Аккорды для песни Fortress Around Your Heart

				

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Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 11:22:05 -0400
Subject: s/sting/fortress_around_your_heart.crd

                               Guitar Tablature for
                           'Fortress Around Your Heart'
                                    by Sting

Album Info:
-------------------------------------
 Song:    Fortress Around Your Heart
 Artist:  Sting
 Album:   The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
 Version: Album version
 Uni/A&M; ASIN: B000002GFA
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 Transcribed by: Robert Seder [robertcseder@yahoo.com]
    Original Post: Akira Nakahara [ab218@torfree.net]

This is played with a single 6-string electric guitar with standard
(EADGBE) tuning. This took me a little while to learn, so I figured I
would share this on OLGA. This tablature is my own work and the work
of the original poster, it may be distributed freely. I have merely
expanded on the original post. I've included more detail of the song.

Guitar Setup:
Use the neck pickups to get a warm a sound as you can. If you have 
chorus, set the rate to 40% and the depth to 60%. If you have a delay,
set that to match the song. On a Line6 POD, I am using 'POD Layer' with
'Drive' set to 55% with delay and chorus. Effect tweak set at 45%.

Playing:
I strummed upstrokes for the Rythym phrases, so you don't end up
catching the G string. Other than that, I think it's self-explanatory.
Also, Rythym I is used played 4 times in the intro.

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Verse:
***************************************************************
   Rythym I (4x)     Rythym II  (2x)
E|--10--8--5--8----|-9-8-6-8-----------------------------------
B|--10--8--6--8----|-8-9-4-9-----------------------------------
G|-----------------|-------------------------------------------
D|-----------------|-------------------------------------------
A|-----------------|-------------------------------------------
E|-----------------|-------------------------------------------

   Rythym III (4x)   Rythym IV (1x)
E|---9--7--4--7----|-5-4-2-4-----------------------------------
B|---9--7--5--7----|-4-5-0-5-----------------------------------
G|-----------------|-------------------------------------------
D|-----------------|-------------------------------------------
A|-----------------|-------------------------------------------
E|-----------------|-------------------------------------------
***************************************************************


Chorus:
***************************************************************
   Em7  D5/F#  G  Am7 C D      C   D  (Repeat 3x)
E|-0----0------3--3-------------------------------------------
B|-3----3------3--1---5/7-7-7\5-5-5/7-7-7\5-------------------
G|-0----2------0--0---5/7-7-7\5-5-5/7-7-7\5-------------------
D|-2----0------0--2---5/7-7-7\5-5-5/7-7-7\5-------------------
A|-2----0------2--0---3/5-5-5\3-3-3/5-5-5\3-------------------
E|-0----2------3----------------------------------------------

   Cm7  Dm7  Ebmaj7  F
E|-3----5----6-------8--------------------------------------------
B|-4----6----8-------10--------------------------------------------
G|-3----5----7-------10--------------------------------------------
D|-5----7----8-------10--------------------------------------------
A|-3----5----6-------8--------------------------------------------
E|------------------------------------------------------------

***************************************************************


			

				

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                Fortress Around Your Heart  STING
                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  from the album:
                                            Dream of the Blue Turtles
                             
 This is my second posting so my explanations may not be all that good.
 Nevertheless, I hope you will enjoy playing this great Sting classic.
 


 Intro:

 Riff #1
 
 e-10-10-10-8-8-5-5-8-8-     play this a total of 4 times.
 B----------------------     
 G----------------------
 D---------------------- 
 A----------------------
 E----------------------


 Part A: play riff #1 throughout the section below.

 Under the ruins of a walled city
 Crumbling towers in beams of yellow light
 No flags of truce, no cries of pity
 The siege guns have been pounding all through the night

  
 Riff #2

 E-9-9-9-8-8-6-6-8-8-       play this a total of 2 times     
 B-------------------
 G-------------------
 D-------------------
 A-------------------
 E-------------------


 Part B: play riff #2 throughout the section below. 

 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through the streets in the afternoon


 Riff #3:

 E-9-9-9-7-7-4-4-7-7-        play this a total of 4 times.
 B-------------------
 G-------------------
 D-------------------
 A-------------------
 E-------------------


 Part C: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

 As I returned across the fields I'd known
 I recognized the walls that I once made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear  
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid


 Chorus:

    Dm          C           Am            C 
 And if I built this fortress around your heart

    Dm       C      Am              C
 Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire

    Dm       C       Am             C       
 Then let me build a bridge, for I cannot fill the chasm 

    Dm     c     Am         c  
 And let me set the battlements on fire 


 Part D: play riff #1 throughout the section below.
 
 Then I went off to fight some battle
 That I'd invented inside my head
 

 Part E: play riff #2 throughout the section below.

 Away so long for years and years
 You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
 

 Part F: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

 While the armies all are sleeping
 Beneath the tattered flag we made
 I had to stop in my tracks for fear
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

 Repeat Chorus

 Part G: play riff #1 throughout the section below.
 
 This prison has now become your home
 A sentence you seem prepared to pay
 
 Part H: play riff #2 throughout the section below.

 It took a day to build the city
 We walked through it's streets this afternoon

 Part I: play riff #3 throughout the section below.

 As I returned across the lands I'd known
 I recognized the fields where I'd once played
 I had to stop in my tracks fear
 Of walking on the mines I'd laid

 Repeat Chorus


 Go back to intro riff.


 Whew! That was harder to explain than I thought. Your comments or 
 corrections would be greatly appreciated.
                                    
 
                        Akira Nakahara (using my brother's account)


 P.S. Also I'd like to get my hands on any tablature for Sting,
        Van Halen, and the Rolling Stones,
 
                                            Thanks. 
        

--
Ken Nakahara    
ab218@torfree.net
Toronto, Canada