------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If Not For My Glasses- Dear And The Headlights ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: TDKshorty Email:somethingfallo@hotmail.com Feel free to ask my any questions, as this is my first completed tab and Im still on it, but I feel that it's worth presenting It's from this video, a live, acoustic version, so if compared with the album version tab might be off time wise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAfa9AR3Znc Tuning: Half step down (Eb) [Alternating Gs] Am G Cadd9 Cmaj7 e|--------------------3-----------------------------------------------| B|-----------------1--3---3-----0-------------------------------------| G|--0--0--0--0-----2--0---0-----0-------------------------------------| D|-----------------2--0---2-----2-------------------------------------| A|-----------------0--2---3-----3-------------------------------------| E|-3--3--3--3---------3-----------------------------------------------| Youll continue with the alternating Gs and thats the verse, the 2nd guitar strums a G occasionally and I think he might strum a C too, its kind of hard to tell Those chords are for the chorus and the beginning as well, I think he ends on a G, its a short G, because the Cmaj7 is played for most of the measure, and from that G he goes into the alternating Gs This part below is what Chuckie plays, I guess in-between verses, its not hard to notice. e|-----10----------------------------------------------------------------------| B|--/12-----10-----------------------------------------------------------------| G|--------12----9--------------------------------------------------------------| D|------------12---9-----------------------------------------------------------| A|---------------12----10------10----------------------------------------------| E|-------------------12---12-10------------------------------------------------| This part mirrors Ians lyrics (I love your face the way it moves) I havent been able to it out completely, so this is the best I can come up with, but it should work e|----------------------------------------------------------------------------| B|----------------------------------------------------------------------------| G|-----0--2--0--2--4--2--0----------------------------------------------------| D|--------------------------0-------------------------------------------------| A|----------------------------------------------------------------------------| E|----3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--------------------------------------------------| The last two notes could instead be played with a G chord at the end, if you want I just realized Chuckie plays something like this, that F# is distinctly in there. I it at:34 seconds. At first I thought it was a D chord, but it didnt sound right, so this what I came up with e|---2-----------------------------------------------------------------------| B|---3-----------------------------------------------------------------------| G|---0-----------------------------------------------------------------------| D|---0-----------------------------------------------------------------------| A|---0-----------------------------------------------------------------------| E|---3-----------------------------------------------------------------------| | / slide up | \ slide down | h hammer-on | p pull-off | ~ vibrato | + harmonic | x Mute note