Artist: Keller Williams
Song: Ramble On
Tabber: vantage4
email: vantage_4@yahoo.com *put something relating to guitar tabs in the title so i
it's not spam!
Here's Keller Williams' cover of Led Zeppelin's Ramble On. This is my first tab, so if
got any suggestions fire away!
Key:
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
First off, each string is tuned a half step flat. Also, I'll write it out but he's
much just strumming an E flat chord and an A flat seven chord in open position with some
and a couple little licks. Let the strings ring from the chords when you play the licks
and accents and if you're not sure what to do between a few licks just strum a chord a few times.
|0-------------0---------0-0---------0-----------------||0---------------0-------0-0---------0-----------------||1-------------------2---2-2---------1-----------------||2-------------------2---------4\2---2-----------------||2-------------------0---------------2-----------------||0-----------0-----------------------0-----------------|strum chord ^strum a few more
|----------------------12------------------------------||------------------------12----------------------------||-1------------------------13--------------------------||---4-2----------------------14------------------------||-----------0------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------| |staccato| ^let ring
that's the intro/verse. repeat a few times with minor variations-->hold a note here,
one there, add a slide, you know the drill, just keep things interesting.
then:
|-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5-------------------------------||-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5-------------------------------||-1--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-6-------------------------------||-2--x-x-x--4-x-6-x-7-------------------------------||-2--x-x-x--4-x-6-x-7-------------------------------||-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5-------------------------------| ^strum chord a few times
|-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5\-------------------------------||-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5\-------------------------------||-1--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-6\-------------------------------||-2--x-x-x--4-x-6-x-7\-------------------------------||-2--x-x-x--4-x-6-x-7\-------------------------------||-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5\-------------------------------|
all right, and that's the bridge between the verse and chorus.
for the verse, you'll really just have to listen to what keller's doing. he's pretty hitting an e flat chord like so:|-0-|-0-|-1-|-2-|-2-|-0-
then he throws in some quick notes, usually a run using the e flat pentatonic scale:
|---------------------0-3-------| as a note, he doesn't use strings 1|-----------------0-3-----------| and 2 very much, but he's just noodling|-------------0-2---------------| around with the scale so just make|---------0-2-------------------| something up as you go along.|-----0-2-----------------------||-0-3---------------------------|
then he hits an A flat 7 chord like so:
|-0-|-0-|-2-|-2-|-0-|---
and then he makes up another quick run using the same scale. he also mutes the strings
lot to make a cool syncopated rhythm, it's impossible to write out but knowing the
and notes it's not hard to figure out by ear.
