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Hotel California (chromatic)

by The Eagles · posted by WaltP

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How to read this tab — notation key
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Blow note
Draw note
b or '
Half-step bend
bb or ''
Two half-step bend
bbb or '''
Three half-step bend
(###)
Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *
Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

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Tab
HOTEL CALIFORNIA
By Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Don Felder
The Eagles
Key: D


-6*-6*-6*  6   6   6   -6*
On a dark des-ert high-way, 
-6*   -6*  6  6  6
Cool wind in my hair 
6-6*  -6*  6  6   6 6-6*
Warm smell of co-li-tas, 
-6* -6*-6*   6      6 6-5-4 
Ris-ing up through the air 
-6*-6*-6* 6  -5   -5  -6*
Up a-head in the dis-tance 
-5-6*-6* -6*  6   -5  -5
I saw a shim-mer-ing light 
2   6     6   6   6   6  -5   6    -5  -6* 
My head grew heav-y, and my sight grew dim 
-2-6* -6* -6*  6   6   6-6*
I had to stop for the night 
-6*   -6*   7  -6* -6*   7  -6*  
There she stood in the door-way 
-2 -6*  -6* -6*  6    6
I heard the mis-sion bell 
2   6  6    6    -5 6  6  -6*
And I was think-ing to my-self 
-6*   -6* -6*   -6* -6* 
This could be Hea-ven 
-6* -6*   6    6 6-5-4
or this could be Hell 
-6*  -6* -6*  6 -5 -5 -6* 
Then she lit up a can-dle 
-4   -5   -6*   6  -5  -5
And she showed me the way 
6       6    6   6  6    -5  6  -5 -6*
There were voic-es down the cor-ri-dor 
6   -6*   6  -6*   -7*  -5
I thought I heard them say 
 
7     7   7  7   7  7   -7 7 7-6*-6*
Wel-come to the Ho-tel Cal-i-for-nia 
-6* -6*-6*6  6   6     -7*-7* -7* 7*   7*
Such a love-ly place, Such a love-ly place 

6    6  6-5 -5  -5
Such a love-ly face 
7     7  7   7   7  7   7  7  -7  7 7-6* -6*
Plen-ty of room at the Ho-tel Cal-i-for--nia 
-6*-6*-6*6 6   6    7-7  -7  7   7
An-y time of year, an-y time of year  
-6*  7  7-6* -6* -6*
You can find it here 

This is the intro for the REPEAT:

|-6* -4-5-6* -5|-8  -5 6 |
|-7* 6-6*8* -6*|-7*……|-7 6-7 -8 |-7..
|.6 -7..6-6*..|.-4-5 -6* -5|
|-4-5 7 -5|-8 7 -7-8-9 |
|-7 -56 -9 -6*..|.-6*-5 -6*|
|6 -4-5 7 -8… -5…7|-6* -3*6 -6* 6|8*…… 
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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