Tabs

Tab - short for: "Tablature: Music. A system of notation using letters, symbols, or other visual cues instead of standard notation to indicate how a musical piece is to be played. For example, guitar or banjo tablature typically consists of a diagram of the strings with finger positions indicated by numerals corresponding to the appropriate frets." - dictionary.com

My free tabs

These tabs are in no way official, and they are purely my representation of the songs. I make no claims that these tabs are correct - please send any suggestions you may have.
Webmasters: I don't mind the guitar tabs being linked from your site, but please don't put them on your site- it means that when (not if!) I spot mistakes, the versions on your site aren't incorrect. If you're particularly interested, I can give statistics of traffic coming from your site.

/ means play the same chord as previously, unless it comes between two chords with no space
e.g. G/B from Can't Stop Now, which means G with a B in the bass (first inversion)
Notes are denoted by lower case, as opposed to chords which are in upper case. The note Bb
is an exception.

Best viewed in a monospaced font (such as this one) e.g. Courier New.

2008 Perfect Symmetry	Retrospective EPs
2007 Under The Iron Sea
2006 Under The Iron Sea
2004 Hopes And Fears
2003 Fierce Panda
2000/2001 Zoomorphic

• Other songs - White Christmas, Your Song, The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, With Or Without You, A Heart To Hold You, Dinner At 8, What A Wonderful World, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Dirrtylicious, Enjoy The Silence, That's All, Early Winter, Another One Bites The Dizzee

Fan-made sheet music

'Mo Rice-Oxley' has done an amazing job at notating sheet music for some of the Hopes and Fears b-sides. Inside the ZIP files are JPGs, and MIDI files.

• Something In Me Was Dying (piano, lead piano)
• To The End Of The Earth (vocal line, piano, bass guitar)
• The Way You Want It (vocal line, piano)
• Thin Air (vocal line, piano)
• My Shadow (piano)

Philip from Germany has also sent in some fantastic notated sheet music, for some of Keane's rare tracks. I haven't checked them, but you won't go far wrong. Inside the ZIP files are GIFs or JPGs.

• A Heart To Hold You (vocal line, piano)
• He Used To Be A Lovely Boy (vocal line, piano) Youtube video
• Enjoy The Silence (vocal line, piano) Youtube video
• Spiralling (vocal line, piano)
• Staring At The Ceiling (vocal line, piano) Youtube video
• We Might As Well Be Strangers (special piano arrangement with vocal line in right hand)
• What A Wonderful World (vocal line, piano) Youtube video
• White Christmas (vocal line, piano) Youtube video
• With Or Without You - U2 cover (vocal line, piano) Youtube video

Thanks to Alexander "GaT" for this piano music! Inside the ZIP files are TIFF files.

• A Bad Dream (piano)

Fan-made drum tabs

Kieran has also tabbed some album tracks for drums. I haven't managed to check them all, but they look pretty good - thanks Kieran!

• Somewhere Only We Know
• Bend And Break
• We Might As Well Be Strangers
• Everybody's Changing
• Your Eyes Open
• She Has No Time
• Can't Stop Now
• Sunshine
• This Is The Last Time
• On A Day Like Today
• Untitled 1
• Bedshaped

• Is It Any Wonder?

Derek has tabbed Nothing In My Way - thanks!
There's also a few PDF scores on http://www.drumscore.com/scores/keane.

Tab books

A number of official books have been published...

• "Under The Iron Sea" tab book, with piano arrangements, guitar chords and vocal lines. Amazon.co.uk
• "It's Easy To Play: Keane - Under The Iron Sea" tab book with basic piano arrangements. Amazon.co.uk

• "Hopes and Fears" tab book with piano arrangements, guitar chords and vocal lines. It's a very accurate representation of certain parts. The left hand mirrors the bass guitar part exactly, which is very good for those wanting to know Tim's excellent bass playing, but playing a guitar part with your left hand can be quite tricky! The definitive book. Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com.
• "It's Easy To Play: Keane - Hopes and Fears" tab book with basic piano arrangements. Although aimed at grade 1 and 2 piano players, I personally think it's a very good book if you just want the arrangements to be stripped down from the official book, which can be a bit 'busy'. Amazon.co.uk.
• "Play Piano With Keane: Hopes and Fears" tab book. I've not seen this myself, but it features Snowed Under, Fly To Me and Walnut Tree as well as 2 CDs - one featuring a soundalike CD, the other backing tracks. Amazon.co.uk.

• Somewhere Only We Know also features in the "Play Piano With Keane Coldplay Muse" book, which as well as featuring other artists, also comes with a backing CD so you can play along!

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