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- #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
- #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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- From: Brad Campbell <campbell@stmarys-ca.edu>
-
- Song: Immortality
- Artist: Pearl Jam
- Album: Vitalogy
- Transcription by: Brad Campbell
-
-
- INTRO:
-
- Cadd9
- e:---------0-----------|
- B:------------3--------|
- G:------0--------0-----|
- D:---2-----------------|
- A:3--------------------|
- E:------------------0--|
-
- This intro is played four times. I've found that if you run an acoustic
- guitar through an amp and use some mild distortion, it recreates the sound
- on the album pretty well.
-
-
- VERSE: The verse is basically just a cycle of Em and D (--0230). There
- is a two-note plucking pattern before the strumming cycle, though, that
- goes like this:
-
- Em D
- e:------0--0--|
- B:------0--3--|
- G:------0--2--|
- D:---2--2--0--|
- A:------------|
- E:0-----------|
-
- Each of these cycles is one bar [in 4/4 time] and the pick-up is played in
- every cycle. I know this might sound confusing, but listen to the song,
- and you can hear the two-note plucking. (Note that the D is not a true
- D...I just don't know the real name for that chord). Also, when strumming
- the D, try to use upstrokes as much as possible because it seems to sound
- better that way.
-
-
- CHORUS:
-
- Pretty simple:
- C Em C Em
- A truant finds home. A wish to hold on.
- C Em A Asus4 A A* A
- But there's a trapdoor in the sun. Immortality.
- (that little interlude between "sun" and "immortality" is a
- little confusing. Here's what the tab looks like):
-
-
- C C C Em A A Asus4 A A* A
- e:---0---0----0--0---x---0--|0------0--0--0|------------|
- B:---1---1----1--0---x---2--|3------2--0--2|------------|
- G:---0---0----0--0---2---2--|2------2--2--2|------------|
- D:---2---2----2--2---2---2--|2------2--2--2|------------|
- A:---3---3----3--2---0---0--|0------0--0--0|------------|
- E:---------------0----------|--------------|------------|
- ...trapdoor in the sun immortality
-
-
- DURING THE SOLOS:
-
- During the short solo, you just repeat the verse pattern.
- During the long solo, you repeat the verse pattern, but toward
- the end, you double the cycle (i.e.-instead of playing Em/D [two chords]
- in one bar, you play Em/D/Em/D [four chords] in one bar). The end of the
- long solo section ends on an A.
- That's about it. Sorry it seems so confusing.
- If you need any clarification, have any comments, flames, etc.
- send them to:
- Brad Campbell (campbell@galileo.stmarys-ca.edu)
-
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- ===========
- Immortality
- by Pearl Jam
- from the Vitalogy cd
- transcribed by kevin gardner
- code@wam.umd.edu
-
- intro riff
- -------0----------------
- -----1---3-1------------
- ---0--------------------
- ------------------------
- -3----------------------
- ---------------0--------
-
- verse strum these chords
-
- -0--0--
- -0--3--
- -0--2--
- -2--0--
- -2-----
- -0-----
-
- chorus chords
-
- C Em
- C Em
- C Em A
-
-