Mac DeMarco – Ken The Wolf Boy (Guitar Tab)

Capo 2

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from ‘Salad Days Demos’ (Captured Tracks, 2014) Tabbed and uploaded to Ultimate-Guitar.com by Max Klauber One of my favorite tracks from his demo tapes; definitely shows his talent when it comes to basic rock arrangements. The lead guitar part is fairly straightforward, and I don’t think you should even need a capo unless you want to mess around with the chord voicings for the rhythm part. The song is in A, but I think the rhythm part does sound better if you do capo on 2 and transpose to G. It’s very likely that this is how Mac played it in the recording. For the main riff, I also recommend playing the notes on the G-string with a pick and fingerpicking the notes on the high E-string with your ring finger. Be sure to sustain pretty much every note to get that slacker- rock vibe that he does so well. (Bonus points for a baseball cap and a Viceroy cigarette.) Section I (Main Riff) A(I) D(IV) Bm(ii) A(I) D(IV) Bm(ii) A(I)

e|---------|--9~--------|--------10------7~--------|--5~--------|-------10----9----7-------|--5~----------|
B|---------|------------|--------------------------|------------|--------------------------|--------------|
G|---7/9---|------------|----9/11----6/8------4/6--|------------|---9/11----9----8----4/6--|--------------|
D|---------|------------|--------------------------|------------|--------------------------|--------------|
A|---------|------------|--------------------------|------------|--------------------------|--------------|
E|---------|------------|--------------------------|------------|--------------------------|--------------|

D(IV) Bm(ii) A(I)

e|-------10----7---7/9--7--|--5~---------|-------------|
B|-------------------------|-------------|-------------|
G|---9/11----8----8-/9--7--|--6~---------|-------------|
D|-------------------------|-------------|-------------|
A|-------------------------|-------------|-------------|
E|-------------------------|-------------|-------------|

Section II (Bridge) F#m(vi) D(IV) Bm(ii) E7(V7)

e|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|------------------|
B|--9-----9-----9-----|--10-----10------|--12-----12-----12-----|--14-----14--12~--|
G|----11----11----11--|-----11-----11~--|-----14-----14-----14--|-----14-----------|
D|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|------------------|
A|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|------------------|
E|--------------------|-----------------|-----------------------|------------------|

F#m(vi) D(IV) Bm(ii) E7(V7)

e|--------------------|--------------|-------------------|---------------|
B|--9-----9-----9-----|--5-----5-----|--5-----5-----5----|--2-----2------|
G|----11----11----11--|----7-----7~--|----7-----7-----7--|----4-----4~---|
D|--------------------|--------------|-------------------|---------------|
A|--------------------|--------------|-------------------|---------------|
E|--------------------|--------------|-------------------|---------------|

Section I x2 Section II x1 (sustain one measure at the end) Section I x2 Section II x2 (sustain one measure at the end of the second one) Section I x2 (switch the structure around a little on the second one) ******************************* | / slide up | ~ vibrato ******************************* Be sure to rate and let me know if there's anything that should be fixed.