David Meece - One Small Child guitar tab
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I heard this song and thought it would be a really cool song to finger pick. So
I looked around on CGR and I couldn't find it. So, I did it myself. I tried very
hard to make the tab as clean as possible. Hope you like it.
Perfomance Notes: all notes (except bass notes) are 1/8ths unless there is
a Q, H or W underneath the tab. The bass notes are usually 1/4 and on
occasion 1/2s. The easiest way to play it is just to go with the flow.
The picking pattern is easy. The tab is layed out so that each "-" between
notes(i.e. 4-4) represents an 1/8th. Therefore, "4--4" would represent a 1/4th.
Just let the bass notes ring naturally when playing.
Q = Quarter H = Half W = Whole
The song has two parts. On verses 2 and 3 you continue on into the second part.
Like this.
v.1 A
v.2 A->B
v.3 A->B
v.4 A
The two parts are denoted by (A) and (B) in the tab.
Part B is where it gets fun. This part just begs to be played with a more
complex picking pattern. I just use a basic Travis Picking pattern for the
second part of these verses. I didn't write it in this score because I couldn't
figure out how to get the timing right. It's a great addition because it
breaks up the monotony of playing the whole thing the same old way. If you
can't figure it out you can just play it how it is written. You can listen to
an mp3 of me playing(hacking at) the second part to get an idea how it should
sound.
www.alaitheana.org/one_small_child.mp3
The Powertab file that I made originally for this song is posted in the
PowerTab forum in a thread called "David Meece - One Small Child powertab".
Or you can download it from:
www.alaitheana.org/one_small_child.ptb
Have fun.
Music by David Meece
Copyright 1971 WORD MUSIC(a div. of WORD, INC)
Standard Tuning
$
4/4
(A) E D E D E G A B
||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------|
||-----0-----------|-----------------|-----0---3-----3-|-2-0------------|
||---------2---0---|-------0---------|-------------0---|-----2--4-----4-|
||-2-----2---0---4-|-2--/4---4\2-0---|-2-----2---0-----|------------4---|
||---2-------------|---2---------5-5-|---2-------------|-0---0----2-----|
||-0-------0-------|-0-----------3---|-0-------3-------|--------0-------|
Q
E D E D E D E D
|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
|-----0-----------|-----------------|-----0-----------|-----0-----------|
|---------2---0---|-------0---------|---------2---0---|---------2---0---|
|-2-----2---0---4-|-2--/4---4\2-0---|-2-----2---0---4-|-2-----2---0---4-|
|---2-------------|---2---------5-5-|---0-----------5-|-2-2-----------5-|
|-0-------0-------|-0-----------3---|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
Fine V. 1.,4|| V. 2.,3. continue here ->
E A B E E (B) G
|-----------------|----------||----------||-----------------|-------------|
|-----0-----------|----------||----------||-0---0-------0-1-|-0--1-0------|
|---------2---0---|----------||----------||---0---0-2-------|--------2----|
|-2-----2---0---4-|-2--------||-2--------||-----------0-----|-----------0-|
|-2-2-----------5-|-2--------||-2--------||-----2-----------|-------------|
|-0-------0-------|-0--------||-0--------||-3-------3---3---|-3------3--3-|
W W Q Q Q
F# E A D G
|----------------|--------------|-----------------|--------------|
|-0---0-------3--|--------------|-0---0-------0-1-|-0--1-0-------|
|---0---0-2------|-0------------|---0---0-2-------|--------2-----|
|-----------0----|---4--2--0----|-----------0-----|-----------0--|
|-----2----------|---------5----|-----2-----------|--------------|
|-3-------3---3--|---------3----|-3-------3---3---|-3------3--3--|
Q Q H Q Q Q
D.S. al Fine
6/4
F# E A D B
|----------------|---------------||
|-0---0-------3--|---------------||
|---0---0-2------|-0-------------||
|-----------0----|---4-2--0----4-||
|-----2----------|--------5----2-||
|-3-------3---3--|--------3----2-||
Q Q H H
Duration Legend
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W - whole; H - half; Q - quarter; E - 8th;
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
/ - tremolo bar dip; n = amount to dip
- 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
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