Thanks SO much for your kind help!!! I can play this solo on the guitar in my sleep, both parts together, but was unsure of what the scale was.

You rock my friend! thanks again…

The violin solo starts in an A Minor (Aeolian) scale. There is an A Minor Pentatonic run in the solo as well. You’re hearing Pentatonic because the Minor scale contains all 5 pentatonic notes.

Half way through it switches back to C Major (Ionian).

The song is in the key of C. So C Major (Ionian), A Minor (Aeolian), and A Minor Pentatonic sound great over the entire thing. The A Minor scale is the relative minor to C Major as they share the same notes.

Hope that helps!

In these days, I’ve been listening to the song with more attention and even seeing videos of Kerry Livgren and Rich Williams playing live! I can confidently say that the chords of the middle are different.

The second time the chorus is sung, instead of ending in Am, Am/G, it starts playing a four bars group with x0750x the first bar, x0570x the second bar, x0350x the third bar, x0353x the first half of the fourth bar and again x0350x the second half of the fourth bar. Don’t ask me the names of these chords!

This four bars are repeated three times (the first while Steve sings the “…wiiiiind, ooh ooh” part, and the other two groups during the first half of the vioin solo). Then the intro plays again while the violin goes on with the second half of the solo.

These four bars groups are not easy for me because my fingers over the third and four strings tend to touch the second and fifth ones but the effect is worth it.

I’m progressing, but this song is difficult for a beginner like me, specially when I sing along. I find the Dm7 the hardest, so I change it a bit and play it on the 2-5 strings instead of 1-4. For the rest I follow your fine tab.

Sorry for my slow reply again! D/G means a D chord with a G bass note as the root.
Whenever you see something like that, for instance, the Amin/G a bit later in the song, the first part (Amin) is the chord and the second part (G) is the root (bass note) being played over the chord.

As for the instrumental, do you mean the actual violin solo or the chords played while the solo is happening? If you mean the chords, the solo is played over exactly the same chords as given in part 2.

Hope this helps!
Cheers,
Gil

I’ve found some more differences. I didn’t play the G after the D in the chorus. Now there’s a doubt: does G takes the same time as D? IOW, what’s the exact meaning of D/G? I would, as you say, use my ears, but it’s been a long time doing it differently (with F instead of Dm7 and no G in the chorus) to hear clearly.

I see you didn’t put the instrumental viola and violin part, guess you left it for a third part?

The numbers above and below the bars represent which fingers you should use to fret the notes. So, for example, in the first bar, the 1 over the 2 in the tab means play that note with your first finger.

Let me know if that helps

Cheers,
Gil

Thanks for your note.
Did you notice the ” Please note, due to graphics issues, you are best to view this page here (Click Here)” At the top of the page? It will take you to larger images. Let me know if that helps

Cheers,
Gil