Whitesnake - Love Aint No Stranger guitar tab
WHITESNAKE- "LOVE AIN'T NO STRANGER" (Transcribed by Markus Jakobsson) A-Intro/First Verse The song begins with (Jon Lord's) wonderful keyboards. The keyboard parts mainly outline these chord changes, that could be strummed if you don't play with a keyboard player. Who knows where the cold wind blows? I ask my friends, but nobody knows... | | | | | | | | D/F# G A Bm D/F# G A Bm Who am I to believe in love? Oh, oh, oh. Love ain't no stranger... | | | | | | D/F# G A Bm Bm A B-Second Verse The acoustic guitar enters, arpeggiating the same chords(almost). It is pos- soble that the slide in the Bsus2 chord should be a hammer-on. It is also possible that I just have tin ears, but I do think I hear SOME sort of grace note there. Anyway, it is just a detail, so if the fingering is tricky to you, forget it.NOTE: What I call "dive bomb" slide has nothing to do with the thing you do with the whammy bar. I just don't know what else you call those long, fast slides down the low E-string. [-Rhythm Fig.1--------------] Strum chords and let ring. |-----------|---------------| Played 5 times, |----------|-0------------| |---------3-|-------------2-| and then... |-0--------|-2------------| |---2----0--|---2------s-4--| |-4--------|-2------------| |--0----0---|--2----(2)/4---| |-4--------|-2------------| |-----------|-0---2---------| |-2--------|-0------------| |-2---3-----|---------------| |----------|---------xxxxx| Verse 2:(with rhy.fig1) xxx=Electric guitars enters, I looked around, and what did I see? with a "dive bomb slide" Broken hearted people staring at me... All searching 'cause they still believe.. Oh, oh, oh...Love ain't no stranger!!! C-Main Riff/Third Verse ()=These notes are there, but I can't make out if they are played by the hammond or another guitar. They don't have to be played by this guitar, anyway. [-Rhythm Fig2----------------------------------------------------------------] |------------|------------|-------------|-----------|---------|--------------| |-(3-2-3)----|-(3-2-3)----|-(3-2-3)-----|-----------|-------With- drum-fills-| |--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4----2-|-----------|---------|-2------------| |--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4-----|--4-2-4----2-|----2------|-(2)-----|-/---(2)------| |--2-0-2-----|--2-0-2-----|--2-0-2----0-|----2------|-(2)-----|-4---(2)----s-| |------------|------------|-------------|----0------|-(0)-----|-----(0)--xxxx| Let E5-chord ring Make sure to nail that staccato rhythm, and to shake that last B5-chord in every bar a little. (Maybe it would make more sense to place the 2/4 bar after the A5-chord, but that's one for the music theory guys to think about.) [-Rhythm Fig. 3---------------------------------------------------------------] |---------------|------------------|-----------------------|------------------| |---------------|------------------|-------------------3---|------------------| |-------4-2-4---|----------4-2-4---|-------------------2---|----------4-2-4---| |-------4-2-4---|----------4-2-4---|--------2----------0---|----------4-2-4---| |-------2-0-2---|----------2-0-2---|--------2--------------|----------2-0-2---| |---------------|------------------|--------0--------------|------------------| Verse 3: I was alone,And I needed love. So much I'd sacrifice for all I was dreaming of. (With Rhy.fig3) I heard no warning, but a heart can tell... I feel the emptiness of love I know so well... D-Chorus. Those slighly muted G5-Chords are the key to the fat, chunky sound. I don't really remember if those "extra" chunks on the open and fifth fret of the A- string really are on the record, but experiment with 16th-note chunks there. It can sound very cool... [Rhy.fig.4---------------------------------------------play-two-times------] |------------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------------| |-*=Slight-Palm-Muting---------------|-----------------|-------------------| |-------------7--2-|-(2)-------------|-----------7---7-|---2---------------| |-*-5-*-*-*-5-7-p2-|-(2)-------------|---*-*-*-*-7-pp7-|-pp2---------------| |-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-00-|-(0)-------------|-p-5-5-5-5-5-555-|-000---------------| |-3-3-3-3-3-3------|-----------------|-3-3-3-3-3-------|-------------------| Let Chord Ring. Chorus: Love ain't no stranger... I ain't no stranger... Love ain't no stranger... I ain't no stranger to with Ry.Fig2. [----------4-----------] love... no ,no ,no... E-Fourth Verse With Rhy.fig.3 ( 2 times) Can't hold the passion, of a soul in need... I look for mercy when my heart begins to bleed. I've known good loving, I'm a friend of pain. But when I read between the lines it's all the same... F-Second Chorus with Rhy.Fig4 [--------8----------] Love ain't no stranger. I ain't no stranger. Love ain't no stranger. I ain't no stranger to love... E-Guitar Solo The rhythm part behind the solo is a semi-distorted electric, playing a pro- gression almost like the one in Rhythm Figure 1. The chords are the same, but I think they are arpeggiated a little differently. Play that, and nobody will notice. The solo is a slow beautiful melody thing, that should not be hard to figure out. I haven't transcribed it, since I work out my own leads for the co- ver tunes I learn.(Try it, it's great fun).The last three bars of the rhythm part goes something like this. |-----------|----|-----| |--3--3-----|----|-----| Then the song comes back to rhythm figure 1. |--2--0---2-|-2--|-(2)-| |--0--0---2-|-2--|-(2)-| [--------8---------] |---------0-|-0--|-(0)-| |--2--3-----|----|-----| With Verse 1. "Lord have mercy... Love ain't no stranger!!!" F-Agressive part.(Dunno what else to call it) Play this part aggressively(Why do I keep giving these instructions? You know how the record sounds. Oh, well...). with Ry.fig2, 1,5 times, then... |------------|-----|------------| [-----6------] |------------|-----|------------| |-4-2-4----2-|-(2)-|--9-7-9-----| |-4-2-4----2-|-(2)-|--9-7-9-----| |-2-0-2----0-|-(0)-|--7-5-7-----| |------------|-----|--------xxxx| G-Fifth Verse/Last Chorus. w.Rhy.fig3 (two times) [-------8--------] I was alone, and I needed love. So much I'd sacrifice for all I was dreaming of. Can't hold the passion of a soul in need. I look for mercy when my heart begin to bleed. w.rhy.fig4 (two times) [------8---------] H-Outro Turn down the volume knob on your guitar a bit for this tone. This is mainly Rhythm Figure 1, again with some different arpeggiations. w.Rhy.Fig1 [-----6-----] |-----------|----------|-----| |-3--3------|----------|-----| |-2--0----2-|-2----4-4-|-(4)-| |-0--0----2-|-2----4-4-|-(4)-| |---------0-|-0----2-2-|-(2)-| |-2--3------|----------|-----| "I ain't no stranger..."