Whipping Boy Artist: Ben Harper Album: Welcome to the Cruel World This song is played in a different tuning (Open C I think), using a slide. But you can most of the song (apart from the solo) in standard tuning, use vibrato on the some of the to approximate the sound of playing notes with a slide. If you can’t find a good Ben Harper tab on UG, try: http://benharpertablatures.free.fr/tablatures/welcome/whipping2.htm its got free tabs/sheet music (of varying accuracy) for all of his songs. Unfortunately, of the sheet music is in French or bad English. The first 4 notes of part1 are not exactly what ben harper plays, but it fits if you work out what he actually plays. ~ = vibrato Capo on 3rd fret Part1 (play the low notes of the chord heavily) (x2) “Don’t want to be your whip-pi-ing boy” C Am e -------------x----x--|-------------------------------------------| b -------------x----1~-|---------------------1~--------------------| g -------------0~---2~-|---------------------2~--------------------| d -------------2~---2~-|-------5-5-7-7-9-5s4-2~--------------------| a ---------0---3~---0~-|-----0-3-3-5-5-7-3s2-0~--------------------| E -0h3p0-3-----x----x--|-0-3---------------------------------------| Part 2 Pick these notes really hard. e ------------------------------|------------------------------| b ------------------------------|------------------------------| g ----2~-5~--2~-----2~-------2--|-----2~-5~--2~----2~----------| d -2h5-----------5~----5p2-0----|--2h5----------5~----2h0------| a ------------------------------|-------------------------3-0--| E ------------------------------|------------------------------| The song is mainly just a combination of these two riffs, plus the slide guitar solo. could just improvise around part2 and the blues scale
