Every Breath You Take, by the Police tablature for 10-string Chapman Stick, standard tuning tabbed by Simmon Keith Enough people wrote to me privately requesting it that I figured I'd just post it publically. I apologize for any mistakes I may have made. I was going to do the whole song, note for note, but when I sat down to do it I realized the repetition would cause a lot of wasted space and time. I understand the following may frustrate some, but I've found that some tablatures are so repetative that I lose interest because I keep figuring out the same damn pattern over and over again (not realizing I already know it). And this song is rhythmically simple enough to get away with the opposite. I just tab-ed the arpeggiations, and some things in the bassline. Then I plotted out the whole chord progression. I'm assuming you can get the lyrics from listening, or from the web. But if someone wants to, I won't mind if you take what I have here and derive a more explicit tablature. This is my simplified interpretation. I know there are deviations in the bassline at times, and maybe some of the notes in the melody side aren't exactly the right note in the chord. But it sounds good enough for my taste. And, as I've learned, it's easiest to start somewhere and improve on than it is to get it perfect the first time. (My rendition of Brown-Eyed-Girl used to be just chords in the right hand and the root in the bass, but now I've added the real bass-line -- essentially -- and the intro plus a few other riffs in the right hand.) Have Fun! There are really only two and a half arpeggiated chord shapes, but I'll plot out all the chords here. Asus2 (pattern 1) f#m (minor version of pattern 1) 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ----10--12------14--12--------- ----7---9-------10--9---------- 10----------10----------10--12- 7-----------7-----------7---9-- Dsus2 (pattern 2) Esus2 (pattern 2) ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- --------12------10------------- --------14------12------------- ----10--------------10------10- ----12--------------12------12- 8-----------8-----------8------ 10----------10----------10----- C (pattern 2) Bsus2 (pattern 1) ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------------------------------- --------10------8-------------- ------------------------------- ----8---------------8-------8-- ----12--14------16--14--------- 6-----------6-----------6------ 12----------12----------12--14- F G [Or your own (in)version] ----- ----- 10--- 10--- 10--- 10--- 11--- 12--- 9---- 13--- Chord Progression: | | A A f# f# D E A A A A f# f# D E f# f# A A f# f# D E A A D C A A B B E E A A f# f# D E f#+f#+F-----G-----F-----G-----F A A f# f# D E f# f# A A f# f# D E A A D C A A B B E E A A f# f# D E f#+f#+ D E f#+f#+f# f# A A f# D } repeat until end The bassline is little more than the root of the chord in 8th notes. However, there are a couple notable variances: * Any note with a '+' after it is played an octave higher in the bass. * Any note with dashes ----- after it has the following rhythm (altering between the root and the root an octave lower): 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & ======5===========5===========5===========5===== ------------------------------------------------ 3--3-----3--3--3-----3--3--3-----3--3--3-----3-- ------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ 7==7=====7==7==7=====7==7==7=====7==7=====7===== - ------5-----------5-----------5--------5-----5-- \ ------------------------------------------------ \ ------------------------------------------------ \ ------------------------------------------------ \ } Repeat 5==5=====5==5==5=====5==5==5=====5==5=====5===== / ------3-----------3-----------3--------3-----3-- / ------------------------------------------------ / ------------------------------------------------ / ------------------------------------------------ -