T'Mershi Duween
by Frank Zappa

from a performance that appears in the "Mystery Box" and "Apocyrhpa" Bootlegs.

Transcribed by Mark Hawling
Email : chooka@zipworld.com.au                          

Well this version is a bit different to some of the others and has unfortunately only been
released on bootlegs. I suspect it is from the Zoot Allures band with Roy Estrada.

This version has a nice Gypsy feel to it and some very nice and tricky harmonisations too which sets it
aside from some of the other version. I have arranged all the melody instruments for the guitar which 
results in a few tricky chord shapes.


Opening theme played on guitar solo and is then harmonised by sax.
                                               4x                                         4x        
||-----------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||--------
||-----------------------------------------------||--0-----0--1--0-----0-----0--3--1--0---||--------
||*--0--------0h2p0-----0--------0-----4--2--0--*||--0--2--0--2--0--2--0--2--0--4--2--0--*||--------
||*-----3------------3--------3-----------------*||-----3-----------3-----3--------------*||--------
||-----------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||--------
||-----------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------||--------
                                                                                                    
                                         This bit played in power chords with
                                         sax playing the melody.
                     3x                                                                             
||-------------------||-------------||--||--5-----8-----7-----5--3/5--||
||---0--15--13--12---||--0--15--13--||--||----------------------------||
||*--0--16--14--12--*||--0--16--14--||--||--2-----5-----4-----2-------||
||*-----------------*||-------------||--||--3-----7-----5-----3-------||
||-------------------||-------------||--||--3-----7-----5-----3-------||
||-------------------||-------------||--||--1-----5-----3-----1-------||
                                                                                                    
Main Theme (1st time through)
                                                                                    3x              
||---------------------------------------------------|-----15--15--14--12--14--14---||--------------
||---12--13--13--15--13--12--13--12------------------|-----17--17--15--13--15--15---||--------------
||*----------------------------------14--12--14--14--|-----------------------------*||--------------
||*--------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------*||--------------
||---------------------------------------------------|------------------------------||--------------
||---------------------------------------------------|------------------------------||--------------
                                                                                                    
                             This vesion of the main theme has a "gypsy" harmony feel.
                                                                                                    
10--10--9---7--9---9---||--||---7--8---8---10--8---7--8---7-----------------|-----------------------
12--12--10--8--10--10--||--||---9--10--10--12--10--9--10--9--10--8--10--10--|-----------------------
11--11--9---7--11--11--||--||*-------------------------------10--9--10--10--|-----------------------
---------------12--12--||--||*----------------------------------------------|-----------------------
-----------------------||--||-----------------------------------------------|-----------------------
-----------------------||--||-----------------------------------------------|-----------------------
                                                                                                    

                        3x                                     4x                                   
12--12--10--8--10--10---||--||---------------------------------||-----------------------------------
12--12--10--9--10--10---||--||---12--12--10--8-----------------||-----------------------------------
-----------------------*||--||*--12--12--10--9-----14--12--9--*||-----------------------------------
-----------------------*||--||*-------------------------------*||-----------------------------------
------------------------||--||---------------------12--10--7---||-----------------------------------
------------------------||--||---------------------------------||-----------------------------------
                                                                                                    

                                     4x                                                             
||---15--15--14--12-----14--12--10---||--||---------------------------------------------------------
||---15--15--14--12-----14--12--10---||--||---------------------------------------------------------
||*--16--16--14--12-----14--12--9---*||--||---------------------------------------------------------
||*---------------------------------*||--||---------------------------------------------------------
||-----------------------------------||--||---------------------------------------------------------
||-----------------------------------||--||---------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                    

Usual asscending run... doesn't need to played in octaves.     The last four are done by Roy!
                                                                                       8x           
-----------------------------------------------15------14--||--||------10-----10--13---||-----------
---5-----4------10------9------15------14--16------17------||--||----------------------||-----------
5-----6-----10------11-----15------16----------12------11--||--||*--9------9----------*||-----------
---2-----1------7-------6------12------11--13------14------||--||*--------------------*||-----------
3-----4-----8-------9------13------14----------------------||--||----------------------||-----------
-----------------------------------------------------------||--||----------------------||-----------
                                                                                                    
The bass goes into a shuffle bassline. The guitar just hits an A chord.

                                       4x                                                           
||------------------|------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------
||---5--------------|------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------
||*--6--------------|-----------------*||-----------------------------------------------------------
||*--7--------------|-----------------*||-----------------------------------------------------------
||------------------|------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------
||---5--5--2--0--2--|--5--5--2--0--2---||-----------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                    
Faster than the first time through                                              with punctuation
                                                                             3x                     
||---------------------------------------------------|-----------------------||---------------------
||---12--13--13--15--13--12--13--12------------------|--17--17--15--13--15---||---------------------
||*----------------------------------14--12--14--14--|--16--16--14--12--14--*||------12-------------
||*--------------------------------------------------|----------------------*||--14-----------------
||---------------------------------------------------|-----------------------||---------------------
||---------------------------------------------------|-----------------------||---------------------
                                                                                                    
                                      hold
                             3x                                                                     
||---10--10--9---7--9---9----||---------------------------------------------------------------------
||---12--12--10--8--10--10---||---------------------------------------------------------------------
||*--11--11--9---7--9---9---*||---------------------------------------------------------------------
||*-------------------------*||--------7-------------------------------------------------------------
||---------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------------
||---------------------------||---------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                    
Super fast now!!!
                                                                                 3x                 
||---------------------------------------------------|--12--12-------------------||-----------------
||---12--13--13--15--13--12--13--12------------------|----------15--13--15--15---||-----------------
||*----------------------------------14--12--14--14--|--------------------------*||-----------------
||*--------------------------------------------------|--------------------------*||-----------------
||---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------||-----------------
||---------------------------------------------------|---------------------------||-----------------
                                                                                                    

                                         4x                                           4x            
||---------------------------------------||--||---------------------------------------||------------
||---------------------------------------||--||---15--15--14--12-----14--14--12-------||------------
||*--16--16--14--12-----14--14--12------*||--||*---------------------------------14--*||------------
||*---------------------------------14--*||--||*-------------------------------------*||------------
||---------------------------------------||--||---------------------------------------||------------
||---------------------------------------||--||---------------------------------------||------------

And that's all!