Seven Year Ache Rosanne Cash

[steve takacs]

I would like to express my gratitude to Joseph Barcus, Ernie, Renn, and Paul Sutherland for helping me understand how to create the Forum tablatures. Thanks, guys!!!

This is my first, but hopefully not the last. I always like this song and thought we might do it with our band, so I listened to it and came up with this. Please feel free to point out any errors. stevet

Seven Year Ache Intro, pads, and solo Hank Devito sung by Rosanne Cash

INTRO AND PADS THROUGHOUT SONG E9
A pedal raises strings 5 and 10 whole tone B pedal raises strings 3 and 6 half a tone

[tab]
1_______________________________________________________________________
2_______________________________________________________________________
3_______________________________________________________________________
4________________________________________________________8~8_________
5__3~3A__3__1~3~3A__3~3A__3__1~3~3A__3__1_____1~3_6~8~8A_8~8A_~10~10A
6__3~3B__3__1~3~3B__3~3B__3__1~3~3B__3__1__3__1~3_6~8~8B______~10~10B
7_______________________________________________________________________
8__________________________________________3__________________________
9_______________________________________________________________________
10______________________________________________________________________

SOLO

1______13___13________________________8__________________________
2________________________________________________________________
3___13______________________________8____________________________
4________13___13______15_______________8________________________8_
5_______________13______15A~15___________8A~8__8~8A_8A~8__8~8A___
6_________________13___________15_____________8__________8_______
7________________________________________________________________
8________________________________________________________________
9________________________________________________________________
10________________________________________________________________


1______13___13____________________________________________________
2_________________________________________________________________
3___13______________________________________________________10~10B
4________13___13______13__________________________________________
5________________13_____13A~13___8A~8_8A~8__8~8A_10A~10____10A-10A
6__________________13_________13_____8_____8____________10B_______
7_________________________________________________________________
8_________________________________________________________________
9_________________________________________________________________
10________________________________________________________________
[/tab]

[dlayne]

Nice one Steve,,Good to see you are getting a little more time to do these,,,great job

[steve takacs]

Heh thanks a lot, Dan; I appreciate it. All these years I've been on The Forum and have not tabbed anything out. Other guys have been gold mines. Since I'm retired now, I hope to do I can do more of these.

The solo is now up there. stevet

[Jeff Garden]

Thanks, Steve. Always liked that song. I saw Roseanne Cash open for Allison Krauss in Pittsburgh about 10 years ago - real enjoyable concert.

[steve takacs]

Thanks, Jeff. I envy you; wish I'd been able to see and hear Rosanne Cash, especially in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Even though it's devoid of pedal steeI, I like her recent song, "Sea of Heartbeak" sung with Bruce Sprignsteen. It's the old Don Gibson chestnut. stevet

[Mike Terry]

Steve

Thanks for posting that inro & solo. I've been tryin to learn that for a long time.

[Ray Minich]

Just heard Seven Year Ache on my machine. Always loved the steel parts and hoped one day to be able to play them.

Man, how neat it is and what a treat to be able to look it up and go right to the answers.

1. who played it?
2 what strings did he pick and when?

Thanks b0b, really appreciate it!

[Joachim Kettner]

Hank DeVito played it, Ray.

[Fred Treece]

I found this on a thread from 2014. I always wondered about that sound on the intro of Seven Year Ache.

Mr. Devito contacted me Monday and delivered this awesome info in his message:

" FYI, The intro to Seven year Ache was played using an E-Bow then double tracked. People always think it's a synth rather than steel guitar."

Very cool. I always thought it was a very clean steel signal mixed with a synth.

[John Sluszny]

...at 1:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbQ1V84EDGA

[Ray Minich]

I've always wondered how that sound that sounded like it came from a "moog" was created.

To my ear it began at the start of the tune.

So if I'm reading this correctly it was done by Hank with an Ebow.

Neat how he went from Ebow to no-Ebow so quickly at 1:20.

Correct me if I'm wrong here.

Thanks all.

PS: could someone explain what is meant by "double tracked"?

Thanks again.

[Fred Treece]

Ray,
Going from E-bow to straight Steel was probably a punch in. It can probably be done live, but in a studio there is no reason to not stop the tape and get the player settled.

Double-tracking just means recording the same thing twice. It gives the voice or instrument a bigger fuller sound than a single track. Similar to the Phil Spector “wall of sound” concept, where you had 5 rhythm guitarists all strumming the same chords. Phil recorded in mono though, so you had to actually have 5 guitarists on the session.

I think we can all agree that the steel sound on that intro/recurring theme is...HUGE!