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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 23:37:32 -0800
From: Vince Yim 
Subject: "Blackball" by The Offspring


Blackball by The Offspring
tabbed by Vince Yim
comments and corrections e-mail: yimv000@ugrad.unbc.edu

The Offspring is a pretty cool album.  This song, IMHO is one of the
best from the album.  Of course, most of it is power chords and really
simple to play, but how else can budding young musicians learn to play?
Besides, I haven't seen this at ftp.nevada.edu, so I figured what the
hey.  Hope you enjoy,

notation:
/ slide up (first note picked)
\ slide down
g grace note.  Held for a split second, is not counted in the timing.
      (crappy explanation, I know, but I haven't taken music lessons in
       about five years)
h hammer on (first note picked)
p pull off (first note picked)
t tap (don't pick it, just tap the string real hard)

regular tuning

1: intro and rhythm section

E|--------------------------------|------------------------------------
B|--------------------------------|-----------2g/3\2------------2g/3\2-
G|---------------5-5-5--2---------|-4-4-4-4-4-2g/3\2--4-4-4-4-4-2g/3\2-
D|-2-2-2--5-5-5--3-3-3--2---------|-4-4-4-4-4-1g/2\1--4-4-4-4-4-1g/2\1-
A|-2-2-2--5-5-5--3-3-3--0---------|-2-2-2-2-2---------2-2-2-2-2--------
E|-0-0-0--3-3-3-------------------|------------------------------------

2: chorus ("Win the battle lose the war...")

E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
B|-----------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-----------------7--------------------
G|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-6--------------------
D|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--------------------
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-----------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------

chorus part 2 ("I don't want this anymore...")

E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
B|-----------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------------------
G|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4----------------------
D|-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4--------------------
A|-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-----------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4--------------------
E|-------------------------------------------------2--------------------

3: guitar solo (played by guitar 1 with accompanying
   chords from guitar 2)

                       E5             F5            E5
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
B|----------------------------------------------------------------------
G|----------------------------------------------------------------------
D|-2-2h3-2--2h3--2p0--2h3-5-3-2p0-2h3-2p0-------------------------------
A|----------------------------------------3p2-3h5-3p2-0-----------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------

      Eb5                    E5
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
B|----------------------------------------5-----------------------------
G|----------------------------------------4-----------------------------
D|----------------------------------------2-----------------------------
A|-0h2-3p2-0----0h2-0---------------------------------------------------
E|-----------t3-------t3-2p0-2h3-5p3-2-1-0------------------------------

4: interlude part 1 (play 3x)

E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
B|-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-6-5-5-5-5-5-5-5/6-5-5-5-5-5-5-5/6------
G|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-4-4-4-4-4-4-4/5-4-4-4-4-4-4-4/5------
D|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/3------
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
	*note: on third time, stop... ^  here! and go into interlude part 2
                                   /|\
                                    |

5: Interlude part 2

E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
B|-5---5g/6---5---5g/6---5---5g/6---5---5g/6----------------------------
G|-4---4g/5---4---4g/5---4---4g/5---4---4g/5----------------------------
D|-2---2g/3---2---2g/3---2---2g/3---2---2g/3----------------------------
A|----------------------------------------------------------------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------

6: Interlude part 3 ("In the style of forgotten men...")

E|----------------------------------------------------------------------
B|-8-8-8-8---------6-6-6-6---------5---5g/6---5---5g/6------------------
G|-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-4---4g/5---4---4g/5------------------
D|-5-5-5-5-7-7-7-7-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-2---2g/3---2---2g/3------------------
A|---------5-5-5-5---------3-3-3-3--------------------------------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------