Down South tab by Tom Petty

Tabs

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: D MajorD

Difficulty: Intermediate

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     Down South – Tom Petty
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Written by: Tom Petty
From: “Highway Companion” (2006)

Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: Standard

Here’s my reading of the solo. It’s not that difficult to play even though
it is high up on the fretboard. There’s a lot of delay on this simple
melody (sounds like there’s some sort of “reverse” effect, too?). I’m
not much of an electric guitar player, so my tip is: play around with your
delay until it comes close ...
Many of the notes are triplets, which are a little difficult to write in
this format. Playing along to Petty’s recording might help to get the
timing right.

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           D MajorD        D MajorD
           1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
          e|----------------|---------/12--12|
          BB|----------------|----------------|
          G+G|----------------|----------------|
          D MajorD|----------------|----------------|
          A augmentedA|----------------|----------------|
          E MajorE|----------------|----------------|
(... and a little more)

 D MajorD    A augmentedA     D MajorD
 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|12h14-14-14-12-14--|------------17-17|
BB|-------------------|15---------------|
G+G|-------------------|-----------------|
D MajorD|-------------------|-----------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------|-----------------|
E MajorE|-------------------|-----------------|
  triplets
 G+G         D MajorD
 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|17-15-15-15-17-14|----------14--15|
BB|-----------------|----------------|
G+G|-----------------|----------------|
D MajorD|-----------------|----------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------|----------------|
E MajorE|-----------------|----------------|
  triplets
 G+G          D MajorD
 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|15----19-19--17-17-|17-----------17-15|
BB|-------------------|------------------|
G+G|-------------------|------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------|------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------|------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------|------------------|
     triplets
 B minorBm        A augmentedA        A augmentedA
 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +
e|14----14-14-----|----------------|----------------|
BB|-----------17-15|17--------------|----------------|
G+G|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D MajorD|----------------|----------------|----------------|
A augmentedA|----------------|----------------|----------------|
E MajorE|----------------|----------------|----------------|
    triplets