Pearl Jam - My Way guitar tab
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Author/Artist: Pearl Jam
Title: My Way
Album: Live
Transcribed by: Hernán Daniel Scanavino
Email: flexhelp@sti.com.br
This is probably the most famous song of Frank Sinatra. I think Pearl Jam is
playing a cover of Elvis Presley, who also played it. This is one of the first
songs I've learned to play whith my father, so I think I know it pretty well.
I'm not sure if Pearl Jam have played it exactly like this, but I did it My Way!
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And now, the end is near, and so I face My friend, I'll say it
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clear, I'll .... case, of which .. certain I've lived a life that's
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full, I've .... each and every highway, More and more, much more than
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this, I did it my way. Regrets I have a
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few, but ... few to mention, I did what I
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had, and ... thru' without exception I planned each charted
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course, I've ... each and every highway And more, much more than
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this, I did it my way.Yes there... times, I'm sure you
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knew, When I bit off more than... chew, but ... it all, when there was
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doubt, I ate it up and spit it out. I faced it all and I stood
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tall, and I did my way. (Couldn't figure out what Eddie
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sings in this part) I did my................... way.....................
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..................y.
Hope this can be useful. Any problem, just e-mail me.
CORRECTIONS:
This corrections aren't important for the song. It doesn't modify anything really. I'm just commenting aspects of the way it is played.
In the 8th line I've tabbed this:
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this, I did it my way.Yes there... times, I'm sure you
But I realized that in the back of those arpeggios the rhythm starts. Then the arpeggios stop and there will be only the rhythm. So, it would be something like this:
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|------3---3-3---3-3-3|-3---3-3---3-3-3|-3---3-3---3-3-3|-2---2-2---2-2-2|----
|------1---1-1---1-1-1|-1---1-1---1-1-1|-1---1-1---1-1-1|-0---0-0---0-0-0|----
this, I did it my way.Yes there... times, I'm sure you
Also I have to say that I don't really know if the correct tune is C. As I'd always played with C, I tabbed in this tune; it works...
And I'm not sure if the arpeggios are played with a guitar. Listen to it, I guessed it could be a piano or something like that.
Any other thing, just say.
See you
Hernán Daniel Scanavino
