Word up! Here is yet another tab done by myself, Jason "Gimmie a smoke" Warden for the colormeimpressed.com site. I AM BUT THEIR SLAVE. Feedback, comments, suggestions, hate mail, your sister's dorm address, send it all to (jason) (at) (benalto) (dot) (com) or pop by our loverly forums where I occasionally bleat in the GUITAR GEEK forum. This tab may be reproduced anywhere you, the reader, see fit but PLEASE leave this top part on. Alright?? One of the things with Paul is, once you 'crack a code' (his MANY guitar tunings/setups) you find he has used it somewhere else. If you know how he plays "Alex Chilton" it's a good bet you can cruise through "Down Love". If you can play "Dirt To Mud", "Got You Down" becomes transparent. And, weirdly, once I started playing with some All Shook Down songs in open E with and without the 3rd fret capo - Merry Go Round, Someone Take The Wheel, and One Wink At A Time, SIXTEEN BLUE just popped out of my fingers. Just like that!! This song always perplexed me....but it's in OPEN E with a CAPO ON THE THIRD FRET, making it a cool kinda open G. So, tune your guitar to E B E G# B E and put a capo on the 3rd fret to make it G C G A# C G. If you are playing an acoustic guitar....well I'd suggest tuning it down to open D and putting the capo on the FIFTH fret but this is already kinda high enough on the fretboard, so you can only pull that off if you have a wicked cutaway. I'll be tabbing as if the capo was NOT THERE; that is, the low E string open will be tabbed thusly: --- --- --- --- --- -3- Most people tab as if the capo was gone..trust me, this'll make it easy on you AND me. This is my new styled "This is the part where there are only one set of footprints on the beach - where I carried your sorry ass. You can figure the rest out". Bob's leads, amazingly melodic, are also really slow and you should be able to pick 'em up by ear. Really suave, the whole arrangement. Paul's part is the confusing one...so let's get it goin'! The main riff: -10---7---5 (ring chord)----10---7----5-------------------------- -3----3---3-----------------3----3----3-------------------------- -11---8---6-----------------11---8----6-------------------------- -3----3---3-----------------3----3----3-------------------------- -3----3---x-----------------3----3----3-------------------------- ----------8---------------------------3--------------------------- THIS ONE with the '8', on your electric you should be able to stretch your ring finger to hit that; the frets are pretty close together. No one said it'd be COMFORTABLE to play like Paul! Anyway, yeah, that's the intro/main riff/chorus part. And now the verse parts! G Drive yourself right up the wall G No one hears and no one calls C* It's a boring state Cmin G It's a useless wait, I know G Brag about things you don't understand G A girl and a woman, a boy and a man C* Everything is sexually vague Cmin Now you're wondering to yourself G If you might be gay Okay, looks simple, right? Except Paul just isn't randomly picking or strumming through this. I _think_ he's doing THIS for the G sections...it's a cool riff: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----3------------------------------------------------------------------ ----3-7-5p3--------------------------------------------------------------- -3h7---3------------------------------------------------------------------- Play that over and over and you'll hear it, you know what I'm talking about. Now, the C* to CMin part...this is carefully CAREFULLY arranged by young Paul. It's actually really suave...remember the old adage, it's not about the notes you play, it's about the ones you don't play? Well, harmonically, that C*..it's not really a CMaj, nor is it a CMin. Paul creates space by only playing these notes: C* --- --- --- -8- -8- -8- I'm not sure what Tommy's bass is doing, but I know Bob just drops out (and so does the piano on the demo). It's cool. And then, depending on what Paul feels like in the song, he either drops to a DOWN Cminor or what I call a SOLID Cminor (don't you love my notations and made up terms??) The DOWN CMinor is called thusly because you gotta twist your fingers... CMinor --- --- -7- -8- -8- -8- The SOLID CMinor, this is cool, instead of twisting your fingers to all heck, he just does a massive multistring barre. He does this on a LOT of live versions for all verse Cminors, never doing the DOWN CMinor, because it's easy to do this when yr hammered: CMinor -11- -11- -11- -8- -8- -8- Note, he rakes that very nicely, so don't just strum, but rake from yr low to high strings... D Your age is the hardest age G Everything drags and drags D Aminor One day, baby, maybe help you through Alright, the D is played very simply and openly, just like the C* was. It's interesting to note when Paul was younger he never utilized all the open string partials in his open tunings.... D ---- ---- ---- -10- -10- -10- For the G part, he does the same riff over G that he does in the verses. And for the Aminor part.. well, there's a lot going on. I'm pretty sure he just plays an Aminor on the record and lets the lead guitar, bass (and demo version piano) do the walk-up, but whenever I play the song by myself I NEED that walkup or I feel incomplete, like a pornstar who has yet to do a DP. So here's how I play that part, with walkup: ---3-----3-----3--------------------------- ---3-----3-----3--------------------------- -4-4-----3-----3--------------------------- -5-5-5s7-7-7s8-8--------------------------- -5-5-5s7-7-7s8-8--------------------------- -5-5-5s7---7s8-8--------------------------- That's basically everything in the song, except the very last chorus where he changes up. It's cool: -10---7---5 (ring chord)----10---7----5-------------------------- -3----3---3-----------------3----3----3-------------------------- -11---8---6-----------------11---8----6-------------------------- -3----3---5-----------------3----3----3-------------------------- -3----3---5-----------------3----3----3-------------------------- ----------5---------------------------3--------------------------- See? He changes the C bass into an Amin bass. Awesome. Well, have fun. Now I'm putting you down and only walking beside you.