Kwame African Chords & Tabs
Date: Mon 3rd May 2004
From: David Hopley
Email: Dave_hop@hotmail.com
Song: Kwame (African)
Author: Martin Taylor
This Tab is worked out from the Four Martins Guitar Nights DVD
where Martin Taylor demonstrates his African drum based guitar
style using a book of matches (or card) at the bridge to slightly
mute the strings and give an African drum sound. It is based on
five drums and he begins with the first, then adding the rest in
one by one to build up to the full song. It is only short and
pretty much a party trick - enjoy...
(cappo 2nd)
Individual drum sounds used:
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/t/taylor_martin/kwame_african_tab.html ]
Drum 1 Drum 2 Drum 3 Drum 4 Drum 5
e:----------|-------|----------|--0------0--|---------------|
B:----------|-------|--3----2--|------------|---------------|
G:---2--1-2-|---2---|----------|------------|---------------|
D:----------|--2-2--|----------|------------|---------------|
A:----------|-------|----------|------------|--2------0-----|
E:----------|-------|----------|------------|----0------0---|
Build-up:
Riff1 Riff2 Riff3 Riff4
e:---------|--------------|--------------|------0----0----|
B:---------|--------------|-----3-----2--|-----3--0-2-----|
G:-2--1-2--|----2-2--1-2--|---2----1-2---|---2---1-2------|
D:---------|---2-2--------|--2-2---------|--2-2-----------|
A:---------|--------------|--------------|----------------|
E:---------|--------------|--------------|----------------|
x4 x4 x4 x whatever
Main Riff:
e:------0----0--|
B:-----3--0-2---|
G:---2---1-2----|
D:--2-2---------|
A:-----2---0----|
E:-------0---0--|
To spice it up a little, alternate between the main riff and
riff 4 before the end.
Biggy