Panama Guitar Tab

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Here's Panama by Van Halen... THE WHOLE THING (Well most of it anyway)

Transcribed by Eric Larson (larsoe@rpi.edu)

I figured this out with my own two ears, so I'm sure it's not perfect, but
I tried to come as close as I could. This is a great song to learn. The chord
progressions are classic. The solo I found hard to notate, I give the basics,
fill in the rest with your own improvisation. I should be posting Drop Dead
Legs soon, another awesome tune!  Perhaps someone could post some stuff off 
their latest album???


Intro:

 E    Esu4   B	    E	   E  B   D	Dsu4  A
--------------------------------|-------------------------|-
-9----10-----7------9------10-7-|-7-----8-----7-----------|-
-9-----9-----8------9-------9-8-|-7-----7-----8-----------|-
-9-----9-----9------9-------9-9-|-7-----7-----9-----7--|-
-7-----7------------7-------7---|-5-----5-----------O--|-
---O-O---O-O---O-O----O-O-------|---O-O---O-O-------------|-
   PM (all open E's)				    DB	     (Dive Bomb -
							 Hit the Twang Stick)
 E    Esu4   B	    E      E  B   D     Dsus4 A
--------------------------------|-------------------------|
-9----10-----7------9------10-7-|-7-----8-----7-----------|
-9-----9-----8------9-------9-8-|-7-----7-----8-----------|
-9-----9-----9------9-------9-9-|-7-----7-----9-----####--|
-7-----7------------7-------7---|-5-----5-----------####--|
---O-O---O-O---O-O----O-O-------|---O-O---O-O-------------|
						    PS	     (Pick-Slide)
Pre-Verse:
  C#min		     B/Bsu4   A
|-0---------------------------------------------|-
|-5------------------4-5-4--42--2-2------------|-
|-6------------------4-4-4--42--2-2------------|-
|-6------------------4-4-4--42--2-2--4^h^4~~~~-|-
|-4------4-4-4-4-4-4----------------------------|-
|-----------------------------------------------|-
  $				      AH    	    ($ = strum & let ring)
 
 C#min		   B/Bsu4   A  	    B   [---------Riff #1------------]
-4---------------------------------------------O-----O-----5----5-----5-----|
-5--4---4-5--------4-5-4--42--2-2---------------4-----4-----4----4-----4---|
-6----6------------4-4-4--42--2-2---------4-------4-----4-----4----4-----4-|
-6-----------------4-4-4--42--2-2---------4--------------------------------|
-4-----------------------------------O-O-O-2--------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
						           [---Harmonics----]

Chorus:
  E   A  D  A  D A G        E   A  D  A  D A G        E   A  D  A  D A G
|-------------------------|------------------------|------------------------|
|--------3-X---3----------|--------3-X---3---------|--------3-X---3---------|
|-----2--2-X-2-2-2--------|-----2--2-X-2-2-2-------|-----2--2-X-2-2-2-------|
|-2---2--O-X-2-O-2--------|-2---2--O-X-2-O-2-------|-2---2--O-X-2-O-2-------|
|-2---O----X-O---O--------|-2---O----X-O---O-------|-2---O----X-O---O-------|
|-O-O--------------3/53~~|-O-O--------------3/53~|-O-O--------------3/53~|
 (Uh!)		   (Hey yeah!....)		   (Uh Huh!)


-------------------------|
--------3-X---3----------|
-----2--2-X-2-2-2--------|
-2---2--O-X-2-O-2--------|
-2---O----X-O---O--------|
-O-O--------------3/53~~|



Verse1:
  D  E                          E A D                   D   E		   Asu2
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------O---|
|-3-------------------------------5---------------------------------------O---|
|-2-----------------------------9-6-7------------------7-7-9----------O-O-2-/|
|-O---2-------------------------9-7-7------------------7-7-9----------O-O-2-/|
|-----2-------------------------7---5------------------5-5-7--------------O---|
|-----O------O-O-O-O-O--------------------(O)-(O)-(O)--------(O)-(O)----------|
 Jump Back    What's that sound       Here she comes.....      Hot shoe..   $ PS


Bridge:
  F#			   C#min (arpegiate chord)
|-O----------------------|-O---------------|---------------------------|------|
|-O----O-----O-----O-----|-5---------------|---------------------------|------|
|-3------3-----3-----3---|-6---------------|--------------------------|-riff-|
|-4--------4-----4-----4-|-6---------------|--------------------------|--#1--|
|-4----------------------|-4---------------|----5-------3------------2-|------|
|-2----------------------|-----------------|------6-5~----4-5~--2~-O---|------|
  $(Dont you know she...)  $(You lose a....)


Chorus

Verse 2 (basically the same as the first)

Solo:

---------------|-------7-----7-7--------------|-----------------|-------------|
---------------|-----7-------7-7--------------|---H-T-P--H------|-------------|
---------------|-9^F-----9^F------9^F^9^F~/--|-6-9-11-6-9- %5x-|-9^F^9^F~~~~~|
---------------|------------------------------|-----------------|hold this----|
-3~-O----O-----|------------------------------|-----------------|bend for next|
------3~---3~~-|------------------------------|-----------------|-part -------|
..ah oh)				WB = Whammey Bar     % = repeat
					^F = Bend Full Step  H = Hamer-On
					T = Tap		     P = Pull-Off


------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
---------T----P----T----P----T----P----T----P----T----P-----------------------|
-(9^F~)--14-(9^F)--12-(9^F)--14-(9^F)--16-(9^F)--14-(9^f^9~~)--7-7^WB--7-9-7~~|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
				(release 9th bend here) ^  (bend up ^
							    with whammey bar)

-------------------------------|
-------------------------------|
-7^F-7-----7^F~----------------|
-------9-7------9-8-7----------|
----------------------9-8-7----|
----------------------------10-|

Break? (I dunno what ya' call this part!) 'The Reach down 
					  between my legs part' :)

|------------------------------------------------------------------|--
|------------------------------------------------------------------|--
|------------------------------------------------------------------|--
|---H--P-----------------H--P------------------H--P----------------|--
|-/9-10-9----7^F^7-----/9-10-9----9~--(9~)---/9-10-9---9~----------|--
|---------10--------7~---------10-----10-------------10---10-10/12-|--


--------------O-------|
--------------O-------|
--------------2-------|		The rest of this is basically the same,
---H--P-------3-------|		He throws some chords in there that you
-/9-10-9------3-------|		should be able to figure out.
---------10---1-------|
	      $ (Arpegiate Chord)

That's about it, It's 2:30 am, I'm beat. :O *yawn* I don't feel like double
checking this any mistakes should be obvious; If it sounds wrong, It's a
mistake!

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Austin Wanna Be	#1 by Austin Skitowski at Apr 7, 1970 at 9:16 AM EST
	oh my god I just realized how many lyrics I've misheard

No Picture Ryan Average	#2 by Ryan Noffke at Nov 11, 1971 at 3:04 AM EST
	It seems like it's about a girl ("got an on-ramp comin' though my bedroom") but inspired by drag-racing. I can't get enough of car/sex metaphors...

No Picture goofy Rhythm Player	#3 by goofy at Apr 21, 1983 at 10:09 PM EST
	its about a stripper named panama they met in i thibnk detroit or somewhere. i heard this on the alice cooper radio show

No Picture austin Lead Player	#4 by austin at Apr 10, 1989 at 9:55 PM EST
	I always thought this was about street racing, betting the car on the result, "Don't you know she's coming home with me?" meaning that he's going to get the other guy's car.

No Picture Gabe Average	#5 by Gabe Hawkins at Mar 27, 1995 at 2:40 PM EST
	The best thing about this song is the film clip. You've got the guitarist; who looks like "Booger" from Revenge of the Nerds, swinging from a cable, wailing on his Jack Daniels axe whilst drinking beer at the same time. Now I'm sorry but you simply can't rock out harder than that. Let me repeat again. Swinging from cable, wailing on Jack Daniels motiffed guitar, drinking beer whilst at the same time looking like a filthy unwashed rock star.

No Picture Bobby Rhythm Player	#6 by Bobby McCorkle at Apr 4, 1997 at 9:05 AM EST
	Man David Lee Roth Van Halen is so cool. Such a great band, the music was so fun. You can just tell these guys had fun making that music, it just comes through the speakers.