Bloc Party – Valis (Guitar Tab)

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I have no idea what that drone thing is at the start and almost as few ideas about what it's playing Guitar 1 - I'd guess Russell because the rhythm is a little less straight forward than the other guitar Intro

E||--------------------------------------...---------------||
B||--------------------------------------...---------------||
G||--------------------------------------...---------------||
D||--------------------------------------...---------------||
A||---3-3---3-3---3---3-3---3-3---3---etc...-3-3---3-5---7-||
E||--------------------------------------...---------------||

Verse

E||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
B||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
G||-----------------------------------------------------------------||
D||---------------------------5---5---------------------------------||
A||---7-7---7-7---7---7-7---7---------3-3---3-3---3---3-3---3-5---7-||
E||-----------------------------------------------------------------||

Miss that last note off the second time through then you have some lovely chords before the chorus E||----------------||

B||7~~~8~~~7~~~8~5~||   I'm not 100% on that C chord at the end
G||7~~~9~~~7~~~8~5~||   but there are so many delays and things
D||7~~~9~~~7~~~7~5~||   going on that it's a nightmare trying to
A||5~~~7~~~5~~~6~3~||   pick it out. That works-ish
E||----------------||

Chorus

E||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
D||----------------9-------------------9------------------9--------------------||
A||10-10---10--12-----10-10---10-10-12----10-10---10--12-----10---10---10---10-||
E||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||

Keep pedalling the 10 at the end and then finish on 7 on the A string Middle Bit

E||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
B||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
G||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||
D||---------------------------------------------------------------9-10-12-12-||
A||-10-10---10-10---10---10-10---10-7---7---5-5---5-5---5---5-5--------------||
E||--------------------------------------------------------------------------||

Those last four notes are used over the end of the chorus preceding this middle section. ______________________________________________________________________________ Guitar 2 - Kele (again guessing) Intro

E||--------------------------||
B||8-(x64)-12-(x32)-15-(x15)-||
G||--------------------------||
D||--------------------------||
A||--------------------------||
E||--------------------------||

Verse

E||------------------------------------------------------------||
B||------------------------------------------------------------||
G||7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-7-7-7-7-7-7-4-4-4-4-4-4-5-5-||
D||------------------------------------------------------------||
A||------------------------------------------------------------||
E||------------------------------------------------------------||

Then in the little pre-chorus bit it sounds like he plays the same chords as Russell but with different effects. Chorus

E||--------------------------------------------------||
B||--------------------------------------------------||
G||12-(x34)-9-(x4)-7-(x26)-17-(x6)-16-(x10)-12-(x16)-||
D||--------------------------------------------------||
A||--------------------------------------------------||
E||--------------------------------------------------||

At the end of the last chorus hold that 12 and then slid down to finish. Middle Bit

E||----------------------------------------||
B||5---------8---------8----------12-------||
G||5-(x16)---7-(x16)---9-(x16)----12-(x16)-||
D||----------------------------------------||
A||----------------------------------------||
E||----------------------------------------||