Californ-I-A Guitar Tabs
Transcribed by Rob Walker (rgw@crml.uab.edu)

[A] Al's melody:
||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
||--------12---------------12--14-15--------12---------------------12---------||
||*----12-----14-11-----12---------------12-----14-11--12-11-12-14----14-12--*||
||*-14---------------14---------------14-------------------------------------*||
||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||
||----------------------------------------------------------------------------||

Chuck's accompanying chords: Em F#m Em F#m Em F#m Bm7 You'll have to listen to Chuck's rhythm and how he syncopates these chords. I'm not sure how he voices them, but here are some choices:
Em F#m Bm7
|--3------------5--------------2------------|
|--5----8-------7----10--------3----7-------|
|--4----9-------6----11--------2----7-------|
|--5----9-------7----11--------4----7-------|
|-------7------------9---------2----7-------|
|-------------------------------------------|

[B] Al's lead:
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||--15(17)-15(17)---15-14-12------15(17)-15(17)---12-14-15---15(17)-15(17)-----|
||*--------------------------14------------------------------------------------|
||*----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

Chuck's chord's: Em A Em A Em Al's lead cont...
|--1st ending--| |-2nd ending-|
|---------------------------------------------||----15(17)--------|
|--15-14-12------15(17)-15(17)----12-14-15----||------------15----|
|-----------14-------------------------------*||------------------|
|--------------------------------------------*||------------------|
|---------------------------------------------||------------------|
|---------------------------------------------||------------------|

Chuck's chord's:
A Em A A

Al's lead continued - here he starts improv-ing on the basic figure, an octave lower. This is more or less what he played at one show (2-8-96 I think). This whole [B] section is 3 bars of 6 followed by a bar of 8; to help you figure out these rhythms, the numbers in parentheses above the staff denote the number of beats in that bar. This part gets a little hairy, so try to use the bar markings to gauge how fast you've got to play these licks to fit them into the time allotted. Better yet, listen to the tape if you have it...
|(6) |(6) |(6)
|----------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------
|----------------------|----------------------------------|----14(15)r14-------
|----------12----------|----14(16)r14-12------12----------|----14(15)r14-12----
|--14-14------14-12-14-|-14--------------14------14-12-14-|-14--------------14-
|----------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------
|----------------------|----------------------------------|--------------------

|(8) |(6)
-------------|----------------|-----------------------------------------------|
-------------|-------------12-|--15-----15------------------------------------|
-12----------|-12-12-------12-|--14(16)-14(16)r14-12---14(16)r14-12-----------|
----14-12-14-|-14-14----------|-------------------------------------14--12-14-|
-------------|----------------|-----------------------------------------------|
-------------|----------------|-----------------------------------------------|

|(6) |(6) |(8)
|-------------------------------|-----------------------------|----------------|
|-------------------------------|-----------------------------|----------------|
|---------------12--------------|--------12------14--12-------|---------12-----|
|--14--14-12-14------14-12-14---|--14-14----14----------14-12-|---14-14--------|
|-------------------------------|-----------------------------|----------------|
|-------------------------------|-----------------------------|----------------|

[C] Al's part: {repeat 4 times}, then on to -> {repeat 4 times]
||----------12-14-12-------------12-12-||-------12-14-15-14-12----------17-17-||
||----12-15----------15-12----14-------||-12-15----------------15-14-17-------||
||*12----------------------14---------*||*-----------------------------------*||
||*-----------------------------------*||*-----------------------------------*||
||-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||-------------------------------------||

meanwhile...Chuck plays this 8 times: (these notes line up rhythmically with Al's part)
||-------------------------------------||
||-------------------------------------||
||*-----------------------------------*||
||*------7-----------11----------9--9-*||
||----5-----------9-----------7--------||
||-3-----------7-----------5-----------||

sometimes he slides those last two B's up to C#'s like this:
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|--------9/11--11----|
|-----7--------------|
|--5-----------------|