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Take On Me

Reel Big Fish

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			     Take On Me - Reel Big Fish
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Tabbed by: SupremeACL
Email: supremeacl@gmail.com
This is Reel Big Fish's Take On Me from the BASEketball Soundtrack. This song is in the 
of A Major. For the chords, Aaron usually plays the top 3 or 4 notes, but I prefer to do 
full chords. I'm tabbing for the full chords. Here it goes!

Tuning: Standard eBGDAE


Intro (w/ distortion):
     Bm
e|---2---2-------------------------------------------|
B|---3-----3-----------------------------------------|
G|---4-------4~--------------------------------------|
D|---4-----------------------------------------------|
A|---------------22-022-022-022-022-022-02020202-----|
E|---------------------------------------------------|

Verse A (clean):
   Bm           E
   v^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^ v ^v v   simile
e|-77-x-7-x-7-x----------------55-x-5-x-5-x------------------|
B|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---55-x-5-x-5-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
G|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---66-x-6-x-6-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
D|-99-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-99-9---77-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-7-x-77-7-----|
A|-99-x-9-x-9-x-7-x-7-x-77-7---77-x-7-x-7-x-5-x-5-x-55-5-----|
E|-77-x-7-x-7-x----------------55-x-5-x-5-x------------------|

Verse B (clean):
                              Switch to distortion here
e|-77-x-7-x-7-x------------------------------------------|
B|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9-----------------------------|
G|-77-x-7-x-7-x-9-x-9-x-99-9------777-7-7----------------|
D|-99-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-9-x-99-9--4---xxx-x-x----------------|
A|-99-x-9-x-9-x-7-x-7-x-77-7--4---555-5-5----------------|
E|-77-x-7-x-7-x---------------2--------------------------|

Chorus (w/ Distortion):
    PM-|   PM-|   PM-|
                                x2                                       x1
e|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G|--------------9------11---7-6-7-|----------99999999------------------7-6-7|
D|-------7------9------11---x-x-x-|-77777777-99999999-1111111111111111-x-x-x|
A|-------7-7777-7-9999-9----5-4-5-|-77777777-77777777-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--5-4-5|
E|--5555-5------------------------|-55555555--------------------------------|

Then:
       PM      PM      PM      PM
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------|
D|-------------------7---7---9---9---|
A|---7---7---7---7-5---55--7---77----|
E|-5---55--4---44--------------------|

Bridge:
                           slide up the neck randomly
e|-4----------------------------------------------------21b-19---------------|
B|-5--8-----7p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p47p5p4/----------19------------|
G|-6----7---------------------------------------------4-----------21---4-4---|
D|-6------9-------------------------------------------x----------------4-4---|
A|----------------------------------------------------2----------------2-2---|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus 3(w/ Distortion):
    PM-|   PM-|   PM-|
                                x2                                       x1
e|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G|--------------9------11---7-6-7-|----------99999999------------------7-6-7|
D|-------7------9------11---x-x-x-|-77777777-99999999-1111111111111111-x-x-x|
A|-------7-7777-7-9999-9----5-4-5-|-77777777-77777777-9-9-9-9-9-9-9-9--5-4-5|
E|--5555-5------------------------|-55555555--------------------------------|

Then he does some soloing which is hard to figure out.  I'll tab a little of it.
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------10-9-10-9-10-12-10-9-10-9-10-9-10-12-10-9------------|
G|-9p7p9p7p9p7p9p7p9p7-------------------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Then end of the solo is:
e|---------14h15h17--------14h15h17--------14h15h17-17b-|
B|-14h15h17--------14h15h17--------14h15h17-------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------|

The order:
Intro
Verse A x4
Verse B
Chorus
Verse A x2
Verse B
Chorus
Bridge
Verse A x4
Verse B
Chorus 3
Outro solo

There we go! Hopefully you can read it; it's a bit messy in places Cheers, and good playing!

| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
| v  Downstroke
| ^  Upstroke
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Take On Me

Reel Big Fish