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Subject: Drop Dead Legs by Van Halen
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Drop Dead Legs
by
Van Halen
Transcribed by
Eric Larson
larsoe@rpi.edu
Here's basically the whole tune, I ommited a couple parts that were hard to
notate, so just improv something. :)
Any questions or comments, just email me.
Intro & Verses 3x
---|------------------|-----------O----------------------|-----------------|-
---|--2-----2-------2-|-3-------5---------3--------------|-2-----2-------2-|-
-2-|.---2-------2-----|-2-----------4-------2----2------.|---2-------2-----|-
-2-|.-----2-------2---|-4---4/6-------6\4-----4--2--1/2-.|-----2-------2---|-
-O-|------------------|-O------------------------O-------|-----------------|-
---|------------------|----------------------------------|-----------------|-
< swell Funky Bend
---|------------------|----------------------------|----------------------|-
---|-1--------2-------|----------------------------|----------------------|-
---|-2----------2-----|.-7-------------------------|-5-5------------------|-
---|--------------2---|.-7-------------------------|-5-5----------O-5-4~--|-
---|----------------4-|--5---------O-2--3^5^3^5^3--|-3-3----O-2-3---------|-
---|------------------|----------------------------|----------------------|-
---|------------------|
---|------------------|
---|-5-5-----------2-.|
---|-5-5-----------2-.|
---|-2-2---O-2-3~--O--|
---|------------------|
The Choruses are something like the into:
You know that you want it.... etc...
---- ------- ------- ------- ----
---- ---3--- ---5--- ---3--- ----
-2-- ---2--- ---4--- ---2--- -2--
-2-- ---4--- ---6--- ---4--- -2--
-O-- ---O--- ---O--- ---O--- -O--
---- ------- ------- ------- ----
Then there's that break thing with this awesome run...
B B B B D D D D
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------H-H-------------H-H-------------H-H----------H-H----3--5-5--7-7--
--H-H--1-3-5------H-H--3-5-7------H-H--5-6-8--H-H---6-8-10--3--5-5--7-7--
-1-3-5-------3---3-5-7-------5---5-6-8-------6-8-10---------1--3-3--5-5--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Then the outro rythmn goes something like this: (palm muted)
---------------------------------------------|
---------------------------------------------|
--------------------------------------------.|
----H-P--O----H----------H-P--------H-H-----.|
---O-2-O-----O-2-3------O-2-O-3~---O-2-3-----|
-2---------2-------2--2----------2-------2---|
| 
