Big Black Car tab by Gregory Alan Isakov

Tabs

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

Play the whole song in long-short rhythm.


Verse Pattern:
Repeats for during all verses. For the fret 1 on the low E MajorE string I wrap my thumb around the top of the neck.
e|----------------|----------------|
BB|----1-----1-----|----1-----1-----|
G+G|--0-----0---0---|--0-----0-----0-|repeat enough
D MajorD|--------------2-|----------------|to get through verse
A augmentedA|0---------------|------3-----2---|
E MajorE|------3---------|1---------------|
 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Transition between Verses and before each Chorus:
e|-----------------|----------------|
BB|-----------------|----------------|
G+G|--0----0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|repeat
D MajorD|----0h2----------|----------------| 2x
A augmentedA|0--------3---0---|----0---3---0---|
E MajorE|-----------------|3---------------|
 1 + 2  3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Intro Pattern:
Just the Verse Pattern with extra hammer-ons. The tricky part is walking down from 3 to 2 on the A augmentedA string
in the second measure because you need to switch between your ring finger and middle finger and use the
other finger to do the hammer-on.
The hammer-ons are triplets.
e|----------------|-------------------|--0-----0-----0-|----0-----0-----|
BB|----1-----1-----|---1----1----1----1|1-----1-----1---|--1-----1-----1-|
G+G|--0-----0---0---|0h2--0h2--0h2--0h2-|------------0---|--0-----0-----0-|
D MajorD|--------------2-|-------------------|----------------|----------------|
A augmentedA|0---------------|----------3----2---|0---------------|------3-----2---|
E MajorE|------3---------|1------------------|------3---------|1---------------|
 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1  2  3  4  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

That's it.
Get these three parts down and then just strum the chords to the Choruses.
There are plenty of tabs with the chords so I won't add them here.
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