Take On Me tab by Reel Big Fish

Tabs

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			   Take On Me - Reel Big Fish
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Tabbed by: SupremeACL
Email: [email protected]
This is Reel Big Fish's Take On Me from the BASEketball Soundtrack. This song is in the
of A augmentedA Major. For the chords, Aaron usually plays the top 3 or 4 notes, but I prefer to do
full chords. I'm tabbing for the full chords. Here it goes!

Tuning: Standard eBGDAE


Intro (w/ distortion):
   B minorBm
e|---2---2-------------------------------------------|
BB|---3-----3-----------------------------------------|
G+G|---4-------4~--------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---4-----------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------22-022-022-022-022-022-02020202-----|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------|

Verse A augmentedA (clean):
  B minorBm      E MajorE
  v^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^v v  simile
e|-77-x-7-x-7-x----------------55-x-5-x-5-x------------------|
BB|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---55-x-5-x-5-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
G+G|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---66-x-6-x-6-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
D MajorD|-99-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---77-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
A augmentedA|-99-x-9-x-9-x-7-x-7-x-77-7---77-x-7-x-7-x-5-x-5-x-55-5-----|
E MajorE|-77-x-7-x-7-x----------------55-x-5-x-5-x------------------|

Verse BB (clean):
               Switch to distortion here
e|-77-x-7-x-7-x------------------------------------------|
BB|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9-----------------------------|
G+G|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9------777-7-7----------------|
D MajorD|-99-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-99-9--4---xxx-x-x----------------|
A augmentedA|-99-x-9-x-9-x-7-x-7-x-77-7--4---555-5-5----------------|
E MajorE|-77-x-7-x-7-x---------------2--------------------------|

Chorus (w/ Distortion):
  PM-|  PM-|  PM-|
                x2                    x1
e|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
BB|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G+G|--------------9------11---7-6-7-|----------99999999------------------7-6-7|
D MajorD|-------7------9------11---x-x-x-|-77777777-99999999-1111111111111111-x-x-x|
A augmentedA|-------7-7777-7-9999-9----5-4-5-|-77777777-77777777-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--5-4-5|
E MajorE|--5555-5------------------------|-55555555--------------------------------|

Then:
    PM   PM   PM   PM
e|-----------------------------------|
BB|-----------------------------------|
G+G|-----------------------------------|
D MajorD|-------------------7---7---9---9---|
A augmentedA|---7---7---7---7-5---55--7---77----|
E MajorE|-5---55--4---44--------------------|

Bridge:
              slide up the neck randomly
e|-4----------------------------------------------------21b-19---------------|
BB|-5--8-----7p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p4/----------19------------|
G+G|-6----7---------------------------------------------4-----------21---4-4---|
D MajorD|-6------9-------------------------------------------x----------------4-4---|
A augmentedA|----------------------------------------------------2----------------2-2---|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus 3(w/ Distortion):
  PM-|  PM-|  PM-|
                x2                    x1
e|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
BB|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G+G|--------------9------11---7-6-7-|----------99999999------------------7-6-7|
D MajorD|-------7------9------11---x-x-x-|-77777777-99999999-1111111111111111-x-x-x|
A augmentedA|-------7-7777-7-9999-9----5-4-5-|-77777777-77777777-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--5-4-5|
E MajorE|--5555-5------------------------|-55555555--------------------------------|

Then he does some soloing which is hard to figure out. I'll tab a little of it.
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|----------------------10-9-10-9-10-12-10-9-10-9-10-9-10-12-10-9------------|
G+G|-9p7p9p7p9p7p9p7p9p7-------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Then end of the solo is:
e|---------14h15h17--------14h15h17--------14h15h17-17b-|
BB|-14h15h17--------14h15h17--------14h15h17-------------|
G+G|------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|------------------------------------------------------|

The order:
Intro
Verse A augmentedA x4
Verse BB
Chorus
Verse A augmentedA x2
Verse BB
Chorus
Bridge
Verse A augmentedA x4
Verse BB
Chorus 3
Outro solo

There we go! Hopefully you can read it; it's a bit messy in places Cheers, and good playing!

| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| v Downstroke
| ^ Upstroke
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