Artist: Keller Williams
Song: Ramble On
Tabber: vantage4
email: vantage_4@yahoo.com *put something relating to guitar tabs in the title so i
it's not spam!
Here's Keller Williams' cover of Led Zeppelin's Ramble On. This is my first tab, so if
got any suggestions fire away!
Key:
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
First off, each string is tuned a half step flat. Also, I'll write it out but he's
much just strumming an E flat chord and an A flat seven chord in open position with some
and a couple little licks. Let the strings ring from the chords when you play the licks
and accents and if you're not sure what to do between a few licks just strum a chord a few times.
|0-------------0---------0-0---------0-----------------|
|0---------------0-------0-0---------0-----------------|
|1-------------------2---2-2---------1-----------------|
|2-------------------2---------4\2---2-----------------|
|2-------------------0---------------2-----------------|
|0-----------0-----------------------0-----------------|
strum chord ^strum a few more
|----------------------12------------------------------|
|------------------------12----------------------------|
|-1------------------------13--------------------------|
|---4-2----------------------14------------------------|
|-----------0------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------|
|staccato| ^let ring
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/k/keller_williams/ramble_on_tab.html ]
that's the intro/verse. repeat a few times with minor variations-->hold a note here,
one there, add a slide, you know the drill, just keep things interesting.
then:
|-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5-------------------------------|
|-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5-------------------------------|
|-1--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-6-------------------------------|
|-2--x-x-x--4-x-6-x-7-------------------------------|
|-2--x-x-x--4-x-6-x-7-------------------------------|
|-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5-------------------------------|
^strum chord a few times
|-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5\-------------------------------|
|-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5\-------------------------------|
|-1--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-6\-------------------------------|
|-2--x-x-x--4-x-6-x-7\-------------------------------|
|-2--x-x-x--4-x-6-x-7\-------------------------------|
|-0--x-x-x--2-x-4-x-5\-------------------------------|
all right, and that's the bridge between the verse and chorus.
for the verse, you'll really just have to listen to what keller's doing. he's pretty
hitting an e flat chord like so:
|-0-
|-0-
|-1-
|-2-
|-2-
|-0-
then he throws in some quick notes, usually a run using the e flat pentatonic scale:
|---------------------0-3-------| as a note, he doesn't use strings 1
|-----------------0-3-----------| and 2 very much, but he's just noodling
|-------------0-2---------------| around with the scale so just make
|---------0-2-------------------| something up as you go along.
|-----0-2-----------------------|
|-0-3---------------------------|
then he hits an A flat 7 chord like so:
|-0-
|-0-
|-2-
|-2-
|-0-
|---
and then he makes up another quick run using the same scale. he also mutes the strings
lot to make a cool syncopated rhythm, it's impossible to write out but knowing the
and notes it's not hard to figure out by ear.
