Tab Realm

Whipping Boy by Ben Harper


 


                             Whipping Boy







The first 4 notes of part1 are not exactly what ben harper plays, but it fits if you
work out what he actually plays.

~ = vibrato

Capo on 3rd fret

Part1 (play the low notes of the chord heavily)

			(x2)	“Don’t want to be your whip-pi-ing boy”
	       C   Am
e -------------x----x--|-------------------------------------------|
b -------------x----1~-|---------------------1~--------------------|
g -------------0~---2~-|---------------------2~--------------------|
d -------------2~---2~-|-------5-5-7-7-9-5s4-2~--------------------|
a ---------0---3~---0~-|-----0-3-3-5-5-7-3s2-0~--------------------|
E -0h3p0-3-----x----x--|-0-3---------------------------------------|

Part 2
Pick these notes really hard.
e ------------------------------|------------------------------|
b ------------------------------|------------------------------|
g ----2~-5~--2~-----2~-------2--|-----2~-5~--2~----2~----------|
d -2h5-----------5~----5p2-0----|--2h5----------5~----2h0------|
a ------------------------------|-------------------------3-0--|
E ------------------------------|------------------------------|





The song is mainly just a combination of these two riffs, plus the slide guitar solo.
could just improvise around part2 and the blues scale







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version 2







the intro

e-------------------------------------------------------------------|
b-------------------------------------------------------------------|
g-------------------------------------------------------------------|
d-------------------------------------------------------------------|
a--1--------------------1-----------------------------1---3--1/0----|
e-------3--(1-2-3--4)--------3-----(1-2-3--4)-----3-- -----------3--|

it's not all right, especailly the 4 part, but ive tried out other notes, and nothing 
to fit.

well one part i have almost all right is the fade-out

e----3--0------0-------3--0------0-----------------------|
b-----------3----3^-----------3----3^----1^--1^--1^--1^--|
g--------------------------------------------------------|
d--------------------------------------------------------|
a--------------------------------------------------------|
e--------------------------------------------------------|

most of it's straight out of the blues scale that goes like this

e------------------------0-3-------------------------|  try it out for
b--------------------0-3-----3-0---------------------|  improvising
g----------------0-2--------------2-0----------------|
d------------0-2----------------------2-0------------|
a------0-1-2------------------------------2-1-0------|
e--0-3-------------------------------------------3-0-|








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