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Keep Your Head Up - Ben Howard
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Tabbed by: Nick Adams
A good song, and once you've got your head around the main riff it's simple
to play. To keep things tidy I have omitted the more complicated strumming
from the second stanza of the verse onwards, and given a solid background
to work against. So when the energy picks up, just play stronger and looser.
Oh yea, watch the tuning. Drop the bottom E down to D; drop the B down to A.
Cheers.
Tuning: DADGAe
Introe||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|A||------------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------0--|G||----------0-----0-|---------0-----0-|---------0-----0-|--------------0--|D||----0-3-----3-----|---0-3-----3-----|-----3-----3-----|-----0------3-3--|A||--1-----1-----1---|-1-----1-----1---|---0---0-----0---|---0------1---1--|D||------------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-2------3--------|
e|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|A|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------0--|G|----------2-----2-|---------2p0-----|---------0-----0-|--------------0--|D|----0-3-----3-----|---0-3-------3---|-----3-----3-----|-----0------3-3--|A|--1-----1-----1---|-1-----1-------1-|---0---0-----0---|---0------1---1--|D|------------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-2------3--------|
e|------------------|--------------------||A|------------------|--------------------||G|----------2-----2-|---------2-------2--||D|----0-3-----3-----|---0-3-----3---3-3--||A|--1-----1-----1---|-1-----1-----1------||D|------------------|--------------------||
Verse x3e||-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||A||o------------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------0--o||G||-----------0-----0-|---------0-----0-|---------0-----0-|--------------0---||D||-----0-3-----3-----|---0-3-----3-----|-----3-----3-----|-----0------3-3---||A||o--1-----1-----1---|-1-----1-----1---|---0---0-----0---|---0------1---1--o||D||-------------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-2------3---------||
e|------------------|---------------------|-----------------|----------------|A|------------------|---------------------|-----------------|--------------0-|G|----------0-----0-|-----0---0h2p0-------|---------0-----0-|--------------0-|D|----0-3-----3-----|---3---3-------3-0---|-----3-----3-----|-----0------3-3-|A|--1-----1-----1---|-1-----------------1-|---0---0-----0---|---0------1---1-|D|------------------|---------------------|-0---------------|-2------3-------|
e|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|A|------------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------0---|G|----------2-----2-|---------2-----2-|---------2-----0-|--------------0---|D|----0-3-----3-----|---0-3-----3-----|-----3-----3-----|-----0------3-3---|A|--1-----1-----1---|-1-----1-----1---|---0---0-----0---|---0------1---1---|D|------------------|-----------------|-0---------------|-2------3---------|
e|------------------|------------------|-----||A|------------------|------------------|--0--||G|----------0-------|-2--------2-------|--2--||D|----0-3-----3---3-|---3-0------3-0---|--3--||A|--1-----1-----1---|-------1--------1-|--1--||D|------------------|------------------|-----||
Repeat Verse
Pre-Choruse|-----------------|------------------|A|---------0-----0-|---------2p0------|G|-----0-----0-----|-----0------------|D|---2---2---------|---2---2----------|A|-3-----------3---|-3-----------(3)--|D|-----------------|------------------|
Chorus x4e||-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------------||A||o----------0-------|---------0-------|---------0-------|-----------0-------o||G||-------0-----0-----|-----0-----0-----|-----0-----0-----|-------0-----0------||D||-----3---------3---|---2---------2---|---3---------3---|-----3---------3----||A||o--5-----5-------5-|-3-----3-------3-|-1-----1-------1-|-(1)-----1-------1-o||D||-------------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------------||
e||---------------------||A||o------------0------o||G||---------0-----0-----||D||-----0-3---------3---||A||o--1-------1--------o||D||---------------------|| (Repeat until the end of the chorus)
Repeat the Verse, then the pre-chorus and chorus.
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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