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..."
