Inca Roads By Frank Zappa From The Album One Size Fits All Music Copyright the ZFT Transcribed by Manning Bartlett Tasmanian Zappa Consortium Manningb@tassie.net.au Ok, there are some serious notes to this one. This song is based on a lot of quartal harmony - that means chords compiled of fourth intervals instead of the regular diatonic thirds used in most western music. That gives it the ethereal quality that draws so many people to this piece. The keyboardist tends to wander around using these chords for a lot of the opening verses. (Except at the beginning - se below). Rather than try to tab them out, I have shown a possible quartal chord scale so you can get the feel of these chords. Then you can use them to get the backing chords over the opening words. This is a mish mash of two versions, the OSFA and the BBYNHIYL versions. quartal scale --15---14---12---10---8-7--------------||------------------------------- --15---13---12---10---8-7-10---8-------||------------------------------- --14---12---11---9----7-5-9----7-------||------------------------------- --14---12---10---9----7-5-9----7-------||------------------------------- --------------------------9----7-------||------------------------------- ---------------------------------------||------------------------------- Now, here's the opening bassline, and the chord stabs over it. --------------------------------------------|---------------||---------- --------------------------------------------|---7-5---7-5---||---------- --------------------------------------------|---7-5---7-5---||---------- --------------------------------------------|---7-5---7-5---||---------- 3-3---3-3-----3-5-----3-3---3-3-----3-5-----|---------------||---------- ----------5-3-------------------5-3---------|---------------||---------- bass line For much of the intro, the keys play a 2 chord descending augmented triad series, the first with the notes D, F#, A# and the second with the notes C, E and G#. These two chords alternate in inversions all the way down the keyboard. I tried tabbing it, but there are more than four octaves covered so it was impossible. Anyway, these chords will give you the idea. ----6---4---------------------------------||---------------------------- ----7---5---7---5-------------------------||---------------------------- ----7---5---7---5-------------------------||---------------------------- ------------8---6-------------------------||---------------------------- ------------------------------------------||---------------------------- ------------------------------------------||---------------------------- Melody Did a vehicle come from somewhere out there just to ----------------------------5-------------5---------------8-----7------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --4---7-5-4-----------7-----------7-----------7------------------------- ------------7---5------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ land in the Andes was it round and did it have a motor 5---------8---7-5------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------8-------------------8------------------------- ------7-----------------------------------7-----------------7----------- ------------------------------9---7---------------9---7-------10-9------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ or was it something di-if'rent very fast bit --------------3-----3-------3-------------|-----------------------|----- ------------------------------------------|-----------------------|----- ----------5-----------------------5-------|-----------------------|----- --5---3-------------------------5---------|-----------------------|----- ------------------------------------------|-----------------------|----- ------------------------------------------|-----------------------|----- An apology - I was transcribing from the BBYNHIYL version (I was burgled and lost a lot of CDs, including OSFA). On this version the band simply wasn't tight enough for me to make out what is going on - I could only decipher out the odd note here and there, not enough to transcribe it properly. I shall try to add this bit at a later date did a vehicle did a vehicle did a vehicle fly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------7-5-7-5---------------------------------7----------- ----4---7---5-4-----7-5-7-5---4-----7-5-4-------4-----7-5-4-7---4------- ----------------7-------------------------7-----------------7----------- ----2---5---3-2--------------------------------------------------------- ----------------5------------------------------------------------------- along the mountain and find a place to park it se-e-lf --------------10-----5---4-----6-3-------4---------3-------------------- ------7---8----------------------------------6-------------------------- 7-5----------------------------------------------------4-7-5-4---4------ ---------------------------------------------------------------7-------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ park it se-e-lf ----------------------------3------------------------------------------- ----------------------6------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------4-7-5-4---4----------------------------- ----6-------6---------------------------7-----10-7---9-7---7-7-10-7-9--- ---------------------------------------------------7-------------------- --4---4---4---4-4-4----------------------------------------------------- park it park it or did someone build a place ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------8---------8---6--------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------8-5----------- 7-------1-----------1-----------5-------5------------------------------- --------------2-----------2--------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ to leave a space for such a thing to land -----------------------------------11-----10---8-----||----------------- ------------8-----------8--------8-------------------||----------------- ----------------------------10-----------------------||----------------- 5---8---------9--------------------------------------||----------------- -----------------------------------------------------||----------------- -----------------------------------------------------||----------------- flute line 4x -------------------------------------------------14-10----------------|| -13-15-12-13----------------------------------------------------------|| -------------14-12-------14-------------------14-------11------------*|| ----------------------14----------------14-12-------------14-12------*|| -------------------15-------15-12-14-15-------------------------14-12-|| ----------------------------------------------------------------------|| Fill over flute line guitar solo ----||-------------||--------------------------------------------------- ----||--5-7---5-7--||--------------------------------------------------- ----||--5-7---5-7--||--------------------------------------------------- ----||-------------||--------------------------------------------------- ----||-------------||--------------------------------------------------- ----||-------------||--------------------------------------------------- Here's the vocal melody that brings us out of the guitar solo. The melody is the top line, the other two are the harmonies. ------------------------------------------10-------------|-------------- 7---8---10-----7---8-10-----7-8-7---5-----12---10---10---|-------------- 7---9---11-----7---9-11-----7-9-7---5---7-12---11---11---|-------------- 7---9---10-----7---9-10-----7-9-7---5---9------12---12---|-------------- ----------------------------------------9----------------|-------------- ---------------------------------------------------------|-------------- ------------------------------------------------------------||---------- --7---8---10-----7---8-10-----7---8-7---5---3--5------------||---------- --7---9---11-----7---9-11-----7---9-7---5---4--5--5---2---2-||---------- --7---9---10-----7---9-10-----7---9-7---5---4--5--7---4---4-||---------- --------------------------------------------------7---3---3-||---------- ------------------------------------------------------------||---------- The Middle Section. did a vehicle come from somewhere out there 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|---4-----------4-------------------------------------------||---------- |---4-----------4-----------0-2-4-0-------------------------||---------- Have fun. Manning