Ben Harper — Whipping Boy (ver 2) Tab

Whipping Boy
Artist: Ben Harper
Album: Welcome to the Cruel World

This song is played in a different tuning (Open C I think), using a slide. But you can
most of the song (apart from the solo) in standard tuning, use vibrato on the some of the
to approximate the sound of playing notes with a slide.

If you can't find a good Ben Harper tab on UG, try:
http://benharpertablatures.free.fr/tablatures/welcome/whipping2.htm
its got free tabs/sheet music (of varying accuracy) for all of his songs. Unfortunately,
of the sheet music is in French or bad English.

The first 4 notes of part1 are not exactly what ben harper plays, but it fits if you
work out what he actually plays.

~ = vibrato

Capo on 3rd fret

Part1 (play the low notes of the chord heavily)

			(x2)	"Don't want to be your whip—pi—ing boy"
	       C   Am
e —————————————x————x——|———————————————————————————————————————————|
b —————————————x————1~—|—————————————————————1~————————————————————|
g —————————————0~———2~—|—————————————————————2~————————————————————|
d —————————————2~———2~—|———————5—5—7—7—9—5s4—2~————————————————————|
a —————————0———3~———0~—|—————0—3—3—5—5—7—3s2—0~————————————————————|
E —0h3p0—3—————x————x——|—0—3———————————————————————————————————————|

Part 2
Pick these notes really hard.
e ——————————————————————————————|——————————————————————————————|
b ——————————————————————————————|——————————————————————————————|
g ————2~—5~——2~—————2~———————2——|—————2~—5~——2~————2~——————————|
d —2h5———————————5~————5p2—0————|——2h5——————————5~————2h0——————|
a ——————————————————————————————|—————————————————————————3—0——|
E ——————————————————————————————|——————————————————————————————|

The song is mainly just a combination of these two riffs, plus the slide guitar solo.
could just improvise around part2 and the blues scale