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Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 17:22:45 -0600
From: aroorda@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Austin Roorda)
Subject: TAB: The Fisherman by Leo Kottke
The Fisherman
Leo Kottke
from 6 + 12 String
order: A (2X)
B (2X)
C (2X)
D (2X)
E (1X)
A (2X)
This song is one of the few Leo Kottke compositions
which uses an ordinary alternate bass finger-picking
style. It is also one of the few that I can wrap my
head around and get a reasonable transcription of.
All sections A-D are to be played twice. Often the
second run is slightly different from the first. For
the differences between the first and second runs that
are not fully transcribed, I have shown the notes to
be played in the second run in brackets.
A.
|-----------------0--0----|1h3p1------0-------------||---------0h1--3----------|-----------------3-------||-------------------------|-------------------------||---------2----------2----|--------2-----------2----||---3----------3----------|--3-----------3----------||-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1--------1-------|--0h1p0------------------||-----2-------------------|-----------2-----0-------||--------3-----------3----|--------3-----------3----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--1-----------1----------|--1-----------1----------|
|-----------------0--0----|1p3p1------0-------------||--------0h1---3----------|-----------------3-------||-------------------------|-------------------------||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--3-----------3----------|--3-----------3----------||-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-----------3-------------|--1----------------------||-----------------0-------|-----------------0-------||-------------------------|------------0h2----------||--------0-----------0----|--------0-----------0----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--3-----------3----------|--1-----------1----------|
|----------------0--0-----|1h3p1------0-------------||--------0h1--3-----------|-----------------3-------||-------------------------|-------------------------||--------2----------2-----|--------2-----------2----||--3----------3-----------|--3-----------3----------||-------------------------|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1--------1-------|--0h1p0------------------||-----2-------------------|-----------2-----0-------||--------3-----------3----|--------3-----------3----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--1-----------1----------|--1-----------1----------|
|-----------------0--1----|--3--------3-------------||--------0h1---3----------|-------------------------||-------------------------|--------0---------0h2----||--------2-----------2----|--------------------0----||--3-----------3----------|--3----------------------||-------------------------|--------------3----------|
(1) first ending|-------------------------|-------------------------||--1--------------1-------|--------1--------1-------||-------------------------|-------------------------||--------2----------------|--------2-----------2----||--3-----------3-----2----|--3-----------3----------||-------------------------|-------------------------|
(2) second ending|-------------------------||------------1----------1-||----0------------0-------||--------2-----------0----||--3-----------2----------||-------------------------|
B.
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|-----------2-----------2-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--0----------------------|--0----------------------||--------------0----------|--------------0----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|------------2----------2-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--0----------------------|--0----------------------||--------------0----------|--------------0----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|-----------2-----------2-||--------0-----------0----|--------0-----------0----||-------------------------|--0----------------------||--2-----------2----------|--------------2----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----------------2-----2-|------------2----------2-||--------0-----------0----|--------0-----------0----||--0----------------------|--0----------------------||--------------2----------|--------------2----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|-----------2-----------2-||--------3-----------3----|--------3-----------3----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--1-----------1----------|--1-----------1----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|------------2----------2-||--------3-----------3----|--------3-----------3----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--1-----------1----------|--1-----------1----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|-----------2-----------2-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--0----------------------|--0----------------------||--------------0----------|--------------0----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|------------2----------2-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--0----------------------|--0----------------------||--------------0----------|--------------0----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|-----------2-----------2-||--------3-----------3----|--------3-----------3----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--1-----------1----------|--1-----------1----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----0-----------0-----0-|------------0----------0-||--------0-----------0----|--------0-----------0----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--3-----------3----------|--3-----------3----------|
C.
continue to play the last bar of section B. hammering
the first fret on the second string and pause....
0-1|-3-----3--------3-------|--3--------0-----1-------|---|------------------------|-------------------------|---|------------------------|-------------------------|---|-------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----|---|-3----------------------|--3-----------3----------|---|-------------3----------|-------------------------|
|--3--------3-----3-------|--3--------0-----1-------||-------------------------|-------------------------||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--0-----------0----------|--0-----------0----------||-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------|
|--3--------3-----3-------|--3---------5----7-------||-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------||--------0-----------0----|--------0-----------0----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--3-----------3----------|--3-----------3----------|
(1) first ending|--3---------3----3-------|--3--------0-----1-------||-------------------------|-------------------------||-------------------------|-------------------------||--------2----------------|--------2-----------2----||--3-----------------2----|--3-----------3----------||--------------3----------|-------------------------|
(2) second ending|-------------------------|-----------0-------------||-----------1-----------1-|-----------------1-------||-----0-----------0-------|-----0-----------------0-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--3----------------------|--3-----------3----------||--------------3----------|-------------------------|
D.
|-------------------------|-----------0-------------||-----------1-----------1-|-----------------1-------||-----0-----------0-------|-----0-----------------0-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--3----------------------|--3-----------3----------||--------------3----------|-------------(3)---------|
|-------------------------|-----------0-------------||-----------1-----------1-|-----------------1-------||-----2-----------2-------|-----2-----------------2-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--0----------------------|--0----------------------||--------------0----------|-(0)----------0----------|
|-----0-------------------|-----------0-------------||-----------1-------------|-----------------0-----1-||-----------------0-----0-|-----0-------------------||--------0-----------0----|--------0-----------0----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--3-----------3----------|--3-----------3----------|
|-------------------------|-----------0-------------||-----------1-------------|-----------------1-------||-----0-----------------0-|-----0-----------------0-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--3----------------(2)---|--3----------------------||--------------3----------|--------------3----------|
E.
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|-----------2-----------2-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--0----------------------|--0----------------------||--------------0----------|--------------0----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|------------2----------2-||--------2-----------2----|--------2-----------2----||--0----------------------|--0----------------------||--------------0----------|--------------0----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|-----------2-----------2-||--------3-----------3----|--------3-----------3----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--1-----------1----------|--1-----------1----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----2-----------2-----2-|-----------2-----------2-||--------0-----------0----|--------0-----------0----||-------------------------|--0----------------------||--2-----------2----------|--------------2----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------||--------1p0--------------|--1p0------------1-------||-----0-----------0-----0-|------------0----------0-||--------3-----------3----|--------3-----------3----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--3-----------3----------|--3-----------3----------|
|-------------------------|-------------------------|
|continue to hammer the the first fret second string||-------------------------|-------------------------||--------3-----------3----|--------3-----------3----||-------------------------|-------------------------||--3-----------3----------|--3-----------3----------|
____________________________________________________________________
Austin Roorda
School of Optometry
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ont. Canada
N2L 3G1
tel: 885-1211 ext: 3774
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