"Drift Away" Tabs??

[tonytrout]

I (as well as prolly a lot of other folks through the years) have been wanting to learn the guitar intro for "Drift Away" and if anybody has any insight on the technique I sure would appreciate it....

BTW, I ain't posted in a while so I also wanted to say that it's good to be back...been uberly busy the last few weeks trying to hold down two gigs and the stress finally caught up with me and I literally collapsed from exhaustion and stayed in bed for four days straight....but it's good to be back cuz I've missed y'all!!

(sorry for the hi-jack)

 

[JamonHamon]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/d/dobie_gray/drift_away_tab.htm

 

[tonytrout]

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/d/dobie_gray/drift_away_tab.htm

Thankies!!

 

[Fourth Feline]

Thank you indeed folks for bringing that gem back to my memory - and presenting such excellent tab !

I will have a lot of pleasure working on that one.

Nice one ...

 

[pbenn]

tonytrout, this reminds me of working on Dobie Gray's "Drift Away" a little earlier this fall. With the greatest respect to the above-posted tabs, and the work that went into them, may I suggest a different approach?

I suggest the song is in D, with the "effects" guitar that opens capoed at the second fret and essentially playing the verse in open (campfire) C-shape with a hammered on "A" (B note) on the third string, and a first-position F-shape (G note) following, with another hammer-on on the same third string.

This first "effects" guitar does the intro (glissed E-D-B three times (real pitch)) as the band plays Bmin A G (real pitch) to get down to the D, the second-fret-capoed C shape.

The other guitarist comes in, too, seeming to be playing straight 4's at either the fifth-fret D or the tenth-fret D.

The hook is D F#min A D in real pitch, but C Emin G A for the capoed first guitarist.

Just my opinion, of course, but maybe worth a try.

(Ed.)... Sorry--wrong song. Drift Away not Slip Away. Oh, well. 'll go back and hide, now.