Emerson Lake and Palmer Tablature

Guitar players who are fans of the progressive rock and roll will no doubt be interested in finding Emerson Lake and Palmer tablature. Both extremely popular and critically acclaimed, Emerson Lake and Palmer forged an experimental yet commercially viable path during their heyday in the 1970s. The band's long, complex arrangements made them more successful in the album-oriented charts than in the Billboard Hot 100. The self titled Emerson Lake and Palmer was their debut release in 1970, and they quickly followed its success with other classic records like Brain Salad Surgery, Trilogy, Tarkus, and Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends.

While the sound of Emerson Lake and Palmer was dominated by the Moog synthesizer and organ playing of Keith Emerson, guitarists have long been drawn to the tasty, exploratory guitar playing of guitarist/bassist Greg Lake. Many of the following tab sites tab out both the keyboard parts by Emerson for the guitar and Lake's actual guitar parts. Follow the links below to find a plethora of Emerson Lake and Palmer tablature available for free on the Internet.

Tab sites on the Internet vary in how they present their information. Many sites will allow users to upload their own versions of tabs for songs without any type of quality control. What this means is that there may be several different transcriptions of a song, but they all might not be of the highest quality.

When dealing with intricate and highly complex music like that of Emerson Lake and Palmer, this tablature problem can become more serious. The sites below have been selected because of the quality of their transcriptions, but you should still be aware that tabs might vary greatly. Use your ears to assemble the best possible tab version you can for your favorite songs.

• FretPlay: FretPlay markets their site as hosting tabs that are complete, accurate and free. Their collection of Emerson Lake and Palmer tabs is constantly expanding and currently consists of around a dozen tabs. Transcriptions for Father Christmas, Cest La Vie, From the Beginning, Knife Edge, Lucky Man and more are offered here.

• Ultimate Guitar: Ultimate Guitar always has one of the largest collections of tabs available anywhere on the web. It is not uncommon for their collection to contain as many as five versions of a particular song in tablature. In order to assist you and help you save time, they include a rating system. Other users like yourself log on and rate the different tabs on a five star system. This feature really helps guitarists out by steering them in the direction of the tabs that have proven to be the most useful.

• AZChords: AZChords has tabs for classic Emerson Lake and Palmer songs like Karn Evil, Still You Turn Me On, The Sage and more. AZChords also offers an extensive collection of bass tabs for songs like A Time and A Place, Jeremy Bender, The Knife, Peter Gunn and more.

• The Tab World: The Tab World is a well-organized site that provides both tabs and lyrics. Their most popular Emerson Lake and Palmer tabs are Affairs of the Heart, Cest La Vie, Father Christmas, Footprints in the Snow and From the Beginning.

• Guitare Tab: Another site that allows user posts of tabs is Guitare Tab. Thankfully, they also provide a rating system to help weed out the riff raff. While their selection isn't as extensive as some of the other sites, Guitare Tab is a very well designed site that is visually pleasant to visit.

For those of you who like your tabs in hand held form, you're in for a bit of a disappointment as no one presently publishes a guitar tab book of Emerson Lake and Palmer. There is a piano/vocal book in print that could be helpful for the guitarist who at least wants to have a reference for the chords of the songs and the lyrics.

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