[davidge1]

Here's my stab at the guitar break on Cadillac Lane (from the album Open Up Your Heart). I love the funky double stops Don Rich is doing on this song. He's actually uses a jazzy 7#9 chord sound (also known as the Hendrix chord) at the beginning of the lead (and in other parts of the song an octave lower). He's not playing the whole chord, just the two notes that give it the distinctive sound.

The single notes should mostly be played very stacatto. Note that I'm indicating a "T" for tremelo in two places. This refers to the mandolin technique of picking up and down very fast to get the effect of one long sustaining note... the first time going back and forth between two strings using the pick and one finger.

Also note that the lick that starts out my last line of tab. is almost identical to the lick I tabbed out in my previous post, only here it's done with single notes instead of double stops. It sounds cooler with the double stops, but Don Rich was obviously trying to vary it a little here, since it's (sort of) one of his signature licks.

Let me know what you guys think...

key of Ab (in A position with the guitar tuned down a half step)


----5-8-10-5--------5----------5-5--------------------5-5-----5
5-8---8-10-5-----------------------------------------------------
---------------7b9--------5-----5-7----5---7--5-7b9----7b9---
--------------------------7--7---------7---7---------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------


-8 (T)------------------------------------- 8--10b12 (T) --
--------------------5-7-5----------10------------------------
7b9(T)-9b7-5----5-7-5-----7/9-----9---------------------
------------------7---------7-------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------
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--12b10-10-8-----------------------------------------------
-----------------------8/7-5-7-5-----------------------------
--------------------5-8/7-5-7-5/6(h)------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------
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--5-4/5-5-8-7-5---5-7-5----------------------------------
--5-4/5-5--------7------------5-7-7-5/6--------5-7-7-5-
--------------------------------5-7-7-5/6(h)----5-7-7-5-
-----------------------------7-----------------7---------------
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