Aftershock

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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:48:23 -0400 (EDT)

From: "TOM K. HUBBARD" <an272@leo.nmc.edu>

Subject: Aftershock (TAB)

Tabbed BY: James Norton <jnorton@u.washington.edu>

Here is part one of my Aftershock tab, today's lesson is the intro

(tapped harmonics and the wicked flanger riff) the tab here goes up

untill the first vocals (you know "Oh Yeah!")

AFTERSHOCK

By Van Halen

>From the Album Balance

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Intro (hold chord and tap fret indicated in parenthesis <sp?>)

Let all notes ring in the first part of intro

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Intro (2)

this goes down as one of my favorite Ed licks, it kicks ass, esp through

a flanger.

trill

(Flanger off)

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Key to terms used

3b(1/2) Bend third fret up 1/2 tone

5b(F) Bend fifth fret up a whole tone

0t(2) Trill (hammer and pull of second fret quickly)

7\5 slide down from seventh to fifth fret

pm Palm Mute

2(14) Fret second fret, tap on the fourteenth fret

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Part two coming soon!

James 5149 1/2 (M-O-O-N, that spells James, laws yes)

jnorton@u.washington.edu

http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jnorton/james.html

Subject: TAB : Aftershock by Van Halen

Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 19:20:23 +1000

From: "IceMan" <s341802@student.uq.edu.au>

TAB: :"Aftershock" by Van Halen

Album: Balance

Tabber: Stephen Yorke <s341802@student.uq.edu.au>

This is the rest of the song after the intro part (when the drums

come in) which has been submitted by another tabber.

This is a great VH song that goes down as one of the best.

TAB Notes:

----5h8----| Hammeron

----5p8----| Pulloff

----5/8----| Slide Up

----5\8----| Slide Down

----5~-----| Vibrato

||---------| Repeat

(0:36) Fig.1

End Fig. 1

P.M-------------- Verse 1/ Fig. 2-------------|

End Fig 2

(1:26) Interlude

(1:40) Verse 2 Fig .2 (2:08) Bridge

(2:22) Chorus / Fig. 1

(2:37) Post Chorus P.M.---- P.M.-------------|

(2:44) Solo

A second guitar plays rythmn overtop

-------------------------------------------7---------------------|
---9p7-----------5--5---------------9--10-----9p7--7--7----------|
---------------------------------9-------------------------------|
------------------------------9----------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|

(2:58) Post Solo

----------------------||--------------3--2-----------------------|
----------------------||--------------------3--0-----------------|
----------------------||-----------------------------------------|
----------------------||--5-----------------------2--------------|
----------------------||--5--------0--------------2-------0--3---|
----------------------||--3--------2--------------0--------------|
---------------------3------------3--2--------0------------------|
------------------------2/3\2-----------3--0--0------------------|
---0--------0---------------------------------0------------------|
2--------4--------5---------------------------2------------------|
------5-----------5------------2--------------2------------------|
------------------3------------0--------------0------------------|

Harmonics --------------------------------------------------------|

------------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------12--12--12--12--12--12-----------------------|
--------------------------------------------------------7---------|
---------------7--7--------------------------7----------7---------|
---------7--7--------------------------------7----------5---------|
---7--7--------------------------------------5--------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
12--12--12--12--12--12--------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------7-----------------------------------------|
------------------------7-----------------------------------------|
------------------------5-----------------------------------------|

Whammy bar dive,sqeal,solo(Don't ask)

(Solo is over chorus and interlude figs.)

||-------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------------------------------||

Fast alternate picking on each note

-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
4--7--9--7--9--11--12--11--12--14--16--11--12--11--9--7--11------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------------||------------|
---------------------------------------------------||------------|
7--9-----4--7--9--7--9--11--12--14--12--11--9--7---||------------|
---------------------------------------------------||------------|
---------------------------------------------------||------------|
---------------------------------------------------||------------|

(3:44) Post Solo

-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
9--9-----12--12/14--14/17--5--5/7--7--9--9-----12--12/17--17-----|
9--9-----12--12/14--14/17--5--5/7--7--9--9-----12--12/17--17-----|
7--7-----10--10/12--12/15--3--3/5--5--7--7-----10--10/15--15-----|
-----------------------------------------------------------------|
-------------------------||--------------------------------------|
-------------------------||--------------------------------------|
/16--12--12--12/11--11--*||-----4--------------------2-----2-----|
/16--12--12--12/11--11--*||-----4--------------------2-----2-----|
/14--10--10--10/9---9----||-----2--------------------0-----0-----|
-------------------------||--------------------------------------|

P.M.-- (4:05) Chorus Fig. 1

--------------------------3--3--2--0--||-------------------------|
--------------------------3--3--3--3--||-------------------------|
2--2h4--4--4--4--4--4--4--2--2--2--2--||-------------------------|
2--2h4--4--4--4--4--4--4--------------||-------------------------|
0--0h2--2--2--2--2--2--2--------------||-------------------------|
--------------------------------------||-------------------------|

(4:20) Post Chorus

---------------------||--0-----------0-----------------0----------|
---------------------||--0-----------0--------------0--------0----|
---------------------||--5-----------7-----------2--------2-----2-|
---------------------||--5-----------7-----------2----------------|
---------------------||--3-----------5-----------0----------------|
---------------------||-------------------------------------------|

P.M.

----------------------0--------0--0--0-----0--------0--||--------|
----------------------0--------0--0--0-----0--------0--||--------|
-2--2-----4-----------5--------7--7--7-----8--------9--||--------|
-2--2-----4-----------5--------7--7--7-----9--------9--||--------|
-0--0--2--2-----------3--------5--5--5-----6--------7--||--------|
-------------------------------------------------------||--------|

(4:32) Solo 3 (C,D,D#,E) End with intro riff

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