Ben Harper - Whipping Boy guitar tab

Whipping Boy

Artist: Ben Harper

Album: Welcome to the Cruel World

This song is played in a different tuning (Open C I think), using a slide. But you can

most of the song (apart from the solo) in standard tuning, use vibrato on the some of the

to approximate the sound of playing notes with a slide.

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The first 4 notes of part1 are not exactly what ben harper plays, but it fits if you

work out what he actually plays.

~ = vibrato

Capo on 3rd fret

Part1 (play the low notes of the chord heavily)

(x2) “Don’t want to be your whip-pi-ing boy”

C Am

e -------------x----x--|-------------------------------------------|

b -------------x----1~-|---------------------1~--------------------|

g -------------0~---2~-|---------------------2~--------------------|

d -------------2~---2~-|-------5-5-7-7-9-5s4-2~--------------------|

a ---------0---3~---0~-|-----0-3-3-5-5-7-3s2-0~--------------------|

E -0h3p0-3-----x----x--|-0-3---------------------------------------|

Part 2

Pick these notes really hard.

e ------------------------------|------------------------------|

b ------------------------------|------------------------------|

g ----2~-5~--2~-----2~-------2--|-----2~-5~--2~----2~----------|

d -2h5-----------5~----5p2-0----|--2h5----------5~----2h0------|

a ------------------------------|-------------------------3-0--|

E ------------------------------|------------------------------|

The song is mainly just a combination of these two riffs, plus the slide guitar solo.

could just improvise around part2 and the blues scaleAdded by tabs-database.com and our distinguished partners