"I Can't Tell You Why" by The Eagles

Riff Rundown

Difficulty: Easy (but not really very "acoustic-friendly")

Ok. Here's the deal. This song was a request, so I got it up here as fast as I could.

This song is played on an organ, with jazz guitar behind it. It was VERY hard to get even a decent sound to convey this song very well.

Here's what I did.

I overlayed the guitars using a Jazz preset on our Line 6. I added a TINY bit of reverb to try to get that organ sound, but it didn't really work very well.

I also added an acoustic guitar going through bypass so that it sounded a LITTLE thicker. I DID NOT mix this song down much because if you are going to play this, you will need to listen to every little bit of the jazzy stuff being played in the background.

I tried to get to the ending solo on the acoustic, but didn't really have much luck, as even though you may have a cutaway on your guitar body, I think you would have MUCH trouble getting to say...the 19th FRET! LOL...Anyway, here's the song.

Intro

In this part, guitar 1 is the jazzy guitar. Guitar 2 is the acoustic fill I added. Don't freak out at this part.

It's JUST a Bm chord followed by the A/B.

You should have plenty of time to get back into position because the A/B is held as a whole note.

Verse

Pre-Chorus

Chorus

Solo

GOOD luck getting those notes to bend on your acoustic well. Also, there is no way you can really let those notes vibrato that well either. ALSO, it's really hard to make the slides ring through, since we are playing this on an acoustic. If you happen to have an electric, give it a try and you will see what I mean.

Here's where it gets harder :

Outro

Since this is played like a zillion times to fade the song out, I went ahead and did it.

The bottom measure is rather crazy to try to reach though on an acoustic.

Riff Resources

Complete Transcription To "I Can't Tell You Why" (PDF)

Complete Transcription To "I Can't Tell You Why" (Power Tab)

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