The Duel tab by Steve Vai

The Duel - Steve Vai
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           Transcribed by Jeff Young
      [Laboriously typed up by Mardi Gras(TNT)]


  Notes: Okay, this is not my work, but I heard someone wanted it and I had it lying around the house so I thought I'd do someone a favour. I've taken this from the June '95 edition of "Guitar" magazine. This is the riff that Vai plays when he has a guitar duel with actor Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid) in the film, "Crossroads".
  Vai performs a series of arpeggios in a reprise of an etude by William Kanengiser (who apparently played all the classical parts in the movie). This study in arpeggios is comprised almost entirely of notes from the A harmonic minor scale (A B C D E F G#). The only nondiatonic series of notes would be found in measure 3, an arpeggio, which in this case functions as a secondary dominant to the Dm in measure 4.

E|            8 12^8           |
B|          10      10         |
G|       5 9          9 5      |
D|      7                7    |
A|    7                   5   |
E| 5 6                      8 |



E|             7            |
B|            9   9          |
G|         7 9      9 7       |
D|      6 9            9 6    |
A|   5 7                  7 5 |
E| 7                        |



E|                  5               |
B|              5  8    8  5           |
G|            6            6         |
D|        5 ^ 7                7  5     |
A|     7                         7   |
E| 5 ^ 9                             9 |



E|             10 13^10           |
B|           10       10         |
G|       7 10           10 7      |
D|      7                  7    |
A|   5 6                        |
E| 5                        10^8 |



E|                            |
B|             9 12 9           |
G|           10      10 7       |
D|        9 12            9 6    |
A|     8^11                  8   |
E| 7 10                       7 |



E|                   5    8    12  8 / | / 16
B|               5      5    10      |
G|           5      5               |
D|       7      7                   |
A|   7      7                       |
E| 5    8                           |  O



  What more can I say? This is just a truly cool riff. It might be a little tough to start on if you are a beginner, but never-the-less, would be a nice riff to learn and use as a warming up exercise.