Astronomy Domine
by Syd Barrett
as performed by Pink Floyd off of "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn"
Tabbed (as best as he could) by Edwin Ostrin
Intro :
Vamp till drums
E E E Eb/E Eb/E
E-|-----------------||--7-----------7-6-|-6---------------------------||
B-|-----------------||--9-----------9-8-|-8---------------------------||
G-|-----------------||:-9-----------9-8-|-8--------------------------:||
D-|-----------------||--9-----------9-8-|-8---------------------------||
A-|-----------------||--7-----------7-6-|-6---------------------------||
E-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-||--0-----5b7r0-0-0-|-0---------------------------||
crescendo Hit hard, then strum last chord a bit softer
Verse (as best as I can make out) :
E (play as standard E)
Lime and limpid green a second scene the fight between the blue you
Eb (play as A barre on 6)
once knew.
(All other chords play as A and E form barres)
G A
Floating down the sound resounds around the icey waters underground
E Eb
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda, and Titania
G G#
Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten
(play following chords as E form barres falling from fret 12)
E Eb D C# C B Bb A
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah
(and again as A form barres falling from 12)
A G# G F# F E Eb D
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah
D Eb E
Beginning of Solo : (if anyone has complete tabs or corrections, please
let me know!)
with heavy delay, slight distortion
E
E-|-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-|
B-|-------------------------------------------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------|
Eb
E-|-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-|
B-|-------------------------------------------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------|
G A
E-|-3-3sl10-10-10sl3-3-3sl10-10-10sl5-|-5-----------------|
B-|-----------------------------------|---5---------------|
G-|-----------------------------------|-----7b8-----------|
D-|-----------------------------------|---------7~~~~~----|
A-|-----------------------------------|-------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------|-------------------|
Follow same progression as verses.
Screw around with whatever pentatonic you happen to be in.
Throw in some typical space-rock, spanish, or modal scale
if you feel up to it. Use gobs of delay, throw in a lot
of tremolo picking, and a few sliding harmonies, take lots
of acid, go insane, play a C chord throughout the whole song,
get booted out of Pink Floyd and POW!
you have yourself a reasonable Syd Barrett imitation. :)
Repeat chord sequence twice and go into second verse.
Second verse :
(Same progression)
Blinding signs flap (???)
Flicker flicker flicker flam
Pow Wow
Stairway scare Dan
Dare who's there (???)
(I don't understand these lyrics either...but Syd WAS on acid.. :) )
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah
Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah Aaah
Then : (ritard)
E
Lime and limpid green the sound resounds the icey waters under
E
Lime and limpid green the sound resounds the icey waters underground.
The one on the B-Side of the Take It Back single off the Division Bell is
faster and the solos are more Gilmour-esque - more rigid in the timing, better
technique, less delay, etc.
The one on Ummagumma repeats the first verse and is a wee slower and more laid
back than the original.
From: jeremyj@freenet2.scri.fsu.edu (Jeremy Joseph)
Subject: Re: REQ: ASTRONOMY DOMINE by Pink Floyd
I've done the same about books where they only have a few chords
which aren't even right half the time. So, here is an incomplete, but
decent version of Astronomy Domine, most of it's there except for the
weird soloing throughout, you'll probably want to change it around to
suit your personal taste. This is sort of a cross between the
UmmaGumma and Piper at the Gates of Dawn versions, as both had
slightly different guitar parts.
- Astronomy Domine -
intro part
|---------------------0--0----------------0--0-----------------------------|
|---------------------0--0----------------0--0---0--0--0-------------------|
|---------------------1--0----------------1--0---0--0--0-------------------|
|---------------------2--1----------------2--1---1--1--1-------------------|
|---------------------2--1----------------2--1---1--1--1-------------------|
|-0--0--0--0--1/3--0--0--0--0--0--1/3--0--0--0-----------------------------|
The main chorus goes something like:
(play barre chords in sequence with 6th string bass note)
E G A
Lime and limpid green the second scene the between the who you once knew
G G# A
Floating down the sound resounds around the icy waters underground
E G A
Jupiter and Saturn ever on there own around Titania
|-0---------------0--0----|
|-0---------------0--0----|
|-1---------------0--1----|
|-2---------------1--2----|
|-2---------------1--2----|
|-0---------------0--0----|
G G#
Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten...
You..................
|-12-12-12-11-11-11-10-10-10-9-9-9-8-8-8-7-7-7-6-6-6-5-5-5-----------------|
|-10-10-10--9--9--9--8--8--8-7-7-7-6-6-6-5-5-5-4-4-4-3-3-3-----------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-10-10-----9-9---8-8---7-7---6-6---5-5---4-4---3-3------------------------|
|-10----10--9---9-8---8-7---7-6---6-5---5-4---4-3---3----------------------|
|-11-------10-----9-----8-----7-----6-----5-----4--------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-2--------2--------3--------3------3-----0-------------------------------|
|-3--3---3---3---3--4--4---4---4----4-----0-------------------------------|
|-2----2-------2----3----3-------3--3-----1-------------------------------|
|-0-----------------1---------------1-----2-------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------2-------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------0-------------------------------|
I doubt I got the words right, but you get the idea.
Someone else posted this solo a long time ago, forget who,
but it sounds good to me.
E-|-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-12-|
B-|-------------------------------------------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------|
Eb
E-|-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-11-|
B-|-------------------------------------------------|
G-|-------------------------------------------------|
D-|-------------------------------------------------|
A-|-------------------------------------------------|
E-|-------------------------------------------------|
G A
E-|-3-3sl10-10-10sl3-3-3sl10-10-10sl5-|-5-----------------|
B-|-----------------------------------|---5---------------|
G-|-----------------------------------|-----7b8-----------|
D-|-----------------------------------|---------7~~~~~----|
A-|-----------------------------------|-------------------|
E-|-----------------------------------|-------------------|
Well, hope this helps
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Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
In January 1967, prior to recording The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the band had produced at Sound Techniques Studio in London a single entitled Arnold Layne. The single was later released in March of that year and reached #20 in the British charts. Also in January the band had recorded a 16-minute version of Interstellar Overdrive and an improvised jam called Nick's Boogie, for Peter Whitehead's documentary film Tonite Let's All Make Love in London. (The latter track wasn't released until 1991 on the CD reissue of the film's soundtrack). The band's live show consisted mainly of instrumental numbers and blues covers, however they had started to introduce songs which were written primarily by lead guitarist and lead vocalist Syd Barrett. Many of these songs written by Barrett appeared at the Games For May concert several months before the release of the album.
Recording of the album began on the 21 February 1967 in studio three of Abbey Road Studios at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and The Pretty Things were recording S.F. Sorrow. The album was produced by Norman Smith, an EMI staff member who had previously engineered all of The Beatles recordings up to 1965's Rubber Soul. Smith would go on to produce Pink Floyd's follow up album, A Saucerful of Secrets. "Interstellar Overdrive" and "Matilda Mother" were two of the first tracks recorded, as the latter was viewed as a potential single. "Interstellar Overdrive"s kinetic and spacey production, came from the insistence of the normally conservative Norman Smith, whose work on the record is often criticised because it is seen that he tried to make the album more pop orientated[citation needed]. An early, unoverdubbed, shortened mix of the album's "Interstellar Overdrive" was used for a French EP released that July. In April, the band recorded both "Percy the Rat Catcher" (this would later be called "Lucifer Sam"), and a currently unreleased track called "She Was a Millionaire". At some point during the album's creation, Nick Mason recalled that they were "ushered" into studio 2 where The Beatles were recording "Lovely Rita". Several conflicting views surround how efficiently the recording of the album actually went. In his book Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd, Nick Mason recalled that the sessions went smoothly and that the whole process was extremely efficient. Norman Smith however, condemned both the album's recording and the band members' musical abilities. Smith later stated that the sessions were "sheer hell". However, both "The Gnome" and "The Scarecrow" were recorded in one take. Indeed a large proportion of the album is credited solely to Barrett, with tracks such as "Bike" having been written in late 1966 before the album was even started. "Bike" was originally entitled "The Bike Song", and it was recorded on 21 May 1967. The last recording session took place on 5 July 1967, with the track "Pow R. Toc H." being one of last songs added to the album.
Vic Singh photographed and designed the album cover, unlike subsequent Pink Floyd albums. The album remains one of the few to actually feature the band members on the front cover. The album's title comes from the title of Chapter Seven, "THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN," of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, where Rat and Mole, while searching for Portly, the lost son of Otter, are drawn to a place where the 'Piper' is playing on his reed flute.
"`This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me,' whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. `Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!'"
(The 'Piper' referred to is the Greek god Pan.)
Portly was found near Pan.
The title was later referred to by Stevie Wonder in the song "Power Flower" from the 1979 album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants ("Fire and air, earth water I prepare/I am the piper at the gates of dawning"), by Van Morrison in the song "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" from his 1997 album The Healing Game and also by the metal band Iron Maiden in the song "Wicker Man" from the 2000 album Brave New World ("The piper at the gates of dawn is calling you his way"). Furthermore, Pink Floyd's later song "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," dedicated to Barrett and detailing his decline, refers to him as "you piper, you prisoner;" this may also be an allusion to the album's title.
Lyrics: Lime and limpid green
a second scene,
A fight between the blue
you once knew.
Floating down the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground
Jupiter and Saturn
Oberon Miranda and Titania
Neptune Titan
Stars can frighten...you
Blinding signs flap flicker flicker flicker
Blam pow pow
Stairway scare Dan Dare,who's there?
Lime and limpid green
The sound surrounds the icy waters under
Lime and limpid green
The sound surrounds the icy waters
Underground
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine [ Live 1968 ]
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Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
Pink Floyd - Astronomy Domine
Copyright - 1967 Columbia/EMI Records
"Astronomy Domine" is a song by British Psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. The song, written and composed by original vocalist/guitarist Roger 'Syd' Barrett, was the first track featured on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). The lead vocal was sung by Barrett and keyboard player Richard Wright.
"Domine" (meaning "Lord") in the title is correctly pronounced as it is in Latin ([ˈdɒmɪneɪ], rather than [dəʊˈmiːn] or [dəʊˈmaɪn]).
The song opens with the voice of their manager at the time Peter Jenner, reading the names of stars through a megaphone. The intention of this opening is to replicate the feeling of outer space, with Jenner's voice sounding like an astronaut's over an intercom. Barrett's Fender Esquire then seemingly emerges from the distance and grows louder. At 0:19 a rapid beeping sound appears, again reaffirming the feeling of distant space. At 0:26, Mason's distinctive drum fills emerge, followed closely by Barrett's sinister-sounding guitar (perhaps reminiscent of Duane Eddy) in a figure suggestive of the brass motif from "Mars, the Bringer of War" in Holst's The Planets. Wright's Farfisa organ is mixed into the background. Barrett's incantatory lyrics about space again support the cosmonautical theme in the song, mentioning planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune as well as Uranian and Neptunian moons Oberon, Miranda, and Titania, and Saturn's moon Titan. Barrett and Rick Wright provide lead vocals. Waters' repetitive bass line, Wright's Farfisa organ, and Barrett's kinetic slide guitar then dominate, followed by the voice of Peter Jenner again through a megaphone. The song finally ends with Barrett's lyrics coming back down to earth and with Wright's Arabian-sounding organ.
The song has an unusual chord progression: E, E-flat, G, A. The sound of this chord progression, in conjunction with the use of a Binson echo machine for the guitar, has a very distinctive psychedelic character. The track is the album's most "space rock" song, alongside the longer Interstellar Overdrive. The style of the song and its use of sound effects would influence the future work of Pink Floyd, and its influence can be felt on Ummagumma (1969) and even The Dark Side of the Moon (1973).
Lyrics:
Lime and limpid green, a second scene
A fight between the blue you once knew.
Floating down, the sound resounds
Around the icy waters underground.
Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon, Miranda and Titania.
Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten.
Blinding signs flap
Flicker, flicker, flicker blam. Pow, pow.
Stairway scare, Dan Dare who's there?
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around the icy waters under
Lime and limpid green, the sounds around the icy waters underground
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