'Carouselambra' by Led Zeppelin - Guitar Tutorial

            

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 Led Zeppelin - Carouselambra
 
         From the CD `In Through the Out Door`
                 Written by Jones/Page/Plant
                 Swan Song  16002 and/or Atlantic  92443-2
 
         This file is mostly chords. The song is in C, the part I tabbed
 out is in D, and the end is in G. Most of it is synth and/or keyboard, so
 I have that here too. You can figure out which is keys and which is
 guitar. Enjoy.
 
 Jimmy Pena - [email protected]
 
 
 Progression:
 
  G A A G A A G A A G A A   B C#
 
 Repeat this 8 times:
 
 [x00231] [x02220]
   Dm/A       A
 
 With verse:  [x33211]  [x30210]
 
   F/C      C
         Sisters by the wayside bide their time in quiet peace,
                 await their place within the ring of calm.
 
   Dm/A     A
         Still stand to turn in seconds of release,
                 await the call they know may never come.
 
  F/C       C
         In times of lightness no intruder dared upon
                 to jeopardize the course, upset the run.
 
  Dm/A      A
         All was joy and hands were raised towards the sun,
                 as love in halls of plenty overrun.
 
 [xx0233] [xx0232]
   Dsus4      D
          Ah,  ah,  ah,  ah.
 
 Then 4 times in the same pattern:
 
 [113331]   [133211]
   Bb/F        F
 
 4 times:
   Dm/A     A
 
 
   F/C      C
         Still in their bliss unchallenged mighty feast,
                 unending dances shadowed on the day.
 
   Dm/A     A
         Within the wall their dauting formless keep,
                 preserved their joy and kept their doubts at bay.
 
   F/C      C
         Faceless legions stood in readiness to weep,
                 just turn a coin, bring order to the fray.
 
   Dm/A     A
         And everything is soon no sooner thought than deed,
                 but no-one seemed to question anyway.
 
   Dsus4      D
          Ah,  ah,  ah, ah.
 
 4 times:
 
        Bb/F     F
 
  Then the keyboard does a little roll which kinda goes like this:
 
    |:  A~      F G  :|  [Play it four times]
 
   F/C      C
         How keen the soaring hunter`s eye prevails upon the land,
                 to seek the unsuspecting and the weak.
 
   Dm/A     A
         And powerless the fabled sat, too slow to lift a hand,
                 toward the foe that threatened them from the deep.
 
   F/C      C
         Who cares to dry the cheeks of those who saddened stand,
                 adrift upon the sea of futile speech?
 
   Dm/A     A
         Wha??
 
 
   Dsus4      D
          Ah,  ah,  ah, ah.
 
 4 times:
 
        Bb/F     F
 
 
  Then the keyboard does that little roll again:
 
    |:  A~      F G  :|  [Play it four times]
 
 
         The keyboard does another thing but I`ll list the chords here:
 
    |:  F     G  Em  :|  [Play it three times]
 
    |:  A~      F G  :|  [two times]
 
    |:  F     G  Em  :|  [Play it three times]
 
    |:  A~      F G  :|  [two times]
 
    |:  F     G  Em  :|  [Play it three times]
 
 
 [This is in D]:
 
 [Riff 1] - play it once initially
 
    Em      D             A       G      C             D
 e:--7------5~-----5------5~------3------0------0------2~-------------|
 B:----8------7------7------5-------3------1------1----3~-------------|
 G:------9------7~-----7------6~------4------0---------2~-------------|
 D:----------------------------------------------------0~-------------|
 A:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
 E:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
 e:--7------5~-----5------5~------3------0------0---------------------|
 B:----8------7------7------5-------3------1------1-------------------|
 G:------9------7~-----7------6~------4------0------------------------|
 D:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
 A:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
 E:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
 [Back to the key of C]:
 
 [Riff 2]
 
     A              Cmaj7
 e:--0~---------------0~----------------------------------------------|
 B:--2~---------------0~----------------------------------------------|
 G:--2~---------------0~----------------------------------------------|
 D:--2~---------4-----2~----------------------------------------------|
 A:--0~-------0---0---3~----------------------------------------------|
 E:-------------------------------------------------------------------|
 
 [Riff 2] x2
 
 [Riff 2] with lyrics:
 
         Where was your word, where did you go?
         Where was your helping, where was your bow? Bow.
 
 [Riff 1] x1
 
 [Riff 2] w/ lyrics:
 
         Dull is the armour, cold is the day.
         Hard was your journey, dark was the way. Way.
 
 [Riff 1] x1
 
 [Riff 2] w/ lyrics:
 
         I heard the word, I couldn`t stay, oh.
         I couldn`t stand it another day. Another day, ay, another day,
         Another day.
 
 Keyboard bangs out an A chord, then it plays a G for four measures [final
 key switch to G], then A again for four measures.
 
  Play G:
         Touched by the timely coming, roused from the keeper`s sleep,
  Play A:
         release the grip, throw down the key.
  Play D:
         Held now within the knowing, rest now within the peace,
  Play A:
         Take of the fruit, but guard the seed.
 
  Play D for four measures, then:
 
             [x04442]
    |:   A A   B/A~   :|   [Play this four times]
 
  Play G for four measures, then A for four measures.
 
  Play G:
         Held now within the knowing, rest now within the beat,
         take of the fruit but guard the seed.
 
  Play D for four measures, then:
 
  Play A:
         Take of the fruit but guard the seed.
 
  Play D for four measures, then:
 
       |:   A A   B/A~   :|   [Play this three times]
 
 Repeat until fadeout:
                        [x05553]
       |:   A A   B/A~    C/A  B/A  :|