Ball And Biscuit tab by The White Stripes

Ball and Biscuit by The White Stripes
from the album Elephant

AKA The Adoration of Jimi. :S

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MAIN RIFF

||---------0---0-------||-------------------||-------------------||--
||---------0---0-------||--2---2p0-2-0-2-0--||------4p2-4-2-4-2--||--
||*-(1)------2----0---*||*-2---2p0-2-0-2-0-*||*-4---4p2-4-2-4-2-*||--
||*-(0)-----------0---*||*-2---2p0-2-0-2-0-*||*-4---4p2-4-2-4-2-*||---
||---2------------x----||--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--||--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--||--
||---0------------3b---||-------------------||-------------------||----
     E7     p.m.           A7                   B7

Standard blues form: e/e/a/e/b/a

Although this is the main riff tabbed out, you must pay attention to
Jack! There is an interesting mix of sloppy playing (i.e. loose
strumming, hitting odd notes) and precision (the open B and E string
double stops are usually pretty spot-on (initially, at least). Have fun,
anyway. Nothing is set in stone. These are all building blocks. There
are variations, e.g.:

----0-0-0-----|------------------|---------------------
------3-0-----|----3-p-2---------|---------------------
-----(1)------|-2--2-----2p0-2p0-|---------------------
--------------|-2--------2---2---|----etc.-------------
-2------------|-0----------------|---------------------
-0------------|------------------|---------------------

There is also a bass-thing (octave pedal again?), going:

||---------------||
||---------------||
||---------------||
||---------------||
||-7---7-5--7----||
||-------------3-||



SOME FILLS

Jack plays some nice fills here and there, here are the first 5 in order
that they appear:

||---------------------||--------||--------||----------------||--3b4-||
||-(0)-----------------||-3b-p-0-||-0-h-1~-||-(0)------------||-x----||
||-/4~4-4\-2-p-0-------||--------||--------||-/4~4-4\-2-p-0--||------||
||---------------2-p-0-||--------||--------||----------------||------||
||---------------------||--------||--------||----------------||------||
||---------------------||--------||--------||----------------||------||



LITTLE DESCENDING RIFF

(Let's have a ball and a biscuit....)

||------0-(0)---0-0----0-0------0------------||
||----0-------------------------0-(0)--------||
||------------3------2------0h1---(1)(1)-----||
||-----------------------------------(0)--0--||
||-2--------------------------------------x--||
||-0--------------------------------------3--||



SOLO 1

The chord going into the solo(s) is a B5:

------
------
--4---
--4---
--2---
------

And the rhythm under the solo is E/A/B (basically a bastardised,
distorto version of the main riff, with less open strings).


This isn't totally accurate, but tough. It'll pass. These are the main
notes, you add eyebrows. In bar 5 there's some crazy flat bends. I'm not
sure about bar 6, is that an effect or something like I've notated?
Anyway, it's possible (just about) to play it this way.

||----17b19r17p15-----22-22b24~-|---17b19r17-----22-----|
||----------------17~-----------|------------17---------|
||------------------------------|-----------------------|
||------------------------------|-----------------------|
||------------------------------|-------------------(0)-|
||------------------------------|-----------------------|

|-10-------------------------------|---15-15b17\----15-15b17--17-15----
|-10b12-12-r10p8--b-12-p-10--10-8~-|-5/---------10/-----------------17-
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------


--15-----|-/15--15-------------------------|
-----17~-|---------18-------------18b------|
---------|------------17-17b18r17-----17b--|
---------|-----------------quick-----------|
---------|---------------------------------|
---------|---------------------------------|

(press string on pickup)
|-28b29r28-24-24-24-24-24-24-22b24~22--------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------------------22b24~-|-28b29r\-28b29-29-29-----|
|--------------------------------------------|--------------------28b--|
|--------------------------------------------|---------------------slow|
|--------------------------------------------|-------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------|-------------------------|

|--------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|----------19--------------------|-20b22-22-22-22----------------------|
|/19-19-21----21b22~-21-19-21-19~|----------------19b21-19-17----------|
|--------------------------------|----------------------------19-17-14-|
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|-------------------------------------|


|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|----------------------------------|
|-0----4---4-5--5-5-6--6-6--7~-----|



ANOTHER FILL

||-------------------|
||-0-----------------|
||-3/4-4---2p1p0-----|
||---------------(2)-|
||-------------------|
||-------------------|


There is obviously a lot more to this song, but for a tune that is based
around improvisation, it seems crazy (and far too much effort) to tab
all that out. Listen for things you like, then add what you want.

Enjoy Elephant!