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by **Rising_Force** » June 23rd, 2003, 5:27 am

hi
i'd like to know if someone has the tab for the matthias' intro lick in bad boys runnimg wild. I'd also like to know if he does tapping or if he uses some special pedals. thanx in advance

by **MercuryJabs** » June 28th, 2003, 6:06 pm

Hello,

I'm new here. I've been a fan of the Scorpions since about 1983, the year I started playing guitar. I hope that this helps. I got this tab out of a magazine years ago. It's a lot of hammering, not picking. I'm pretty sure Matthias uses a little delay on this too. I don't have the tab in front of me but I think the intro is something like this.

--12-11-10-9----5-6-7-8-7-6-5---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------8-7-6-5------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------4-5-7-5-4-------------------------------------0------0------0------0-------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------7-5-4-----------------------2------0------2------0---------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0-5-7-5-0-----3------2------3------2------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------0--

Good luck! It's a great guitar intro that I've always thought was cool.

Lance
marstomercury.com

by **Juho_Hiltunen** » June 28th, 2003, 11:15 pm

DAMN!!!!!!
I'm not fast enough for the beginning, but the end sounds ok.

I'm off to practise that one..

-juho-

by **Rudolf16** » June 29th, 2003, 9:22 pm

IS REALLY THIS TABS ?

by **Rising_Force** » June 30th, 2003, 5:46 pm

hey man, THIS IS THE TAB. You can't imagine how happy i am. i can do it slow, but i have to improve my speed . thanx very much for this lick

)))

by **Rising_Force** » June 30th, 2003, 5:50 pm

the message was for Lance

)) it can be confusing because of the reply that rudolf16 post before

by **MercuryJabs** » June 30th, 2003, 11:27 pm

scorp_fan15,

Glad you found it helpful. I was excited to get the tab as well, as I had been looking for it for a while. It's a hard lick to decipher just by listening to it.

Lance
marstomercury.com

by **Rising_Force** » July 1st, 2003, 4:04 am

lance, you seem an experienced guitar player and i have a question for you. on blackout at the begining of the solo, does matthias tap the notes? or he does really quick hammers? thanx

by **MercuryJabs** » July 1st, 2003, 7:44 pm

scorp_fan15,

Matthias doesn't seem to do a lot of tapping. I don't think he does any tapping in the Blackout solo. I think it's just fast hammering. As far as my playing goes, I can keep up with Matthias until Crazy World and beyond. He's a little too fast for me! But, I still really enjoy his style. I sing and write my own songs now, so I haven't practiced lead guitar as much as I used to.

Lance
http://www.marstomercury.com

by **Junnu84** » July 3rd, 2003, 6:52 pm

Very BIG thanks!! I've always had to improvise that intro and I can see that I've been very close, but now I know how it really goes! And about the blackout solo: Matthias doesn't do tapping in the solo, but he does tap in the fills of the verses. He does it with pick slide instead of tapping with pick hands finger. I hope you understood!

by **Rising_Force** » July 3rd, 2003, 8:10 pm

if you could be a little more specific

))

by **MercuryJabs** » July 3rd, 2003, 11:18 pm

Hey,

Do any of you have the relatively new Hal Leonard Scorpions "Best Of" Tablature book? It's got a pretty good mix of songs (from Lovedrive to Crazy World). It's pretty easy to find on Ebay. It seems to be very accurate as well. Just thought I'd let people know if they hadn't seen it.

Lance
http://www.marstomercury.com

by **Rising_Force** » July 4th, 2003, 3:25 am

sorry, i don't have it but i'll look for it

thanx for the info

by **Rudolf16** » July 17th, 2003, 5:43 am

HEY SCORP_FAN15 ?
HOOW OLD ARE YOU???
ARE U A YOUNG GUITAR PLAYER WHO WANT BE LIKE MATTHIAS JABS IN THE FUTURE ?

by **Rising_Force** » July 17th, 2003, 6:23 am

yeah, actualy i'm 15 yo and i started playing electric guitar one year ago. though i'm not very good, i'm just ok. i hope one day i'll be at least 50% matthias

by **Electric00** » July 26th, 2003, 12:46 pm

Thaxx

by **Rising_Force** » December 14th, 2003, 12:00 am

OH YEAH! I can finaly play it 100% correct. i'm soooo happy. now i see where legatto chromatic scales are useful.
This is a Really great intro !!

by **Kuba** » January 3rd, 2004, 11:31 am

Really thanx for this tab, I searched the tab sites for this tab of my fav scorps song, but always were only bass tabs, so thanxxxxxxxxxx

by **rudi** » March 28th, 2004, 1:12 am

thanks mate

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