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Fret Filings - (Anne's Blog)
Thursday, February 3, 2011
THE STEVE MILLER BAND - "WINTER TIME"
Topic: New Tab Postings

Snowy enough for ya? Smile Well, I suppose it all depends on where you are, but where I am we have plenty of it, and I'm sure we'll be getting more. (How did you like that thunder and lightning mixed into the blizzard?)  So regardless of what the groundhogs said yesterday about an early Spring, one thing we can say for sure. For now, it's still winter time.

The Steve Miller Band song "Winter Time" appeared on the band's 1977 album Book Of Dreams. (It's one of my all-time favourite album covers.) That album charted at #2, went triple platinum, and also produced the singles "Jet Airliner", "Jungle Love", and "Swingtown". Later, the song also appeared on Greatest Hits 1974-78.

The problem I ran into tabbing this song is the same one I had a couple of years ago when I was going to tab April Wine's "Fast Train". Some of the guitar parts are on a capoed guitar, other parts are on non-capoed guitars. So I had to try to mark each part to note whether the tab is in relation to the guitar nut or the capo...and hope that it doesn't get too confusing. All of the parts can be played on a capoed guitar the way they're written in the tab, with the exception of a few bars in Verse 3. (Those parts go down to the first fret, so on a capoed guitar you'd have to play them another way.)

So if the weather's keeping you indoors, consider making the best of it by spending some time with this beautiful ballad.

The tab:
https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/vartab/millersteve-wintertime.txt

  


Posted by planet/zerofret at 4:31 AM EST
Updated: Thursday, February 3, 2011 4:44 AM EST
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