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Permalink The Torquays 'Escondido'

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Does anyone know where I can find a tab for 'Escondido' by The Torquays? Absolutely nothing on the interwebs and such a great tune!

There was a tab book that had 6 Torquays songs in them. It might be hard to find now and I don't remember if it had that song in it, but it was awfully fun to play along with the other tracks.

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"It starts... when it begins" -- Ralf Kilauea

Is this the tune you are looking for? I think it is because you asked for tabs there too.

I know of no tabs for this song - but it seems fairly straightforward.

"You can't tell where you're going if you don't know where you've been"

Brian wrote:

There was a tab book that had 6 Torquays songs in them. It might be hard to find now and I don't remember if it had that song in it, but it was awfully fun to play along with the other tracks.

https://davecelentano.com/music-product/surf-guitar/

The Torquays songs featured with tab in Dave Celentano's book are:

Ding
Sunset Cruise
Trilobite
Tide Pool Q
Twilight At Trestles
Twitchin'

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Hasto, rather than tabs, would it be helpful to talk through the song on here?

I'm going to go ahead and throw out some instruction for the part that starts at 0:38 (would this be called a B section?)

It's that common andalusion cadence found in so many songs. It goes B major - A major - Gmajor - Gb major.

Play them all using the F form chord shape. The first through the cycle starts with a little major third to root thingy--just find the notes within those chords--and the second pass is more of a full arpeggio of each chord, just plucking through that F chord shape for each chord of the sequence.

This is a 60s Torquays,

the tab book was for the modern Torquays,
Different bands.

Jeff(bigtikidude)

Sonichris wrote:

Is this the tune you are looking for? I think it is because you asked for tabs there too.

I know of no tabs for this song - but it seems fairly straightforward.

Yep that's the one!

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