Vai Steve

Vai Steve - Frank (Version 2) guitar tab

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Subject: v/vai_steve/frank.tab

A likely reason that this song was not (to my knowledge)

tabbed before is that it is neither the typical soft

ballade by Vai or the heavy-style material most

people like of him, but something in the middle.

Also, there are parts in which you would *need* more

than one guitar to get the sound, but I decided to tab

this approximation because it's better than nothing & didn't want

to risk forgetting several beautiful chords. Distorsion

is used freely in the original recording, although I think it may

do well with a clean sound (or with an oukelele, for that matter :-)

As for most Vai stuff it becomes playable -at least for me-

at around 80 % of the original tempo, so take it easy.

And by the way, it is supposed to be a tribute

to Frank Zappa. Corrections and improvements welcome. Cheers.

Frank, by Steve Vai. From the album 'The Ultrazone'.

TAB by Javier Dobroide

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bend bend

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ambulance here (whamy), then repeat part #1 with minor variations

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