Piano Tab, Accords Guns n' Roses / Estranged (chords + solos) (5 from 2 votes) 50,949 Views, Last Update 14 years ago by: Anonymous [Guest]

Guns n' roses: Estranged  (from Use your illusions II)
Orig tabbed by: Tim Ruffer, badman@pianotabs.net

As with most Guns N Roses songs, this is played very awkwardly.  The reason 
for this is that they tune their guitars half a step down.  So if you have a 
piano one semi-tone too high (you play a c and the sound is a b) like me 
then the tunes are much more simple.  However I've written this out for a 
regular piano:

Chords used in the song:  

[F#7F#7
]      [BB
]       [AA
]
 4|e|      4|F|      4|e|
 4|C|      4|D|      4|C|
 3|a|      3|b|      3|a|
 3|F|

[E5]       [F#5]     [DD
]       [EE
]
 3|b|       4|C|     3|a|      3|b|
 3|e|       3|F|     3|F|      3|G|
                     3|d|      3|e|

For those that don't know or aren't sure, a chord with the number 5 next to 
it [E5] just means to play the first and 5th note, i.e. miss out the middle 
note.


            [F#7F#7
]                                  [BB
]
When you're talking to yourself, and no one is at home
[F#7F#7
]                                          [BB
]
You can fool yourself; you came in this world alone

FIG. 1:

First solo (using same chord pattern):

5|--eC----|--Fe-CC-|-----C-eC-|--------|
4|Fa------|Fa------|b---------|b-----A-|


5|--eC----|--Fe-CC-|-----C'eC-|-----c------|
4|Fa------|Fa------|b---------|b---b-babaF-|a

[AA
]                     [bb
]                   [e5] [F#5]
so nobody ever told you baby...
[AA
]                     [bb
]
So what'll happen to you baby...
                             [e5] [F#5]
guess we'll have to wait...
(end of Fig. 1)
[DD
]   [EE
]
(1234)(12)One Two!

Fig. 2:
5|---C----|---C------|-----C----|---C------|
4|-CF-----|-Fb-----bA|bAF-C-----|-Fb-----bA|
3|F-------|b---------|----------|b---------|


5|-----C----|--------|CcC-------|--------|
4|bAF-C-----|b-------|----------|a---G---|F


Fig. 3:
4|--C-C-C-|--C-C-C-|--C---C-|--C-C-C-|
3|C-F-F-F-|--F-F-F-|--F---F-|C-F-F-F-|
2|F-------|b--b-b-b|a--ab--b|F-------|
2|--------|e--e-e-e|d--de--e|--------|


Sung along to Fig. 3:

Old at heart...

[e5]                                        [F#5]
I don't know how...
[e5]                             [F#5]
And what more could you ask ...
[e5]                           [F#5]
How could you say that I never ...
[DD
]
When you took ...
[EE
]
Said you took...

Play Fig. 2

Sung along with Fig. 3:
Young at heart...

[F#7F#7
]                                    [bb
]
Still talking to myself, and nobody's at home

Play FIG. 1

2|F-------|--------|
1|b-------|--------|


Piano Solo (trill notes not included):

5|abb-b-----|baF-e-----|efed--d---d---|d-------------|
4|----------|----------|----b--b---b--|-bgFe---------|
2|----------|d-------d-|--------------|e-----efed--d-|
1|b-------b-|----------|b---------b---|----------b---|


For this solo, there are trill notes at the beginning of each bar.  For the 
first bar, the note is: F(#).  For the second bar, it is a.  At the 
beginning of the third bar, the trill note is d with the notes in the middle 
of the bar both being b. The trill note at the beginning of the fourth bar 
is also a b.

This is the long bit with the chords.  I can't be bothered to write out the 
rhythm, so I'll just write the name of the chord and how to play it.  Each 
chord lasts for one bar:

[b5]4|F| [d5]4|a|  [b5]4|F|  [d5]4|a
    3|b|     4|d|      3|b|      4|d
    2|F|     2|a|      2|F|      2|a
    1|b|     2|d|      1|b|      2|d

[b5]4|b| (yes, that  [d5]4|a  [AA
]4|e
    4|F|  is what I      4|d     4|C
    2|F|  meant!)        2|a     3|a
    1|b|                 2|d     2|a
                                 1|a

[AA
]4|e   [EE
]4|G   [BB
]4|F  [F#F#
]4|F
   4|C      4|e      4|D      4|C
   3|a      3|b      3|b      3|A
   2|a      3|e      2|b      2|F
   1|a      2|e      1|b      1|F

[AA
]4|e   [bb
]4|F   [AA
]4|   [bb
]4|F
   4|C      4|D      4|      4|D
   3|a      3|b      3|      3|b
   2|a      2|b      2|      2|b
   1|a      1|b      1|      1|b

[AA
]4|e   [EE
]4|e   [?]4|e   [AA
]4|e
   4|C      3|b      4|C      4|C
   3|a      3|G      3|A      3|a
   2|a      2|e      2|e      2|e
   1|a      1|e      1|e      1|e

[EE
]4|e   [bb
]4|D   [F#F#
]4|C  [EE
]3|b
   3|b      3|b       3|A     3|G
   3|G      3|F       3|F     3|e
   2|e      2|b       2|F     2|e
   1|e      1|b       1|F     1|e



[Eaug6]4|d
    3|G
    3|e
    2|e
    1|e

[bb
]4|D  [F#F#
]4|C  [EE
]3|b  [Eaug6]4|d
   3|b      3|A     3|G         3|G
   3|F      3|F     3|e         3|e
   2|b      2|F     2|e         2|e
   1|b      1|F     1|e         1|e

[bb
]4|D  [bb
]4|D
   4|b     4|b
   3|F     3|F
   2|b     2|b
   1|b     1|b    when I find all of the

[F#F#
]                     [EE
]
reasons, maybe I'll find ...
      [bb
]
find another day,
[F#F#
]                      [EE
]
    with all the changing...
       [bb
]                    [F#F#
]        [EE
]
of my life, maybe I'll get it right, next time.
[bb
]                         [F#F#
]
   And now that you've been broken...
                  [EE
]
Got your head out of the...
          [bb
]
Back down on the...
          [F#F#
]
You don't talk...
              [EE
]
And you don't walk...
   [bb
]             [F#F#
] [EE
]
Anymore.  And what for?


I'll write in the solos at the end.  But the chord sequence through the 
solo, goes something like this (all chords last for one bar):

B, G#m, F#, E, Eaug6,
B, F#, E, Eaug6, B.



[BB
]                      [F#F#
]
   When I jump in to the...
                  [EE
]
Too many times to make...
             [bb
]
I'm out here on ...
         [F#F#
]
Drifting all...
      [EE
]                   [bb
]
If it doesn't show, give it...
                    [F#F#
]  [EE
]
To read between the lines.


[G#5]              [F#5]          [E5]  [F#5]
   'cos I see the storm getting closer
[G#5]        [F#5]              [E5]  [F#5]
    And the waves they get so high,
[G#5]           [F#5]             [E5]         [F#5]
    Seems everything we've ever known's here,
[G#5]            [F#5]           [E5]
    Why must it drift away and die.

[C#5], [A5], [F#F#
],

4|---------C|------eC--|---------C|----------|
3|b-b-b-aGa-|b-b-b-b---|b-b-b-aGa-|b-b-b-b---|
3|F-F-F-F---|F-F-F-F---|F-F-F-F---|F-F-F-F---|
2|b-b-b-b---|b-b-b-b---|b-b-b-b---|b-b-b-b---|


The next part of the song is the dolphin sound style solo.  You can't really 
do it on piano, but the nearest you can get, is to play chords [BB
] and [AA
], 
and play around with the notes F#, G#, C#, and B.  It does that for 7 bars, 
then starts the second main end solo which is also at the end.  Rather than 
doing chords as backing I play octaves of these notes in the following 
sequence:

2|b-b-b-b-|b-b-b-b-|F-F-F-F-|e-e-e-e-|b-b-F-F-|
1|b-b-b-b-|b-b-b-b-|F-F-F-F-|e-e-e-e-|b-b-F-F-|


2|b-b-b-b3|e-e-e-e2|a-a-a-a-|a-a-a-a-|b-b-b-b-|
1|b-b-b-b2|e-e-e-e1|a-a-a-a-|a-a-a-a-|b-b-b-b-|


2|b-b-b-b-|
1|b-b-b-b-|


[BB
]                          [F#F#
]
   I'll never find anyone to ...
                   [EE
]
Guess I'll have to make...
     [BB
]            [F#F#
]   [EE
]
This time ' oh this time,
           [EE
]. [E5], [C#5], [E5]
Without you.

[B5], [A#5], [G#5]          [F#5]             [EE
]   [F#5]
                 I knew the storm was getting closer,
[G#5]         [F#5]              [EE
]  [F#5]
   And all my friends said I was high,
[G#5]       [F#5]            [EE
]         [F#5]
   But everything We've ever known's here,
[G#5]      [F#5]        [EE
]
   I never wanted it to die.

I'm not sure about the ending chords, but they can't be too hard to work 
out.  The very last chord is a B.


Now for the solos.  Both of the solos are very tricky and hard to get your 
fingers around.  I'm still grasping them, but I know how they go:

Solo 1 (after 'you don't walk so proud, anymore, and what for?'):

5|-------------C--|C------------C--|F-D---C----C----|
4|b---------FGb-bG|----b-b---FGb-bG|----------b-AbAG|


6|----------------|----------------|-------------C--|
5|-------------Ce-|eFaFaFGbbbabbaba|b---------FGb-bG|
4|FGeFCe--FeFGb---|----------------|----------------|


6|C------------C--|CD--F-------C-Fe|-eD-eDeCDCDDCC--|
5|--b-b-----FGb-bG|------b---b-----|--------------bG|


6|D---------------CDeD|F------e|D-------|
5|--------------------|--------|--------|

                                   When I find all of the reasons. . .


Solo 2:  After 7 bars of the dolphin style sound which I wrote above, it 
comes to this solo.  There a lot of demi-semi-quavers in this solo and I've 
decided that it would be easier to read if they weren't added in.  But they 
are quite easy to work out:

6|----------------|F--aF------aFed-|F--aF------aFed-|
5|dC--dC-d-C---C--|---------------b|---------------b|
4|--bG--b---bGb-bG|----------------|----------------|


6|d--C------------|----------------|----------------|
5|----b-----a-F-ed|----eF--------d-|----F-aed---efed|
4|----------------|b-------F---ab--|b---------------|


6|--------Cd-CdeFe|aeFaeFeFFed-d---|----------------|
5|eFabbFab--b-----|-----------b--ba|bbaFaFeded--Fede|
4|----------------|----------------|----------ba----|


5|F-------|






Song Chord Charts:
F#7
B
A
D
E
b
F#