Guns n Roses: Estranged                (Use Your Illusions II)

tabbed by: Tim Ruffer, badman@pianotabs.net
http://www.pianotabs.net

As with most Guns N? Roses songs, this is played very awkwardly.  The reason
for this is that they tune their guitars half a step down.  So if you have a
piano one semi-tone too high (you play a c and the sound is a b) like me
then the tunes are much more simple.  However I?ve written this out for a
regular piano:

Chords used in the song:

[F#7]4|e|   [b]4|F|   [a]4|e|
     4|C|      4|D|      4|C|
     3|a|      3|b|      3|a|
     3|F|

[E5]3|b|  [F#5]4|C|  [d]3|a|   [e]3|b|
    3|e|       3|F|     3|F|      3|G|
                        3|d|      3|e|

For those that don?t know or aren?t sure, a chord with the number 5 next to
it (E5)just means to play the first and 5th note, i.e. miss out the middle
note.


            [F#7]                                  [b]
When you?re talking to yourself, and no one is at home
[F#7]                                          [b]
You can fool yourself; you came in this world alone

FIG. 1:

First solo (using same chord pattern):

5|--eC----|--Fe-CC-|-----C-eC-|--------|
4|Fa------|Fa------|b---------|b-----A-|
b|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4---|1-2-3-4-|

5|--eC----|--Fe-CC-|-----C?eC-|-----c------|
4|Fa------|Fa------|b---------|b---b-babaF-|a
b|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4---|1-2-3---4---|

[a]                     [b]                   [e5] [F#5]
so nobody ever told you baby, how it was gonna be
[a]                     [b]
So what?ll happen to you baby,
                             [e5] [F#5]
guess we?ll have to wait and see
(end of Fig. 1)
[d]   [e]
(1234)(12)One Two!

Fig. 2:
5|---C----|---C------|-----C----|---C------|
4|-CF-----|-Fb-----bA|bAF-C-----|-Fb-----bA|
3|F-------|b---------|----------|b---------|
b|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4---|1---2-3-4-|1-2-3-4---|

5|-----C----|--------|CcC-------|--------|
4|bAF-C-----|b-------|----------|a---G---|F
b|1---2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1---2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|

Fig. 3:
4|--C-C-C-|--C-C-C-|--C---C-|--C-C-C-|
3|C-F-F-F-|--F-F-F-|--F---F-|C-F-F-F-|
2|F-------|b--b-b-b|a--ab--b|F-------|
2|--------|e--e-e-e|d--de--e|--------|
b|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|

Sung along to Fig. 3:

Old at heart, but I?m only 28
Much too young to let love break my heart.
Young at heart, but it?s getting much too late
To find ourselves so far apart.

[e5]                                        [F#5]
I don?t know how you?re supposed to find me lately,
[e5]                             [F#5]
And what more could you ask from me.
[e5]                           [F#5]
How could you say that I never needed you?
[d]
When you took everything,
[e]
Said you took everything from me.

Play Fig. 2

Sung along with Fig. 3:
Young at heart, and it gets so hard to wait,
When no one I know can seem to help me now.
Old at heart, but I musn?t hesitate,
If I?m to find my own way out.

[F#7]                                    [b]
Still talking to myself, and nobody?s at home

Play FIG. 1

2|F-------|--------|
1|b-------|--------|
b|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|

Piano Solo (trill notes not included):

5|abb-b-----|baF-e-----|efed--d---d---|d-------------|
4|----------|----------|----b--b---b--|-bgFe---------|
2|----------|d-------d-|--------------|e-----efed--d-|
1|b-------b-|----------|b---------b---|----------b---|
b|1---2-3-4-|1---2-3-4-|1---2-3---4---|1---2-3---4---|

For this solo, there are trill notes at the beginning of each bar.  For the
first bar, the note is: F(#).  For the second bar, it is a.  At the
beginning of the third bar, the trill note is d with the notes in the middle
of the bar both being b. The trill note at the beginning of the fourth bar
is also a b.

This is the long bit with the chords.  I can?t be bothered to write out the
rhythm, so I?ll just write the name of the chord and how to play it.  Each
chord lasts for one bar:

[b5]4|F| [d5]4|a|  [b5]4|F|  [d5]4|a
    3|b|     4|d|      3|b|      4|d
    2|F|     2|a|      2|F|      2|a
    1|b|     2|d|      1|b|      2|d

[b5]4|b| (yes, that  [d5]4|a  [a]4|e
    4|F|  is what I      4|d     4|C
    2|F|  meant!)        2|a     3|a
    1|b|                 2|d     2|a
                                 1|a

[a]4|e   [e]4|G   [B]4|F  [F#]4|F
   4|C      4|e      4|D      4|C
   3|a      3|b      3|b      3|A
   2|a      3|e      2|b      2|F
   1|a      2|e      1|b      1|F

[a]4|e   [b]4|F   [a]4|   [b]4|F
   4|C      4|D      4|      4|D
   3|a      3|b      3|      3|b
   2|a      2|b      2|      2|b
   1|a      1|b      1|      1|b

[a]4|e   [e]4|e   [?]4|e   [a]4|e
   4|C      3|b      4|C      4|C
   3|a      3|G      3|A      3|a
   2|a      2|e      2|e      2|e
   1|a      1|e      1|e      1|e

[e]4|e   [b]4|D   [F#]4|C  [e]3|b
   3|b      3|b       3|A     3|G
   3|G      3|F       3|F     3|e
   2|e      2|b       2|F     2|e
   1|e      1|b       1|F     1|e



[Eaug6]4|d
    3|G
    3|e
    2|e
    1|e

[b]4|D  [F#]4|C  [e]3|b  [Eaug6]4|d
   3|b      3|A     3|G         3|G
   3|F      3|F     3|e         3|e
   2|b      2|F     2|e         2|e
   1|b      1|F     1|e         1|e

[b]4|D  [b]4|D
   4|b     4|b
   3|F     3|F
   2|b     2|b
   1|b     1|b    when I find all of the

[F#]                     [e]
reasons, maybe I?ll find another way,
      [b]
find another day,
[F#]                      [e]
    with all the changing seasons,
       [b]                    [F#]        [e]
of my life, maybe I?ll get it right, next time.
[b]                         [F#]
   And now that you?ve been broken down,
                  [e]
Got your head out of the clouds,
          [b]
Back down on the ground,
          [F#]
You don?t talk so loud,
              [e]
And you don?t walk so proud,
   [b]             [F#] [e]
Anymore.  And what for?


I?ll write in the solos at the end.  But the chord sequence through the
solo, goes something like this (all chords last for one bar):

B, G#m, F#, E, Eaug6,
B, F#, E, Eaug6, B.



[B]                      [F#]
   When I jump in to the river,
                  [e]
Too many times to make it home,
             [b]
I?m out here on my own,
         [F#]
Drifting all alone,
      [e]                   [b]
If it doesn?t show, give it time,
                    [F#]  [e]
To read between the lines.


[G#5]              [F#5]          [E5]  [F#5]
   ?cos I see the storm getting closer
[G#5]        [F#5]              [E5]  [F#5]
    And the waves they get so high,
[G#5]           [F#5]             [E5]         [F#5]
    Seems everything we?ve ever known?s here,
[G#5]            [F#5]           [E5]
    Why must it drift away and die.

[C#5], [A5], [F#],

4|---------C|------eC--|---------C|----------|
3|b-b-b-aGa-|b-b-b-b---|b-b-b-aGa-|b-b-b-b---|
3|F-F-F-F---|F-F-F-F---|F-F-F-F---|F-F-F-F---|
2|b-b-b-b---|b-b-b-b---|b-b-b-b---|b-b-b-b---|
b|1-2-3-4---|1-2-3-4---|1-2-3-4---|1-2-3-4---|

The next part of the song is the dolphin sound style solo.  You can?t really
do it on piano, but the nearest you can get, is to play chords [B] and [A],
and play around with the notes F#, G#, C#, and B.  It does that for 7 bars,
then starts the second main end solo which is also at the end.  Rather than
doing chords as backing I play octaves of these notes in the following
sequence:

2|b-b-b-b-|b-b-b-b-|F-F-F-F-|e-e-e-e-|b-b-F-F-|
1|b-b-b-b-|b-b-b-b-|F-F-F-F-|e-e-e-e-|b-b-F-F-|
b|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|

2|b-b-b-b3|e-e-e-e2|a-a-a-a-|a-a-a-a-|b-b-b-b-|
1|b-b-b-b2|e-e-e-e1|a-a-a-a-|a-a-a-a-|b-b-b-b-|
b|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|

2|b-b-b-b-|
1|b-b-b-b-|
b|1-2-3-4-|

[B]                          [F#]
   I?ll never find anyone to replace you,
                   [E]
Guess I?ll have to make it through,
     [B]            [F#]   [E]
This time ? oh this time,
           [E]. [E5], [C#5], [E5]
Without you.

[B5], [A#5], [G#5]          [F#5]             [E]   [F#5]
                 I knew the storm was getting closer,
[G#5]         [F#5]              [E]  [F#5]
   And all my friends said I was high,
[G#5]       [F#5]            [E]         [F#5]
   But everything We?ve ever known?s here,
[G#5]      [F#5]        [E]
   I never wanted it to die.

I?m not sure about the ending chords, but they can?t be too hard to work
out.  The very last chord is a B.


Now for the solos.  Both of the solos are very tricky and hard to get your
fingers around.  I?m still grasping them, but I know how they go:

Solo 1 (after ?you don?t walk so proud, anymore, and what for??):

5|-------------C--|C------------C--|F-D---C----C----|
4|b---------FGb-bG|----b-b---FGb-bG|----------b-AbAG|
b|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|

6|----------------|----------------|-------------C--|
5|-------------Ce-|eFaFaFGbbbabbaba|b---------FGb-bG|
4|FGeFCe--FeFGb---|----------------|----------------|
b|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|

6|C------------C--|CD--F-------C-Fe|-eD-eDeCDCDDCC--|
5|--b-b-----FGb-bG|------b---b-----|--------------bG|
b|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|

6|D---------------CDeD|F------e|D-------|
5|--------------------|--------|--------|
b|1---2---3---4-------|1-2-3-4-|1-2-3-4-|
                                   When I find all of the reasons. . .


Solo 2:  After 7 bars of the dolphin style sound which I wrote above, it
comes to this solo.  There a lot of demi-semi-quavers in this solo and I?ve
decided that it would be easier to read if they weren?t added in.  But they
are quite easy to work out:

6|----------------|F--aF------aFed-|F--aF------aFed-|
5|dC--dC-d-C---C--|---------------b|---------------b|
4|--bG--b---bGb-bG|----------------|----------------|
b|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|

6|d--C------------|----------------|----------------|
5|----b-----a-F-ed|----eF--------d-|----F-aed---efed|
4|----------------|b-------F---ab--|b---------------|
b|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|

6|--------Cd-CdeFe|aeFaeFeFFed-d---|----------------|
5|eFabbFab--b-----|-----------b--ba|bbaFaFeded--Fede|
4|----------------|----------------|----------ba----|
b|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|1---2---3---4---|

5|F-------|
b|1-2-3-4-|