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Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 15:40:14 +0000
From: CYBERIA ealing 7
Subject: TAB: The Duel by Steve Vai
The Duel - Steve Vai
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Transcribed by Jeff Young
[Laboriously typed up by Mardi Gras(TNT)]
Notes: Okay, this is not my work, but I heard someone wanted it and I had it lying around the house so I thought I'd do someone a favour. I've taken this from the June '95 edition of "Guitar" magazine. This is the riff that Vai plays when he has a guitar duel with actor Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid) in the film, "Crossroads".
Vai performs a series of arpeggios in a reprise of an etude by William Kanengiser (who apparently played all the classical parts in the movie). This study in arpeggios is comprised almost entirely of notes from the A harmonic minor scale (A B C D E F G#). The only nondiatonic series of notes would be found in measure 3, an arpeggio, which in this case functions as a secondary dominant to the Dm in measure 4.
E| 8 12^8 |
B| 10 10 |
G| 5 9 9 5 |
D| 7 7 |
A| 7 5 |
E| 5 6 8 |
E| 7 |
B| 9 9 |
G| 7 9 9 7 |
D| 6 9 9 6 |
A| 5 7 7 5 |
E| 7 |
E| 5 |
B| 5 8 8 5 |
G| 6 6 |
D| 5 ^ 7 7 5 |
A| 7 7 |
E| 5 ^ 9 9 |
E| 10 13^10 |
B| 10 10 |
G| 7 10 10 7 |
D| 7 7 |
A| 5 6 |
E| 5 10^8 |
E| |
B| 9 12 9 |
G| 10 10 7 |
D| 9 12 9 6 |
A| 8^11 8 |
E| 7 10 7 |
E| 5 8 12 8 / | / 16
B| 5 5 10 |
G| 5 5 |
D| 7 7 |
A| 7 7 |
E| 5 8 | O
What more can I say? This is just a truly cool riff. It might be a little tough to start on if you are a beginner, but never-the-less, would be a nice riff to learn and use as a warming up exercise.
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