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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:01:19 -0400
From: ex_ite@excite.com
Subject: p/pearl_jam/yellow_ledbetter.tab

From: "Daniel J. Graeber" 
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Well, I sat down last night and spent a good few hours with just me, my
Washburn, a pad of paper and the CD player and transcribed this mother
as best as I could.  What follows is just the intro, about 11 seconds of
the song.  The rest is very similar so faking it with a little bit of improv
should get you through the song.  The basic chord progression is Em-B-Bm-A.
The position for these chords are at the end of this message.

Yellow Ledbetter

   Em  B                   Bm             A                        Em
|_______________9^7________9__________9___5_____________5^7^5__________________
|___________7___9^7_________7_________7______________5_______5_________________
|*__________7___9^7___9^7____8_______________6_________________6_______________
|___2__7^9______7_____9^7__________________________7_______________2___________
|*__2__7^9______7______________9__9________________________________2___________
|___0___________7_______________________________5__________________0___________
      "Unsealed on a porch a....."(second time through this section)

_12__10_________
_12__10_________|
_______12__9___*|
_______12__9____|
_______________*|
________________|


The entire song follows this chord progression (Em-B-Bm-A-Em) except
for the tail end of the song where the lyrics are

"I don't wanna stay.." (repeated)

which is

      __9___      __7___      __5___
      __9___      __7___      __5___
      __9___      __8___      __6___
      __7___      __9___      __7___
      __7___      __9___      __7___
      __7___      __7___      __5___

Em      B           Bm          A


The solo for this song is in D pentatonic in the 10th position.  I was too
damn lazy to figure it out AND write it down.  Maybe later!

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Transcribed by Mr. G
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