Van Halen - On Fire guitar tab

From: "Nils D?cker"

Subject: v/van_halen/on_fire.tab

Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 10:26:00 PDT

On fire

By

Van Halen

Tabbed by Nisse D.

Ok i?ve been all over the web trying to find this, but haven?t

seen anything but the solo, so i thought i?d do it by myself.

This is a rather tricky song to figure out, because of all small

licks, so everything might not be correct...

Use a delay,set at about 250 ms or so,plus a flanger to give

that ominous distorted sound that Eddie gets.

There?s bits of lyric to help you keep up.

Anyway, here goes:

Key:

b : bend

bf : bend full

x : noise

w : whammy

pm : palmmute

(5): natural harmonic

\ : slide downwards

/ : slide upwards

T : tap note (i never tap using the pick,

finger-tapping gives a greater sound)

Intro:

|----------------------------------------------------------|

|----------------------------------------------------------|

|-9-7-5-7-4-------9-7-5-7--2*b------17b19wbw---------------|

|-9-7-5-7-4-------9-7-5-7----------------------------------|

|-7-5-3-5-2-------7-5-3-5----------------------------------|

|-----------3bxxx------------------------------------------|

*:bend 2nd and start picking fast while sliding up to 17th fret without

actually fretting,thus causing harmonics.

Then do this:

|-0-(5)-(5)-(5)-(5)---| Strike harmonic at 5th then make noise on muted

|------x---x---x---x--| strings g and b.The rythm may feel a bit awkward

|-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-| at first,but you`ll soon get the hang of it.

|---------------------|

|---------------------|

|---------------------|

Pre verse:

harm........

|-----------------------------------------------------------|-0----------|

|-----------------------------------------------------------|--(5)-(7)---|

|---------------------------------------------------------7-|----(5)-(7)-|

|---2--2-5b--2--2-5-----2--2-5b--2--2-7-----2--2-5b--2--2-7-|------------|

|-----------------5-------------------5-------------------5-|------------|

|-0---------------3---0---------------5---0-----------------|------------|

verse 1:

bf Pm.................

|--------------------------------------------------5---|

|--------------------------------------------------5---|

|-5---------------------------7----7----7------5-------|

|-5----5555555\--5555555/-----7----7----7--5-7---7-----|

|-3----5555555\--5555555/--0--5-0--5-0--5--------------|

|------3333333\--3333333/------------------------------|

"turn your radio`s ooon!, i?ll be a right there"

(note: < and > means slide >:up or