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Ok, I figure there are about a dozen different ways to
play this floating around and I have my own way. I
just got a guitar teacher and at the first lesson he
asked me what I liked...then started asking me if I
knew various staple surf tunes, so I started playing
them for him. He gave me a tab for Wipeout and told
me that I was playing it in the right key, but not
quite correctly. First off, "key" means nothing to
me. I have zero idea what it means. The tab notation
he uses is numerical - it's a set of two-digit numbers
with the first number being the string number
(numbered 1 starting with high E to 6, the low E) and
the second number being the fret number. I'm gonna
use this here.
His tab goes like this:
23 24 25 25 25 23 20 20
(4 times)
13 14 15 15 15 13 10 10
(2 times)
23 24 25 25 25 23 20 20
(2 times)
15 16 17 17 17 15 27 27
13 14 15 15 15 13 10 10
23 24 25 25 25 25 20 20 20 20
He's apparently performed it like this live before,
but I can't get it to sound right for the life of me.
This is one of the few songs I have sat down and
figured out completely by ear, so I wanna toss mine up
along side this one and get some opinions. I got this
listening to the original version by The Surfaris.
(I'm playing on the lower strings.)
50 53 54 55 55 55 53 50 50
(4 times)
40 43 44 45 45 45 43 40 40
(2 times)
50 53 54 55 55 55 53 50 50
(2 times)
57 47 48 49 49 49 47 57 57 47
45 45 45 43 40 43
50 53 54 55 55 55 53 50 50 55 53 50 50 50 50
Mine seems to look off the wall compared to his but
I'm fairly certain this is correct, though I could
very easily be wrong. Now, "artist's interpretation"
aside, what do you guys think?
~Richard
PS - Does anybody know what that chord is that's
played in the drumroll?
And by the way, for the pick-poll, I use Fender heavy
picks. I've never really tried anything else.
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Did you have a look at this?
I play the main riff like that. I don't think the chords are exactly right
there though.
I like playing it up high on the heavier strings as shown. It sounds too
thin to me when played low like your instructor does. I don't like his tab
notation either.
When I play along to the Surfaris version it sounds like its in the same key
as the tab above. Your instructor may have picked up the song from The
Ventures or somebody else who played it in a different key.....?
I'm no music expert either but think of keys like this: its all relative.
You just slide the riff around to get into a different key. As long as the
notes in your riff are the same relative to each other, its the same riff,
just in a different key.
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