Tabs with lyrics
Can U Dig IT? - The Mock Turtles tabbed by
UnholySmoke Feb '03
Standard tuning
This is a great tune from 1991, from the album
'Turtle Soup.' It's a
reworked B-side of the Mock Turtles' first big hit,
'Lay Me Down,' and it's
about to be re-released after having been in the new
Vodafone advert. Head to
http://www.global-trance.co.uk/Mock_Turtles.html for
more about the band and
the tune.
All chords are played as low on the fretboard as
possible. The bass is all
over the shop in this one, which makes some of the
chords a bit tough to pick
out, especially in bits like the middle 8 and the
solo. There's a keyboard part
played over the top of the verses and most of the
chorus, but it doesn't come
off too well played on the guitar. Suffice to say
it's the scale of
E MajorE - the
4th, 5th and 7th frets of the high
E MajorE string are there
or thereabouts. There's
also a Keyboard playing some rhythm - best heard
during the middle 8, which is
E MajorE and D. Note the difference between the first chorus
and the second and third
- there's an extra run round the
C# minorC#m bit; the line
'You keep insisting on
everything.' Not also that the verse and chorus
chords ARE NOT THE SAME!
The toughest part of the whole thing is the
intro, which is finger-picked
very fast, varies pretty much every time it's played,
and is also strangely
timed in places - it's not exactly as it 'feels' like
it should be.
Intro/Main Riff - Crunchy, mid-scooped tone, finger
picked
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e----------------------------------------------------------------------------
B-------9-----9-----10-----10-----10-----11-----11-----11---10-----10--------
G-----9---9-----9------9------9------9------9------9-----------9------9---9--
D---9-------9-----9------9------9------9------9------9----9------9------9----
Round twice, then drums and ascending bass intro
Then second guitar comes in, similar sound to guitar
1:
E MajorE
BB
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
Verse 1
=======
E MajorE
A augmentedA
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
Ca---an you understand me now?
I'll get it through someho---ow
Yo------ou won't ever get me down
Won't see me hangin' arou-------nd
Chorus - with Intro riff
======
E MajorE
BB
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
Can you dig it? (Oh yeah)
Can you dig it? (Oh yeah)
Can you dig it? (Oh yeah)
c#m
BB
A augmentedA
x
Can you dig it - what I'm saying?
C# minorC#m
BB
A augmentedA
One little kiss isn't anything
BB
I won't be sad
A augmentedA
But someone ...
This is played in each chorus where the 'x'
appears above - plenty of reverb;
e------4---------------0--
B----5--------4------2----
D--6--------4------2------
C# minorC#m
BB
A augmentedA
Verse 2
=======
E MajorE
A augmentedA
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
See how big and s...
I'm standing on my own
Chorus 2
========
E MajorE
BB
F# minorF#m
A augmentedA
Can you dig it? (Oh yeah)
Can you dig it? (Oh yeah)
Can you dig it? (Oh yeah)
c#m
BB
A augmentedA
Can you dig it - what I'm saying?
C# minorC#m
BB
A augmentedA
One little kiss isn't anything
C# minorC#m
BB
A augmentedA
You keep insisting on everything
BB
I won't be sad
A augmentedA
But someone turned the lights on
Middle 8 & Solo
===============
Fingerpicky intro riff as above - Played twice over
continuous
E MajorE chord,
then
D MajorD Chord, with zooming bass. The riff is
*slightly* varied from the
other times it's played, but it's so quick as to not
be that
noticeable.
Solo, plenty of reverb and work that wah baby!
e--15\\\---------------------------------------------
B----------12----10----12----14--10------------------
G------------------------------------9----7----------
D-------------------------------------------9-7-9----
Played twice over B, twice over A, then twice over
D MajorD
Chorus 3
========
As Chorus 2
Then four times:
E MajorE
Can you dig it?
And there it is - choon! Comments?
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