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From: Paul D
Van Halen's "Poundcake" - tab by Paul D.
First things first, unless you have a guitar with really good natural
harmonic response, don't bother playing this song. The little "call and
response" parts for the verses (one line of Sammy's vocals followed by
natural harmonics from Eddie) are impossible to play (audibly) without it.
On the recorded version Eddie fattens up the main riff by overdubbing two
or three tracks of electric 12-strings. Please excuse the mess and breakup.
It's supposed to be relatively flowing, but the visual-ASCII conversion on
the tab program I used hasn't quite been perfected. There's bits of lyric
here and there to help you keep up.
Poundcake
by Van Halen
tab by Paul D.
s3bz@music.transy.edu
|-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-0---------------|-----------------|
|-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-0---------------|-----------------|
|-9-9-9-9-9---9-9-|-97-7-7-7---7-7-|-7p6-6-6-6---------------|-----------------|
|-9-9-9-9-9---9-9-|-97-7-7-7---7-7-|-7---7-7-7---------------|-----------------|
|-7-7-7-7-7---7-7-|-75-5-5-5---5-5-|-5p4-4-4-4-----0-0-0-0-0-|-----------------|
|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------------|-----------------|
Harmonics..............]
-5-----------0----5---0-|-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-0---0-|---|
-5-5-5-7-7-7-5-5----5-0-|-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-0---0-0-|-0---0-0-0---0-|---|
------------------------|-9-9-9-9-9---9-9-|-97-7-7-7---7-7-|-7p6-6-6-6---6-|---|
------------------------|-9-9-9-9-9---9-9-|-97-7-7-7---7-7-|-7---7-7-7---7-|---|
------------------------|-7-7-7-7-7---7-7-|-75-5-5-5---5-5-|-5p4-4-4-4---4-|---|
------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|---|
Harmonics.....]
--0--5-------5-5-5-x-x-|-0-0-0-0-0-----0--0--|-0--0--0--0------0--0--|----------|
--0----5-5-5-------x-x-|-0-0-0-0-0-----15-15-|-1513-13-13-----13-13-|----------|
6------------------x-x-|-9-9-9-9-9-----14-14-|-1412-12-12-----12-12-|----------|
-----------------------|-9-9-9-9-9-----12-12-|-1210-10-10-----10-10-|----------|
4----------------------|-7-7-7-7-7-----12-12-|-1210-10-10-----10-10-|----------|
-----------------------|---------------------|-----------------------|----------|
bend bend
0--0-0-0-|-----------------------||
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