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From: dobroide@inicia.es
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 21:24:01 +0200
Subject: v/vai_steve/frank.tab
A likely reason that this song was not (to my knowledge)
tabbed before is that it is neither the typical soft
ballade by Vai or the heavy-style material most
people like of him, but something in the middle.
Also, there are parts in which you would *need* more
than one guitar to get the sound, but I decided to tab
this approximation because it's better than nothing & didn't want
to risk forgetting several beautiful chords. Distorsion
is used freely in the original recording, although I think it may
do well with a clean sound (or with an oukelele, for that matter :-)
As for most Vai stuff it becomes playable -at least for me-
at around 80 % of the original tempo, so take it easy.
And by the way, it is supposed to be a tribute
to Frank Zappa. Corrections and improvements welcome. Cheers.
Frank, by Steve Vai. From the album 'The Ultrazone'.
TAB by Javier Dobroide
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bend bend
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ambulance here (whamy), then repeat part #1 with minor variations
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