!------!------!------
----!------!-----!------!-----!------!------!------
32X 3X 5X 24X 8X 2X 1X
------!-----!------!-----!------!------!-0----
--3---!--2--!--2---!--5--!--3---!--3---!-3----
--3---!--0--!--1---!--4--!--4---!--4---!-4----
------!-----!------!-----!------!------!------
------!-----!------!-----!------!------!------
------!-----!------!-----!------!------!------
The middle break has the baseline....
------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------
-------1-0----------1-0--------4-4-2------------
-3-0-1-----1--3-0-1-----1--3-4-------0-0-3-4----
---------------------!--------------------------
---------------0-2---!--------------------0-2---
-4-2---2-0---2-------!--------1-0---------------
-----0-----0---------!--3-0-1-----1-3-0-1-------
------------------------------------------------
-3-3-5-----------------------0-2----------------
-------4-4-2---------4-2---2--------------------
-------------0-0-3-4-----0----------------------
Then for the rest of the song these various sections are played
over again. You can work that out from the recording. You will
have to work out the rhythms for the bass and the chords because
notating them here would be stupid to even attempt and not worth
the time.
I hope this is fairly arrangement is fairly understandable. If
anybody has any questions about the piece or any corrections (there
are bound to some) feel free to mail me at chuck at cs dot unsw dot oz dot au
Mark Hawling
Date Submitted: 1-Aug-02
By: Bernard Pinon (webmaster at benjamin-media dot com)
For those interested, I have made a transcription of RED, score + bass & guitar tablature. This one is more detailed than the tablature published above. I also have generated a MIDI file from the score, but it is not any better than the one you have on line yet. Please feel free to copy, download, avertize, criticize, etc ... http://mapage.noos.fr/~bpinon/red.htm
Date Submitted: 27-February-09
By: Chris
Intro
e|--------------------------------15-17-19-----------------------------10-12-14---|
B|--------------------13-15-17-19---------------------------9-11-12-14------------|
G|-----------13-14-16-------------------------------9-10-12-----------------------|
D|-13--15-16--------------------------------9-11-12-------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse Part One
e|--------------------------------15-17-18----------------------------------------|
B|--------------------13-14-17-19-----------3--1-3-1-3--1-3-1-3-----0-------------|
G|-----------13-14-16-----------------------3--1-3-1-3--1-3-1-3b4r3-0-2-----------|
D|-13--15-16----------------------------------------------------------2-----------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse Part Two Verse Part Three Fill One Fill Two
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-5--3-5-3-5--3-5-3-5-----0----8--6-8-6-8--6-8-6-8-----0----5--------7-----------|
G|-5—-3-5-3-5--3-5-3-5b6r5-0-2--8--6-8-6-8--6-8-6-8b9r8-0-2--7b9------9b11--------|
D|---------------------------2----------------------------2-----------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-9--8--9-8--9--8--9-8--------9--8--9-8--9--8--9-8-------------------------------|
G|-9--8--9-8--9--8--9-8--------9--8--9-8--9--8--9-8--------9-9--9-9--12-12--12-12-|
D|----------------------2---2-----------------------2---2--9-9--9-9--12-12--12-12-|
A|----------------------2---2-----------------------2---2--9-9--9-9--12-12--12-12-|
E|----------------------0---0-----------------------0---0-------------------------|
Break Solo
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------3--2--3-2--3--3--3-2--6--4--6-4--6--4--6-4---------------|
D|-5--4--5-4--5--4--5-4--5--4--5-4--5--4--5-4--7--5--7-5--7--5--7-5---------------|
A|-7--6--7-6--7--6--7-6-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------3----0----1--|
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--1----0------------------------1----0-------------------4----4----2---------2--|
E|------------1----3----0----1--------------1----3----4-------------------0-------|
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|--0----2-----------------------------------------------------0----2----3----3---|
A|-------------------------------1----0-------------------------------------------|
E|----------------3----0----1--------------1----3----0----1-----------------------|
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-5------------------------------------------------------0----2------------------|
A|-------4----4----2-------------------4----2---------2---------------------------|
E|----------------------0----3----4--------------0--------------------------------|
Order:
Intro
Verse Part One
Verse Part One
Verse Part Two
Verse Part One
Fill One
Verse Part Three
Verse Part Three
Verse Part One
Fill One
Chorus
Verse Part One
Verse Part One
Fill One
Verse Part Two
Fill Two
Verse Part One
Fill One
Chorus
Break
Solo
Verse Part One
Fill One
Verse Part One
Fill One
Verse Part Two
Fill One
Verse Part One
Fill Two
Chorus
Verse Part One
Fill One
Verse Part One
Verse Part Two
Fill One
Verse Part One
Chorus
Break
Intro
Date Submitted: 28-June-16
By: Jacques Lonchampt (jacques dot lonchampt at u-pec dot fr)
