Cream Badge ver 1 guitar tab

Badge Ver 1 by Cream

Cream - Badge ver 1 guitar tab 


Cream- Badge (Clapton/Harrison)


Robert Donohoe ([email protected])
My first TAB, and my own work. This is my best guess, and I^ҭ doing it from memory, so some is bound to be wrong. I would be very happy to see corrections, ideas etc. A ^Ѣ^Ҡbefore a note means that the note begins sharped, usually by a half note. I also plea for somebody to make a good effort at tabbing Tales of Brave Ulysses, which is probably even harder than this due to all the Wah.

The guitar parts during the start and verses are subtle
and involve a lot of muting. The first time through, there is a set of two finger riffs as:

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 ----------------------------------------
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 --5-9-5/7-7-7-7-7-----------------------
 7-3-7-3/5-5-5-5-5-----------------------
 5---------------------------------------

but the second time through it mostly sounds like
muted strumming of the Am and D chords. Then a slide off of the 10th fret on the low E string to G# and then the verse chords start. I play the verses as (bar chords)
Am, D (no 3rd?) and Em, with some diddling of the middle finger on the Em, dropping the little finger on the change back to Am, and dropping the ring finger on the change to C, but most of that is to pick up the piano part ^֠the chords are pretty straight stuff. Between the first two verses (after the quiet pause), the notes include a gently played B along with E,G,G#


There are some quiet EC bits leading into the bridge (allegedly read upside down as ^Ѣadge^Ҭ hence the name). The last bit is:

 ------7----------------7------------------
 ----3-5---5p0-----3----5------------------
 2/4-----------2/4-------------------------
 -------------------2----------------------
 ------------------------------------------
 ------------------------------------------

 

Intro to Harrison bit:
 ----------------------|   
 ------------1---------|   
 ----2-----0------0--0-|   
 0-4-----2------0------|   
 ------3------2--------|   
 ------------------3---|   

Then GH pretty much repeats this:
 --------------------------------
 ----3---------------1----------- 
 --2---2-----2-----0-------0---0-
 0-------0-4-----2-------0-------
 --------------3-------2---------
 ----------------------------3---

Clapton solo following ^Ӣefore they bring the curtain down^Ԡ(ok, maybe. Each note is played with some qualities I lack - power & finesse & style, etc., and some of the stuff is just too fast to discern even at slow playback. Try up-
picking the 1st 4 notes to get the release/ tremolo right):

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 b14r-b14r-b14-b14~-13--------13-----------------15---13-
 ---------------------14-12/14--1412-10--12/14-