Love Train | TAB
Let’s work our way through all of Love Train’s sections using TAB so you can play a wedding with great success and make money – perhaps the most difficult thing to achieve on the guitar!
Here’s the intro which is also the chorus, I’ve got several ideas for this all designed based on my experience of playing in a band at a wedding with the crowd doing the conga.
This first idea is based on providing a steady rhythm with minimal movement.
Here’s idea 2. Now we add some licks and extend the chords to 6.
This is the 3rd idea and is closer to what happens in the original recording.
Finally, here’s a transcription of what happens on the actual recording, to me, this only works if it’s a big band with someone else providing the chords.
Let’s move on to the verse, I love this part, it’s not transcribed, I developed it. Perhaps I should have written G6 – G in the TAB. I did put that in the chord chart for Love Train.
I think my favourite part is Am – G/A and then back to Am again. It’s so subtle but signals to everyone else in the band that you’ve done your homework, always a good plan when getting paid.
Finally, here’s the middle 8, complete with a modal interchange.
I feel it’s necessary to hold it down here with 8th-note chord stabs as everyone else in the band will most likely “open up”, i.e. the drummer may play a ride, abandoning the hi-hat.
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Formed in 1958 under the name The Mascots, The O’Jays are amazingly still together, over six decades later.
Their best-known tunes include Back Stabbers, Now That We’ve Found Love, For The Love Of Money, and their signature song Love Train.
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