Tabs
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FINGERPRINT FILE - The Rolling Stones
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Tabbed by: sugapablo
Album: It's Only Rock n Roll
Tuning: Standard
Note:
For the guitar effect used, I get something close with a slow phaser and wah pedal.
[PART 1]
Variations on C minorCm with hammers from the "Bb area":
(s3, s4, & s5 are staccato notes)
e|------------------x--3---------------------x-s3-x----------|
BB|------------------x--4---------------------x-s4-x----------|
G+G|-------------3h5--x--5-------5-------3h5---x-s5-x----------|
D MajorD|-------------3h5--x----------5-------3h5---x-x--x----------|
A augmentedA|-------------3----x----------3-------3-----x-x--x----------|
E MajorE|-----------------------------------------------------------|
Fingerprint file you get me down
Keep me running know my way around
[PART 2]
Change in verses goes up to F7F7 and then back to PART 1:
e|---------5-----------------------------|
BB|---------4-----------------------------|
G+G|---------5-----------------------------|
D MajorD|---------3-----------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------|
Know my moves, way ahead of time
[PART 3]
G+G -> F#F#
e|-------------3-----------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------------3-----------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-------------4-----------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------------5-----------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------5-----------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------3-----------------------------------------------------|
And there's some little jerk in the FBI
e|-2-----------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-2-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|-3-----------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-4-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-4-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-2-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Keepin' papers on me six feet high It gets me down, it gets me (back to PART 1 for "down").
At around 2:33 on the album version there is a breakdown/jam led by the bass.
[BASS]
Main bass line:
G+G|-------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|-----------1-------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-----1---3---3-1----------1---3--1h3-3-----|
E MajorE|-1-3---3---------3----1-3---3--------------|
There are a lot of gratuitous uses of wah with a crisp high chord that's simply:
- / - (- = wah pushed forward, / = wah rocked back)
e|---------------------------------8-8-8-----|
BB|---------------------------------8-8-8-----|
G+G|---------------------------------8-8-8-----|
D MajorD|-------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|-------------------------------------------|