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A augmentedA brilliant song. Fun to play, but you have to be careful, because the main "riff" sounds bad if you don't play it just right. Also, Belinda Carlisle has a very high range, so you might not be able to hit some of the notes if you're singing, but tuning down has sounded very bad when I tried it. But do what you want. Notes: 1) Wow, this song was a bitch to figure out. And I thought the main acoustic part (guitar 1) was tough. I can barely hear the electric lead (guitar 2) throughout the chorus, so a lot of this is speculation on my part. It should sound decent the way I've tabbed it out here. The blank spots on guitar 2 are probably where I couldn't figure out what the guitar was doing. I can't vouch for the accuracy of guitar 2. I tried my best, I swear to you. 2) Obvious from the transcription, but guitar 1 is a 12-string acoustic, guitar 2 is a clean (flanged? chorused?) electric guitar, guitar 3 is a distorted electric. Guitar 3 only really comes in during the prechorus and chorus. During the chorus it muffles itself a lot for a percussive sound. BTW, if you have to ditch one guitar, kill guitar 3. It adds color, but who has 3 guitars live? 3) Watch out for the changes. The intro is based on an eight-bar pattern, but the verse is a six-bar pattern. Confusing, but an interesting series of changes. 4) No solo, per se. Just all 3 guitars blasting away at chords for 8 bars. Gotta love that.
"Mercenary" (Jane Wiedlin, Kathy Valentine, Charlotte Caffey) Recorded by the Go-Go's From the album _Talk_Show_ (which REALLY needs to be rereleased on CD. Until then, you can find this on _Greatest_Hits_ or, in slightly altered form (acoustic only) on the terrific _Return_To_ _The_Valley_Of_The_Go-Go's_) Notation: s - sixteenth note e - eighth note q - quarter note h - half note w - whole note . - play note for one and a half times the value before it (just like a dot in standard notation) ^ - ties two note lengths together NOTE LENGTHS IN CAPITAL LETTERS MEAN REST FOR THAT VALUE OF TIME! / - slide up \ - slide down h - hammer-on p - pull-off x - muffle strings with fretting hand
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