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Barenaked Ladies
Falling for the First Time
Written By Steven Page and Ed Robertson
Recorded by Barenaked Ladies
From the album Maroon
Transcribed by John Argentiero (jargent100@hotmail.com)
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This song is played with a capo on the 2nd fret.
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Here's the next radio-friendly hit from the BNL guys. Learn it now,
and beat the rush!
This is the intro riff, which most of the verse riffs are based on.
The chords are E major and something that sounds like an A6sus2.
Neat chord, oddly enough used in a similar context by Poison in the hit
"Something to Believe In." But I digress.
Here is the main riff tabbed out. It'll be referred to as Main Riff
throughout,
mainly because seeing A6sus2 written over and over will give you a headache.
E A6sus2
e----0--0--0-0-0---0--0--0-0-0-0-0-0----|
B----0--0--0-0-0---0--0--0-0-0-0-0-0----|
G----1--1--1-1-1---2--2--2-2-2-2-2-2----|
D----2--2--2-2-2---4--4--4-4-4-4-4-4----|
A----2--2--2-2-2---0--0--0-0-0-0-0-0----|
E----0--0--0-0-0------------------------|
You kinda do it naturally anyway, but make the transition between the two
chords
a slide. Sounds nice.
Throughout the rest of the songs, here are the voicings of the chords I'm
using.
These names aren't entirely correct, but deal with it, they're close enough.
Asus2 C#m C#m/A E Badd4 Dsus2 B A
e----0-----4-----0-----0-----0-----0-----2-----0-----|
B----0-----5-----5-----0-----0-----3-----4-----2-----|
G----2-----6-----6-----1-----4-----2-----4-----2-----|
D----2-----6-----6-----2-----4-----0-----4-----2-----|
A----0-----4-----0-----2-----2-----0-----2-----0-----|
E----------------------0-----0-----------------------|
For the little chorus line (Feels just like I'm...) Ed does this little
riff.
We'll call it Riff 1.
e----------------2---|
B----------------4---|
G----------------4---|
D----------------4---|
A----------------2---|
E----2--4--2--0------|
You can also use power chords for that to make it sound bigger. Your call.
And you may have better luck with the full B chord as a power chord too.
The other main guitar riff is the little alto part that pops up after the
chorus lines
every now and then. Here's a take on that one:
This will be officially called Riff 2.
e--------------------------|--------------------------|
B----------5---7--9--7--5--|----------5---7~~~~----5--|
G----4~~~------------------|----4~~~------------------|
D--------------------------|--------------------------|
A--------------------------|--------------------------|
E--------------------------|--------------------------|
Now, that 9th fret note in the first measure sounds more like a full
pre-bend
at the 7th fret, but I can't remember how to notate that in TAB. Any band
at
the 7th fret should sound ok, or played as written above.
Occassionally, the just play the second half of this. I notate when.
Anyway, if you're playing this solo acoustic you won't be playing this
anyway, so nevermind.
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