Kerry tab by Hall And Oates

Tabs with lyrics

This is entirely my own work, done on 1/23/06 with a Fender Guitar in
hand.

"Kerry" - Hall & Oates
From the album "Bigger Than the Both Of Us"

This is a great song from a pretty unknown H&O album. Chord wise,
it's pretty simple, classic Daryl Hall stuff.

But there's about 3 guitars intertwined throughout the song that play
some cool stuff, in addition to the bass/drums/electric piano and so
forth.

But what I'm attempting to do here is somewhat dissect the song as it
was played. If you want to play a simple,

solo rendition, all of these chords are common "open" position
chords, and can be played as so (Daryl Hall no

doubt wrote it on a piano or keyboard of some sort, so that's
probably the best bet for a "solo" version).
At any rate, I like to try and tab out what is actually being played
on the record. Unfortunately, I just

started playing guitar last August..so I'm still largely a novice.
Thus, I can't guarantee authenticity of any

of this..but it's as close as I can get for now! Here goes:


Synthesizer Intro:

G+G    FF   (x2)


Verse:

A minorAm   D MajorD

(These two chords repeat throughout)

One of the guitars is playing lead, with a bunch of cool little riffs
like this one, which comes in at the

beginning of the first verse:

E-------5p3------------------------------------------------------
B------------5--3s1----------------------------------------------
G---------------------0---2v--------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

It's mostly G-major/E-minor pentatonic based stuff.

Another guitar plays the chords. I'm not positive, but these
positions sound close:

E-------5---------5------------------------------------------------
B-------5---------7------------------------------------------------
G-------5---------7------------------------------------------------
D-------7---------7------------------------------------------------
A-------7---------5------------------------------------------------
E-------5---------5------------------------------------------------
       A minorAm         D MajorD

Pre-Chorus:

C majorC   G/BG/B (x3)

FF          C majorC     D MajorD
Carry on..

On this part, for the C majorC  G/BG/B progression, I can hear one guitar
playing arpegios of these triads:

E----------------------------------------------------------------
B------13--------12----------------------------------------------
G------12--------12----------------------------------------------
D------14--------12----------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
        C majorC        G/BG/B (this is technically just a G+G arpegio, as the
bass covers the BB)


Chorus:

G+G       D/G       C majorC    G/BG/B   A minorAm   (those last 3 chords are quick)
Oh kerry..

G+G       D/G       CCC G+G   CCCG   C majorC
                               oh kerry..

More arpegios in the chorus, mainly with these two chords:

E----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----12----10---------------------------------------------------
G-----12----11---------------------------------------------------
D-----12----12---------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
      G+G      D/G      C majorC      G/BG/B    A minorAm


Verse 2:

A minorAm   D MajorD

Same as before. Heres a cool "falling" riff at the beginning of the
second verse:

E----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----5s3s5--5--3------------------------------------------------
G------------------5--2------------------------------------------
D------------------------5--4------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------


Pre-Chorus/Chorus is all the same. Then, the synth intro repeats.

The song then modulates from the key of G+G to the key of Bb majorBb as
follows:

C/DC/D   Eb/FEb/F

Then, back to the chorus which is now in the new key of Bb, thus:

Bb majorBb     F/Bb
Oh kerry..

            Eb MajorEb  Bb/DBb/D   C minorCm (fast)
But don't get..


Bb majorBb    F/Bb

Eb MajorEb  Bb majorBb   Eb MajorEb   Bb majorBb   Eb MajorEb

etc. Same as the other choruses, but everything is moved up 3
half-steps.

As the song fades via the chorus, the lead plays some riffs higher up
on the neck around the 10/11th fret (for

those familiar with the CAGED system, the "C" position in the key of
Bb majorBb). Like so:

E-----13p11----------13p11--10--11-------------------------------
B-----------13--11-----------------------------------------------
G----------------------------------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------


I probably spent too much time on this, considering the song is
largely unknown to anyone outside diehard H&O

fans. Which means no one will probably ever even search for a tab of
this song..but if you need it, here's at

least something!

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