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TAB: What's Goin' Down by Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Artist: Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Song Name: What's Goin' Down

CD Title: Ledbetter Heights, Giant Records, 1995

Transcribed by: Timothy Grimes e-mail: srv@pacificnet.net

I am not the greatest TAB writer, so this is the best I have to offer. It is very close, if not right on. It's a lot of fun and it lends itself to some improvised Jimi/SRVisms.

Tune to E flat and play with a hard funky feel. Amp settings

should be hot but not fully disrorted. The sublties and dynamics of intro riff are too hard for me to illustrate so just imagine you ARE SRV, Jimi, or KWS and really put some emotion into it and it will sound really cool.

(h/p = hammer-on/pull-off)

INTRO

                                    (*slide from 5th to 7th fret)
        E||---3-h/p-5----------------------------------------------------
        B||---3-h/p-5---3-3-3--------------------------------------------
        G||---3---------3-4-3-h/p-4---------5---5--7--5------------------
        D||----------5--------------5--3----5---5--7--5------------------
        A||------------------------------*7---7---------7--5-------------
        E||-3------------------------------------------------7--6--5--3--

The chords are pretty straight forward after the riff

(C,C#,D,G-riff) the bridge is B minor on the 7th fret the down to the A and back, and the lead is in B minor pentatonic.

I ain't a word guy, so I will let someone else add the words and chord changes.

KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD - WHAT'S GOIN' DOWN

as recorded on the album Ledbetter Heights

Transcribed by Fulvio Lepore.
fulvio@oocities.com - flepore@tinet.ch
http://www.oocities.org/Sunsetstrip/Towers/4799/

Kenny's guitar is tuned half step down so the track on the album sounds in F#.

h = hammer on
p = pull off
x = string muted with left hand

This is the main riff of the song:

 G                               C
---x--3h5p3--------------------------------------------------
---x--3------------------------------------------------------
---x-----------7----7---------------5---5---5----------------
------------5--7h9--7h9p7-------5---5-5-5h7-5----------------
-5------------------------10-5--5h7---7--------7-7-5h7p5-----
-3-------------------------------------------------------7-5-

Verse 1

C C# D

Time's a wastin' now

G C

And I ain't got no time to play

C C# D

Everything is changin' now

Verse 2

C C# D

Can we make the changes now

G C

You know there's no other way

C C# D

Now's the time and the time is now

G C

It's not the why, it's just the how

Chorus:
C C# Bm

Have you looked around my friend

A

And really seen what's going down

Bm

Take a look into the sky

A

And lay your hand upon the ground

Bm
I ask of you good neighbour

D

for a life long favor

G                         C
 It is my faith I put in you

Solo 1 (goes on the sames chords as the chorus)

Repeat Verse 2 and Chorus

Solo 2 (goes on the same chords as the main riff)