I Can See For Miles

[cytania]

Have I complained before of having two authorised tabs for the Who's 'I Can See For Miles', neither of which tallied with what I hear in my head? Well I 've found a tabla rasa in the Monkees (and many, many 60s garage punk bands) 'I'm Not Your Steppin Stone'. A wonderfully simple heads down riff of a song;
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intro/chorus riff verse riff "not your steppin' stone" riff
G|------------5-57|------------5--57|---------|
D|----555-7-7-----|----5--57--7-----|-----5-75|
A|7-7-------------|7--7-------------|77--7----|
E|----------------|-----------------|---------|
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Now this isn't meant to be a sterile Colplay/Satriani post, but the Who often jumped off from other hits and created their own unique song that usually surpassed the original starting point. The verses of ICSFM are E G A structured around those amazing words. The pre-chorus build is A B A B and then chorus runs up to E on the 9th fret. Well that's what I'd do to slavishly lead the guitars but Townshend and Entwistle have structured challenging and interesting parts for themselves.

Now I have to go back and listen for the embellishments.

Edited January 5, 2009 by cytania