I Want You Shes So Heavy by The Beatles guitar tab (text):

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Artist: The Beatles

Album: Abbey Road

Song: I Want You (She's So Heavy)

Drummer: Come on, like you don't know

Tabbed By: Soltari

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Key:

Cc - Crash Cymbal

Rc - Ride Cymbal

Hh - Hi-hat		x=closed, O=open

Sd - Snare Drum		f=flam, g=ghost

St - Small Tom

Mt - Medium Tom

Ft - Floor Tom





When I say "repeat 8x" that doesn't mean play it once and then 8 more times,

it means play it 8 times. Also, there will be tempo markings throughout the

tab - play it at that speed or so until I mark a different one. Technically,

the song doesn't change speeds at all, but then you have to think of some

spots in triplets and some spots in quarters and I personally find it easier

to think in quarters the whole way through.





Notes on the song:

I'll go into more detail about this later, but sometimes Ringo sticks in

ride hits on the eigth note spots where there wasn't one before when repeating

a part. For example: the second time through the bridge, on the third measure,

I marked a crash on beat 1 and ride on beat 2, but Ringo plays crash on

beat 1, ride on the and of beat 1, ride on beat 2. It's not a big deal but be

sure to throw in a little improvisation at spots. That being said, consider

this tab about 90% accurate and a good guideline.





Intro     approx. 152 beats/quarter

3/4

Cc |------------||------------||------------||------------|

Hh |x-----------||------------||x-----------||------------|

Sd |------------||x-----------||------------||x-----------|

Bd |x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x---x---x---|



Cc |------------||----x---x---||x-----------||----x---x---|

Hh |x-----------||------------||------------||------------|

Sd |------------||x---x---x---||x-----------||x---x---x---|

Bd |x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x---x---x---|



Cc |x-----------||------------||

Hh |------------||x-----------||   rest after this indefinitely

Sd |x-----------||x-----------||

Bd |x---x---x---||x-----------|| 



the next few measures are kind of jazzy, so basically you just hit the

measure after the singer finishes his phrase. "I want you" "I want you so bad"





Aprox 114 beats/quarter



"I want you"

Sd |x-x-x|

"I want you so bad"

Sd |x-x-x-x|

"I want you"

Sd |x-x-x|

"I want you so BAD (come in here)..."

Rc |x---x---x---x---||x---x---x---x---||x---x---x---x---||x---x---x-------|

Sd |----------------||----------------||----------------||----------gxxxxx|



Sd |-xxxxx|



Verse 1

4/4

   {-------8x-------}

Rc |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Sd |------x---------|

Bd |x---------------|



End verse 1



Bridge



   (triplet)

Cc |x--x--x--||x---------------||----------------||x-----------x---|

Rc |---------||----x---x---x---||----------------||----x-x-x-x---x-|

Sd |x--x--x--||--------x-------||f---------------||--------x-------|

Bd |---------||x---------------||--x-------------||x---------------|



Cc |----------------||x---------------||----------------|

Rc |----------------||----x-x-x-x-x-x-||x---------------|

Hh |----------------||----------------||----O-----------|

Sd |f---------------||--------x-------||----------------|

Bd |--x-------------||x---------------||x---------------|



End Bridge



Repeat verse 1, 10 repeats instead of 8    4/4



       2/4

St |---x----|

Ft |----x-x-|

Sd |xx------|



Repeat Verse 1 4/4

Repeat Bridge 4/4



Chorus (She's so heavy)

3/4    approx. 152 beats/quarter



   {------------2x------------}

Cc |------------||------------||------------||----x---x---|

Rc |x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x-----------|

Sd |------------||x-----------||------------||x-----------|

Bd |x-----------||------------||x-----------||----x---x---|



   {------------4x------------}

Cc |------------||------------||------------||----x---x---|

Rc |x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x-----------|

Sd |------------||x-----------||------------||x-----------|

Bd |x-----------||------------||x-----------||----x---x---|



Rc |x---x---x---||x---x---x---||x---x---x---||------------|

Sd |------------||x-----------||------------||x-----------|

Bd |x-----------||------------||x-----------||x-----------|



End Chorus



NOTE ON CHORUS:

The chorus is repeated several times, and Ringo sometimes puts a crash at the

beginning of a measure where I have put in a ride. It would simply waste space

and paper to write out all the crashes he sticks in that are different from

the first time through, so I'll leave it up to you. And of course, the volume

of the ride tends to be louder on the first beat but soft on the second two.



Wait approximately 3 measures



Verse 2 approx. 114 beats/quarter

4/4

                     {-------9x-------}    2/4

Rc |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-||x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-||--------|

St |----------------||----------------||xx-x----|

Ft |----------------||----------------||----x-x-|

Sd |------------x---||------------x---||--------|

Bd |----x-x---------||----x-x---------||--------|



   {------8x--------}   > On the second time through verse 2, there

Cc |----------------|   > are ocassional triplets on the ride, most

Rc |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|   > likely improvised, invloving triplets between

Sd |------------x---|   > the bell & ride and only beginning with the 5th,

Bd |----x-x---------|   > 6th, or 7th ride note and ONLY in the 8x part.



End Verse 2



Repeat Bridge 4/4



Repeat Chorus 3/4



Repeat Verse 2 EXCEPT different 2/4 fill:



St |xxxx----|

Mt |----xx--|

Ft |------x-|



Repeat Bridge 4/4





Outro:

Repeat Chorus  3/4

And of course, the 2 minute set of fills. Ringo's fills get gradually more

complex, starting by following the original pattern in the chorus and simply

hitting toms instead of snares. By the end, he is hardly making the same

pattern. I don't want to take the time to tab all of his fills, but there are

some things consistent in the fills



Things to keep in mind for outro:

-Beginning right after the bridge ends, there are 148 measures in 3/4 and

then one measure that abruptly stops on the first beat.

-Ringo's fills ALWAYS have three or six snare/tom/bass hits per ride cymbal,

three ride's per measure unless doing a long roll across the set



So, it's better to think of doing your fill as:



Rc |x--x--x--||x--x--x--|

Sd |xx-------||--------x|

St |---xx----||---------|  etc.

Mt |-----xxx-||-----xx--|

Ft |--------x||x---x----|



Most importantly stay in 3/4 and in tempo, and never do a roll longer than

6 notes on one drum.