Elephant Talk Tabs & Lyrics by King Crimson
Elephant Talk
guitar tabs lyrics
"Elephant Talk" from the King Crimson album "Discipline"
Fripp Guitar Part
Transcribed by Reginald Hunt
This transcription is set in standard tuning. I find it works pretty well.
The arpeggios should be played staccato.
The "(__)" in the solo is meant to be a tie, indicating in this case
that the 2nd note is hammered.
After Tony Levin's Stick intro, the Fripp part begins as:
(E minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-4---------------4---------------| repeated 8 times then
-------7---5---------7---5-------|
---7-----7---7-----7---7---7---7-|
-----7---------7-------------7---|
distorted chords during "A" verse vocals:
1 2 3 4
-0---0-----------------------|
-7---7-----------------------|
-7---5-----------------------| repeated 4 times then
-0---0-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
(A minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-5-----4---2-----5---4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---2-----2---2-----2---2---2---2-|
-----3---------3-------------3---|
---------------------------------|
same distorted chords during "B" verse vocals:
1 2 3 4
-0---0-----------------------|
-7---7-----------------------|
-7---5-----------------------| repeated 4 times then
-0---0-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
(F# minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
-2---------------2---------------|
-------4---2---------4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---4-----4---4-----4---4---4---4-|
-----4---------4-------------4---|
---------------------------------|
(A minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-5-----4---2-----5---4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---2-----2---2-----2---2---2---2-|
-----3---------3-------------3---|
---------------------------------|
same distorted chords during "C" verse vocals:
1 2 3 4
-0---0-----------------------|
-7---7-----------------------|
-7---5-----------------------| repeated 4 times then
-0---0-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
(F# minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
-2---------------2---------------|
-------4---2---------4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---4-----4---4-----4---4---4---4-|
-----4---------4-------------4---|
---------------------------------|
The Roland Guitar Synth solo:
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
||--11----------9---------|------------9-----|------------------------|-----------------9-|
||--9---------9-----------|----------9-----9-|-12-9------9--12--------|---------------9---|
||*-9-------9-------------|--------9---------|---------9--------------|-------------9-----|
||*-----------------------|------------------|------------------------|-------------------|
||------------------------|------------------|------------------------|-------------------|
||------------------------|------------------|------------------------|-------------------|
[1. ]
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------|------------||
------9--12-----------9-|------------4----------------|------------------7-----|-5----------||
---9---------------8----|---------4-----------------4-|-6--------------4-------|-----------*||
-----------------9------|------6------------------6-(___)------------6---------|-----------*||
------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------|------------||
------------------------|-----------------------------|------------------------|------------||
[2. ]
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
---------------------|-----9--------------------||
---5--7---------9----|---9-------9--------------||
-6-------------------|-9-------9----------------|| (end of solo) then
_)-------------------|-------9------------------||
---------------------|--------------------------||
---------------------|--------------------------||
(A minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-5-----4---2-----5---4---2-------| repeated 8 times with the "D" verse then
---2-----2---2-----2---2---2---2-|
-----3---------3-------------3---|
---------------------------------|
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------| repeated 16 times under Belew's solo
-----4-------4-------------------| (Fripp does add slight embellishments) then
---4---4---4---4-----------------|
-2-------2-------0---------------|
(A minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
---------------------------------|
-5-----4---2-----5---4---2-------| repeated 8 times then
---2-----2---2-----2---2---2---2-|
-----3---------3-------------3---|
---------------------------------|
same distorted chords during "E" verse vocals:
1 2 3 4
-0---0-----------------------|
-7---7-----------------------|
-7---5-----------------------| repeated 4 times then
-0---0-----------------------|
-----------------------------|
-----------------------------|
(F# minor Arpeggio)
1 2 3 4
---------------------------------|
-2---------------2---------------|
-------4---2---------4---2-------| repeated 3 times then
---4-----4---4-----4---4---4---4-|
-----4---------4-------------4---|
---------------------------------|
(F# minor Arpeggio)
1 2
-----------------||
-2---------------||
-------4---2-----||
---4-----4---4---||
-----4-----------||
-----------------||
