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This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.

Song

This is the beginning of the song "True Lies" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

off the album Trouble Is. It's not too complicated and is played pretty much through the whole song.

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|-------0h2-0h2-0---------------------0h2-0h2-0---------------------|
A|-----------------2-1-0----0h1p0----------------2-1-0----0h1p0------|
E|-12/-0-----------------3---------3-0-----------------3---------3-0-|

This is how the song starts out and it transitions into the higher pitch as he starts to

the second half of the verse.

The transition is as follows:

e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------0h2-0h2-0---------------------|
D|---0h2-0h2-0-------------------------------2-1-0-----0h1p0-----|
A|-------------2-1-0----0h1p0----0-----------------3---------3-0-|
E|-0-----------------3---------3---------------------------------|

As he switches back into the lower pitch he does the same idea but high to low instead of low to high:

e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------------|
G|---0h2-0h2-0---------------------------------------------------|
D|-------------2-1-0----0h1p0------0h2-0h2-0---------------------|
A|-0-----------------3-----------------------2-1-0----0h1p0------|
E|-----------------------------3-0-----------------3---------3-0-|

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| h Hammer-on

| p Pull-off

| / Slide up

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