By: David Harrison ([email protected])
Song: "You Really Got Me" by "Van Halen"
Album: "Van Halen"(1978)

This is a really cool song and was would have taken me too long
to tab out the solo and outro so I didn't even try. If you have
any comments, corrections, additions, or questions, feel free to
e-mail them to me.

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* Tune Your Guitar Down 1/2 A Step *
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Intro:
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|---2-2---2---xx---2-2---2---xx---2-2---2---xx---2-2---2/-|
D|---2-2---2---xx---2-2---2---xx---2-2---2---xx---2-2---2/-|
A|---0-0---0---xx---0-0---0---xx---0-0---0---xx---0-0------|
E|-3-----3--------3-----3--------3-----3--------3-----3----|

E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|---2-2---2-x-x-x---2-2---2-x-x-x---2-2---2-x-x-x---2-2---|
D|---2-2---2-x-x-x---2-2---2-x-x-x---2-2---2-x-x-x---2-2---|
A|---0-0---0-x-x-x---0-0---0-x-x-x---0-0---0-x-x-x---0-0---|
E|-3-----3---------3-----3---------3-----3---------3-----3~|

E|-------||
B|-------||
G|-------||
D|-------||
A|-------||
E|~~/15\-||
  

Verse 1:
   PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|-2-2---2--------2-2---2--------2-2---2---4b--6-2---------|
D|-2-2---2--------2-2---2--------2-2---2-----------4-3-2---|
A|-0-0---0--------0-0---0--------0-0---0-----------------4-|
E|-----3--------3-----3--------3-----3---------------------|

       PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -|
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----2-2---2--------2-2---2--------2-2---2---7b--5-9-----|
D|-----2-2---2----x---2-2---2----x---2-2---2-----------6-7-|
A|-3-2-0-0---0----x---0-0---0----x---0-0---0---------------|
E|---------3--------3-----3--------3-----3-----------------|

E|---------||
B|---------||
G|---------||
D|---------||
A|-6-7-3/5-||
E|---------||


Pre-Chorus:
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------|
D|-4-4-4-4----4-4-4-4-4----4-4-4-4-4----4-4-4-4-4~/7-7-|
A|-2-2-0-2----0-2-2-0-2----0-2-2-0-2----0-2-2-0-2~/5-5-|
E|-----------------------------------------------------|


Chorus 1:
              PM- -|       PM- -|
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------|
G|-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7--------|
D|-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7--------|
A|-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5--------|
E|----------------------------------------------3b~~r--|

E|---------------------------------------------------||
B|---------------------------------------------------||
G|-7-9-9-7-9b~~r--9-9-7-9\-xxx7------***************-||
D|-7-9-9-7--------9-9-7-9\-xxx7------* Pick Scrape *-||
A|-5-7-7-5--------7-7-5-7\-xxx5------***************-||
E|---------------------------------------------------||


Verse 2:
 PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -|  PH
E|---------------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------9b~~7h9p7---------|
D|-2-2---2--------2-2---2--------2-2---2----------7--------|
A|-0-0---0--------0-0---0--------0-0---0-----------7-------|
E|-----3--------3-----3--------3-----3--------------9b~r\4-|

      PM- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -|
E|----------------------------------------***************-||
B|----------------------------------------*Pull off's   *-||
G|----------------------------------------*& Hammer on's*-||
D|-2-2---2--------2-2---2--------2-2---2--*between 5,8,9*-||
A|-0-0---0--------0-0---0--------0-0---0--*on B string. *-||
E|-----3--------3-----3--------3-----3----***************-||

Pre-Chorus: -basically the same as before.

Chorus 2:
              PM- -|                                          H
E|--------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9------|
D|-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9------|
A|-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-x----|
E|---------------------------------------------------------x-2.6|

E|--------------------------------------||
B|--------------------------------------||
G|-9-9-7-9-----7--------***************-||
D|-9-9-7-9-----7--------* Pick Scrape *-||
A|-7-7-5-7-----5--------***************-||
E|---------12\--------------------------||

Solo: Didn't do.

Fill 1:
 |=Slight PM=|
E|-----------||
B|-----------||
G|-5---------||
D|----5--7~\-||
A|-----------||
E|-----------||

Pre-Chorus: Pick scrape before it.

Chorus 3:
E|-----------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------|
G|-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7--------|
D|-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7-9~\--7-9-9-7--------|
A|-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5-7~\--5-7-7-5--------|
E|----------------------------------------------3b~~r--|

E|----------------------------------------||
B|---------------------------9--9--9--12--||
G|-7-9-9-7-------9-9-7-9b~~~-9--9--9--12--||
D|-7-9-9-7-------9-9-7-------9--9--9--12--||
A|-5-7-7-5-7b~~~-7-7-5-------7--7--7--10--||
E|----------------------------------------||

Outro: Didn't figure that out either.

End on "E"