Hall And Oates : "Kerry" Guitar tabs

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Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:07:22 EST
From: DontPoll@aol.com
Subject: h/hall_and_oates/kerry.tab

This is entirely my own work, done on 1/23/06 with a Fender Guitar in
hand.
 
"Kerry" - Hall & Oates
From the album "Bigger Than the Both Of Us"
 
This is a great song from a pretty unknown H&O album. Chord wise,
it's pretty simple, classic Daryl Hall stuff.
 
But there's about 3 guitars intertwined throughout the song that play
some cool stuff, in addition to the bass/drums/electric piano and so
forth.
 
But what I'm attempting to do here is somewhat dissect the song as it
was played. If you want to play a simple,
 
solo rendition, all of these chords are common "open" position
chords, and can be played as so (Daryl Hall no
 
doubt wrote it on a piano or keyboard of some sort, so that's
probably the best bet for a "solo" version). 
At any rate, I like to try and tab out what is actually being played
on the record. Unfortunately, I just
 
started playing guitar last August..so I'm still largely a novice.
Thus, I can't guarantee authenticity of any
 
of this..but it's as close as I can get for now! Here goes:
 

Synthesizer Intro:
 
G    F   (x2)
 

Verse:
 
Am   D
 
(These two chords repeat throughout)
 
One of the guitars is playing lead, with a bunch of cool little riffs
like this one, which comes in at the
 
beginning of the first verse:
 
E-------5p3------------------------------------------------------
B------------5--3s1----------------------------------------------
G---------------------0---2v--------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
 
It's mostly G-major/E-minor pentatonic based stuff.
 
Another guitar plays the chords. I'm not positive, but these
positions sound close:
 
E-------5---------5------------------------------------------------
B-------5---------7------------------------------------------------
G-------5---------7------------------------------------------------
D-------7---------7------------------------------------------------
A-------7---------5------------------------------------------------
E-------5---------5------------------------------------------------
       Am         D
 
 
 
Pre-Chorus:
 
C   G/B (x3)
 
F          C     D
Carry on..     
 
On this part, for the C  G/B progression, I can hear one guitar
playing arpegios of these triads:
 
E----------------------------------------------------------------
B------13--------12----------------------------------------------
G------12--------12----------------------------------------------
D------14--------12----------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
        C        G/B (this is technically just a G arpegio, as the
bass covers the B)
 

Chorus:
 
G       D/G       C    G/B   Am   (those last 3 chords are quick)
Oh kerry..
 
G       D/G       CCC G   CCCG   C
                               oh kerry..
 
More arpegios in the chorus, mainly with these two chords:
 
E----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----12----10---------------------------------------------------
G-----12----11---------------------------------------------------
D-----12----12---------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
      G      D/G      C      G/B    Am
 
Verse 2:
 
Am   D 
 
Same as before. Heres a cool "falling" riff at the beginning of the
second verse:
 
E----------------------------------------------------------------
B-----5s3s5--5--3------------------------------------------------
G------------------5--2------------------------------------------
D------------------------5--4------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
 

Pre-Chorus/Chorus is all the same. Then, the synth intro repeats.
 
The song then modulates from the key of G to the key of Bb as
follows:
 
C/D   Eb/F
 
Then, back to the chorus which is now in the new key of Bb, thus:
 
Bb     F/Bb 
Oh kerry..
 
            Eb  Bb/D   Cm (fast)
But don't get..
 

Bb    F/Bb
 
Eb  Bb   Eb   Bb   Eb
 
etc. Same as the other choruses, but everything is moved up 3
half-steps.
 
As the song fades via the chorus, the lead plays some riffs higher up
on the neck around the 10/11th fret (for
 
those familiar with the CAGED system, the "C" position in the key of
Bb). Like so:
 
E-----13p11----------13p11--10--11-------------------------------
B-----------13--11-----------------------------------------------
G----------------------------------------------------------------
D----------------------------------------------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
 

I probably spent too much time on this, considering the song is
largely unknown to anyone outside diehard H&O
 
fans. Which means no one will probably ever even search for a tab of
this song..but if you need it, here's at
 
least something!
 
Any comments can be sent to dontpoll@aol.com

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