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Pat Green - Carry On (correct Intro) (Intro)
Submitter: Smoothie7745 (23) on 1/14/04 13 comments
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Carry On (Intro)
Pat Green
CD: Three Days
Tabbed by Jason Marbach - email questions to Smoothie7745 at hotmail.com

This is an easy intro to play, but you have to tune the 
guitar down to dropped "D" tuning to do it correctly (for
those who don't know, dropped D is when you tune the lowest 
string (the low E) down to a "D" and leave the other 
strings alone, so instead of an "E" chord sounding good 
with all six strings played, now a "D" chord sounds right 
with all six strings played.  Anyways, here's the song:

    D                                 G 
e--------------------------------------------------------
B--------------------------------------------------------
G--------------------------------------------------------
D-------------------------------------5------------------
A---7-7--9-9--10-10--9-9--7-7--9-9----5------------------
D---0-0--0-0--0--0---0-0--0-0--0-0--0h5------------------

Also, during the song, since you are tuned to dropped D, 
you have to do some things different in the chords..."A"
and "D" should pretty much stay the same, but during a "G" 
chord, you don't need to play the bottom string at all, as 
the tuning is off and trying to compensate for that is just 
rediculously hard (i.e., playing a "G" chord plus sliding 
your finger up to 5 on the bottom string instead of the 
normal 3), so I just palm mute or avoid the bottom string 
and just play the top five there.  Also, one more thing, on 
Em, you can compensate there by adding a finger to 2 on the 
bottom string to make up for the lower tuning (i.e. in a 
regular, standard guitar tuning, an Em is played "022000", 
whereas in a dropped D tuning, it would be "222000"...kind 
of like an "A" chord but moved up two strings, lol.  Okay, 
I'm done now, lol.
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thank you for the explanation
-rpa1983 | 1/15/2004
My pleasure
-Smoothie7745 | 1/18/2004
Hi
Seeing Pat Green playing unpluged live on "Austin 8 News" website I was little confused. Thanks to you I now understand how he is playing the song. Also thank you for the very fine explanation of Drop-D tuning.

http://www.news8austin.com/content/living/rooftop_music/?ArID=84173&SecID=427


-LaasbyGuitarImp | 4/21/2004
Hey dude, no problem, glad I could help!

Pat's the best, happy pickin'!
-Smoothie7745 | 4/21/2004
Texas Sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-centrgary11 | 7/30/2004
Excuse me. I mean UT(University of Texas) Sucks!!!!!!
-centrgary11 | 7/30/2004
Dude- you are the man for the Drop D explanation. Thanks a bunch
-baseballdude | 8/18/2004
My pleasure, glad I could help!
-Smoothie7745 | 8/19/2004
awesome tab dude thanks!
-bolandgreenweed | 1/28/2005
honestly, you deserve it with a name as cool as "bolandgreenweed"....I think that might be the best name I've seen on this site. By the way, you're welcome, glad it's of use to you.
-Smoothie7745 | 1/28/2005
you can also play a g like this 055433 and still play with the d string and it sounds nice, its basicly a barre chord without barring the top string
-samanderson20 | 2/27/2005
oh and very nice work, most tabs dont have as nice of an explaination! THNX
-samanderson20 | 2/27/2005
You pretty much nailed it except for the part at the end, you slide 3 to 5 on the E and A. It sounds good either way, but when you slide from the 0 to 5th fret its not as crisp. Watch pat play it on youtube.
-Hardass72088 | 1/29/2009
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