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Will To Live Tab by Ben Harper

Will To Live tab by Ben Harper

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Ben Harper, The Will to Live
from the album The Will to Live, 1997

Tuning - standard guitar tuning with the bottom E string
dropped to D

Note that Ben plays this with a slide on his weissenborn,
but you can still play this by using your index finger as a barre.

Intro and verse riff:
E-------------------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------------------
A-----------5----3--2--0-------------5--3--2--0---
D---0--0---------------------0--0-----------------
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Just before the chorus - i.e. at the words "she's still alive"
play:
E----------------------------------------
B---------------------------3------------
G---------------------------2------------
D---------------------------0------------
A-----------5--3--2--0------0------------
D----0--0-------------------0------------

and hold the D chord until:
with plenty of distortion
    Eb      Bb        F       C
E--------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------------------
D---1-------8---------3-------10-------------------
A---1-------8---------3-------10-------------------
D---1-------8---------3-------10-------------------

this is the chord progression for the chorus and the end bit,
and the sort of siren sound that Ben gets in the last chorus can
be imitated by bending the B string upwards at the 11th and 13th
frets, provided your amp is going flat out


The chord progression for the solo goes
C   G    D, and maybe I'll tab out the solo a bit later when I find
some spare time. Enjoy

Martin from New Zealand
keane@sinesurf.co.nz

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