The Duel chords & tabs

The Duel - Steve Vai
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Transcribed by Jeff Young
[Laboriously typed up by Mardi Gras(TNT)]


Notes:  Okay, this is not my work, but I heard someone wanted it and I had it lying around the house so I thought I'd do someone a favour.  I've taken this from the June '95 edition of "Guitar" magazine.  This is the riff that Vai plays when he has a guitar duel with actor Ralph Macchio (The Karate Kid) in the film, "Crossroads".
Vai performs a series of arpeggios in a reprise of an etude by William Kanengiser (who apparently played all the classical parts in the movie).  This study in arpeggios is comprised almost entirely of notes from the A harmonic minor scale (A B C D E F G#).  The only nondiatonic series of notes would be found in measure 3, an arpeggio, which in this case functions as a secondary dominant to the Dm in measure 4.




E|                        8  12^8                     |
B|                    10           10                 |
G|              5  9                   9  5           |
D|           7                               7        |

Duel from crossroads

--------|-------------------------------------------------|----------
--------|-------------------------------------------------|-repeat---
-2-4-2--|-5--2--4--2--5--2--4--2--5--2--4--2--5--2--4--2--|-measure--
--------|-------------------------------------------------|----------
--------|-------------------------------------------------|--3x's----
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Ritard here in the 4th bar.

( Am )
-----|-----------------------8--12-8---------------------------------
-----|-------------------10-----------10-----------------------------
-2---|-------------5--9-------------------9--5-----------------------
-----|----------7-------------------------------7--------------------
-----|--------7------------------------------------5-----------------