Heartbreaker
Words & Music:
Jimmy Page, Robert Plant,
John Paul Jones & John Bonham
This is fully transcribed
in the November 2006 issue of Guitar One. There is also a full transcription with a great lesson based
on it in Guitar School.
David Gilmour said in an interview that he was amazed at how difficult
fans could make the lines he played, when they were actually very easy. Every fantab I've seen out there makes
this song more difficult than it is.
So, I've corrected the notes here.
K.I.S.S., people!
INTRO SEQUENCE:
Repeat the full measure 3x: [1st note is only
played the 1st time]
G:|----||--------------2--------------------2----------||
D:|----||*-------------0--1-2---------------0--1-2----*||
A:|----||*--0-------3------------0-0-0-0-3------------*||
E:|-3b-||---------------------3b-------------------3b--||
Then, play this riff once:
G:|------2--------------------(2)--2----------|
D:|----------2--3-4-0-----------------3--4----|
A:|-2----5-------------2-2-2-2-5--------------|
E:|-----------------5----------------------5b-|
Then, play the first riff once more.
VERSE: [play
5th position chords on the inside 4 strings only]
A
D(5)
A(5)
Hey, fellas, have you heard
the news? You know that Annie's
back in town.
D(5) A(5) [etc.]
It won't take long 'til
someone can see all the fellas lay their money down.
Her style is new but the face
is the same as it was so long ago.
And from her eyes a different
smile, like that of one who knows.
TRANSITION RIFF:
[3x]
D
A D A D A
e:|-------------|
B:|-7-5-7-5-7-5-|
G:|-7-6-7-6-7-6-|
D:|-7-7-7-7-7-7-|
A:|-5-7-5-7-5-7-|
E:|-------------|
A
D(5) A(5) [etc.]
Well, it's been ten years and maybe
more since I first set eyes on you.
The best years of my life go
by, here I am alone and blue.
Some peaple cry and some
people die by the wicked ways of love.
But I just keep on rollin'
along with the grace of the Lord above.
TRANSITION RIFF:
[3x]
BRIDGE:
D:|----------------3---4--5-----------------------------0-------3-4-5------|
A:|-3------6----------------------------3---3---3----3--6------------------|
[2x]
E:|----------------------------6b---------------------------------------6b-|
People talkin' all around 'bout the way you left me flat.
I
don't care what the people say, I know where their jive is at.
D:|----------------------5--6-7---------------------------0------5--6--7-------|
A:|-5-----------6--------------------------5---5---5---5--8--------------------|
[1x]
E:|---------------------------------8b------------------------------------8b---|
Uh, one thing I do have on my mind; if you could clarify,
please do.
D:|-----------------------7------8-----9---------------------0---7--8-9--------|
A:|-------7-------10-----------------------------7--7--7--7--10----------------|
[1x]
E:|---------------------------------------10b---------------------------10b----|
It's the way you call me another guy's name when I try to
make love to you.
Just after "...to you...", this riff comes in:
G:||*------------7---7--7---7-9-9-9--*|| [etc. noodle on
these notes 2x]
D:||*--7sl.9-7-9---9------9----------*||
E(7)
I try to make love...it ain't
no use, uh, give it to me!
Uh! Give it!
INSTRUMENTAL SOLO: [monumental free-form solo that
you'll need to find elsewhere...]
A
Oh! Work so hard I can't unwind, get some money saved.
D(5) A(5)
D(5)
Abuse my love a thousand
times, however hard I try.
A(5)
D(5)
Heartbreaker, your time has
come, can't take your evil ways.
A(5)
[TRANSITION RIFF 2x]
Go away, heartbreaker!
OUTRO:
e:|--------------------|-------------------------|---------------------||
B:|--------------------|-------------------------|------------------3--||
G:|--------2-----------|------------2------------|------------------0--||
D:|--------0----1-2----|------------0----1-2-----|----------0---1-2-0--||
A:|-0---3--------------|-0-0-0-0-3---------------|--0---3--------------||
E:|-----------------3b-|----------------------3b-|---------------------||
Heartbreaker!
Heartbreaker!
Heart!