Whole Wide World Chords & Tabs
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Whole Wide World - Wreckless Eric
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Tabbed by: Basti95
Email: basti_dom@hotmail.it
This song deserves to be gotten right and it's so easy, i mean, if Will Ferrell
can do it so successfully...why can't you? (with all due respect
to Mr.Ferrell, of course)
Tuning: Standard
VERSE
Em A
Palm Muted...............................repeat these two bars
e|-----------------|-------------------|
B|-----------------|-------------------|
G|-----------------|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---| x4
D|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
A|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-------------------|
Until
"I'd go the whole wide world, I'd go the world wide world..."
P.M.
e|-----------------|-------------------|
B|-----------------|-------------------|
G|-----------------|-------------------| "...Just to..."
D|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
A|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
"...find her..."
e|-------------------| .
B|-------------------| .
G|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---| P.M.
D|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---| .
A|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---| .
E|-------------------| .
P.M. gradually release the palm mute in the 2nd bar
e|-----------------|-------------------|
B|-----------------|-------------------|
G|-----------------|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
D|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
A|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-------------------|
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/w/wreckless_eric/whole_wide_world_tab_ver_3.html ]
Then Again) VERSE
"...or maybe she's in the Bahamas..."
Em A
Palm Muted.............................repeat x 4
e|-----------------|-------------------|
B|-----------------|-------------------|
G|-----------------|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
D|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---|
A|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-------------------|
Em A
"...Because nobody's told'er about you..."
Palm Muted.........release PM
e|-----------------|-------------------|
B|-----------------|-------------------|
G|-----------------|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---| <--accentuate last 2
D|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2---| then stop strings w/ palm
A|-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
E|-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-|-------------------|
CHORUS
no PM (not much anyway)
(If you're singing at the same time this might be harder
but you can always just do the chords Em,Em,A with the
same timing as the intro)
e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|---------------| x2
D|-2--2--2-2-2---|
A|-2--2--2-2-2---|
E|-0--0--0-0-0---|
e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|---2--2--2-2-2-|
D|-x-2--2--2-2-2-|
A|-x-0--0--0-0-0-|
E|---------------|
e|---------------|
G|---------------| x2
D|-2--2--2-2-2---|
A|-2--2--2-2-2---|
E|-0--0--0-0-0---|
e|-------------------|
B|-------------------|
G|-------2--2--2-2-2-|
D|-2--2--2--2--2-2-2-|
A|-2--2--0--0--0-0-0-|
E|-0--0--------------|
e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|---------------| x2
D|-2--2--2-2-2---|
A|-2--2--2-2-2---|
E|-0--0--0-0-0---|
e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|---2--2--2-2-2-|
D|-x-2--2--2-2-2-|
A|-x-0--0--0-0-0-|
E|---------------|
Then you go back to the usual riff,
or you can do this to snaz it up if you're on your own
e|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|-----------------------| x2
D|------------2------2---|
A|-2--2--2----0--/4--0---|
E|-0--0--0-/4------------|
Then you repeat the whole thing with less PM and more 'spark'!
Check the song if it's not 100% clear
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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