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The Needle And The Damage Done tab by Neil Young

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Needle and the damage done (2)
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One of the first songs I ever learned on guitar!

This is not identical to what Neil plays on the record (his C/F
section is very slightly different) but your audience won't pick it.
Especially with your wailing emotional vocal over the top (so to speak).


(^H means hammer-on where indicated)

--------0---------|-------0---------|-------0---------|-------0---------|
----3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|
----2-------2---2-|---2-------2---2-|---0-------0---0-|---0-------0---0-|
--0---0---0---0---|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
------------------|-3---3---3---3---|-2---2---2---2---|-1---1---1---1---|
------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
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----0----0---0----0-|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0---0-|
----1----1---1----1-|---1---1---1---1-|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0---0-|
-----------0---02---|-3---2---0-------|-2---------------|-1---------------|
------02------------|-------------3---|-----2-----------|-----2-----------|
--3-----------------|-----------------|---------2-------|---------2-------|
--------------------|-----------------|-------------0---|-------------0---|
    ^H    ^H




--------0---------|-------0---------|-------0---------|-------0---------|
----3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|---3---3---3---3-|
----2-------2---2-|---2-------2---2-|---0-------0---0-|---0-------0---0-|
--0---0---0---0---|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
------------------|-3---3---3---3---|-2---2---2---2---|-1---1---1---1---|
------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|


----0----0---0----0-|---1----1---1-----1-|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0----0-|
----1----1---1----1-|---1----1---1-----1-|---0---0---0---0-|---0---0---0----0-|
--------------------|-----02--------02---|-2---------------|-1----------------|
------02-------02---|-3--------3---------|-----2-----------|-----2------------|
--3--------3--------|--------------------|---------2-------|---------2---02---|
--------------------|--------------------|-------------0---|------------------|
    ^H    ^H     ^H    ^H                  ^H




           The Needle and the Damage Done
          by Neil Young, on Harvest (1972)


 Intro and half-way interlude without vocals:
 [I play this as an extremely regular alternate bass/high picking with
 either a flat pick or two fingers; all notes (or pairs of notes in the
 hammer-ons and slides) in what I outline here should have the same
 duration]

  D        D/C       D/B       D/Bb
 e---2---0---------------0---------------0---------------0---------------
 b-----------3---3---3-------3---3---3-------3---3---3-------3---0-------
 g-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 d-0---0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0-------------
 a-----------------3---------------2---------------1-----------0---------
 e-----------------------------------------------------------------------

  C        F        Esus4      E
 e-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 b---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-------
 g---------0--0h2--3---2---0-------2---------------1---------------------
 d----0h2----------------------3-------2-------2-------2-----------------
 a-3---------------------------------------2---------------2---0---------
 e-----------------------------------------------------------------------

 Verses:
 [Note how the first strip of tab is identical; what changes is the way
 the C and F chords are played (simplified) and the passage from the
 concluding E chord to the D chord that starts off the next verse.]

  D        D/C       D/B       D/Bb
 e---2---0---------------0---------------0---------------0---------------
 b-----------3---3---3-------3---3---3-------3---3---3-------3---0-------
 g-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 d-0---0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0-------------
 a-----------------3---------------2---------------1-----------0---------
 e-----------------------------------------------------------------------

  C        F        Esus4      E
 e-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 b---1---1---1---1---1---1---1---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0---0-------
 g---------0---------------2------0h2--------------1---------------------
 d----0h2------2-------3-------3-------2-------2----------2\4--2---------
 a-3---------------3-----------------------2----------0h2----------------
 e-----------------------------------------------------------------------

 Conclusion:
 [This is just the intro but truncated early]

  D        D/C       D/B       D/Bb
 e---2---0---------------0---------------0---------------0---------------
 b-----------3---3---3-------3---3---3-------3---3---3-------------------
 g-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 d-0---0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0---0---0-------0-----------------
 a-----------------3----------------2--------------1---------------------
 e-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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