Inca Roads
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention
One Size Fits All (1975)
quartal scale
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Now, here's the opening bassline, and the chord stabs over it.
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bass line
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Melody
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land in the Andes was it round and did it have a motor
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or was it something di-if'rent very fast bit
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did a vehicle did a vehicle did a vehicle fly
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along the mountain and find a place to park it se-e-lf
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park it se-e-lf
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park it park it or did someone build a place
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to leave a space for such a thing to land
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flute line 4x
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Fill over flute line guitar solo
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Here's the vocal melody that brings us out of the guitar solo. The melody is the top
the other two are the harmonies.
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The Middle Section.
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come
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come from somewhere out there did the indians first on the
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bill carve up her hill
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This is the same melody that is played before and after the guitar solo, but twice as
It ain't easy...
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/f/frank_zappa/inca_roads_tab.html ]
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To solo (keyboard or sax)
And then this bit, which is the same as before except (you guessed it) twice as fast. Urrgghh.
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(Best Band version)
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did a booger bear come from somewhere out there just to land
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in the Andes was it round and did it have a motor or was
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it something diff'rent guacamole queen guacamole queen
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guacamole queen at the arm-a-dillo in Austin Texas her aura or
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did someone clear the place and leave a space for
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Chester's thing to land
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(lyrics are from memory - apologies if they're not right)
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did a booger bear come from somewhere out there did a booger
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bear come from somewhere out there did the in-di-ans first
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on the bill carve up her hill
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on ruth on ruth ha ha that's ruth
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