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]v^ v ^ v ^ v [E]^ 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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