Chickenfoot - Dubai Blues
From the album 'Chickenfoot III'
Eb tuning (all strings lowered by one fret/semitone)
tabbed by jjhand
Intro (0:19) - after pick scrape, played 2x A7 D Aeb|-3----------3---|-2----------2---|---------------------|-----------------|Bb|-2----------2---|-3----------3---|---------------------|-----------------|Gb|-2----------2---|-2----------2---|-----------2----2----|-2----2----------|Db|-2----------2---|-0----------0---|-----------2----2----|-2----2----------|Ab|-0----------0---|-0----------0---|-3qb--3qb--0----0----|-0----0----------|Eb|----------------|----------------|---------------------|-------------/12\|
Throughout Verse, Guitar 2 plays a muted open string in sixteenths. Note is
shown above the bars.
Verse Part 1 -
Guitar 1, Guitar 3 in () A|----------------|---------------|-----------------|------------------||-----------5/7--|-8-------------|------------5/7--|-5----------------||-(2)-------5/7--|-9-------------|------------5/7--|-5----------------||-(2)------------|---------------|-----------------|------------------||-(0)------------|---------------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|---------------|-----------------|------------------|
Verse Part 2 - Guitar 1 D A |----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-----------5/7--|-8---------------|------------5/7--|-5----------------||-----------5/7--|-7---------------|------------5/7--|-5----------------||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
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| Guitar 3|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-7s-------------|--------------7\-|-2s--------------|---------------2--||-7s-------------|--------------7\-|-2s--------------|---------------2--||-5s-------------|----------7h9----|-0s--------------|---------------0--||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
Verse Part 3 Guitar 1 E|----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||-----------5/7--|-8---------------|------------5/7--|-5----------------||-----------5/7--|-7---------------|------------5/7--|-5----------------||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|-----------------|-----------------|------------------|
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| Guitar 3|----------------|------0----------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|------5----------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|---------2p0-----|-----------------|------------------||-2--------------|------------2----|-----------------|---------scrape---||-2--------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------/x\-----||-0--------------|-----------------|-----------------|--------------3b5-|
Chorus (1:07) - Play Intro, add lick at 1:13|------------------------||------------------------||---5---7---5~-----------||-7---7---7----7p5-7-7~~-||------------------------||------------------------|
Verse 2 - Played similarly with same licks/slides
Chorus 2 -|----------------------------||----------------------------||-------5-5-5-----5h7--5-----||-x/--7--------7----------7~-||----------------------------||----------------------------|
Bridge - play similarly 3x|-----------------------------|--------------------||-------3------------3---3----|-3---3---2---3--2---||-------2------------2---2----|-2---2---2---2--2---||-----------------------------|---------2---4--2---||-----------------------------|---------0------0---||-2-----------3---------------|-2---3--------------|
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| Lead|-----------------------------|--------------------||-12b14-b14-12p10---10~-12b14-|--------------------||----------------11-----------|--------------------||-----------------------------|--------------------||-----------------------------|--------------------||-----------------------------|--------------------|
Bridge End - Play same Rhythm, Lead plays:|--12-------------------------|----------------------------||-----12b14r---10---10~~------|---------15b17-b17-15p13----||----------------11-----------|------------------------14~-||-----------------------------|----------------------------||-----------------------------|----------------------------||-----------------------------|----------------------------|
Solo -
Rhythm Part (bass plays harmony with this line), played 2x|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|---------------||--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|---------------||--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|-4--4--2p0-----||--------------------|-5--5--4p2----------|--------------------|-----------2---||-0-------0---0------|-----------3--------|-0-------0---0------|---------------||--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|---------------|
Lead Solo - start off with term bar dive to return to 12 fret pitch
|---------------------|------------|-12-------------------------------------------||---------------------|------------|---15p13p12-13-15-12-13--12-------------------||---------------------|------------|-----------------------14--14-12-11--------11-||-x\--------------NH--|------------|-----------------------------------14-12-14---||-x\_____(-7)____/12--|-(12~~)-----|----------------------------------------------||---------------------|------------|----------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||-12--11-------------------------5----|-----12-12----12-12----12--12--12h14-||---14--12-14--12---12h14p12\5-----7~-|---14-------14-------14--14--14------||------------15--14-------------------|-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------15-----|---------------------------------||------13-15-16p15p13-15-13-15-13-15b17--15b17|---------------------------------||-12h14---------------------------------------|-----------------------hold------||---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------||---------------------------------------------|-/x\----x\_____(-7)____/5NH~~~~--||---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------|
Play Verse Again
Play Chorus 2x
Lead Lick 1 in Final Chorus|----------------------------||-8--------8-----------------||--7b9r7-5---7b9r7-5-7b9~~---||----------------------------||----------------------------||----------------------------|
Lead Lick 2 (in repeat)|----------------------------||-20________________~~~~-----||---pb21r19b21r19b21~~~~-----||----------------------------||----------------------------||----------------------------|
(3:49) Outro Solo Part 1, Solo Rhythm Part is played as well|---------------|--------------|---------------------|----------||-5________\----|--------------|---------------------|----------||-5________\----|-----------5--|-7p5---------------5-|---8tr10/-||---------------|-------5-7----|-----5-7-7--7PH~~----|----------||---------------|-----7--------|---------------------|----------||---------------|--------------|---------------------|----------|
|------------|---------22b24-22-----------|--------------------------------||----20~~~~~-|-(20~~)----------22p20-22---|-20-----------------------------||------------|-------------------------21-|---19b20r-17-19p17-19p17-17b19~~||------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------||------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------||------------|----------------------------|--------------------------------|
(4:07) Gets Quiet - guitar parts start overlapping in Am/pentatonic riffs
|------------------------|------------------|-----------------|-0------------||------------------------|------------------|-------------3/5-|-5----5h7-5h7-||------------------------|------------------|-----------------|------5h7-5h7-||--------7--7-------7p5-5|------------5-7-5-|--------7--------|-5------------||-0-0-0-0------0-0-0-----|-0-0-0-3p0~~------|-5--3p0----7-----|--------------||------------------------|------------------|-----------------|--------------|
|----------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------||-5--------5\4/5-|-5---------5\4/5-7-|-5---------5\4/5-|-5----------------||-5--------------|-----------------7-|-5---------------|-------etc--------||------7---5\4/5-|-5---------5\4/5---|-----------5\4/5-|-5----------------||--0-0---7-------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------||----------------|-------------------|-----------------|------------------|
The parts get overlapped and hard to follow towards the end but this should give you an idea.
KEY
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| r Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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