ISAAK CHRIS - "wicked game" Tablature

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From: "patrick m. ryan" <pryan@access.digex.net>
Subject: TAB: "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:20:33 -0500 (EST)

Wicked Game
Chris Isaak, from _Heart-Shaped_World_

transcription by pryan@access.digex.net (patrick m. ryan)
(formerly pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Notes:
This song sounds great on a Strat. I figured out 99%
of this song myself and confirmed my interpretation when I
saw Chris Isaak on 'Saturday Night Live'.
There are really two guitars in this tune. Isaak is
strumming the rhythm on his acoustic while his lead guitarist
does the melody work. Isaak plays the Bm A E progression
through most of the song.
In my notation, a row of tildes (~) means 'wiggle the
tremelo bar'. '\' means slide down and '/' means slide up.
The nice tremelo work along with a lot of reverb give this
song most of its atmosphere.
The intro riff is hard to notate. Basically, the sequence
on the B string is: pick open string (B), bend tremelo down 1/2 step,
hammer-on 7th fret (F#), release tremelo, pick 7th fret (F#), slide
down to open string.


intro

(down 1/2) (back up) (slide) ~~~ (down 1/2) (back up) (slide)
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
-0----------7---------7\\-------0--|-0----------7---------7\\-------0--
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------


A ~~~~~~
--------------------------|
---5----------------------|
--6--7-6-4-----2---1------|
-7-----------4---2--------|
--------------------------|
--------------------------|


~~~~
-2----0-----------------------------
---3----3--2----0-------------------
-------------4----4-2--1-----1-2-4-- o
----------------------2----2-------- o
------------------------------------
------------------------------------



verse
Bm A E (fill)
------------
------------
----2---1---
--4---2-----
------------
------------

Bm A E (another fill)
------------
------------
----1-2-4---
--2---------
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