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Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 06:24:41 -0700
From: nasta@ix.netcom.com (John Nasta)
Subject: upload heavy_duty.tab by Spinal Tap
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"Heavy Duty" from the album "This is Spinal Tap."
Key: s=stretched ss=slow stretch (either before or after hitting note)
^=hammer-on, pull-off, or slur notes into each other
Intro (Play 4 times)
----------------------------| -----1-----------1-s3^3-1---| -0^2---0^2---0^2----------2-| ----------------------------| -----------3----------------| ----------------------------|
Verse 1 (Play same as intro 3 times)
No light fantastic ever crosses my mind
That meditation stuff can make you go blind
Just crank that volume to the point of pain
F# (2 counts) G (2 counts) A (4 counts OR 1 count + fill 1)
Why waste good music on a brain?
Fill 1 (during A chord)
-----------------------------| -----------1-----------------| -------0^2---2^0-------------| ---0^2-----------2^0---------| -3-------------------3^0-----| -------------------------3^0-|
E (2 counts) G (2 counts) F# (2 counts) F G A
Heavy (Heavy) Duty (Duty) Heavy duty rock n roll
Fill 2
-----------------|---------------------------| -----------1-----|---------------------1-----| -------0^2---2-2-|-----0^2-2-2-----0^2---2-0-| ---0^2-----------|-0^2---------0^2-----------| -3---------------|---------------------------| -----------------|---------------------------|
E (2 counts) G (2 counts) F# (2 counts) F G E
Heavy (Heavy) Duty (Duty) Brings out the duty in my soul
Fill 3
-12^15^12----12-s15-s15-| ----------15------------| ------------------------| ------------------------| ------------------------| ------------------------|
Intro (2 times)
Verse 2 (Play same as intro 3 times)
I see you dancing there in front of the band
You're playing those solos with no guitar in your hand (Short solo)
I don't pull no punches I wouldn't waste your time
F# (2 counts) G (2 counts) A (4 counts OR 1 count + fill 1)
And just 'cause it pays it aint no crime
E (2 counts) G (2 counts) F# (2 counts) F G A
Heavy (Heavy) Duty (Duty) Heavy duty rock n roll (play fill 2)
E (2 counts) G (2 counts) F# (2 counts) F G E
Heavy (Heavy) Duty (Duty) brings out the duty in my soul
-------------|-------------------------------| -s15-s15-s15-|-------------------------------|
-------------|-Main solo (you figure it out)-|
-------------|-------------------------------| -------------|-------------------------------| -------------|-------------------------------|
Verse 3 (accapella with fills)
I don't need a woman I won't take me no wife
--------------| -s3^3-1----1--| --------2-----| --------------| --------------| --------------|
I got that rock n roll and that'll be my life
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-s3^3-1---s3^3-1-------1ss- <---|hold this note through the next line
--------2--------2-0^2----------| --------------------------------| --------------------------------| --------------------------------|
No page in history baby that I don't need
F# (2 counts) G (2 counts) A (4 counts OR 1 count + fill 1)
I just wanna make some ear drums bleed (play fill 1)
E (2 counts) G (2 counts) F# (2 counts) F G A
Heavy (Heavy) Duty (Duty) Heavy duty rock n roll (play fill 2)
E (2 counts) G (2 counts) F# (2 counts) F G E
Heavy (Heavy) Duty (Duty) brings out the duty in my soul
End Solo
-s15-s15-s15--5-4-5-7-5--------0-0------------0-------------------| ----------------------------2------3-3--3^2^3---3--------3-3-2-2--| -------------------------2----------------------------1-----------| ---------------------------------------------------2--------------| ------------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------------| 5-2-0-------5-2-0------5-2-4--0---5--2^4^2^4^2--0-0-| -------4-4--------4-4-----------2-------------------| ----------------------------------------------------| ----------------------------------------------------| ----------------------------------------------------| ----------------------------------------------------| ---------------------------------| ---------------1---------------2-| -----------0^2---2^0-----------2-| -------0^2-----------2^0-------2-| ---0^3-------------------3^0---0-| -3---------------------------3---|
Use lots of distortion, and make sure the volume is on 11.
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