Madrigal tab by Rush

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                 "Madrigal"
                 by Rush
              from A FAREWELL TO KINGS

Transcription by Paul Bryant (pbryant@hawk.cs.ukans.edu)

Song is in 4/4

🏷Legend:  ^ means string bend


Intro: Synthesiser and Guitar. YOU figure out what effects
    will make your guitar sound like the mighty Mini Moog!

|-12---------|------------|---------|-------------------|
|-----12--14-|------------|---------|-------------------|
|------------|-14--11--13-|---------|-------------------|
|------------|------------|-14------|-11----------------|
|------------|------------|---------|----14-12----------|
|------------|------------|---------|-----------14-12---|
|      |      |     |          |
|-0----------|-2----------|-0-------|-2-----------------|
|-0----------|-3----------|-0-------|-3-----------------|
|-1----------|-2----------|-1-------|-2-----------------|
|-2----------|-0----------|-2-------|-0-----------------|
|-2----------|------------|-2-------|-------------------|
|-0----------|------------|-0-------|-------------------|


|-12---------|------------|---------|-------------------|
|-----12--14-|------------|---------|-------------------|
|------------|-14--11--13-|---------|-------------------|
|------------|------------|-14------|-11----------------|
|------------|------------|---------|----14-12----------|
|------------|------------|---------|-------------------|
|      |      |     |          |
|-0----------|-2----------|-0-------|-2-----------------|
|-0----------|-3----------|-0-------|-3-----------------|
|-1----------|-2----------|-1-------|-2-----------------|
|-2----------|-0----------|-2-------|-0-----------------|
|-2----------|------------|-2-------|-------------------|
|-0----------|------------|-0-------|-------------------|


|----------------------------22^-| * See note 5 below
|--------------------------------|
|-11------14----11------14-------|
|-----14------------14-----------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|
|                |
|--2---0---------2-2-0-----------|
|--3-------3-2-0-3------3-2-0----|
|--2-------------2---------------|
|--0-------------0---------------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

"When the dragons ...

Figure A:
    |--0-------0----0-0---|-2------2------|
    |--2-------2----0-2---|-3--------3----|
    |--1-------2----1-2---|-2----2-----2--|
    |--2-------2----2-2---|-0--4----------|
    |--2-------0----2-0---|---------------|
    |--0-------0----0-0---|---------------|

"slay with pen or ...
Repeat Figure A

"weary of the ....
Repeat Figure A

"storm I walk to - ward...

|-0-------0----0-0---|-4-------4------|
|-2-------2----0-2---|-5---------5----|
|-1-------2----1-2---|-6-----6-----6--|
|-2-------2----2-2---|-6---6----------|
|-2-------0----2-0---|-4--------------|
|-0-------0----0-0---|----------------|

 "all a-round is mad - ...
 *
|-3----3-2---0---------|-----2-0-----------|  * I don't know if this chord
|(0)------------3------|-----------3-2--0--|   is really there. It sounds
|(0)-------------------|---2---------------|   something like the chimes
|(2)---------------2---|-0-----------------|   so you may want to play it
|(2)-------------------|-------------------|   if you have no chimes.
|(0)-------------------|-------------------|

 "no safe port in ....

|----------------------|-------2----------|
|---------2------------|-----------3------|
|------3-----3---------|-----4-------4----|
|----2----------2------|---4--------------|
|-4----------------4---|-2----------------|
|----------------------|------------------|

 "long to turn my path home-...
 *
|-3----3-2---0---------|-----2-0-----------|
|---------------3------|-----------3-2--0--|
|----------------------|---2---------------|
|------------------2---|-0-----------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|
|----------------------|-------------------|

 "a while  ...

|----------------------|------0-----------|--(0)----------|
|---------2----------2-|-0----0-----------|--(0)----------|
|------3-------3-------|-2----1-----------|--(1)----------|
|----2------------2----|-2----2-----------|--(2)----------|
|-4--------------------|-2----2-----------|--(2)----------|
|----------------------|------------------|---------------|

************************************************************************
The rest of the song is the same as above, with minor picking variations
************************************************************************

Notes: 1) Use a light chorus or flanger, if possible.
    2) Keep the picking as simple as possible -
      don't play too many notes!
    3) Some of the picking above was arbitrarily chosen
      since it is difficult to hear every note on the record.
    4) The synthesizer is transcribed (at least) one octave lower
      than on the record.
    5) That piercing last synthesizer note can be simulated by playing
      an artificial harmonic on the 9th fret of the G string, picking
      directly above the middle pickup (on my guitar anyway).

Have fun!