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Has anyone got this song tab'ed out? I really just need the guitar intro part.

Cole

I guess that this isn't quite what you need:

http://www.guitarists.net/tab/print.php?id=5705

I'm not familiar with the song, but looking at that tab, I'd think that it might be played with a capo on the second fret. I'll have a listen when I get home.

Darn, none of my Byrds disks have that song on it.

I found that site too when Googling but didn't find the tab to the intro guitar part. Bummer!

Cole

Cole, if you could e-mail me an mp3 of the song, I'd take a listen and see what I can come up with.

I wish I could Gary but I'm still living in the stone age with dial up. Don't worry about it, I'm sure I'll figure it out. That's what I did before the internet.

Cole

Cole, I picked up the MTM CD over the weekend - that's a tough intro, for sure. I'm not much of a lead player, but I'll what I can do.

I go to Olga; all of 'em. I ALWAYS wind up wadding up what I print out, and throwing it in the trash. In the time spent searching, printing, wadding, ink wasting, and trashing, I've learned the damn thing by ear. I looked up "Everybody's Talkin'", (It's faster than the "Turn" solo, and bordering on Scruggs-EXCELLENT excercise) and I was APPALLED. NOT EVEN CLOSE!!! What you need to do, is learn "No use" off the alternate track version, before the guitar was double tracked; you can hear each note quite clearly. The rest of the song is just "I woke up in love this morning" Partridge Family,25 or 6 to 4 Chicago, Temptation Eyes, Grass roots, one of those deals. Thanks! Christian

Don't hurt yourself on it Gary!

Has there ever been an offical tab/sheet music release from the Byrds?

Cole

Cole, at my age, I never exceed my personal speed limit!

Christian, thanks for the tips - I also thought that I'd start with the alternate version and go from there.

There been a few published Byrds songbooks..but its the old style guitar-piano style music...nothing with real accurate tab with all the hooks and fills..there is the Truefire lesson of intros to some of the byrds classics...which is dead on to my ears...but like Christian said, the best thing you can do is figure it out...get CD"slower down" software..and spend some time...the alternate or live cuts are sometimes easier to dissect because they arent overdubbed as much...for me tab helps me get the sequences down but doesnt help with the "feel"...which often is more important than reciting the right notes in order.

Excellent points, Don. I went through that with the lead to Can't Buy Me Love - I learned the notes fairly easily, but it took some time to get the right feel to how they are played.

Hey Gary- Don't feel bad about that "Can't buy me love" solo, it's double tracked, and about half of the second track does not sync up with the first track!! Kinda like it that way though; alot of Beatle (And others) mistakes often make the tune. Christian

Cole, I haven't had much time to work on the song, but here is my interpretation of the starting riff (one bar shown):

E|-----------9-9---------------------|
B|-----10-12-----12-10-12------------|
G|--11--------------------11---------|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|

At least it's a start ...

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