• Song:

    Blowfish

  • Artist:

    Steve Vai

  • Album:

    Best Of (disc 1)

Blowfish Tab by Steve Vai


                             
                           

This song is played with a double pitchshifter, one pitch is one octave
below and the other is one octave above. I think it is played straight
through a Digitech 2101 with loads of compression.

Iwrote this from out of my head without a guitar so errors are
bound to be in there somewhere....hope it's useful anyway.

                          
                          
                      


 pickslides   riff A--->                                b1
|-----------|-----------------------|--------------------------|--------------
|-----------|-----------------------|--------------------------|--------------
|-----------|-----------------------|--------------------------|--------------
|-----------|-----------------------|--------------------------|--------------
|-----------|---3-4-5-3---3-4-5-3---|---3-4-5-3---3-5----------|---3-4-5-3----
|-x\--x\--x\|-5---------5---------5-|-5---------5------3-(5)-5-|-5------------
                                                                              

          b2             b2               b1
-------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------|----
-------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------|----
-------------------|---------------------------|-------------------------|----
-------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------9-|----
--3-5----5-(7)-3---|---3-5-(7)-5-3---3-5-------|-----------------------7-|----
5-----3----------5-|-5-------------5-----3-(5)-|-0-3-4-5-3-0-3-4-5-3-0---|----
                                                                              

                                         b2              b2
--------------------|-----------------------------|---------------------------
--------------------|-----------------------------|---------------------------
--------------------|-----------------------------|---------------------------
--------------------|---5-6-7-5---5-7---7-(9)-5---|---------------------------
------------5-5-5-7-|-7---------7-----5---------7-|-----------------5-5-5-5---
0-3-4-5-3-0-5-5-5-7\|-----------------------------|-0-3-5-(7)-5-3-0-5-5-5-----
                                                                              

                                   b1                           b2
-------------------------------------------|------------------------------|---
-------------------------------------------|------------------------------|---
-------------------------------------------|------------------------------|---
-------------------------------------------|------------------------------|---
--3---3-4-5-3-------3-4-5-3---3-5----------|---3-4-5-3---3-5----5-(7)-3---|---
----5---------5---5---------5------3-(5)-5-|-5---------5-----3----------5-|---
                                                                              

     b1            End RiffA           b1             b1               b1
------------------------------||----------------------------------------------
------------------------------||----------------------------------------------
------------------------------||*-2-2-------2-----2-2-------2-----2-2---------
------------------------------||*-2-2-------2-----2-2-------2-----2-2---------
--3-5-(7)-5-3---3-5-----------||--0-0-------0-x-x-0-0-------0-x-x-0-0---------
5-------------5-----3-(4)-(5)-||------3-(5)-----------3-(5)-----------3-(5)---
                                                                              
                  Part1---->
                                         b1        b1   rb
---------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------
------3-3------||-10---10-10-8-10---------------|-12-(13)-12-10---------3-3---
2-----2-2-0-0-*||-------------------2-2-------2-|---------------12-12---2-2---
2-----0-0-0-0-*||-------------------2-2-------2-|-----------------------0-0---
0-x-x-----2-2--||-------------------0-0-------0-|-----------------------------
----------3-3--||-----------------------3-(5)---|-----------------------------
                                                                              

              b2                   b1         b1  rb
----|-------------------------------------|-14-(15)-14p12---------------------
----|-13-15-15-(17)-13-13-----------------|---------------13--------3-3-------
0-0-|-------------------------2-2-------2-|------------------12-----2-2-0-0---
0-0-|-------------------------2-2-------2-|-------------------------0-0-0-0---
2-2-|-------------------------0-0-------0-|-----------------------------2-2---
3-3-|-----------------------------3-(5)---|-----------------------------3-3---
                                                                              

                                                                              
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
|----/14-14-12-14-15-14h15p14p12----------------------------------------------
|----------------------------------12/14--------------------------------------
|-4---------------------------------------/16-14h16p14-12-14/16-12-14\--------
|-4-------------------------------------------------------------------14-12---
|-2---------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                              

                            b2
|------------------------------------|----------------------------------------
|/14-14-12-14-15/17-17-15-17-(19)~~~-|----------------------------------------
|------------------------------------|----------------------12----------------
|------------------------------------|-14----------12-14-------12-13-14-------
|------------------------------------|----12-13-14-------14-------------------
|------------------------------------|----------------------------------------
                                                                              
                                     Play half Riff A and then
                                     repeat Part1 with wha.
                       End Part1.    Then there is a solo-bit
                                     I won't Tab!After the solo
                                     comes the following:
---16-17-18-19/22-22-22-22-22-22---|----------------------------|------------
17---------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------|-2~~~-4-2---
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------
-----------------------------------|-----------------------------|------------
                                                                              

                                                                              
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------10~~~-12-10-12/14---10/17~~~-17-(19)~~~-17------------------------
4/6---2/9------------------------------------------------14/16--/16-14-14-----
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                              

                             NH:---------------------------------|

--------19-----------------|-12----7---5-----7---5-----------------|----------
17-(19)----17--------------|----12---7---5-----7---5-----5---------|----------
----------------14/16--/16-|-------------------------5-----5-------|----------
---------------------------|---------------------------5-----5-----|----------
---------------------------|-----------------------------------5---|----------
---------------------------|-------------------------------------5-|----------
                                                                              
After this comes slightly altered versions of RiffA and some other stuff
that I will leave up to you to figure out.......


==============================================================================
==                          TABLATURE EXPLANATION                           ==
==============================================================================

----------                            ---b2-----
----5h8--- Hammeron                   --3-(5)--- full bend
----------                            ---rb-----
----5p8--- Pulloff                    -(5)--3--- release bend

----------                            ----------
----5/8--- Slide Up                   -----x---- Dead Note
----------                            ----------
----5\8--- Slide Down                 ----------

----------                            ||------|| Repeat Start & End
----5~~~-- Vibrato                    ||*----*||
----------                            ||*----*||
----------                            ||------||


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==                 tablature creation software for Windows                  ==
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