The Duel

                       The Duel - Steve Vai
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                     Transcribed by 
Jeff Young
            [Laboriously typed up by
 Mardi Gras(TNT)]


    Notes:  Okay, this is not my 
work, but I heard someone wanted it 
and I had it lying around the house 
so I thought I'd do someone a 
favour.  I've taken this from the 
June '95 edition of "Guitar" 
magazine.  This is the riff that Vai
 plays when he has a guitar duel 
with actor Ralph Macchio (The Karate
 Kid) in the film, "Crossroads".
    Vai performs a series of 
arpeggios in a reprise of an etude 
by William Kanengiser (who 
apparently played all the classical 
parts in the movie).  This study in 
arpeggios is comprised almost 
entirely of notes from the A 
harmonic minor scale (A B C D E F 
G#).  The only nondiatonic series of
 notes would be found in measure 3, 
an arpeggio, which in this case 
functions as a secondary dominant to
 the Dm in measure 4.




E|                        8  12^8   
                  |
B|                    10           
10                 |
G|              5  9                
   9  5           |
D|           7                     
          7        |
A|        7                        
             5     |
E|  5  6                            

               8  |



E|                          7      
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B|                       9     9    
                |
G|                 7  9           9  
7              |
D|           6  9                   
    9  6        |
A|     5  7                         
          7  5  |
E|  7                              

                 |



E|                                
    5                              |
B|                            5   8 
      8   5                      |
G|                       6         
               6                  |
D|               5 ^ 7               
                 7   5          |
A|          7                      
                           7      |
E|  5 ^ 9                            

                             9  |



E|                         10  13^10
                      |
B|                     10          
   10                  |
G|              7  10               
      10  7           |
D|           7                     
              7        |
A|     5  6                         
                      |
E|  5                              

                 10^8  |



E|                                
                       |
B|                          9  12  9 
                    |
G|                      10         
   10  7              |
D|               9  12              
         9  6        |
A|         8^11                    
                8     |
E|  7  10                           

                  7  |



E|                                
      5       8        12   8 / | / 16
B|                              5  
         5       10            |
G|                      5          
 5                             |
D|              7           7       
                              |
A|      7           7               
E|  5       8                       
                              |
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