Third Stone From The Sun (tab) — Jimi Hendrix
"Third Stone from the Sun" - Jimi Hendrix
Opening Chords:
Alternate these chords as on the record. Follow with this riff repeating.
etc
Exotic Riff:
then repeat the opening chords again, then... s s s
The Main Melody: Use whammy.
s s s s s s
s s s s s s s s
then s s
Little solo:
s * * "Strange beautiful...." ---------12----12--12----!---2-2-2-2-2-2-2---2-! repeat under recitation.
The part marked `*` is to be played as a funky rhythm (listen to record).
Then repeat Main Melody.
Then start feeding back just on all the open notes using the whammy. Finally hit all open strings and do a severe whammy dive.
I`m not gonna write out the rest because it would be a bit hard to do in this tab. Check out the Stevie Ray Vaughan live video because he does this section almost note-for-note. Anyway it is played over the bass vamp of...
At the end the Main melody re-appears again.
Hope there is eneough here to keep people happy. I might if I have time write down the feedback stuff, but really its pretty pointless. Learn it off the record.