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From: fscll@acad3.alaska.edu (Chris Lott)



                               FINISH WHAT YA STARTED   Van Halen
                              from: March 1992 Guitar World

In this song ^=1/4 step bend
            /= slide up
            \=slide down
            ~= vibrato
        --20--30---  two notes together=  pull offs

                I have not looked at enough of the tab on here to be sure I
used standard notation for the group, bot it is all pretty self-explanatory.
The only problem I had was notating hammer ons because a 1 to 3 hammer on
looked like a fretted note at 13!! oh well... hope someone out there gets some
use out of this...


------------------0-0-0-------------------------------0-0------------
------------------0-3-3---------------------0-2^-2-^--3-3------------
-------2-4----------4-4-----------2-4-------0-2^-2-^--4-4--------2-4-
-0-2-5-----5^-2-------------0-2-5-----5^-2-----------------0-2-5-----
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
           [all ^ are 1/4 step bends]

------0--0-0--------------------------3^3^-0-3^3^--------------------
------0--3-3------------------0-2^-2^-2^2^-0-2^2^--------------------
---------4-4--------2-4-------0-2^-2^-------------------2-4----------
5^-2----------0-2-5-----5^-2----------------------0-2-5-----5^-2-----
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

    Come on baby                                                Ow
0-0-------0-0------------------------0-0-0---0-----------------0-0-0-
0-0--3-3^-0-0-----------------0-2-2^-3-3-3---3-----------------0-3-3-
-----4-4^------------2-4------0-2-2^-4-4-4---4-------2-4---------4-4-
---------------0-2-5-----5^-2------------------0-2-5-----5^-2--------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
                             Woah, Woah
0-0---0-0-------------------0---0--0-0----0--0--0--------------------
3-3---3-3---------0-2---2---3---3--3-3^---0--3--3---------------0-2-2
4-4---4-4--2-4-0--0-2---2---4---4--4-4^------4--4-------2-4-----0-2-2
--------------------------------------------------0-2-5-----5^2------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

0--0---------0--0--0-0-0-------------------------0--3^-3^0-3^3^0-3^3^
3--3---------3--0--3-3-3----------------0-2---2--3--2^-2^0-2^2^0-2^2^
4--4-------2-4-----4-4-4-------2-4------0-2---2--4-------------------
-----0-2-5---------------0-2-5-----5^2-------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Well if you wanna         baby I ...
        See other guys    let it ....
0--0---0-----------------------0-----------------0--0--0-------------
0--3---3---------------0-2--2^-3-----------------0--3--0-------------
---4---4-------2-4---0-0-2--2^-4--------2-4---------4----------2-4--0
---------0-2-5-----5^0----------------------5^0----------0-2-5----5^0
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

mama I can be                     ...
both of them                       the ...
---------0-----------------------------------------------------------
0-2--2^--3-----2----------------4~-2--4~----2------------------2~----
0-2--2^--4-----2-------2-4------4~-2--4~----2---------2-4---0--2~-0--
-----------------0-2-5-----5^2--4~----4~-------0-2-5------5^0--2~-0--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

walk 
  away                   If I ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------
----2~--------------------5--5----5---5------------------3-----------
-0--2~---0-2--------------6--6----6---6------------------2-----------
-0--2~---0-2-----2--------6--6----6---6--------2---------0-----------
-------------3/4---4\2-0--4--4--4-4---4--2-3/4---4\2-0------3-2^-0---
-------------------------------------------------------------------1^

ah...               Come on 
                       baby ...
                                      ya ...
-----------------------0----0-----0-------------------------0--------
3-------------3^-3^----0----3-----3----------------0-2--2^--3--------
2---------2---2^-2^---------4-----4-------2-4------0-2--2^--4--------
0---0-2-5---5-----------------------0-2-5-----5^2--------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

0------------------
3------------------
4-------2-4--------
--0-2-5-----5^2----
-------------------
------------------- and so on using these riffs up to the solo:


SOLO
----14-----12-----11-----9-----7----5-----0-----0-----0--------14---12
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-/15----13-----11------9----07----07---04----09----07---0--/15----13-
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

---11----9-----5-----7-----5-----7-----5------14----12---11---9----7-
---------------------------------------------------------------------
11-----9----07----07----07----07----------/15----13----11---9---07---
----------------------------------04/5-------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

---5----0---0---0----0-------14----12---11---9----5----7-----5-------
------------------------------------------------------------------7--
07---04--09--09---07---0--15----13----11---9---07---07----07---------
---------------------------------------------------------------07----
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

-----------7---------------------------------------------------------
---5----3/--10-7-7----7------10-7----7-------------------------------
----------------9--10---10-9------10---10-9-7-----------------2-4----
05---04---------------------------------------9--9------0-2-5-----5^2
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
END SOLO


Here are a couple of licks he does over the A chord throughout the song after 
the solo:

LICK 1                                 LICK 2
---9----7----4----2--------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------5-----3-----5----7---8/9--
09---07---04---02-----0-2---2-0--------------------------------------
--------------------------------2/------06----04----06---07---08-----
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------

LICK 3                           END LICK
---------------------------------------------------------------------
----5----3----2----3------2-0-------5----3-----5-----7-----8--9------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
-05---04---02---04----02---------06---04----06----07----08-----------
---------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------


-- 
  Christopher L. Lott           "And now what shall become of 
  fscll@acad3.alaska.edu        us without any barbarians?   
                                Those people were a kind of 
                                         solution."

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