THE CHANGINGMAN
As recorded by Paul Weller
(From the 1995 Album STANLEY ROAD)
Words and Music by Paul Weller and Brendan Lynch
C5 C5/Bb C5/A C5/Ab
x 3 5 5 x x 6 x 5 5 x x x 0 5 5 x x 4 3 5 5 x x
A5 Ab5 C Eb
x 0 2 2 x x 4 6 6 x x x x 3 2 0 1 0 x 6 8 8 8 x
F Ab Am Bb
1 3 3 2 1 1 4 6 6 5 4 4 5 7 7 5 5 5 x 1 3 3 3 x
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Untitled'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Untitled'
Intro
Q=112
C5 C5/Bb C5/A C5/Ab
4/4
Gtrs I, II
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1------||---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0--||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-3-----3-----3---|-1-----1-----1---|-0-----0-----0---|------------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-4-----4-----4----|
C5 C5/Bb C5/A C5/Ab E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----||---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-3-----3-----3---|-1-----1-----1---|-0-----0-----0---|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-4-----4-----4---|
Verse
C5 C5/Bb
Gtr II
W W
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/ /
Gtr I E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||------------------|-----------------|||o-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|||----0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|||------------------|-----------------|||o-3-----3-----3---|-1-----1-----1---|||------------------|-----------------|
C5/A C5/Ab
H. +E E H E Q E
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/ / / / / / /
E E E E E E E E E E H +Q|-------------------|---8--------------------||------1-----1------|-----8b8.5------(8)\----||----0-----0------0-|------------------------||-------------------|------------------------||-0------0------0---|------------------------||-------------------|------------------------|
C5 C5/Bb A5 Ab5
+H. +E E W W W
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/ / / / / /
~ E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E S S E E Q. H|--------------------|-----------------|-----------8------8-|----------------|||-------1-----1------|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----8-11p8---|---11b13r=======|||-----0-----0------0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0----------------|-----------8----|||--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|----------------|||--3------3------3---|-1-----1-----1---|-0-----0------------|----------------|||--------------------|-----------------|--------------------|----------------||
Pre-Chorus $ C Eb F Ab e E e E S S E Q e E e E S S E Q e E e E S S E E E E E E E E E E E|------------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------|||------------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------|||------------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------|||------------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------|||------------------|------------------|-------------------|-6h8-6h8-6h8-6-5--|||-8---8-x-8-8---8S=|=6---6-x-6-6---6S=|=5---5-x-5-5---5---|------------------||
Chorus C5 C5/Bb C5/A C5/Ab Gtrs I, II E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----||---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-3-----3-----3---|-1-----1-----1---|-0-----0-----0---|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-4-----4-----4---|
To Coda C5 C5/Bb C5/A C5/Ab E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----||---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||-3-----3-----3---|-1-----1-----1---|-0-----0-----0---|-----------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-4-----4-----4---|
1. C5 C5/Bb C5/A C5/Ab E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E Q E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1----o|||---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0----0--|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-3-----3-----3---|-1-----1-----1---|-0-----0-----0---|----------------o|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-4-----4---------||
2. C5 C5/Bb C5/A C5/Ab E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|||---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-3-----3-----3---|-1-----1-----1---|-0-----0-----0---|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-4-----4-----4---||
Guitar Solo C5 C5/Bb Gtr I E E E Q +E E E E S S E E +E Q.|------8------------------|-------------------------------||-8h11---11b13r==(11)-8-8-|-------------------------------||---------------------8-8-|-10b12r(10)p8------------------||-------------------------|--------------10-8-(8)-10\-----||-------------------------|-------------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------------|
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| Gtr II| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-------------------------|-------------------------------||------1-----------1------|---------------1--------1------||----0---------0--------0-|---------0----------0--------0-||-------------------------|-------------------------------||-3-------3-----------3---|--1--------------1---------1---||-------------------------|-------------------------------|
C5/A a E S S E E E E E E|-----------------8-----8----||-----------------8-----8--8-||------------8----8----10-10-||------------8-10---10-------||-8s10-10-10-----------------||----------------------------|
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| E E E E E E E E|----------------------------||------------1-------1-------||-------0---------0--------0-||----------------------------||----0----------0-------0----||----------------------------|
C5/Ab C5
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|--3--|
+Q E E +Q +E E a E E E S S S S E E S S S|-----------x----------------|---------------------------------------||--(8)-----------------------|-------11-11-11h13-11p0-11-11-11h13p11-||-(10)b12-----8-(8)---(8)/-0-|-10s12---------------------------------||----------------------------|---------------------------------------||----------------------------|---------------------------------------||----------------------------|---------------------------------------|
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| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|----------------------------|---------------------------------------||-----------1-------1--------|-----------1-------------1-------------||---------0------0---------0-|--------0-----------0----------0-------||----------------------------|---------------------------------------||----------------------------|-----3--------3-------------3----------||---4---------4--------4-----|---------------------------------------|
C5/Bb
|-3--|
E E E E S S S E E E|---------------------------------||-11-11-11-11---------------------||-12----------12s10p8----8-10b12==||---------------------10----------||---------------------------------||---------------------------------|
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| E E E E E E E E|---------------------------------||--------1-------------1----------||-----0--------0------------0-----||---------------------------------||--1--------1------------1--------||---------------------------------|
C5/A C5/Ab C Gtr I ~~~~~~ +Q E E +Q E E S S E E S S E E E S S e e e E +Q. E|---------8--------------|-------------------------||------------------||---------8--------------|-------------------------||------------------||-(10)r-----8-(8)--------|-------------------------||------------------||-------------------10-0-|-8----8-8----------------||------------------||----------------------0-|-8h10-----10s8-6---------||------------------||------------------------|-----------------8s3s8p0-||-8-8-8-8-(8)---8s=|
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| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E W|------------------------|-------------------------||------------------||---------1-------1------|--------1--------1-------||------------------||-------0------0-------0-|------0--------0-----0---||------------------||------------------------|-------------------------||------------------||---0-------0--------0---|-------------------------||------------------||------------------------|-4---------4-------4-----||------------------|
Am Bb C Am Ab C e e e E +Q. E e e e E +Q. E e e e E +Q. E e e e E +Q. E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-5-5-5-6-(6)---6s|=8-8-8-8-(8)---8s|=5-5-5-4-(4)---6s|=8-8-8-8-(8)---8s=|
D.S. al Coda Am Bb C Am Ab e e e E +Q. E e e e E +Q. E e e e E +Q. E|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|||-5-5-5-6-(6)---6s|=8-8-8-8-(8)---8s|=5-5-5-4-(4)---6-||
& C5 C5/Bb Gtr I E E E Q +E E E E S S E E +E Q.|------8------------------|-------------------------------||-8h11---11b13r==(11)-8-8-|-------------------------------||---------------------8-8-|-10b12r(10)p8------------------||-------------------------|--------------10-8-(8)-10------||-------------------------|-------------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------------|
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| Gtr II| E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-------------------------|-------------------------------||------1-----------1------|---------------1--------1------||----0---------0--------0-|---------0----------0--------0-||-------------------------|-------------------------------||-3-------3-----------3---|--1--------------1---------1---||-------------------------|-------------------------------|
C5/A a E a E E E E E E E|------------------8----8----||-------------8----8----8----||-------------8----8----8-10-||-10s13\------8-10---10------||--------8s10----------------||----------------------------|
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| E E E E E E E E|----------------------------||-------------1-------1------||-----------0------0-------0-||----------------------------||-----0----------0------0----||----------------------------|
C5/Ab C5 C5/Bb
Gtr II
W W W
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/ /
Gtr I ~ +Q E E +Q E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E|-------------------------||-----------------|-----------------||-----------8-------------||-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----||-(10)b11---8-8-(8)-------||---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-||---------------------3-3-||-----------------|-----------------||---------------------1-1-||-3-----3-----3---|-1-----1-----1---||-------------------------||-----------------|-----------------|
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| E E E E E E E E W W|-------------------------||-----------------|-----------------||-----------1-------1-----||-----------------|-----------------||---------0------0------0-||-----------------|-----------------||-------------------------||-----------------|-----------------||-------------------------||-----------------|-----------------||---4---------4-------4---||-----------------|-----------------|
C5/A C5/Ab C5/Bb C5
W H. Q W
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/ / / /
~ E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E W|-----------------|------------------|------|||-----1-----1-----|------1-----1-----|------|||---0-----0-----0-|----0-----0-----0-|------|||-----------------|------------------|------|||-0-----0-----0---|--------------1---|-3----|||-----------------|-4------4---------|------||
Outro
C Am Bb
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
|-3-| E Q +E e e E E +Q. a E e E S S S E|---------------------------|----------------------------||---------------------------|----------------------------||---10pb11r==(10)-8-10-8----|----------------------------||------------------------10-|-(10)----------8-8----------||---------------------------|----------8s10-----10s8p6---||---------------------------|--------------------------8-|
C
E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / /
|--3---|
E E +S S S E Q Q|--------------------------------||--------------------------------||--------------------------------||--------------------------------||-6-8pb10==(8)r(8)-6---6---------||--------------------8-----8/----|
Am Ab Bb C
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
|-3--|
E S S Q +E S S Q +E S S E E S S S E E E|--------------------------|------------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------------||--------------------------|----------8----8h10p8----8-10-||---------6---(6)------8---|-(8)-8h10---10--------10------||-/10-6s8---------8s10-----|------------------------------||--------------------------|------------------------------|
Am Bb
E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / /
a E E E S S +Q E S S|----------11-----------------------||-------11----11h13-(13)\-----8h11--||-10s12-----------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------|
C Am Ab
E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E
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/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
~ |-3-| S S S E +S S S E S S S S S S +E E S S S E E Q E|-8----8-----------------------------------|--------------------------|||---11---11b13r==(11)----------------------|--------------------------|||---------------------8h10-8----0------8-8-|-(8)-8--------------------|||----------------------------10---8----8-8-|-(8)-8--------------------|||---------------------------------8h10-----|-------10s8p6-8-6b7-------|||------------------------------------------|--------------------8S==0-||
C5 C5/A C5/Bb C5 Gtrs I, II E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E E||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|||o-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|-----1-----1-----|||----0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|---0-----0-----0-|||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|||o-3-----3-----3---|-0-----1-----1---|-3-----3-----3---|||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|
1. 2. C5/A C5/Ab C5/A C5/Ab ~ E E E E E E E E E E E E +Q Q +W|------------------||-----------------|--------*||-----1-----1-----o||-----1-----------|--------*||---0-----0-----0--||---0-------------|--------*||------------------||-----------------|--------*||-0---------------o||-0---------------|--------*||-------4-----4----||-------4-(4)--4--|-(4)----*|
Duration Legend
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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff
Tablature Legend
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h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
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| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
