Waiting Tab

Author/Artist: Cake
Title: Waiting
Album: Pressure Chief
Transcribed by: Robert Fenstermaker
Email: Rfenster@tulane.edu

This is my first submitted tab, I hope it works for you guys

d- downstroke
u- upstroke

The change from down to up is really quick, it adds a
flare to the song though the song can be played without it.
It is possible to do these quick changes as hammer-ons and pull offs
though I am pretty sure Cake doesn't play it like that from the recording.
Also the change in the fourth set of strokes can be replaced
by just hitting the open E string though you will have to mute
the B string

Ok here is the basic format of the song for intro, verse
and chorus as far as I can tell there are no real variations

 d d d d d d dud  d d d d d d dud  d d d d d d dud
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-2-2-2-2-2-2-232--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
-2-2-2-2-2-2-222--1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
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 d d d d d d dud  d d d d d d dud  d d d d d d dud
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-3-3-3-3-3-3-353-------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-232-|
-2-2-2-2-2-2-222--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-222-|
------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3------------------|
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 d d d d d d dud  d d d d d d dud
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------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-232-----------------|
-1-1-1-1-1-1-121--2-2-2-2-2-2-222-----------------|
-2-2-2-2-2-2-222----------------------------------|
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on the aaaaalways be waaaaitng part just repeat the last 4 chord sets.

TIMING
Here is a sample verse.  I only wrote out the words
on which the chords change.  For simplicity's sake I did
not record the quick changes.
 So............. important.........think that we make
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-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|
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 sense..........  think there's....better
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-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
------------------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3------------------|
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 other            fence
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------------------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-----------------|
-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-----------------|
-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2----------------------------------|
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Now what I wrote down was the simple version.  Cake's guitarist
actually does a hammer on and a pull off on some of them

Enjoy!

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