RIO - DURAN DURAN
First a big disclaimer, i don't know theory and i'm not an experienced tabber. I picked hundreds and hundreds of songs by ears in my life but have rarely bothered to tab any. This is how i play Rio, the closest that i could pick it up proper. I'm sure there's likely mistakes, which you can feel free to point out. I just thought this might help. For one i do a heap load of fast open strings in this which for some,mainly in the verse and chorus,i suspect should actually be rhytmic ghost notes or something. I use a pick and was never good at these so i just do fast open strings, it seems to work fine. There could otherwise be mistakes i made in transcribing so if ever a note seems totally wrong, i might have entered the wrong one by mistake though i don't think so cause i double checked but who knows. Obviously,listen to song for proper rhythm of each parts.
Intro (Play four times. Personally i like to just slide on the A string to 10-11-12 instead of using the D string for that part..i like the sound of the slide, but wha-evs)
g-[---------- -------------]
d-[-------------0-5-6-7--]
a-[---7-7-0-5------------]
e-[-0---------------------]
Verses (play 1 twice then 2 then 1 twice again then 3. Do the whole thing twice. In the second verse, The patterns don't vary as much. He mainly plays part 1 and part 2 except before the chorus where he does play part 3,my opinion is he repeated 2 by mistake and they just decided to keep it. )
1
g-[------------------------]
d-[-------------0-5-6-7--]
a-[---7-7-0-5------------]
e-[-0---------------------]
2
g-[---------0-2-----------------------0-5-------------]
d-[----0-2------0-2-----2-------0-5------0-5-----5--]
a-[-0-----------------0-------3-----------------3-----]
e-[----------------------------------------------------]
3 (yes, JT probably plays this at 4 and then 3 on A but i always liked to play it there instead, same thing otherwise)
g-[--------------------------------------------------------------]
d-[-----------0-11-------------------------0-10---------------]
a-[-----0-11-------0-11----11------0-10--------0-10----10--]
e-[--9--------------------9--------8--------------------8------]
Chorus (Play 1. Then 2 and 3. Then 2 again and 4. Then 2 and 3 and then 2 and 5. For the first part, i think Taylor just does an upward slide from 12 but i like to do a "round trip" slide from 5 to 12 instead. By the way, the open E at the beginning should i guess be considered the end of the verse rather than beginning of chorus. it's not slapped but it's obviously played pretty hard)
1
g-[-------------------------]
d-[-------------------------]
a-[-------------------------]
e-[-0---------------5/12\--]
2
g-[----------------------------------------------------------------
d-[----------------------------------------------------------------
a-[--7--7--------------------7-0-5-0-4--0-5-2-0-4--------------
e-[---------0-4-5-6-7--0-7--------------------------0-4-5-0-5--
3
(here i'm not sure if he plays three before playing the slap at 5, it sounds just as fine skipping it)
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---4*----5*-]
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-2-----3----]
4
(this is the alternate version of the above, every other time he does this instead of the slaps)
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-----------]
-----------]
-2-2-3-3-]
5
(and i believe this is what he does before going back to the verse or before the bridge)
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----------]
----------]
-2-2-3-2-]
Bridge (play 1 twice, then 2 then 3 then play 4 three times and then finally 5)
1
g-[---------------------------------------------]
d-[---------------0-2-3-4--4-4-2--------------]
a-[-4--4-4-2-0----------------------0---0-0-2-]
e-[----------------------------------------------]
2
g-[------------------------------------------]
d-[----0-2-3-4--4-4-2----------------------]
a-[-4-------------------0--0-0-2-4--0-2-3-]
e-[------------------------------------------]
3
(ok i just realised this part is like above, except not really because the rhythm for the last 3 notes before going in the second part of the bridge is different)
g-[---------------------------------------------]
d-[----0-2-3-4--4-4-2-------------------------]
a-[-4-------------------0--0-0-2-4--0--2--3-]
e-[---------------------------------------------]
4
g-[-----6-6-0-4------------------------------------------------------------------------]
d-[---------------0-6-4-6-----4-4-0-2-------------------------0-5-7-5--------4-5-6--]
a-[--4-----------------------------------0-4-2-4-----0-5-0-7------------4--4----------]
e-[--------------------------2----------------------5-----------------------------------]
5
(here i'm not sure, the slide i think is right, but the bass gets muddled in the mix and i'm not sure if he's playing 7 on the D string before he does it or if he's still playing 5 on E,in my opinion its easier to od that fast slide from 7 so halfways through the repeated note i'd say switch to an octave higher on the D like i wrote here)
g-[-----6-6-0-4----------------------------------------------------------------------------]
d-[---------------0-6-4-6-----4-4-0-2-----------------------------7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7/19\--]
a-[--4-----------------------------------0-4-2-4-------------------------------------------]
e-[--------------------------2----------------------5-5-5-5-5-5-5--------------------------]
(here's an alternate version of the end of the above,it isnt played in the song, but this is what i play instead. I like it and is a good lead in to the slide. I like to call this pattern a Mckagan as there's at least three GNR songs i know where Duff does this, minus the slide, after repeating a note for a while)
g-[---------------------------------------------]
d-[---------------------------5-6-7--7--7/19\-]
a-[----------------------5h7-------------------]
e-[-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5------------------------]
Then it goes back to chorus for a while for the outro. there MIGHT be variations there but i didn't bother checking, it fades out eventually.
There it is. Hope it helps in any way. I'll do Planet Earth some other time. Maybe tomorrow
