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
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)
• Enjoy The Silence (vocal line, piano) Youtube video
• With Or Without You - U2 cover (vocal line, piano) Youtube video
• What A Wonderful World (vocal line, piano) Youtube video
• We Might As Well Be Strangers (special piano arrangement with vocal line in right hand)
• Spiralling (vocal line, piano)
• White Christmas (vocal line, piano) Youtube video

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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