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NASTY DOGS & FUNKY KINGS
As recorded by ZZ Top
(From the 1972 Album TRES HOMBRES)
Transcribed by unregistered
Gtr I (E A D G B E) - 'Rhythm'
Gtr II (E A D G B E) - 'Lead'
Q=91 Q=84 18/16 16/16 Gtr I ~~~~~~ E S S S S S S S S S S +Q. S S S S S S S S E. E E S|---------------------------------|--------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------||---------------------------------|--------------------------||--/7-5---5-----------------------|-----------------3--------||-------7---7-6-5-----------------|-------0---3-2-0----------||------------------8----8-5-(5)---|---0-3---3----------0-3-4-|
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| Gtr II| ~~~~~~| E S S S S S S S S S S +Q. S S S S S S S S E. E E S|---------------------------------|--------------------------||-/10-8---8-----------------------|--------------------------||-------9---9-8-7-----------------|--------------------------||-----------------10---10-7-(7)---|-----------------3--------||---------------------------------|-------0---3-2-0----------||---------------------------------|---0-3---3----------0-3-4-|
S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-0-3-0-----------0-0---------|-0-3-0-----------0-0---------||---------------3-------------|---------------3-------------|
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| S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----0-----------0-0---------|-----0-----------0-0---------||-0-3-----------3-------------|-0-3-----------3-------------|
Gtr I S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------||-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-0-3-0-----------0-0---------||---------------3-------------|
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| Gtr II| S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------||-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----0-----------0-0---------||-0-3-----------3-------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S Q H.|--------------------------------|-----------------||--------------------------------|----/8-----------||-----2-----5p2------------------|----/9-----------||-----2-----5p2----7-5---5-------|-2---------------||-0-3-0----------------7---7-6-5-|-2---------------||---------------3----------------|-0---------------|
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| S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S Q +S H +E.|--------------------------------|-----------------||-----------------10-8---8-------|-----------------||-----2-----5p2--------9---9-8-7-|--------9----(9)-||-----2-----5p2------------------|--------9----(9)-||-----0--------------------------|--------7----(7)-||-0-3-----------3----------------|-0--(0)-0----(0)-|
+S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-------------------------------|-----------------------------||-(8)---------------------------|-----------------------------||-(9)---2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-------2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----3-0-----------0-0---------|-0-3-0-----------0-0---------||-----------------3-------------|---------------3-------------|
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| +S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-------------------------------|-----------------------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------||-(9)---2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-(9)---2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-(7)---0-----------0-0---------|-----0-----------0-0---------||-(0)-3-----------3-------------|-0-3-----------3-------------|
~~~~~~~ S S S S S S S S S S S Q +S S S S S S S S S E. E E S|---------------------------------|-----------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------||---------------------------------|-----------------------------||----7-5---5----------------------|-------------------3---------||-0------7---7-6-5----------------|--0------0---3-2-0-----------||-------------------8----8-5--(5)-|-----0-3---3----------0-3-4--|
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~| S S S S S S S S S S S Q +S +S S S S S S S S E. E E S|---------------------------------|-----------------------------||---10-8---8----------------------|-----------------------------||--------9---9-8-7----------------|-----------------------------||------------------10---10-7--(7)-|-(7)---------------3---------||-0-------------------------------|---------0---3-2-0-----------||---------------------------------|-----0-3---3----------0-3-4--|
S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-0-3-0-----------0-0---------|-0-3-0-----------0-0---------||---------------3-------------|---------------3-------------|
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| S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----0-----------0-0---------|-----0-----------0-0---------||-0-3-----------3-------------|-0-3-----------3-------------|
S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-0-3-0-----------0-0---------|-0-3-0-----------0-0---------||---------------3-------------|---------------3-------------|
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| S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----0-----------0-0---------|-----0-----------0-0---------||-0-3-----------3-------------|-0-3-----------3-------------|
S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------||-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-0-3-0-----------0-0---------||---------------3-------------|
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| S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-----------------------------||-----------------------------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----0-----------0-0---------||-0-3-----------3-------------|
~~~ S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S Q H.|--------------------------------|-------------------||--------------------------------|----/8-------------||-----2-----5p2------------------|----/9-------------||-----2-----5p2----7-5---5-------|-2-----------------||-0-3-0----------------7---7-6-5-|-2-----------------||---------------3----------------|-0-----------------|
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| S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S Q +S +H +E.|--------------------------------|-------------------||-----------------10-8---8-------|-------------------||-----2-----5p2--------9---9-8-7-|-9--(9)-(9)----(9)-||-----2-----5p2------------------|-9--(9)-(9)----(9)-||-----0--------------------------|-7--(7)-(7)----(7)-||-0-3-----------3----------------|-0--(0)-(0)----(0)-|
~~~ +S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-------------------------------|-----------------------------||-(8)---------------------------|-----------------------------||-(9)---2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-------2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-----3-0-----------0-0---------|-0-3-0-----------0-0---------||-----------------3-------------|---------------3-------------|
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| +S S S S S S S S E E S S S S S S S S S S S S E E S S S S|-------------------------------|-----------------------------||-------------------------------|-----------------------------||-(9)---2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-(9)---2-----5p2---2-2---------|-----2-----5p2---2-2---------||-(7)---0-----------0-0---------|-----0-----------0-0---------||-(0)-3-----------3-------------|-0-3-----------3-------------|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ S S S S S S S S S S S Q +S +S S S S S S S S H|-------------------------------------|---------------------5----||-------------------------------------|---------------------4----||-------------------------------------|---------------------2----||----7-5---5--------------------------|--------------------------||-0------7---7-6-5--------------------|-----------0---3-2-0------||-------------------8----8--5----(5)--|--(5)--0-3---3------------|
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| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~| S S S S S S S S S S S Q +S +S S S S S S S S H|-------------------------------------|--------------------------||---10-8---8--------------------------|--------------------------||--------9---9-8-7--------------------|--------------------------||------------------10---10-[7]--([7])-|-([7])---------------3----||-------------------------------------|-----------0---3-2-0------||-0-----------------------------------|-------0-3---3------------|
+S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|-(5)---------------------------------|------------------------------------||-(4)---------------------------------|------------------------------------||-(2)---------------------------------|------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-----3---0---0-3-0---0---0-0-0-0-----|-0-3-0---0-3---0---0--0-0-0-0-------||-----------3-------3-------------0-3-|-------3---------3------------0---3-|
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| ~~~ ~~~ ~~| +S Q. S Q.. S S S S S S E S Q. S a S|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-----7b9r==========5-----------------|---5----------------------------7h9-||-(3)-----------------7-------------5-|-7---7-5-7--------------------------||-------------------------------------|-----------5b7r==3------------------||-------------------------------------|-------------------5----------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-0--3-0----0-3-0-----0-0-0-0--0-----|-0-3-0---0-3---0---0--0-0-0-0------||--------3--------3--------------0-3-|-------3---------3------------0-3--|
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| ~~ ~~| S S S S S S S Q S E. S S S S S S E S Q. S S|------------------------------------|-----------------------------------||-8-10---8-10---8--------------------|-----------------------------------||------9------9---7b9r====5----------|---5----------------------------5--||---------------------------7------5-|-7---7-5-7---------7---------------||------------------------------------|-----------5b7r==3-----------------||------------------------------------|-----------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||--0----3--0-------0----3--0------0---0-0-0--0------||---------------3---------------3--------------0-3--|
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| ~~| E E E E S S S S E. S|---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------||-[7]b9---[7]b9---[7]b9---[7]b9---5-7-5----------4/-||-----------------------------------------7---------||---------------------------------------------------||---------------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||-0---3-0---0-3--0----0--0-0-0-0-------||---------3--------3-------------0-3---|
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| ~~~| E S S S S S S Q. S S|---------5---8------------------------||-------5---5---10-8-10----------------||-7b9------------------------------7b9-||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-0---3-0---0-3-0-----0--0-0-0-0-----|--0-3-0---0-3---0---0--0-0-0-0------||---------3-------3--------------0-3-|--------3---------3------------0-3--|
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| ~~~ ~~~ ~~| Q.. S Q. E S S S S S E S Q. S S|------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-8---------------8/-10----------8---|-10---8-----------------------------||------------------------------------|----9---9-7-7b9r==5-----------------||------------------------------------|--------------------7----------5h7--||------------------------------------|------------------------------------||------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S H +S Q..|------------------------------------|-----------------||------------------------------------|----------0b2r===||------------------------------------|----------2------||--------------------5-7-5---5-------|-9----(9)--------||--0--3-0---0-3-0----------7---7-6-5-|-7----(7)--------||---------3-------3------------------|-0----(0)--------|
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| +S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S H +S Q..|------------------------------------|-----------------||-----------------8h10---8---8-------|----------0b2r===||--------------------------9---9-8-7-|-9----(9)-2------||-(7)-5------------------------------|-9----(9)--------||-------7-6-5------------------------|-7----(7)--------||-------------8-5--------------------|-0----(0)--------|
+S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|----------------------------------------------------||-(0)------------------------------------------------||-(2)------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------||-----3----0----------0----3----0---0----0-0-0-0-----||-----------------3---------------3--------------0-3-|
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| +S T T. T T. T T. T T. S S S Q. S|----------------------------------------------------||-(0)------------------------------------------------||-(2)-----------------------------0h2----------------||-----0h2----0h2----0h2--0h==2--2------------------5-||-------------------------------------0--------------||----------------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------||-0----3-0---0-3-0---0--0-0-0-0-------||----------3-------3------------0---3-|
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| ~~| S a S S S S S S S Q. E|-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------||-------------------------------7b9---||---6/-7-5-----------7----------------||-7--------7-6-5----------------------||----------------8-5------------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||--0---3-0---0-3-0---0-----0-0-0-0-----|-0--3-0---0-3-0---0--0-0-0-0---------||----------3-------3---------------0-3-|--------3-------3-------------0----3-|
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| ~~~~ ~~~ ~~| Q.. S S Q. S S S S S E S S Q. E|------------------8-8-----------------|-------------------------------------||-10-------------------10--------------|-8-10---8----------------------------||------------------------------------9-|------8---7---5--------------[7]b9---||--------------------------------------|----------------7-7------------------||--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------||--------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||--0----3--0-------0----3--0------0-0-0-0-0-----||---------------3---------------3-----------0-3-|
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| ~| E E E E E S Q S|-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-[7]b9---[7]b9---[7]b9---[7]b9---7-5-----------||-------------------------------------7---------||---------------------------------------------5-||-----------------------------------------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-0-3-0---0-3---0---0--0-0-0-0------||-------3---------3------------0-3--|
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| ~~| S S S S S E S Q. S S|-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||-----------------------------------||---5-7-----------------------------||-7-----5-7-5b7r==3-----------------||-------------------5---------------|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|--------------------5-7-5---5-------||-0---3-0---0-3-0---0-----0-0-0-0-----|-0---3-0---0-3-0----------7---7-6-5-||---------3-------3---------------0-3-|---------3-------3------------------|
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| S S S S S S E S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|-------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-------------------------------------|------------------------------------||-7b9r5---7---5-----7b9r5---7---5-----|-7b9r5---7---5----------------------||-------7---7---7---------7---7---7---|-------7---7---7-5/-7---5---5-------||-------------------------------------|--------------------------7---7-6-5-||-------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
H +S Q.. +S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|----------------|---------------------------------||----------0b2r==|=(0)-----------------------------||----------2-----|-(2)-----------------------------||-9----(9)-------|---------------------------------||-7----(7)-------|-----------0-3-0---0-0-0-0-0-----||-0----(0)-------|-----8-5-3-------3-----------0-3-|
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| H +S Q.. +S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|----------------|---------------------------------||----------0b2r==|=(0)-----------------------------||----------2-----|-(2)-----------------------------||-2----(2)-------|---------------------------------||-2----(2)-------|-----3-0---0-3-0---0-0-0-0-0-----||-0----(0)-------|---------3-------3-----------0-3-|
Gtrs I, II S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-0-3-0---0-3-0---0-0-0-0-0-----|-0-3-0---0-3-0---0-0-0-0-0------||-------3-------3-----------0-3-|-------3-------3-----------0-3--|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-0-3-0---0-3-0---0-0-0-0-0-----|-0-3-0---0-3-0---0-0-0-0-0------||-------3-------3-----------0-3-|-------3-------3-----------0-3--|
S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S S S S S S S S S E S S S S S S|-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-------------------------------|--------------------------------||-0-3-0---0-3-0---0-0-0-0-0-----|-0-3-0---0-3-0---0-0-0-0-0------||-------3-------3-----------0-3-|-------3-------3-----------0-3--|
S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S S|---------------------------------*||---------------------------------*||---------------------------------*||---------------------------------*||-0-------------------------------*||---------------------------------*|
Duration Legend
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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th; S - 16th; T - 32nd; X - 64th; a - acciaccatura
+ - note tied to previous; . - note dotted; .. - note double dotted
Uncapitalized letters represent notes that are staccato (1/2 duration)
Irregular groupings are notated above the duration line
Duration letters will always appear directly above the note/fret number it represents the
duration for. Duration letters with no fret number below them represent rests. Multi-
bar rests are notated in the form Wxn, where n is the number of bars to rest for. Low
melody durations appear below the staff
Tablature Legend
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h - hammer-on
p - pull-off
b - bend
pb - pre-bend
r - bend release (if no number after the r, then release immediately)
/\ - slide into or out of (from/to "nowhere")
s - legato slide
S - shift slide
- natural harmonic
[n] - artificial harmonic
n(n) - tapped harmonic
~ - vibrato
tr - trill
T - tap
TP - trem. picking
PM - palm muting
\n/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
\n - tremolo bar down
n/ - tremolo bar up
/n\ - tremolo bar inverted dip
= - hold bend; also acts as connecting device for hammers/pulls
<> - volume swell (louder/softer)
x - on rhythm slash represents muted slash
o - on rhythm slash represents single note slash
Misc Legend
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| - bar
|| - double bar
||o - repeat start
o|| - repeat end
*| - double bar (ending)
: - bar (freetime)
$ - Segno
& - Coda
Tempo markers - = BPM(8/16=s8/s16), where s8 = swing 8ths, s16 = swing 16ths
